[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] Concert: Turntable Music Night vol.3 with eRikm, DJ Lenar and dj sniff

[STEIM <knock@steim.nl>]

STEIM presents Turntable Music Night vol.3
a night for experimental turntable music

eRikm (FR)
DJ Lenar (PL)
dj sniff (NL/JP)

Date: Thursday, December 13
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690

Turntablists in the experimental music and hip-hop turntablism scene  
rarely interact and the musicians are more likely to disassociate one  
from the other.  But when you see how Christian Marclay picked up the  
turntable in NY during the mid-70's when hip-hop music was coming  
downtown from the Bronx, or how the Scratch Perverts took the DJ  
battle scene by storm in the late-90's with their routines that  
incorporated techniques common in experimental practices such as  
mixer feedback, vinyl noise and tapping on the needle, it's hard to  
say that the two scenes are completely independent of each other.
Our next Turntable Music Night will feature three turntablists  
working primarily in the experimental/improvisational scene but who  
in my view serve as important bridges to hip-hop turntablism. eRikm  
is one of the leading performers in this scene known for his ecstatic  
real-time collage. DJ Lenar from Poland has been actively working  
with other improvisors and organizing events. dj sniff has been  
developing new digital tools that seamlessly integrate the laptop  
computer into his setup. Whether or not each of these musicians feel  
any connection to the other turntable practice, the fact that they  
all requested to use Technics 1200 turntables and are all bringing  
their own DJ mixer already connects some of the missing links between  
the two scenes.

check out samples of their work here:
eRikm http://youtube.com/watch?v=7cvWtXFHBCs http://youtube.com/watch? 
v=K46L1cwxxXc&feature=related
DJ Lenar http://www.myspace.com/djlenar
dj sniff  http://www.djsniff.com/videos/keirsniff1_play.html

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BIO:
eRikm
Ever since he started back in 1992, eRikm has instinctively followed  
a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his  
interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock  
guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more  
renowned for his virtuoso turntabling and his use of electronic  
instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up. eRikm has  
followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian  
Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better  
equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a  
relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and  
contemporary music; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an  
easy pandering to his audience. The originality of his style stems  
from the duality between his experimentations in sound material, its  
envelope and its tessiture, and his work and taste for the anecdote,  
the reference. His interest in other forms of artistic expression  
being the terrain on which he builds the images conveyed by his  
music. This huge reservoir he has filled for himself has captivated  
all the artists he has worked with.

eRikmâs recording career and musical encounters rapidly affiliated  
him into the chaotic dynamics of the improvised music scene, helped  
by his very visual style of listening. But today he has begun to  
leave behind his status of noise-dj and vinyl sculptor, turning  
towards more solitary work, integrating into his music new  
technologies and applying lessons learnt from his multifarious  
musical experiences. His primary aim is no longer simply to quote his  
system of references but to create for himself a bank of singular  
material to compose without referring to other works. eRikm is now  
approaching a subtle abstraction, a new electronic position : like a  
pause in the contemporary sonic agitation, in opposition to this, a  
desire to weave a musical oeuvre whose intricacies are easy to  
follow, easing the listener into the vistas of his composition,  
without exaggerated technical or intellectual posturings.
http://www.erikm.com/

DJ Lenar
Associated with independent label LadoABC, DJ Lenar develops and  
promotes turntablism with his project Deckonstrucja, a series of DJ- 
instrumentalist meetings that connect abstract hip-hop,  
plunderphonics and various types of instrumental music. He is also  
the co-organizer of Djazzpora, a concert series for improvised music  
in Warsaw. Without falling into any particular style, his music  
searches for curiosities in all types of music through methods of  
free improvisation. He plays with a dj setup, loopstation, vinyl  
records and a computer.
http://www.myspace.com/djlenar

dj sniff
For the last several months dj sniff has been developing his  
crossfader-triggered sampler cut'n play. This allows him to  
instantaneously capture and reconstruct sounds from the turntable  
into new rhythmic forms. Now a digitally mediated but spontaneous  
dialog with the recorded past becomes the driving force for his  
improvisations.
http://www.djsniff.com


This concert series is partly funded by Gemeente Amsterdam.

More information on concerts: http://www.steim.org/steim/activity.php

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