One of this year’s Artistic Advisers Atau Tanaka curated his first concert program with an interesting line up. As Atau wrote in his text for the mailing list it was all analog music with no laptops, samplers nor effects. However, the musical approach and musical result was extremely different between the two groups.
Kapotte Muziek made their music mainly through amplified objects and some electrical noise. It was really a “you see what you get” type of performance where the sounding object is always present with the sound event. A rare experience these days in electronic music. They seemed serious about this approach to music until one of the performers started playing a water sample from his ipod. This was quite puzzling.
Jerome and Lionel’s performance was rather the opposite, “you see what you don’t get.” They each used an open-reel tape console and manipulated numerous sounds that they recorded live during the performance. What I found fascinating was that every sound that you heard was a electro-magnetically mediated version of a sound that was produced a second before and really existed in its own sonic reality. They were extremely physical in there live manipulation of the reels and even did some turntable like scratching.

Kapotte Muziek

Jerome Noetinger & Lionel Marchetti

Jerome & Lionel’s instruments

text from our mailing list:

When we think of live electronic music of the sort done at STEIM, we often think of digital systems with sensors, shaping sounds coming out of computers. Looking a bit further, we quickly find that this approach existed well before sensors and all that is digital, in direct contact with electrical circuits as represented by the well known CrackleBox. Some less known facts that I only myself learned recently was that Michel Waisvisz imagined a kind of pre-cursor to the LiSA software by controlling and “scratching” on open reel Revox recorders with foot pedals. This evening`s program shows that the spirit of direct manipulation - with sound producing objects and analogue tape - is alive and well.

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