<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Friday, July 20th - 21:00 <br></font></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>at <b>Ausland</b>, Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin</font></p><font><b><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
An evening of audio-visual performance, 4 channel electronic pieces
and improvised acoustic sets, ending a 2 weeks residency at ausland by
Pierce Warnecke for the project <i>Textures</i></font></b></font>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><strong><br></strong></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><strong>Thomas Ankersmit</strong> is a musician and installation artist
based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Initially an improvising saxophonist, his
activities expanded to include live electronic music and installation
pieces based on architectural acoustics and infrasound. He has been
performing solo and in collaboration with other artists such as New York
minimalist Phill Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Gert-Jan Prins,
Borbetomagus and Alvin Lucier since 1998. Since 2003, Ankersmit most
frequently collaborates with Niblock and electroacoustic improviser
Valerio Tricoli. His saxophone work focusses on the abstract, timbral extremes of the
instrument, combining sustained streams of intense multiphonic sound
with acoustically amplified micro-events occurring inside the
instrument. His electronic music combines realtime performance on analogue modular
synthesizers with digital editing and multitrack recording. </p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.thomasankersmit.net/" target="_blank">http://www.thomasankersmit.net/</a><br></p>
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<b>Alberto de Campo</b> studied classical composition and jazz guitar in Austria.
As guest researcher and later research director at CREATE, UC Santa
Barbara, he worked with Curtis Roads on experimental synthesis
instruments, and wrote the tutorial for SuperCollider2. He taught at
the IEM Graz, and at the Academy for Media and Arts (KHM) Cologne.
There, long term collaborations began with Florian Hecker, earweego,
the band powerbooks_unplugged, and realtime research. In 2004/2005,
Alberto de Campo held the Edgard Varèse guest professorship for
Electronic Music at TU Berlin. From 2005-2007, he was lead researcher in the SonEnvir project at
IEM Graz, where an interdisciplinary team of scientists studied the
applicability of sonification in diverse fields. With the team, de Campo
wrote numerous publications, and organised a concert of sonifications of
social data for the ICAD 2006 conference in London. In 2007 he became
professor for Music Informatics at the Institute For Music And Media
(IMM), Robert Schumann Music University Düsseldorf, and since 2009, he
is Professor for Generative Art/Computational Art at the Institute for
Time- based Media, Arts University Berlin (UdK).</p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>Pierce Warnecke </b>has been creating digital material since his studies
at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Attracted at the same time by
image and sound, he develops modules to forge his own audiovisual
elements. His work stems from his interest in the effects of time on matter:
modification, deterioration and disappearance. Via an almost scientific
process of collecting, filtering and combining phenomena (objects, data,
sounds, images), he distills the subject via repetitive processes until
it approaches true abstraction. Whether focus is on the purity of digital forms or the chaotic grit of
natural objects, large scales of time and space or microscopic detail,
the goal of Pierce’s work is to readapt existing materials into a
parallel context where their signified meanings, symbols and cultural
connections have become residual ghosts. Sound works explore combinations of pure synthetic sounds, electronic
interferences, field recordings and manipulations of found objects.
Textural, drone, noise, electronic and improvised music are areas of
interest, explored through solo works and collaborations. Video is
created in real-time, recorded, or generated and uses found items and
moments: data sets, organic matter and microscopic textures to create
dense patterns and contrasting forms.</p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://piercewarnecke.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://piercewarnecke.blogspot.com</a></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Born in 1984, <b>Louis Laurain</b> the trumpet as a self-taught musician. Since
2007 he has studyed improvisation at the Paris Superior Conservatory.<br>
He is specialy interested by free forms of improvisation in music
(energic free-jazz, noise and minimalism). He ‘s currently working with
the free-jazz quartet ACTUUM (concert at the Vilette Jazz Festival in
Sept 2009 and Best Band at the 2010 European Jazz Awards in Amsterdam).
He also works with the trio DOLSE (Warnecke/Laurain/Svensson). They
recorded an album in november in Berlin and they will be on tour in
France at the beginning a february. (Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Lyon).
He regularly performs improvised duet or trio performances in Paris
with
the bass player Joel grip (Umlaut records) and the saxophone player
Yoann Durant.</p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>Nils Ostendorf </b>has developed a very individual approach on his instrument,
exploring the wide range between notes and noise by generating
frequencies using an extended embouchure technique, different mutes or
vibrating surfaces. He is influenced by natural sounds, contemporary
music and electronic music. Nils is active in various settings of
improvised music, with“The Silencers” with Benoit Delbcq, Toma Gouband
and Kim Myhr,in a Duo with saxophone player Michel Doneda, in the duo
“Trigger” with Matthias Müller, a trio with pianist Philip Zoubek and
reed player Philippe Lauzier and in duo with Kim Myhr . Nils works also
as a performer, composer, musical director and producer for theatre and
dance pieces, mainly with the german director Thomas Ostermeier at the
Schaubühne Berlin and the Münchner Kammerspiele.</p><a href="http://soundcloud.com/nilsostendorf" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/nilsostendorf</a><br>
<br><br>more info: <a href="http://www.ausland-berlin.de" target="_blank">www.ausland-berlin.de</a>