with a.o.: Frans De Waard and many other guests
Fri 26 Nov / door opens @ 16:00u / start @ 16:00
WORM@strp
Klokgebouw, Beukenlaan 10151, Strijp-S, 5616 VJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Through stories of people that worked with or were involved with compact cassettes a intuitive kaleidoscopic picture will be sketched of the influence of this medium on the development of different subcultures. The many participants will, by selecting tape fragments that are of personal significant and the stories behind them, shed light on this development. As the main character in our docu musical revue Frans de Waard, Dutch authority on tape culture, will add even more historic context, personal stories and views on the matter.
80TIES K7 SONG POEM STUDIO
Bring your own lyrics (or write them on the spot) and have it, by our ‘stuck in the eighties’ crew, composed into a new track to get instantly published on cassette tape for you to take home. Different genres are possible! From thin sounding Casio-pop, doomy Rhythmbox Wave or miserable Noise and beyond!
Live Acts:
ZOMBIES UNDER STRESS (nl)
Industrial outfit Zombies Under Stress will perform with traditional instruments like the Korg MS-10 and MS-20 and crackleboxes, supported by background tapes preserved from the 80ties. Video projections in the form of audio-recognition software triggered by 8-mm digital recordings provide a link to the current digital domain.
6e KOLONNE
6e Kolonne will showcase an exhibit of releases on the Kaisettes / 6e Kolonne label. The new cassette editions of Zombies Under Stress will be for sale.
WOUTER VAN VELDHOVEN (nl)
Wouter van Veldhoven makes new music with old means. Using reel to reel cassetterecorders, home build music machines, XYL Ophone, Melodica and an analog computer he makes some musical oddities (mainly short sketches and longer sound-scapes things).
He is currently working on a new album which he hopes to finish soon.
AKI ONDA (jp)
Over a span of two decades, Aki Onda has been using the cassette Walkman for making field recordings that he kept as a sound diary. He considers these recordings to be personal memories, and not just sounds. Onda Composes my music by physically manipulating Walkmans by hand, re-collecting and re-constructing concrete sounds. What emerges from his sound memories is a sonic collage of ritualistic tape music.
The title of his project is “Cassette Memories.” By documenting fragments of sound from his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation. The meanings of the original events are stripped of their significance, exposing the architecture of memory.
In his work there is a strong reference to French electro-acoustic music that originated with Pierre Schaeffer, as well as early hip hop, and free jazz. There is further reference to filmmaking in his work, as evidenced by the integral role that editing plays in his composing. With “Cassette Memories,” he creates a sonic landscape where music exists in the relationship between sound and visual art.
TAPETRONIC (fr)
Tapetronic is a captivating visual sound performance where creator Alexis Malbert utilizes the manipulated mechanisms of ‘ordinary’ cassette tape as alternative instruments to challenge the sound of turntable scratching. In the numerical age his lo-fi / high energy show shuns digital tools and celebrates new forms of entertainment.
PRESLAV LITERARY SCHOOL (uk)
As Preslav Literary School, Adam Thomas makes live tape collages using sounds drawn from an ever-growing archive of self-generated or discovered outsider noise, found sound and spoken word cassettes. A process of transference, overdubbing and live manipulation reworks these source materials into compelling, ambient broadcasts. Adam has released several albums and live CDrs, and played alongside Machinefabriek, Leif Elggren, Sudden Infant, Antoine Chessex, Matt Elliott, Shitty Listener & many others. He has toured the UK, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and Poland and will play at 2010’s flux/s and Shift festivals.
AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA
Brian Shimkovitz, a trained ethnomusicologist who traveled through Ghana, stocks his highly acclaimed Awesome Tapes From Africa blog with marvelous rare cassettes that he picked up along the way. When Brian dj’s those wonderful and obscure African tapes and mp3s, he usually starts out with more mellow and sparse music and then warms up into dance-oriented music.
Depending on the vibe, his mixes can vary from traditional cuts (which can be just drums and singing) to a.o. highlife from Ghana, mande music from Mali and Guinea, a good amount of rap from across the continent and obscure electronic/synthesizer music as well.