NegativWobblyland is a new project that is half of legendary audio collage group Negativland teaming up with San Francisco electronic musician Wobbly.
NegativWobblyland leaves behind the cut-and-paste formats of their previous collaborations to celebrate the unpredictable magic of…The Booper. Originally invented by Negativland's The Weatherman around 1975 (long before the term "circuit bending" ), Boopers are 100% analog feedback instruments, created entirely from salvaged radio and amplifier parts, which recycle back on themselves to generate a living music from feedback and dirt. In this show, "Booper Symphony #5", NegativWobblyland lets the Boopers do all the talking, with each member controlling and sampling an arsenal of the devices in a wordless and surprisingly melodic wall of electronic tonalities, rhythms and drones.
Alan Courtis was born in 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a founder member of Reynols. He has more than 200 solo releases and collaborations on labels like: P.S.F., Blossoming Noise , No-Fi, Antifrost, RRR, Tonschacht, 267Lattajjaa, Quasipop, Riot Season, Kning Disk, Beta-Lactam, Prele, Matching Head, 8MM, Public Eyesore, Herbal, Smittekilde, Sedimental, Slottet, Alt.Vinyl, Pogus, Mikroton, MIE, etc. He has toured extensively in Japan, Europe, USA, Australia, NZ & Latin America and has collaborated with musicians like: Pauline Oliveros, Lee Ranaldo, Nihilist Spasm Band, Jim O’Rourke, Yoshimi, Damo Suzuki, Makoto Kawabata, Eddie Prevost, Otomo Yoshihide, KK Null, Mats Gustafsson, Rick Bishop,Tabata,Toshimaru Nakamura, members of L.A.F.M.S., Thomas Dimuzio, Rudolf Eb.Er, Kouhei, Seiichi Yamamoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lasse Marhaug, Ashtray Navigations, Rapoon, Uton, Birchville Cat Motel, The New Blockaders, Kaffe Mathews, Jaap Blonk, Jazkamer, C.Spencer Yeh, Okyung Lee, Avarus, & Kemialliset Ystavat. His music always has strong experimental sense and usually based on high-skilled techniques of prepared sound, tape manipulations, processing of field recordings, live electronics, objects, cymbals, synthesizers, computer tools, playing traditional (both acoustic and electric) instruments as well as self-built, strange and unusual instruments (eg. unstringed guitar).
EVOL
Since the late nineties, this Barcelona-based group has been producing what they call "computer music for hooligans", inspired by geometry, noise, cosmology and rave culture. A vortex of monolithic basslines, air horn dissonance and razor-sharp synthesis, their music displays a radical and playful approach to algorithmic composition. Their works have been published by Entr'acte, Mego, Presto!?, Diskono, Scarcelight, fals.ch and their very own ALKU.
