Wolfgang Spahn, Bryan Eubanks & Lucio Capece #108
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
Lucio Capece and Bryan Eubanks have been collaborating on electro-acoustic works since 2013. Their performance uses the entire range of instruments and techniques at their disposal (incuding analog synthesis, floating speakers and digital sound) to explore a shared interest in the perception of sound and the experience of time. Like the pieces themselves, the collaboration is a slow process of revealing beauty.
Wolfgang Spahn - Entropie
ENTROPIE is a noise and projection performance based on simultaneously generated analog signals by Wolfgang Spahn. Both, sound and projection are based on different analogue and digital machines developed by the artist. Each system generates simultaneously structured noise as well as abstract light pattern. The invention of moving pictures went along with an artificial separation of sound and visuals. ENTROPIE merge them again. It makes the data stream of a digital projector hearable and gives an audio-visual presentation of the electromagnetic-fields of coils and motors. By hacking VGA Signals, amplifying their sound and implementing both aspects in his performance he visualises the importance of the machine as an integral part of the art – an artistic reference to Vilem Flussser's concept of the 'apparatus'. All hard and software was developed by the artist as an open hard and software system (www.dernulleffekt.de).
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977) is a musician composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, and custom generative software; improvising in collaboration; and working with acoustic holography, a stereophonic recording and diffusion technique. Since 2001 he has been developing electronic systems and instruments, participated in many collaborative projects, and has presented his work internationally. Primarily an autodidact, he received an MFA in 2012 from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
Lucio Capece is an Argentinian musician based in Europe since 2002, specifically in Berlin since 2004. After 12 years focused in Electro Acoustic Improvisation he dedicates in the last years, to works focused in the Perception experience, that he performs in solo and in the context of collaborations based in the same interest. He composes his own pieces that may include improvisation and different ways of writing. He uses tools like Flying Speakers hanging from Helium Balloons, Speakers as Pendulums, Analog synthesiser, Sine Waves and Noise Generators, Drum Machine, Ultra-Violet Lights as much as the instruments that he has played for 25 years: Bass Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone. He has also written compositions for small Ensembles working the same aspects in the context of traditional Instrumentations. Beyond instrumentation and tools, the main intention is to focus in the physical-social-spatial human experience.
Wolfgang Spahn is an Austrian-German visual artist based in Berlin. His work includes interactive installations, projections, miniature-slide-paintings and light sound performances. His art explores the field of the contradiction of analogue and digital media. At present he is researching the materiality of the digital and virtual world. Spahn studied mathematics and sociology in Regensburg and Berlin. He currently teaches at the BBK-Berlin/ Medienwerkstatt and is associated lecturer at the University of Paderborn/ department of art as well as at the University of Oldenburg/ department of art and visual culture. International exhibitions (selection): 2000 Biennial of young Art in Genua, Italy; 2003 The Kosovo Art Gallery in Pristina, Kosovo; 2005 Biennial in Prague, Czech Republic; 2008 and 2009 Internationales Klangkunstfest in Berlin, Germany; 2009 The Art of the Overhead in Malmö, Sweden; PIXEL09 and 13 in Bergen, Norway; 2010 Biennial Of Miniature Art in Serbia; 2010 Media-Scape in Zagreb, Croatia; Transmediale 2012 and 2014, Berlin, Germany; Musrara Mix 2015, Jerusalem, Israel; Bodenlos – Vilem Flusser und die Künste, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.