From Echophoria Sent Wed, Apr 7th 1999, 18:29
From Echophoria Sent Wed, Apr 7th 1999, 18:29
this was just forwarded to me.=20 whoah. phonoTAKTIK.99 is an electronic music festival in Vienna (22/04/99-02/05/99) featuring:: richie hawtin stock, hausen & walkman nobukazu takemura richard h.kirk dj peter kruder wunder general magic re.state andrew lagowski :s.e.t.i. fennesz autechre fon the conet project bruce gilbert disinformation gert jan prins russell haswell und holger hiller, curd duca online atom heart online alois huber vinylfernsehen : gebhard sengm=FCller dieter kovacic/oliver stotz dj dsl kopper/zeitblom elm=FC sister iodine cecile babiole labradford skot vs hecker pan american pole komet noto fx randomiz monolake schlammpeitziger zbigniew karkowski ryoji ikeda pure philipp quehenberger laptop orchestra, signal thomas brinkmann scion fadi dorninger musikkreis ms20 thomas lehn /klangraeumer franicsco lopez dieter kaufmann cube and sphere fennesz/zeitblom/niemand b=FCro 10 >>> xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx cecile babiole/fred bigot: reality dub further information at www.phonoTAKTIK.at and xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx. at the following locations: crematory of vienna's main cemetary, the "zentralfriedhof", atomic insitute of the austrian universities, urania sternwarte (observatory), wotruba church (a church, made of 152 concrete blocks), a former emballagenfenfactory, austrian phonothek et al. phonoTAKTIK.99 has two main focusses: Max Brand -an Austrian composer and early pionier of electronic music - and a view to the future of electronic music. Max Brand Max Brand, born 1896 in Lemberg, grew up in Vienna. One of his teachers was Arnold Sch=F6nberg. In the 20s he was a successfull composer, namely the opera "Maschinist Hopkins" was a big success. As a Jew he had to emigrate from Austria. In the US (he went to New York) he had no success with his=20 music. At the age of 50 he decided to go a totally new way. He choose an artistic equivalent to his modernist philosophy and his ideals of machine-art. In a cooperation with Robert Moog (who was just starting his work at that time) he got a special synthesizer, a prototyp of the later so successful Moog-Series. From then on he united the composer and the performer in one=20 person. The following works are very noisy, atonal and rough, so they weren't successful at all. For that reason, most of them have never been published and so they are not available for the public. But this stuff shows a world of sounds which is influenced of the specific abilities of the synthesizer . It is in some aspects is closely connected with the productions of the contempary Austrian electronic music. Brand seems to be an influence, although its impossible. pay attention if you care The entry to the phonoTaktik concerts will be free, at least if talking abou= t=20 money. The uncommercial focus of techno, ambient,... in the late 80s and early 90s is gone. At the moment nearly every electronic music is marketable. The struggle beetween the proponents of "free music" and the position of the music industy gets virulent in the discussion about the MP3 data format, which the industry fights by all means. That means: the music of the future we are talking about at the phonoTaktik,=20 can't be measured in the terms of money. All concerts and other events are=20 free-there will be only one (long) guest list. Guestlists have always been=20 the vehicle for everybody to show that he is part of a community. We don't=20 follow an economy of money but an "=D6konomie der Aufmerksamkeit" ("Economy = of=20 Attention") which is the title of a work of the Viennese Georg Franck. His=20 work on the changes of our information society on he ecenomic level is the theoretical apercu of this step. For the audience this means, You Don't have to pay money for phonoTaktik=20 events, but attention and respect. You can show Your attention by taking par= t=20 in the daily live of the Viennese scene in the weeks before the festival.=20 That interest allows You the registration on the electronic guestlist. "Pay attention" is the motto. A nice side effect of the electronic registration system shows a picture of=20 the community - which is defined by the guestlist - in the internet. Whoever=20 thinks, this is to complicated, can pay for his ticket at the doors of every=20 event (if not booked out by the guestlist). So he can see what his attention=20 would have been worth. 22/04/99-02/05/99 phonoTAKTIK.99 future music for our hearts www.phonoTAKTIK.at xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx mr. e. np: k. mizutani: waterscape (e(r)ostrate)