D/B PRESENTS: SONAE / CÉTIEU

SONAE will present the result of her artist residency 'room is space is time' at former kraftwerk studio klingklang in Düsseldorf. Her live performance asks what is ambient today, including working with new material and new equipment. A step out of the comfortzone, a try to explore borders. Her work ‘Far away is right around the corner’ came out 2015 on gudrun gut’s label monika enterprise. „die reuelos wundervollste flimmerelektrik der saison“ („the unrepentant most wonderful flimmerelectric of the season“), states german groove magazine.

CÉTIEU (Tekla Mrozowicka), a versatile purveyor of ambient has been extremely busy with keeping her stream of sounds at bay. Her main alias is cétieu, which is an ambient-drone moniker of a multifaceted „técieu / cétieu / éctieu” project. Her efforts garnered her comparisons to Ian Hawgood, Hakobune, Steve Roach, Tim Hecker, Celer and Stephen Mathieu. The textural approach with which she sculpts her sounds is an extension of her keen interest in painting and visual arts, that to her is as essential as the sonic constituents. 

Presented by Digital in Berlin

TeZ - DRIEKUNG MACHINES

TeZ's immersive sound performances evoke journeys into oneiric realities, exploring the thin border between chaos and order, noise and harmony. His assemblage of concrete and synthetic sound material, spatialized in ambisonics sound field, aims at guiding the aural perception of the listener to uncharted territories. 

Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) is an Italian interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher, living and working in Amsterdam, who has collaborated with, amongst others, Adi Newton, Scanner, Kim Cascone, Saverio Evangelista, Taylor Deupree, Sonia Cillari, Chris Salter, Honor Harger, Luca Spagnoletti and Domenico Sciajno. He uses technology as a means to explore perceptual effects and the relationship between sound, light and space. In his works he TeZ focuses primarily on generative compositions with spatialized sound for live performances and installations, adopting custom developed software and hardware and featuring original techniques of sonification and visualization to investigate and magnify subtle vibrational phenomena. In recent years his research has extended to the ideation and creation of specific architectural structures and unconventional sound and light propagation methods to enhance immersivity and multisensory perception. TeZ is also the brainfather of the ‘Optofonica’ platform for Synesthetic Art-Science, located in Amsterdam.

Frank Bretschneider - SINN + FORM

Frank Bretschneider’s new project SINN + FORM (MEANING AND FORM) is based on the idea of a fundamentally chaotic world as we know it from mathematical or physical theories and models (dynamical systems, probability theory, stochastic systems), and the constant attempt of man to recognize and to describe, predict, control and change this world. This system is simulated electronically using a modular synthesizer system. Various modules produce a constant flow of randomly generated data that modulate the decisive parameters (pitch, note length, volume, tone). The attempt of SINN + FORM in this context is to transform this stream of events into a sonically relevant system of chaos and order, dynamics and statics, content and form by means of an improvised but deliberate process of constant control and influence. SINN + FORM also captures the dynamics and energy of a spontaneous improvisation, last but not least as a reaction to a complex world, a world in permanent crisis. The material was recorded in July 2014 at EMS, Stockholm, using the buchla and serge analog synthesizer systems.

Frank Bretschneider is a composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed sound is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of these qualities within visual phenomena. Bretschneider (1956) was raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz since 1990), where his aesthetic developed as he listened to pirate radio and smuggled Beastie Boys tapes in the former East Germany. After studying fine arts and inspired by science fiction radio plays and films he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars in 1984, as well as exploring the possibilities of exchange between visual art and music by various means such as film, video and computer graphics. In 1995, Bretschneider and fellow AG Geige member Olaf Bender founded Rastermusic which eventually merged with Carsten Nicolai’s noton to form raster-noton in 1999.