Artists
Frank Bretschneider, modular synthesizers
Pierce Warnecke, video, mechanical object and lighting
Program
German musician, composer and video artist Frank Bretschneider, co-founder of the Raster-Noton label, is one of the leading names on the European electronic music scene. Sound localisation, the creation of rhythmic structures formed by interwoven elements, and minimalist musical discourse are some of Bretschneider’s trademark features. With SINN+FORM, Bretschneider expresses the idea of a fundamentally chaotic world (as described by mathematical models and physics theories) and people’s ongoing desire to acknowledge, describe, predict, control and change the world. Bretschneider musically emulates this concept with modular synthesizers (Buchla and Serge) randomly affecting musical parameters, transforming this stream of events into a musically relevant system of chaos and order, dynamics and statics, content and form by means of an improvised but deliberate process of constant control and influence. The live incorporation of visual artist Pierce Warnecke brings similar elements in the form of images, drawing on major 20th century abstract animations (Oskar Fischinger, Walter Ruttmann, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, and John and James Whitney), and re-examines proceedings from the perspective of new technologies and the processing of animated images and real time video.
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