Experimentik #66
Duo:
Adam Asnan – Synthesizer
Alexander Markvart – Synthesizer
Adam Asnan is an electroacoustic musician and professional sound recordist based in Berlin since 2014. He is active across a wide range of fields, including performance, sound design, sound for film and contemporary dance. His work promotes the virtues of both acoustic and acousmatic space, amplification, and apparatus-specific practices.
Alexander Markvart – is a musician, member of theater projects and organizer of events and festivals. Born on January 5, 1987 in Kemerovo. Now based between Berlin. Stylistically he works in a lot of musical genres from radical free improvisation, EAI, noise, hardcore, to well-structured projects, minimal techno and post-folk. Founder of such polystylistic musical formations as Studio of Unconscious Music (SUM) and Siberian Improvisation Company (SIC!). Also in different years is a member of another experimental bands and projects – Sacrifices, Verevka, Radical Muzak Septet, MITLO, Klub Demboh, Inorganic Blossoming, PSVSV, Cherubs, Importunate Twins, Sekta Phoenix. Works and plays concerts in various projects with wide range of experimental and improvised musicians. Since 2011, Alexander actively plays concerts in different tours in Europe and Russia. Participant of international festivals Blurred Edges (Hamburg), APosition (Spb), Long Arms (Moscow), Jazz Bez (Lublin), Riga Poetry Map (Riga), Urban Poetry Fest (Riga), Music of Present (St.Petersburg), HA-AS Fest (Yerevan), Sound Around Kaliningrad (Kaliningrad), reMusik (St.Petersburg), Theses Fest (Kemerovo/Berlin), Creative Source (Berlin), Moscow Music Week (Moscow). Organizer of festivals and concerts in Siberia, St.Petersburg and Berlin. The most significant of which is the festival of different arts “Theses Fest”. Site editor of vogue.ru. Since 2018 he has been the artistic director of Petersburg Art Space (Berlin). Also run such places in St.Petersburg as Folly Bar, Art-Farm 36, F5 / Noisegraph.
https://alexandermarkvart.bandcamp.com/
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Duo:
Bad Groupy – Jeff Surak & Kris Kuldkepp – walkmans, broken cables, egg-whisks, double bass, smartphones, effect pedals, copper poles, contact microphones, and more
Bad Groupy
Walkmans, broken cables, egg-whisks, double bass, smartphones, effect pedals, copper poles, contact microphones, and more, belong to the collection of various sound making tools of the transantlantic experimental music duo Bad Groupy (EST/DE/DC). We combine free improvisation with programmatic constructs and everyday noises mutating into spherical soundscapes that fill simultaneously the physical performance space and listeners’ headspace with often familiar yet unique sound objects.
Jeff Surak has been a fixture within the experimental community for many years, curating the Sonic Circuits Festival, programming for Rhizome DC, and running his own Zeromoon label. His own work manifests non-linear narratives through lo-fi techniques and archaic technologiess. https://zeromoon.bandcamp.com
Kris Kuldkepp is an experimental musician and performance artist based in Hamburg, Germany. She has performed at festivals such as JAUNA MUZIKA, StimmeX, Blurred Edges Festival, Piksel, Tallinn Music Week, and Estonian Music Days. Her solo work focuses on intersections between digital and interactive technology, DIY solutions and lo-fi equipment and double bass with centuries old traditions. https://www.kristinkuldkepp.net/badgroupy
photo ©Terekas-Jauna
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