ROOM40 presents an evening of sublime electronic tone float and immersive sound environments with Stephan Mathieu performing 'Music for Columbia Phonoharp and Computer' and sets from Sweden's BJ Nilssen (Touch) and TSU! - the duo of Rob Curgenven (turntables/resonance) and Joerg Maria Zeger (guitar).

STEPHAN MATHIEU

Stephan Mathieu is a self taught composer and performer of his own music, working in the fields of electroacoustics and abstract digitala. His sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound and obsolete media, which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution; it has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, the work of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.

During the last decade Stephan’s music has been released on 28 CDs and vinyl records, both solo and in collaboration with Akira Rabelais, Douglas Benford, Ekkehard Ehlers, Janek Schaefer, John Hudak and Taylor Deupree on electronic music labels worldwide.

Since 1992 he performed his music live in solo shows and on festivals all over Europe, Scandinavia, North- and Southamerica and created various audio installations for galleries and museums, a glass-blowing factory, a 17th century garden, Berlin Mitte, a 19th century steel plant, parks, an arrangement of 30 Peugeots, a late antique throne hall and various other places.

Out of Tune: Stephan Mathieu on Vimeo.

Stephan Mathieu website
Mapsadaisical review of Mathieu's 'Virginals' project
Tokafi review of 'Virginals'

BJ NILSEN

BJNilsen born in 1975. He has been active with experimental music for over 2o years. For the past 10 years he has been releasing albums on Touch, making music and sound design for documentary film, television and commercials.

He is focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, offten electronically treated.

BJNilsen has collaborated with Chris Watson, Hildur Gudnadottir, Philip Jeck and Stilluppsteypa amongst others.

BJ Nilsen website
Download out-of-print & unreleased BJ Nilsen tracks

TSÜ!

Jörg Maria Zeger: guitar, fx
Robert Curgenven: turntable, ventilator, room harmonics, fieldrecordings

“…like riding on the front of a ship into a storm.”
“…swimming in sound.”

Since first concerts in Bydgoszcz and Torun (Poland) in October 2009, TSÜ have performed to surprised and breathless audiences in Berlin, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Slupsk and the last town before the end of Germany: Flensburg. Their soundtrack to “Study of the Soul’s Molecule” featured in the Panic Exhibition in London (November 2009) as part of the Season of Jodowsky and also appears on the LINE/12K release OLTRE. Combining the fury of the elements, soaring harmonics and immersive physical resonances, TSÜ have brought concrete out of ceilings in venues on more than one occasion.