20 October 2016 | 20:00

CKS, Korhan Erel & Richard Scott #215

Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 5-10 euro (up to your offer)

Sound art performance night with:

CKS (Christian Konrad Schröder) - ƒ = 2.ls.π/ n (pt. 1)
Numbers from a hole in the computer spread out to fill the gaps inbetween the loudspeakers with numerologic mysticism, arbitrary mantras and glissandos from hell. The infinite regress is ever-expanding and forms digital spaces filled with drones of spoken numbers and intervalic proportions of fake string instruments ascending linearly towards collapse and decay - CPU overload and starting point for improvisation.

Electronics / modular synthesizer duet by Korhan Erel & Richard Scott 

Christian Konrad Schröder is a Vienna based soundartist, part of Kollektiv/Rauschen, and collaborator in various projects including movement and dance. 

Korhan Erel is an improviser and sound designer based in Berlin. He treats the computer as an instrument that can co-exist with conventional instruments in free improvisation. He makes frequent use of field recordings or found sounds in his instrument designs. He covers free improvisation, conceptual sound performances as well as structured and composed pieces, the latter mainly performed at art events and museums in Europe. He performs solo, duo and group performances with improvisers, jazz musicians and dancers. Korhan also does sound design and music for theater, video and dance. His collaboration 'The Threshold' with Sydney-based video artist Fabian Astore has won the Blake Prize in Australia in 2012. Korhan has done three residencies at STEIM in Amsterdam on sensors and instrument design. He was a guest composer at the Electronic Music Studios in Stockholm in 2011. He has seven CD releases in Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Greece as well as several digital releases. He has played in festivals, venues, museums and art spaces in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the USA.

Richard Scott is a prolific free improvising electroacoustic composer and living in Berlin working with electronics including modular synthesizers and controllers such as the Buchla Thunder and Lightning and his own self-designed WiGi infra red controller developed at STEIM. He has been composing and performing for over 25 years working with artists such as Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Jon Rose, Richard Barrett, Axel Doerner, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Shelley Hirsch, Ute Wasserman, Michael Vorfeld, Frank Gratkowski and his own Lightning Ensemble. He studied free improvisation in the 80s with John Stevens, saxophone with Elton Dean and Steve Lacy, Action Theatre improvisation with Sten Rudstrom and electroacoustic composition with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent. He has had multiple electroacoustic, performance and audio-visual works presented at conferences and festivals such as ICMC, IFIMPAC, BEAM and MANTIS and has been a referee for the NIME conference. In 2014 he initiated and co-curated the Sines&Squares festival of analogue and modular synthesis held at Manchester University. He runs his own label Sound Anatomy and is co-curator of three important improvised and electronic series in Berlin: AUXXX, Sound Anatomy and Basic Electricity. He has released many albums, for example Grutronic and Evan Parker on PSI records, The Magnificence of Stereo (sruti BOX) and has a solo double modular synthesizer LP, Several Circles, and an album with Sidsel Endreson on Cusp Editions in 2015. He has written a number of conference papers, including “The Molecular Imagination: John Stevens, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Free Group Improvisation” in Sound weaving: Writings on Improvisation, Edited by Franziska Schroeder and Mícheál ÓhAodha 2014 Cambridge Scholars Publishing.