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[Music] Jan 22-24: Nervous Magic Lantern Festival 2016

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A note from our friends at diNMachine (check Facebook for further):

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST CINEMA:
KEN JACOBS / NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN FESTIVAL

THREE DAYS / TWELVE BANDS / 8PM FRI-SUN
JANUARY 22-24

The Anthology Film Archives
Curated by diNMachine
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Projections by KEN JACOBS with live music by:

Fri, Jan 22 8PM

diNMachine (release)
Flux (Tom Chiu)
The Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood
Pad tech

Sat, Jan 23 8PM

Robert Poss
Adrian Knight / David Lackner / Max Zuckerman
Sarah Bernstein / Stuart Popejoy
Patrick Todd

Sun, Jan 24 8PM

JG Thirlwell
Collapsible Shoulder
Victoria Keddie
Rick Reed / Tara Bhattacharya

RE: ENACT by Ron Amstutz (featuring music by Michael Schumacher)

Light Installation by Ursula Scherrer
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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST CINEMA: KEN JACOBS / NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN FESTIVAL
January 22-24

Ken Jacobs has long been a restless innovator, and his rebellious projection performance apparatus known as the Nervous Magic Lantern is a development that would not have been out of place in the pre-cinematic era of prestidigitation and exotic attractions. Working without film or electronics, the Nervous Magic Lantern uses lightweight fans and an exterior spinning shutter – along with the hands and creative mind of an active projectionist – to fill the screen with moving 3D forms that can be seen from every possible angle, no special glasses required. A breathtaking and all-around mystifying head/body experience, Jacobs surmises that, “It’s the cinema that should’ve happened following live shadow play.” After years of committed research and development, it is clearer than ever before that Jacobs’s Nervous Magic Lantern is a direct outgrowth from his early training in the 1950s with abstraction pioneer Hans Hofmann. In a sense, this latest body of work is as much a return to painting as it is another step deeper than ever before into the depths of the moving image.

This January, as the first installment in what will be a once-a-calendar tribute to Ken Jacobs throughout 2016, Anthology hosts an expansive Nervous Magic Lantern Festival, curated by the ensemble diNMachine. The series will feature an incredible array of live performances from some of the most daring musicians working in New York today. In addition to diNMachine (whose forthcoming full length album “The Opposites of Unity” is out January 22 via Greedy Dilettante Records), performers will include guitar genius and drone meister Robert Poss; renowned composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell (Foetus); fearless new music ensemble Flux Quartet; Swedish composer/performer Adrian Knight with David Lackner and Max Zuckerman (Blue Jazz TV, Synthetic Love Dream); Victoria Keddie, Co-Director of E.S.P. TV; experimental audio composers Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya; new-wave proto-punk voice and violin duo Sarah Bernstein & Stuart Popejoy; melodic explorers Collapsible Shoulder; champions of structured and improvised rhythm, drone, and noise Padtech; unique sound-exploration trio The Ghosts of the Holy Spermic Brotherhood; and textural electronic noise composer Patrick Todd.

The festival will take place over three evenings, with four artists/groups performing each night. Each artist/group will take the stage for a 20-minute set, during which Jacobs will project live with the Nervous Magic Lantern system. Each evening will also feature an immersive video installation created by artist Ursula Scherrer, as well as the film RE: ENACT by Ron Amstutz (featuring music by Michael Schumacher), which will be screened following the intermission.

For details on each night’s lineup, and for Ken Jacobs’s extended discussion of the Nervous Magic Lantern system, visit anthologyfilmarchives.org.

Fri, Jan 22 through Sun, Jan 24 at 8:00 each night.

[Music] Announcing challenging new music for challenging audiences: ‘Pintotonics n+1’ on 11/1 and ‘OORSPRONG@BIMHUIS” on 15/1

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‘Music doesnt exist. It’s at most an illusion’
– Misha Mengelberg

PINTOTONICS n+1 edition January 11th 2016 is pleased to announce a solo set by saxofonist/Bclarinetist Peter van Bergen and an ensemble set by the HaFFaH quartet.

HUIS de PINTO
St Antoniebreestraat 169
1011 HB Amsterdam
(020)3700210 > reservation
www.huisdepinto.nl
Facebook

20:00 doors
20:30 start 1st set (sharp)
23:00 end of event

Tickets
10 + 7 (students/cjp)

SET ! > SOLO

PETER VAN BERGEN/REEDS

Dutch master improviser Peter van Bergen will perform a refractory solo set full of complex clarity’
http://www.petervanbergen.com

SET 2 > ENSEMBLE
The HaFFaH quartet

Christian Ferlaino/alto sax
Herbert de Jonge/piano
Hans Houtman/drums+percussion
Renato Ferreira/contrabass

.’The HaFFaH quartet will explore hidden lines between jazz tradition and ad hoc sounding innovations’

February 8 2016

SOLO SET by ADA RAVE/saxophones+preparations

ENSEMBLE SET BY ‘SPOON 3″
Jodi Gilbert/voice
Robbert van Heumen/laptop pocessing
Albert van Veenendaal/piano+prepared piano

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OORSPRONG@BIMHUIS special edition 15 January 2016.

We are honored to be invited by the BIMhuis for a yearly appearance presenting 3 sets of unique blinddate+instant composing lineups curated by Ana Leonor Ladas/movement+Raphael Vanoli/electronics+Raoul van der Weide/acoustic improvisation.

BIMHUIS
Piet Heinkade 3
1019 BZ AMSTERDAM

www.bimhuis.nl/agenda
www.steim.nl
oorsprong.wordpress.com

20:00 doors
20:30 start 1st set (sharp!)

22:45 afterparty at BIMhuis bar by
blinddate DJ duo
DJ ‘Isonosin’ and
DJ ‘Moving Furniture Records DJ Team’.

Tickets 18 + 15 (students/cjp)
Free entrance for BIMcard holders

SET 1: Ana Leonor Ladas curator

Ana Leonor Ladas/movement
Maaike vande Westeringh/movement
Fazle Shairmahomed/movement
James Hewitt/violin
Semay Wu/cello
Tjeerd Schils/electronics
Robert van Hulzen/drums+percussion

SET 2: Raphael Vanoli curator

Raphael Vanoli/gutar+electronics
Robbert van Heumen/laptop processing
Laurent-David Garnier/olfacto-sonic objects
Joost Buis/trombone+laptop

SET 3: Raoul van der Weide curator

Stefan Keune/saxophones
Oguz Buyukberber/BassClarinet
Eric Boeren/trumpet+cornet
Michiel Scheen/piano
Kaja Draksler/piano
Yung-Tuan Ku/percussion

Light design by Ellen Knops
Audio/video registration by Alexis Kazazis

Come by if you can and share this excitingly unpredictable event with all of us!

Big thanks to Huub van Riel + BIMhuis staff for this special edition and big thanks all volunteering curators, performers and critical audiences that made OORSPRONG able to develop and survive as an improvisres initiative for improvisers since it’s start in 2009.

Special thanks to STEIM, Titia Daniels, Lali, George Hadow, Guillaume Heurtebize, Stephane Kaas, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Nicoline Lind, Plantagedok/DokZaal, Jochem van Tol.

[Music/Radio] OORSPRONG Curators Series Announcement

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Raoul van der Weide of Oorsprong sends over this announcement. Support them, as The Netherlands does a wonderful job in promoting great music!

For all OCS participants: curators, performing curators and performers

PLEASE TAKE A CLOSE READING
of this document.

‘OORSPRONG curators series/OCS’ since 2009.
Casting and presenting ‘blinddate+instant composing’ lneups.
A curators’ platform by improvisers for improvisers.

CURATING = CASTING

inviting, presenting and promoting unexpected and mixed ‘blinddate + instant composing’ lineups in the broadest multi disciplinary improvisational sense.

>History
> Mission
> Practicals

HISTORY

OCS started in 2009 as a monthly curators platform, initiated by improvisers for improvisers open to all possible ‘instant composing’ discplines.
OCS is made possible by long term support of commited and volunteering individuals
OCS is based in Amsterdam and cooperates with content- and facility-partner STEIM (Studio For Electro-Instrumental Music) and BIMhuis organisation and is hosted by Plantagedok/Jochem van Tol.
OCS produces 10 monthly 3 different ‘blinddate+instant composing’ sets editions pro year, first edition in September last edition in June.
OCS Agenda via htp://www.oorsprong.wordpress.com

NEW Address venue:
‘Plantagedok’ at DokZaal
Plantage Doklaan 8-12
1018 CM AMSTERDAM

http://www.oorsprong.wordpress.com
http://www.steim.nl

Home


http://www.bimhuis.nl

OORSPRONG curators series/OCS is on Fb.

Contact/coordination > raoul van der weide 0031(0) 612541461 >
raoulvdweide@gmail.com

19:00 doors open for audience
19:30 start 1st set (Sharp!)
22:00 end of event

Admission 6

Thanks to OCS volunteers Guillaume Heurtebize/website; Stephane Kaas/flyer; Oscar Jan Hoogland/piano; Jochem van Tol/Plantagedok/hosting; Lali/assistence; George Hadow/assistence; STEIM/Nico Bes. BIMhuis/Huub van Riel.

MISSION

‘The urge to promote, feed and refresh Improvisation Tradition in the broadest sense by ongoing social (blinddate) and artistic (instant composing) unique experimental lineups.

OCS’s programming concept focuses specifically on mixing of (a) dance, (b) electronics and (a) acoustic improvisation via unique unprecedented/blinddate lineups.

OCS lineups are always social (blinddate) and artistic (instant composing) experiments at work. Performances can be considered as non-academic lectures, being part of a lifelong individual and collective improvisation learning-, reflecting- and development process.

⁃ Every month 3 different curators (from a, b and c background) are invited by OCS to cast a mixed improvisation lneup. They cast, invite and present each a ‘blinddate+instant composing’ lineup starting from trio format to larger formats. No solo, no duo, no regular groups, no projects, no ensembles, no rehearsals. In short: high degree zero social and artistic comfort zone.

⁃ Minimum lineup format is trio, larger formats are welcome too.

⁃ In additon to the high degree zero programming, no performer/curator can participate more than 1 x a season at the OCS series. At most.

⁃ These programming rules are meant to stimulate optimal circulation of a mix of new and known and unknown performers/curators in the OCS series.
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PRACTICALS

Close Reading: equipment, travel expenses, parking, no-guestlists, self-promotion
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⁃ 17:00 doors open for OCS participants for set-up, sound check and warm-up
⁃ 18:00 vegetarian meal served for all OCS participants
⁃ 19:00 doors open for audience
⁃ 19:30 start 1st set (sharp)
⁃ OCS has stadard equipment delivered by STEIM: speakerboxes, cables, mixer. Standard. For more specific requests pleas contact Nico Bes > nico@steim.nl + 06236887777.
⁃ OCS has a tuned baby grand piano
⁃ OCS is a no/low budget collective initiative supported and made possible by the ongoing support of a variety of volunteering individuals including curators and performers.
⁃ OCS will cover domestic travel expenses made by OCS curators and performers.
⁃ OCS does not work with ‘guestlists’. Paying the modest 6 euro admission is not only considered a gesture of financial support but also as a gesture of moral commitment to keep the series going. Nobody ‘earns’ in this series. All entrance is re-invested in catering and coverage of doemestic travel expenses, small repairings and piano tuning.
⁃ OCS Curators and performers are especially asked to promote OCS editions they participate in actively, via social media and other channels.
⁃ OCS participants can sell their cd’s at the bar.

Thank you for cooperating with OCS.

[Music] Pelageya – Ptashechka (Live)

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I’m quite new to the work of Russian pop singer Pelageya. From Novosibirsk, Siberia, this songbird comes from a classical music background, having once been invited by legendary Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to perform in France along with other luminaries, including Ravi Shankar and B. B. King.

Though I find the live version wonderfully sparse, I’m including the studio version for the sake of comparison below:

[Video/Sample] Árstíðir – Heyr Himna Smiður

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The best way to describe Árstíðir, at least in this gorgeous tune, is something like what a Varangian choir might have sounded like in 13th-Century Byzantium, singing in the Hagia Sophia.

As it turns out, the tune is from the 13th Century, written by Kolbeinn Tumason. No, Wuppertal isn’t quite Byzantium, especially inside of the train station, but the lads made a mundane place seem almost holy that day.

For another, perhaps clearer version, check out this performance from Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2012. To hear this as an MP3 or FLAC file, just download the ‘name your price’ album via Bandcamp.