SAVE THE DATE!!!
KBB's 4th Anniversary Celebration
May 10 & 11 2008

Uno de los eventos más memorables del presente año tendrá como sede el emblemático Palacio de Correos de Cataluña, ubicado frente a la línea de mar en pleno Centro Histórico. Esta joya arquitectónica de la ciudad abre por primera vez en la historia sus puertas para brindar al público 2 noches de celebración artística y cultural que acoge como invitado de honor a Austria y sus creadores.

 

Palacio de Correos
esq. Via Layetana & Paseo Colón
Barcelona | SPAIN

SÁBADO 10 DE MAYO. Iniciamos el cierre del 6to Festival internacional de Videoarte LOOP, la cual contará con la presencia de comisarios de renombre. Las actuaciones darán lugar a partir de media noche, habiendo dado pie previamente al ingreso del público general.

MASTER AND SLAVE. Danza interactiva. El colectivo Anatomic, plataforma de investigación dedicada a la creación de nuevas herramientas para dar soporte a la interacción entre disciplinas artísticas y sistemas multimedia complejos, presentan una pieza específica fruto de una residencia del dúo de danza contemporánea conformado por Magdalena Chowaniec y Cezary Tomaszewski.

Magdalena Chowaniec.

Born in 1983 in Poland.First she studied in the Public Ballet School in Bytom (PL) to continue afterwards at IDA – Institute of Dance Arts at the A. Bruckner University in Linz (Austria) where she's just finishing her MA studies. Since 2005 she works as a dancer, performer and choreographer in Vienna and around the world with a.o. Superamas (F/A), Oleg Sulimenko (RUS), Rodney Place (ZA), Rose Breuss (A), Paul Wenninger (A). In 2007 she created with Valerie Oberleithner (A) and Lisa Schmidt (D) mariamagdalena collective. Together they've choreographed "The Perfect State". Lately she's made a new solo - "Hold your horses" premiered in Vienna. She knows Cezary since ages.

Cezary Tomaszewski.

Born in Warsaw in 1976. Dancer, performer, choreographer (BA at Esther Linleys IDA/ Linz),Theater Studies ( mag.art Theater Academy /Warsaw), musician ( Elsner Music High School/Warsaw), stylist. *As dancer worked with* : D.Aschwanden, A.Bold, R.Breuss,W.Dorner, U.Hager,Y.Wanunu (A), C.Guerin (USA) , M.Purucker (D) A.Sachs ,V.Spataro, A.Tenta, (CH), Ch.Vincent (UK). *Choreograph and performer* of "Dance Tetralogy", "Last Temptation of Saint Bernadette" shown in Vienna( TQW, WUK), Linz (Posthof), Zürich (TanzHaus Wasserwerk) and in Lausanne (Arsenic Theatre)," Get your own Cherubino (TQW), " Strawberry Muffin", Vienna (Imagetanz),"Young Indiana Jones Adventures S.Freud limited" , Vienna (Brut). Between 2004-05 was working as director assistant in Zürich (OpernHaus), Vienna (Staatsoper), and as dramaturgy in Warsaw(Theater Academy). He knows Magda since she was a baby.

www.emotique.com

LIFE IN LOOPS. A visual remix. Timo Novotny crea un documental experimental a partir de mezclar en directo 30% material original y 70% inédito de la película Megacities (1997) de Michael Glawogger. Le acompañan dos miembros de Sofa Surfers, famosa agrupación de lounge casual creadora de bandas sonoras que nos recrean un viaje a través de Bombay, Moscú, México DF y New York.

Timo Novotny.

Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several world "Megacities" by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Novotny complements 30 % of material taken straight from the film (and re-edited) with 70 % as yet unseen footage in which he blends original shots unused by Glawogger with his own sequences (shot by Megacities cameraman Wolfgang Thaler) from Tokyo. Alongside the Japanese metropolis, Life in Loops takes us right into the atmosphere of Mexico City, New York, Moscow and Bombay. This electrifying combination of fascinating film images and an equally compelling soundtrack from Sofa Surfers sets us off on a stunning audiovisual adventure across the continents. The film also makes an original contribution to the discussion on new trends in documentary filmmaking.

www.myspace.com/lifeinloops

IRRADIATION & MESSNER. Live audio visual set. Dj Irradiation es parte activa del Colectivo Female Pressure, que ha reunido durante 10 años a talentos femenicos de la escena electrónica. Su estilo oscuro y sensual ha formado un séquito de seguidores de minimal. Presenta su colaboración con Stefan Messner, narrador experimental y creador de instalaciones e intervenciones visuales.

Dj Irradiation.

Since 1999 Irradiation is well renowned for her sensual dark electronic music projects. she released on temp~records, a label founded by herself, female pressure‘s open:sounds, or on netlabels like mir music and kreatur so far. Av-cooperations started in 2002 with mingo.tv and led from 2003 on to live performances with visualist stefan kushima in clubs from london to istanbul. Further live musical cooperations featured digilog, martin stepanek, werner puntigam and das fleisch. 2007 saw the birth of irradiation feat. mieze medusa a project crossing borders between techno, hiphop and poetry. Fm4 soundselection 17 proudly presents their first hit and soundframe festival 2008 celebrated their live talents. With female pressure icon electric indigo she irradiation presents a highly seductive techno live project. Irradiation is well respected in Austria‘s electronic music scene for her integrative qualities. (Co-) organizing temp~electronic music festival, the clubseries temp~est, temp~eriert and klick! Irradiation links the audio and visual domain beyond austrian borders.

www.myspace.com/irradiation

Stefan Messner.

Stefan Messner's experience in moving-picture-creation is widely ranged from live-visuals to video-installation. His first attempts in live visualisation of music in clubs and at music-events soon led to very positive reactions by audience and promoters and were followed by the task of curating the visual program for the temp~ electronic music festival as well as creating an innovative audio/video live-act together with the musician Kelvin Raah. Apart from the world of music Stefan also works with narrative experimental video like in "Shibai" or with video documentation of own interventions and video-installations.

www.myspace.com/mesbacklab

DOMINGO 11 DE MAYO. Celebración del cuarto aniversario del Kültur Büro Barcelona, la asociación cultural que ha producido piezas en nuestra ciudad con más de 100 artistas internacionales como Pan Sonic, Spencer Tunick, Santiago Sierra, Claude Lévêque, John Bock, Vladislav Delay, Cristophe Büchel y Fabrice Gygi, entre otros.

DP-S. Premiére. El nuevo proyecto del productor Patrick Pulsinger se aleja de su sello Cheap Records y su pasado “clubber”, experimentando en directo con el contrabajista Werner Daffeldecker, procesando su sonido mediante un módulo de sintetización formante de la década de los 70’s que se cablea en tiempo real para producir un mundo de improvisación que genera texturas únicas y efímeras.

The complex wooden sound of the doublebass is combined with the almost unlimited possibilities of the system formant modular synth from the 70's. The doublebass is amplified and "fed" into the filters and oscilators while triggering waveforms, envelopes and gates. The modules of the synth are cabled in realtime to arrange the musicpiece while the synth is shaping the sound of the bass. This technique is also used for live performances. Dafeldecker and Pulsinger are handing each other the material and providing the space for improvisation and reflection. The soundrange moves between fragile and infernal. Their first recording is the product of several sessions, an unedited, raw and unique capture of improvisation. The forthcoming album conjecture on cristian vogels label station55 is to be released in june 2008.

www.feedback-studio.com
www.myspace.com/dpsmusicistheshit

Patrick Pulsinger. Modular synth.

Electronic musician, producer, composer, remixer and co-founder of independent record label "Cheap Records". Known from the early 90's for his mostly electronic productions like: iO, Sluts'n Strings, Restaurant Tracks, Love the Machines, Church of Carbon and his solo projects on Disko B like the Dogmatic Sequences series. He worked as producer with trio exclusiv, BulBul, Patrick Wolf, Mark Steward, Louie Austen and Dj Hell. Besides his remixwork for David Holmes, Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Lamb, Goldene Zitronen, and many more, he wrote music for film, theater and has a monthly radioshow on FM4. Improvised electronic music and processed jazz was combined in the "easy to assemble – hard to take apart" series and live performances with together with Franz hautziger, Bernhard Breuer, Rödelius, Pamelia Kurstin, Hilary Jeffreys and Philip Quehenberger.

www.myspace.com/patrickpulsinger

Werner Dafeldecker. Doublebass.

Lives in Berlin. Work as a musician, composer and producer since 1984. Broad interest in style appropriate to occasions. Concentrating on improvisation, eletronic music and acoustic sound research. Created his own style as a double bass player. Founder of Polwechsel and Durian Records.

Collaborations with: David Sylvian, Sachico M, Christian Fennsz, John Tilbury, Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas, John Butcher, Mattin, Harold Budd, Klangforum Wien, Kevin Drumm, Oren Ambarchi, Franz Hautzinger, Christof Kurzmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Luc Ferrari, Bernhard Fleischmann, Dean Roberts, Dickson Dee, Stevie Wishart, Tony Conrad, Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Markus Popp, Swen Ake Johansson, Axel Dörners and many more.

Labels: Kranky, Staubgold, Morr Music, Hathut, Durian Records, Erstwhile, Grob, Charhizma.

www.myspace.com/wernerdafeldecker

Current projects:
Polwechsel
www.polwechsel.com

Autistic Daughters
www.myspace.com/autisticdaughters

The Year Of
http://www.myspace.com/theyearof

Tape illusions
Solo project

Violet Quartett
With John Tilbury / Stevie Wishart / Christof Kurzmann

THE HUNDREDS. Premiére. Wolfgang Frisch estrena su último disco, que conjuran influencias tan dispares como Black Sabbath, Dj Shadow, Tom Waits, Amont Tobim y The Jesus Lizzard. Su forma personal y orgánica de presentar sus sonidos incluye samplers, ordenadores y bajo en directo. Será acompañado visualmente por filmaciones personales en 8mm de TImo Novotny.

The music features various influences, beside electronicas as "Dj Shadow", "Amon Tobin" etc., rock-acts like "The Jesus Lizard" and "Black Sabbath" up to singer/songwriters  as "Tom Waits", "Joni Mitchell" as well as the soundtracks of "Bernhard Hermann" or "David Lynch"  all merged together in a very organic and personal way by Wolfgang Frisch.

The live show will include Wolfgang Frisch on laptop,mixing console and livebass, doing live versions of his tracks in a mixture between club tracks and driving rock-beats up to even lyrical and cinematic moments, which will be visually supported by the epic and cinematic raw movies by TImo Novotny on a live video mixing-desk interacting to evolving music-tracks. Timo's main footage is recorded on Super8 and not only shows architectural bits from Megacities like Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo, it also contatins unseen scenes of a nigerain slaugtherhouse, which collaberates perfect with Wolgang's music and also gives the live show content.

www.myspace.com/wolfgangfrisch

ELECTRIC INIDIGO & C++. Dj set & visuals. Llamar a Dj Electric Indigo la mujer más importante en la escena electrónica austríaca se queda corto por su rango de producción y organización al frente de Female Pressure. Le acompaña Christina Goestil, multifacética y controvertida artista visual que implica contenidos de género y conceptuales en todas sus piezas.

"To call her the most important woman in the Austrian electronic scene would be an insult: Electric Indigo long ago reached a level where conventional gender definitions are obsolete. As a DJ, she enjoys international rank, and as a producer she's becoming even more influential."
--- Sven Gaechter, Editor-in-Chief of Profil magazine and DJ.

DJ and musician, has rocked clubs, raves, and festivals in 35 countries. Her name stands for an intelligent interpretation of the terms "techno" and "party". She started her DJ career in Vienna in 1989 with jazz and funk sets, but soon found her style in the Detroit and Chicago techno sound. In her Berlin years (1993-1996), she was responsible for purchasing and communication for the legendary record dealer Hard Wax. In 1998 she created female:pressure, an international database for female DJs, producers, and visual artists who work in the fields of electronic music. female:pressure is a unique, web-based resource of female talent all around the globe and was built to enhance mutual support and communication as well as the general level of information about female artists. In 2002, DJ Electric Indigo played on the main stage of Detroit's Electronic Music Fest. 2004 she began to perform live - either in collaboration with musicians like Mia Zabelka, Dorit Chrysler, Pia Palme (mostly in some sort of art context ) or solo in clubs. 2003 Electric Indigo started her own record label indigo:inc recordings. For almost 7 years she has hosted a monthly indigo:inc night for "crazy" at the viennese flex club and since the beginning of 2006 she has presented a monthly radio show at the Vienna based play.fm called indigo:inc as well. 2007/2008 she produced the female:pressure dvd1, released on march 8th, 2008.

Her numerous recordings were released on lables like disko b, mueller, international deejay gigolos, indigo:inc, chicks on speed records, female:pressure.

www.myspace.com/electricindigo

Christina Goestil. Visuals.

www.clitoressa.net

SAVE THE DATE !!!! KBB's 4th Anniversary Celebration.
May 10 & 11 2008 @ Palacio de Correos. esq. Via Layetana & Paseo Colón. Barcelona | SPAIN.

ORGANIZA

Kültur Büro Barcelona
10 + 11_may_2008

Palacio de Correos
esq. Via Layetana & Paseo Colón
Barcelona | SPAIN

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