A festival celebrating PAN's incredible roster of artists. Five performances across two days. Keszler's semi-sculptural performance installations and rapid-fire percussive attack, John Wiese at the mixing desk and the extreme computer music of R/S on day one followed by Tricoli's command of 'classical' tape music techniques opening day two ahead of the first ever London concert of CC Hennix's spiritual minimalism - performed as a trio together with Tricoli and Werner Durand.
"We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: PAN is one of the most consistently rewarding and praiseworthy experimental music labels in Europe. Operated out of Berlin by Bill Kouligas, who also co-designs all the sleeves, PAN’s previous output includes forward thinking electronic, noise, concréte and outsider music. You really never know what you’re going to get next, which is more than can be said for many of its contemporaries." FACT Magazine
DAY ONE - Friday 27 January 2012
R/S (Peter Rehberg / Marcus Schmickler)
Peter Rehberg performs throughout the world and has participated in many of the major festivals associated with electronic music, with solo performances and as well as with his duo with Stephen O'Malley (KTL). In addition to his role as mentor to many artists and label curator of Editions Mego, Peter has also collaborated with interdisciplinary artists such as choreographer Gisele Vienne and writer Denis Cooper (Kindertotenlieder; I Apologize).
While rooted in electronic music, Schmickler has a background in contemporary composition, having studied under the prominent Stockhausen collaborator Johannes Fritsch. Schmickler has created solo in a variety of different styles under the Wabi Sabi, Sator Rotas, and Param pseudonyms, as well as five techno-oriented CDs as Pluramon. In addition, he has long-standing collaborative projects, most notably with synth wiz Thomas Lehn, guitarist Keith Rowe, and pianist John Tilbury.
This will be the duo's debut UK (and EU) performance.
John Wiese is an artist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. He works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. He has toured extensively throughout the world and is also a founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek. With the mixing desk as his instrument, John Wiese employs strategies and techniques of musique concrète and electroacoustic music as part of an increasingly unqiue approach to editing and the stereo spectrum. His new full length 'Seven Of Wands' is out now on PAN.
Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. A drummer of rare intuition and improvisational imagination, Keszler's work for PAN on the other hand, is both a composition and stand alone installation - 14 strings ranging in length from 25 to 3 feet are strung across a 15 x 40 curved wall, with motors attacking the strings, connected by micro-controllers, pick-ups and rca cables.
Catherine Christer Hennix is one of minimalism and electronic music's true enigmas. A student of Pandit Pran Nath and associate of Henry Flint, the much-delayed release of her 'Electric Harpsichord' was a true revelation. Creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70's, and possessor of an almost unbelievable role call of avant-collaborators/ mentors25. CC Hennix developed a well-organized and logically constructed, subtle and intricate system for creating what she and Henry Flynt termed Hallucinogenic Ecstatic Sound Experiences26: seemingly static but complexly interacting, stately and colossal drones. Almost every major experimental composer of the 20th Century argued that the essence of music is time, (for e.g. - La Monte Young: "tuning is a function of time"). By thinking music through hard-core mathematics, quantum physics and Eastern thought, Hennix is the only composer we know who insists on a music of no-time.
She will perform an extended duration piece in a trio formation with Werner Durand and Valerio Tricoli. This will be her first ever performance in London.
WERNER DURAND
Werner will be performing with CC Hennix tonight, but he has also performed his own music for saxophones, iranian ney, and self-made wind instruments since the late seventies. He studied with Ariel Kalma in Paris, Indian classical music in India and Berlin (with Kamalesh Maitra) and Iranian ney with Ali Reza Asgharia. He started to build wind instruments out of plexi-glass and PVC in the early 80s, which led to the foundation of The Thirteenth Tribe in 1990.
In addition to a number of his ongoing projects, Werner Durand has also collaborated with numerous composers/performers including David Behrman, John Driscoll, Samm Bennett, Fast Forward, David Moss, Muslimgauze, Henning Christiansen, Dominique Regef, David Maranha , Christian Marclay, David Toop & Tom Recchion as well as with visual/ sound artists Michaela Kölmel, Andreas Oldörp and Rolf Julius. He was a member of Arnold Dreyblatt's Orchestra of Excited Strings from 1990- 1997 and was an original member of Urban Sax.
Valerio Tricoli continues to make an impression as producer and provocateur in Berlin since first arriving in 2006 from his native Sicily. His innate understanding of classical electro-acoustic music techniques and his unwavering command of dynamics have made him a sought after collaborator and an inscrutable presence at concert venues across Europe.
'Forma II', Valerio's duo CD with Thomas Ankersmit released by PAN, came in at #20 in the WIRE magazine's Best of 2011 list.
