Nicolas Collins & Mazen Kerbaj / Tomomi Adachi #469
- Doors: 20:00
- Start time: 20:30
- Entrance: 6-10 € (up to your offer)
Tomomi Adachi - Live Performance
Adachi brings his infamous tupperware electronic instruments and amplified objects. They are based on the idea of scores as instruments. Also he presents a short duo with Nicolas Collins.
Nicolas Collins & Mazen Kerbaj - Air Support
Mazen Kerbaj (Beirut/Berlin) and Nicolas Collins (Chicago/etc.) come together for their first performance together on two unusually extended trumpets. Mazen is well known in Berlin for his acoustically reconstructed and expanded brass performances. Nic will be performing on his new homemade “!trumpet”: a trumpet with a built-in speaker, Hall-effect sensors reading valve positions, a breath control and the world's first InfraRed toilet plunger. After 40 years he's finally figured out how to program a computer to sound like glitching circuits. Old dog, old tricks.
Tomomi Adachi is a performer / composer, sound poet, installation artist and occasional theater director. Performing with voice, live electronics, he has performed works by Cage, Cardew, Wolff, Yuji Takahashi, with Nicolas Collins, Jerome Noetinger, Annette Krebs, Jennifer Walshe, Jon Rose, Butch Morris, Otomo Yoshihide, and at the Tate Modern, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Roulette, Tonic, ZKM, STEIM, Experimental Intermedia and Merkin Hall. In 2009-10, he was a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council in New York, and most recently, in 2012 was a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstler program. http://www.adachitomomi.com/n/biography.html
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of homemade electronic circuitry and conventional acoustic instruments. His book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. www.nicolascollins.com
Mazen Kerbaj was born in 1975 in Beirut and lived there since. Next to sound art, his main activities are comics, and painting. After a lot of works for different publishers and magazines, it is in March 2000 that he releases some of his more personal works in his Journal 1999 (a dairy in comics' format). He self-published eight other books and many short stories since.