Rainer Kohlberger & Kazehito Seki #77
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
Live cinema performance by Rainer Kohlberger
Audio-visual artist Rainer Kohlberger creates visual music during a live cinema performance. His abstract work is extremely detailed and layered, eventually leaving none of our senses unaffected.
"a (human) resonating body" a multi-channel multi-microphone solo by Japanese vocalist Kazehito Seki
When people think of experimental sound, noise, drones, pushing the boundaries of musical composition in real-time, they rarely think of "voice". However, Kazehito Seki's work is a canonical example of pushing the envelope with his own voice, nothing else. Indeed it sounds electronic at times, but that is a byproduct of how everything in one's body can be used as a resonating chamber for producing new sounds. In a special solo performance, Kazehito will extend his wide vocal range to his body. Microphones of various kinds (surface transducers, muscle microphones, throat) will be attached to Kazehito's body, allowing him to acoustically explore the whole space around him. This performance was designed in collaboration with Pedro Lopes (microphone design and placement).
Rainer Kohlberger is an Austrian born freelance visual artist / film maker living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmic compositions with reductionistic aesthetics influenced by flatness, drones and interference. Within his works there always lies a layer of noise, which fascinates as a sense of the infinite, which is both the ultimate abstraction and inveterately fuzzy. His films, installations and live performances have been shown internationally at festivals, in galleries and other art spaces.
Kazehito Seki is a Voiz (Organic Voice Noise) performer who seeks for the sharpest sound by running about between Noise (Abstract / Nerves) and Hardcore (Concrete / Muscle). Kazehito belongs to a particular scene in Japan, influenced by hardcore music, subculture, and what a western would see as Tokyo's sonic ghetto culture. Kazehito's approach to the voice as an instrument demonstrates his flexibility, oscillating between subtle sinewaves and brutal white noise in a microsecond. For more than 10 years, Kazehito has been fusing his voice with electronic noises. Nowadays he collaborates with various kinds of artists including musicians and dancers. He also teaches training and keeping the voice safe, because after all -- the voice is and was (always) the primordial instrument.