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<FONT FACE="Arial"><B>STEIM presents the next concert in the Local Stop series<BR>
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<B>Alessandro Bosetti - solo<BR>
Adachi Tomomi - solo<BR>
James Fei, Uli Böttcher, Robert van Heumen - analog electronics and 2 laptops with a different approach<BR>
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Date: Sunday May 14<BR>
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam<BR>
Time: 20.30 hour<BR>
Entrance: 3 euro<BR>
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690<BR>
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<B>Alessandro Bosetti<BR>
</B><I>"During the concert I carry headphones. I find headphones a very poetic object. I receive indications through the headphones and try to react to them. Often I misunderstand them. Often I can't really control what I sing because the headphones separate me from the environment. <BR>
I make music on conversations, conversations i had, and I make music together with them. People I meet. Often they were carrying headphones. And I was letting them listen to something. Then it happens you are not listening with them because the headphones cut you out. But you can listening their reactions. They often misunderstand too. <BR>
On one side what I do could remind of songs. Kind of almost spoken, abstract songs. Maybe is just the duration that make them song-like, maybe they are just 'pieces'. Maybe they are not songs at all."<BR>
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Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. <BR>
Composer, saxophonist and sound artist. He works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and recordings for labels of experimental music in. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions. As a saxophonist he has developed an original instrumental language that incorporates extended techniques, noises, and a strong influence from electronic music. Performances in all European countries, USA and Japan. Broadcastings and record releases in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, New Zealand, USA. Lives and works in Berlin.<BR>
http://www.melgun.net/<BR>
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<B>ADACHI Tomomi <BR>
</B>Music for voice and infrared sensor shirt. This is an instrument which is a shirt with 10 infrared distance sensors. It is connected to a computer, changes his voice following his bodymovement. He is interested in the body movement of the voice performance. The gesture is a kind of modulator for the voice. In 'music for voice and infrared sensor shirt', he connects it to voice sound again by computertechnology. Sometimes this piece looks like duet by the body and voice. In this piece, all sounds are sampled in real-time without any pre-recorded sounds except the sine wave to emphasize the contrast between the usualgesture and unusual sound in the last part. ADACHI performs other 2 works by original sensor system and self-made instruments. <BR>
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Born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972, ADACHI Tomomi is a performer, composer. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has played improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments. He has composed works for his own group 'Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus' which is a punk-style choir. He has performed contemporary music: vocal and performance works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Dieter Schnebel,TAKAHASHI Yuji and Fluxus including world premier and Japan premier. He is only one performer of sound poetry in Japan. He performed Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate as Japan premiere. He has made sound installation and original instrument (Tomomin, his hand made electric instrument is familiar with many musicians). He has performed with numerous musicians including Jaap Blonk,Carl Stone, Erhart hirt, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, OTOMO Yoshihide in Japan, United States and Europe. http://www.adachitomomi.com/<BR>
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<B>JUR - James Fei, Uli Böttcher and Robert van Heumen</B> will present an improvised set. Analog electronics by James, computer and self-made controllers by Uli, computer and joystick by Robert - with fast changes and hyper-reactive movements. <BR>
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<B>James Fei </B>(b. Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1992 to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. He has since been active in New York as a composer, improvisor and electronic musician. Works by Fei have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings of his works can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI and Organized Sound. In addition to writing concert music for conventional and electro-acoustic ensembles, Fei also creates sound installations and performs in his ensembles—Alto Quartet, Maestros, and a duo with bassist Kato Hideki.<BR>
http://www.jamesfei.com/<BR>
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<B>Uli Böttcher </B>is an electronic musician working with self-made controllers to tame the computer. Currently resident at STEIM, working on various installation ideas, he has been beta-testing STEIM's sensor interface, the junXionboard, and will use those tools in the performance. He has played extensively with Schnack, his duo with Paul Hubweber on trombone. <BR>
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<B>Robert van Heumen</B> is composer and musician, making electronic music in the studio and on stage. Recent compositions include music for the choreography Drink Me by Anouk van Dijk, and the audio-visual composition Solitude (with multi-media artist Arnoud Noordegraaf) based on a book by Paul Auster. As a musician he uses STEIM's live sampling software LiSa with all kinds of controllers (some have called them 'sexy'). He is active as a member of the electro-acoustic sextet OfficeR, electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ and part of the N Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz, Jeff Carey, Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock and Nate Wooley. His soundworld is a mixture of environmental sounds, toys, voices, sounds from kitchen appliances, half of the time smashed beyond repair. <BR>
http://humanelectric.net/<BR>
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