dj sniff was invited to the dBâle Festival in Switzerland.

Chikashi Miyama and Qgo sensor instrument

dj sniff

Die Schrauber trio

(Photos take by Vivian Wenli Lin)

dBâle electronic music festival basel - interfaces-instruments-installations
Every 2-3 years, the Electronic Studio Basel of the Hochschule für Musik organises an international festival presenting re-known artists from abroad as well as from the local electronic music scene.
At this year’s dBâle electronic music festival, the theme is interfaces-instruments-installations with the design of electronic instruments and installations taking centre stage.
The music industry in general is still very much focussed on traditional instruments such as keyboards and controller for the recording studios. Therefore, many artists resort to self-designed hardware and self-developped software to produce and change electronic music live on stage. At dBâle, should you see a computer mouse or a plastic keyboard in a performance then, in many cases, you will see it in a diverted form, dispossessed from its original functionality, broken up, with changed soldering inside, cables hanging out, re-contextualized and recycled (circuit bending).
The festival’s aim is to show what is possible once there are no set frames nor limits to artistic creativity and interpretation of electronic music and electronic sound installations

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 12:52 am and is filed under report, festival, external concert. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.