The third installment of the LISTEN/VISION series is coming up on Wednesday, May 14. This time, we are super happy to share that Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender from the Raster-Noton imprint will perform live, both individually and as a trio called Signal. 

About Raster-Noton: Raster-Noton is a platform, a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. After surviving the storm that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German sound manipulators Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender pooled their resources as Raster-Noton and jacked into international art currents. Their minimalist electronic CDs and sound objects have sent power surges through a global grid connecting like-minded artists from Coil’s ElpH to Tokyo’s Ryoji Ikeda.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco

$15 general public, limited free seating for SFAI students

Please join us for this very special event, co-presented by Overlap.org and Volume Projects with generous support from the Goethe Institut.

Full info here: http://overlap.org/2008/03/31/listenvision-03-san-francisco-may-14th-2008/

 

Originally from Raster-Noton comes to SF

LISTEN/VISION 03

Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 7-9pm at The San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94133 - $15 Public / Limited free seating for SFAI Students.

Featuring : RASTER-NOTON - Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider as “Signal”

Curated and co-presented by Volume Projects & Overlap , LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and space. Overlap.org and Volume have partnered to commission new and *unreleased* sound and video recordings from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. These exclusive pieces, not to be found anywhere on the web or a CD, are presented in a collective listening environment. 

The third installment of LISTEN/VISION presents a very special evening with live performances by the three principal members of the German arts platform Raster-Noton: Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender. Each artist will perform individually, and collectively as Signal. These artists are considered by many to be some of the most important and influential individuals working within the field of experimental electronic audiovisual performance today.
Raster-Noton: Archiv Für Ton Und Nichtton is a platform, a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. After surviving the storm that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German sound manipulators Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender pooled their resources as Raster-Noton and jacked into international art currents. Their minimalist electronic CDs and sound objects have sent power surges through a global grid connecting like-minded artists from Coil’s ElpH to Tokyo’s Ryoji Ikeda.

Carsten Nicolai -
Carsten Nicolai is an artist who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. For several years now he has also experimented with sound under the pseudonym Noto to create his own code of signs, acoustic and visual symbols. As Alva Noto he leads those experiments into the field of electronic music. Among others, Nicolai already performed as Alva Noto at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at Kunsthaus Graz and at Tate Modern in London. Additionally he has projects with diverse artists such as Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Mika Vainio or Thomas Knak (opto); recently he toured with Ryuichi Sakamoto through Europe, Australia and Asia.

Frank Bretschneider -
Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider‘s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. After the fall of the wall, he and Olaf Bender founded the record label Rastermusic which finally merged with Carsten Nicolai‘s Noton to form raster-noton in 1999. He has performed at music and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cut & Splice, Mutek, Offf, Sonar, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale, Ultima, etc. In addition to his solo work he has collaborated with artists such as with Taylor Deupree, Olafur Eliasson, Steve Roden, and Ralph Steinbrüchel.

Olaf Bender -
Germany-based Olaf Bender is one of three founders of the Raster-Noton imprint. He often records under such aliases as Byetone and Lumen for solo projects, and together with Komet and Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) forms the laptop microsound trio Signal. His output is extremely sparse, with his sole full-length contributions being a disc in the prize-winning 20′ to 2000 series and 2003’s Feld, released on Raster-affiliated label Binemusic.

Funding for LISTEN/VISION 03 is generously provided by the Goethe Institut of San Francisco

Links:
Raster-Noton
Goethe Institut San Francisco
Volume Projects
Overlap

This program is generously sponsored by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco.

Heyla folks! Hope some of you can make it to this week’s LISTEN/VISION 01 event in San Francisco! Here’s our press release for the deets of the show:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OVERLAP.ORG AND VOLUME PROJECTS ANNOUNCE LISTEN/VISION 01

San Francisco, CA, February 14, 2008 — Overlap.org and Volume Projects announce LISTEN/VISION 01, an evening of immersive sound and video art at SF Camerawork on Thursday, February 21, 2008. Featuring exclusive sound and visual recordings by Nate Boyce, Carl Stone, Frank Bretschneider, and Richard Chartier, LISTEN/VISION 01 is part of a unique series focused on unreleased audiovisual works specifically commissioned from an international pool of contemporary artists.

LISTEN/VISION 01 – Featured Artists

RICHARD CHARTIER Chartier_pre_1_01 (2005), 17:29 min.

Richard Chartier is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer who has created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/LINE, Raster-Noton, Die Stadt, Spekk, NonVisualObjects, Mutek_rec, DSP, ERS, and Trente Oiseaux. His work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.

Chartier_pre_1_01 was originally developed during the process of creating the work Incidence released on Raster-Noton in 2007. Beginning with a low volume sparkle of static, the piece gradually morphs into low frequency territory. The monolithic drone of Incidence ebbs and flows over a bed of gentle crackle and fizz, only to end much as it began, with a wafer-thin line of static and hiss.

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER RHYTHM EXP (2007), 8:09 min.

Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. After the fall of the wall, he co-founded the record label Rastermusic which merged with Carsten Nicolai’s Noton to form Raster-Noton in 1999.

RHYTHM EXP is an attempt to assimilate the qualities found in music – including movement, rhythm, tempo, mood, intensity and compositional structure – within visual phenomena. The music for the project is composed of waveforms, feedback, impulses, clicks, the sound of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, light and radiation. As the animation is driven by sound frequency and intensity, the images attain an unexpected beauty, from simple geometrical patterns to extraordinarily complex forms.

CARL STONE Shin Chon (2006), 34:48 min.

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972; Stone has also used computers in live performance since 1986. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the

faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University in Japan.

NATE BOYCE Plasma Wielder (2008), 10:00 min.

Nate Boyce is an artist and musician who creates perceptually disorienting and kinetically charged audiovisual works that take the shape of musical compositions. Influenced by the techniques early video art and the 1960’s structural film movement, Boyce employs a customized analog/digital hybrid processing and synthesis system based on modified consumer video gear.

Using control voltages from an analog synth to sequence analog video feedback, Plasma Wielder produces trance-inducing audiovisual polyrhythms which interpret the phenomenological reduction of the video signal as a temporally malleable material.

Previous events: http://overlap.org/tag/event

• Event Name: LISTEN/VISION 01
• Featured Artists: Nate Boyce, Carl Stone, Frank Bretschneider, and Richard Chartier
• Event Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
• Event Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
• Location: Camerawork
• Address: 657 Mission Street, Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94105-4104
• Cover: $5 Public, $2 Students/Seniors, Free for Camerawork Members

More info: http://overlap.org or email press@overlap.org.

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April. 28th 2006 – LISTEN 02 – Berkeley, CA.

The 2nd installment of LISTEN will feature unreleased sounds composed by :
Frank Bretschneider
Sebastien Roux
Taylor Deupree
Kenneth Kirschner
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LISTEN is a new audio series that will explore the art of intense listening. In collaboration with Audio Rasa and Overlap.org, Christopher Willits has commissioned * unreleased * sound works from an international pool of contemporary sound makers.

Admission: $10 in advance, $12-18 (sliding scale) night of event. email Studio Rasa @ info@studiorasa.org for advanced tickets
Studio Rasa 933 Parker St. Berkeley, CA 94710