30.09.04
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virthulegu forsetar
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25.09.04
Touch @ Paradiso, Amsterdam 25th September 2004
10th Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam
Chris Watson
BJNilsen
Philip Jeck
Fennesz
Jon Wozencroft visuals
09.09.04
Spire Live in Geneva 5th September 2004
Imagine : artists of the British label Touch as Hazard, Philip Jeck or Fennez, playing at St-Pierre Cathedral (...)
The theme of this concert, more or less 5 hours long, was the organ. Yes, indeed, the pipe organ so liked by JS Bach. But this live series has as a purpose to bring us to a musical journey based on the "Spire : organ works past present & future" album, recently released by Touch.
In the first part were the STRUCTURES, with works composed during the 20th century by important people like Messiaen, Jolivet, Gorecki.... and a world creation especially for the Batie festival composed by Marcus Davidson, and last but not least, a work of Liana Alexandru. This part was a real sound firework, unforgettable with the acoustics of a church.
The second part was played in the Chapelle, right in the same building. This was the FIRST PHASE OF DESTRUCTURATION, with BJ Nilson aka Hazard, playing with himself. He began to destructurate the organ sounds by a go-and-back from his laptop to the church organ (...). Complementarity between the ancient and the newest sounds, but both composed in such an old place.
The third part was the SECOND PHASE OF DESTRUCTURATION, in the archeological site of the St-Pierre Cathedral, where Philip Jeck gave us a kind of archeology of sounds, from organ, rock, kitsch or scratching. He was trying to go to the source of sound, and ironically with vynil discs if you compare them with the CD, mp3, or wma files… In short, a beautiful set of turntabilism which asks questions about time, time which is running, time of artistic creation....
The last part was maybe going to give us a answer : PHASE OF RESTRUCTURATION, with Christian Fennesz, who recreated organ sounds on his laptop (he is using the LLOOPP software), an musical ocean, an "organic" ocean, the one which gives birth to new intemporal sound shapes, which have a name :
Life
Beauty
[Thierry Charollais, Sept. 2004, Geneva]
Continue...08.09.04
Spire Live in Geneva 5th September 2004
Cathedral Saint Pierre, 5th September 2004.
FENNESZ : PHILIP JECK : BJNILSEN aka HAZARD :
CHARLES MATTHEWS : MARCUS DAVIDSON
Main Organ : Charles Matthews & Marcus Davidson
La Petite Chapelle: Fennesz & BJNilsen
The Crypt: Philip Jeck
Reviews of the performance can be read here
Continue...Touch @ Fylkingen, Stockholm 26th August 2004
Fennesz
Z'EV
BJNilsen aka Hazard
The Stockholm Effect [Fennesz/Z'EV/BJNilsen]
Visuals and installation : Jon Wozencroft
Continue...02.09.04
Z'EV - Headphone Musics 1-6 b/w As Is As
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