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Saturday 22nd September
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QuWack (e) is all-electronic and features 14 solo acts. Get lost in a maze of voltage surfing control freaks, 21st century composers and unhinged solo show stoppers presented on two stages, within customised gallery conditions. These include an video projection stream overhead that will re-visualise and then track each musicians performance.
The rules are simple. Each act has 15 minutes to perform on their own to their heart's content. In the spirit of a musical tag team, each performance will be bookended by two 5 minute collaborations with the previous and next acts, who will be set up on the other stage. The result will be one continuous stream of performance where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One performance in the afternoon and another in the evening, each featuring new artists and strange juxtapositions. Quadraphonic DJ’s either side.
Janek Schaefer
Be it minimal delay lines, modified turntables, field recordings, off beatz
or sound-art JS is one of the most erratically compelling composers of our
time. Exhibited with Scanner, Philip Jeck and Brian Eno. Played with Christian
Marclay and in Sydney Opera House.
?????
Arrhhh of course?the mystery component, guest, wild card. As with all other
QuWacks an unknown performers enters the fray at the last minute, to up the
intrigue and through a final spanner in the works. Well we can now let you
know it is THIRD EYE FOUNDATION aka Matt Elliot.
Infinite Livez
Gameboy programmer, comic book artist, and soft toy lover puts out wonky hip
hop on Big Dada, plays with electro jazz boffins and self-releases freestyle
noise cds for fun.
Isambard Khroustaliov
An early intro to Warner Brothers cartoons (and the music of Carl Starling)
caused him to be put through a series of English public schools in order to
try and compensate. AKA Sam Britton of Icarus (Leaf)
Man From Uranus
Uses analogue oscillator boxes, reel to reel tape, toy sequencer, and TV/shortwave
reciever – all wired together into one great synaesthesic sound machine.
Bela Emerson
The art of cello is reflected through the looking glass and into a parallel
world of cosmic electronics. She was spellbinding at this year's Supersonic
Festival.
Artamonova
A composer and improviser from Russia. She appears in hysterical art-noise
act SWPOU and as White Nightie, this guise sees her on that wild edge between
acoustic folk and lo-tech electronics.
Twocsinak
A self-styled autodidact who may yet be famous (although he is feted by Matmos)
with a very distinct, mischievous, obscenely detailed collage/ege sound world.
Vi
There is a sense of Richie Hawtin’s dedicated vision, Kraftwerk’s
dis/utopia and Pan Sonic’s harnessing of powerful instruments within
his music. He has that self absorbed electronic sound that is well worth fetishising.
My Ambulance Is On Fire
Histrionic vocalisation made intoxicating by electrification. An obsessive
cine-pile, who plays in Geisha, loves Italo-Disco and whose stance is always
a provocative one.
Katapulto
Broken and smashed beat genius from Rzeszow, Poland. He wants to take over
the UK music charts and pays tribute to Phil Collins, “the King of England".
Alexander Thomas
Coaxes delicious ripples from his Theremin. Vaudeville, mad-cap hip-hop and
ghostly soundscapes are all defined and then re-defined by his sense of otherworldiness.
www.myspace.com/alexanderthomasmusic
Leadtowill
Plays Throat Synth, Jar Wind Chimes and a Pringles microcontroller to perform
sonic brain massage. Half of Leadtowine and loves to home brew.
James Scatter
One half of glitterbeat duo Hook & The Twin this man is coming in from
the unknown to spice up the proceedings with his raffle style.
www.myspace.com/hookandthetwin
Plus:
VJ Rodell
Nutty electric light magician will install a reactive, highly sensitive colour
generator to beam overhead
DJ Undertow
This former QuWacker (aka Lovewig purveyor of ‘Satchel Beat’)
will demonstrate the PA system's unique qualities to disorientate the dancer
and splice the looker.