state51 warehouse
8-10 rhoda st (off Bricklane, click for map)
e2 7 ef - london
£5 entry fee (£4 booking in advance here)
(US/UK) - toys/instruments: new project
i: http://www.rhythmajik.com/
[bio]
Z'ev (born Stefan Weiser) straddles the nearly unbridgeable and highly volatile gulf between the art world and the music industry. Acclaimed as one of the world's best and most original percussionists, z'ev started playing percussion at 4 and began recording in the late '60s in a handful of psych-out projects.
Throughout the 70s, he developed a personal technique utilizing self-developed instruments formed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, and PVC plastics. He thus affirmed himself as a sound/visual poet focusing on acoustic phenomena and sound sculptures up to the point of being one of the founders of the so-called Industrial Music/Art Movement (codified in the Industrial Culture Handbook published by RE/search in 1983).
By the late '70s, he took on the Z'EV (or z'ev) moniker to explore the "spatial poetics" of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments. His dozens of collaborative projects expanded to include work with John Cage, Glenn Branca, The Hafler Trio, Psychic TV, and Rhythm & Noise.
From 1984, he has been concentrating on performing in a more traditional mallet-percussion style. Both performance modes have been described as cacophonous, when considered as music in Western terms, because of the dense elemental acoustic phenomena these instruments produce. In point of fact, he doesn't actually consider the results as "music" per se, but more as orchestrations of highly rhythmic acoustic phenomena. He has written a book 'Rhythmajik: practical uses of number, rhythm and sound' (Temple Press) in 1992 and retired from Artistic endeavors from 1994 up to 2003.
Now based in London, he has been focusing on audio collaborations with the likes of nigel ayres, david jackman, francisco lopez, kk.null, stephen o'malley and peter rehberg [among others].
(CH/UK) - electronics, turntables, noise toys
i: http://www.suddeninfant.com/
Sudden Infant is the band led by Joke Lanz from Switzerland's Schimpfluch label family, home of dada/noise/punk odds and marginals. Working in the area of Experimental and Free Music, Sudden Infant is building up complex Noise compositions, using unconventional sound sources, lo-fi electronics and turntables. Sudden Infant's music has a humorous and highly improvised character. The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It's a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy!
His performance are ever rooted in live (inter)action both with the performative objects and with the audience. The project is a series of daily life experiences per se influenced by children, with a main point of focus as his son Céleste, inspiration of many ideas and projects. The other influences remain early punk music, Actionism, Fluxus, Dada and the anarchist movement.
Joke Lanz says: I started Sudden Infant at the end of 1988. Before that I played electric bass in a hardcore band called Jaywalker. Sudden Infant was always a project of my own, sometimes with various members for live performances (Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips, Franz Lieberherr, Daniel Löwenbrück, Didi Gallhammer). Since that time, Sudden Infant has played many live shows all over the world (Europe, USA, Japan, Taiwan) and released lots of records, tapes and cd's. I have worked together with people like Christian Marclay, Voice Crack, Small Cruel Party and musicians from the free jazz and improvised music scene.
(ANDY BOLUS) (UK/FR) - electronics, noise toys
i: school of meat cutting
"He is the waterlogged brain propelling Evil Moisture into marvelous, insensate lurch (his lubricious light-speed collages make mockery of the likes of Stock, Hausen and Walkman)
Tom Smith - To Live And Shave In LA
[bio]
Andy Bolus (aka Evil Moisture) makes modified electronic toys, rewiring circuits such as those found inside children's talking computers and other electronic detritus, using the aleatoric sounds generated as source material for hi-speed cutup sound, as well as making installations.
In addition he produces a catalogue selling these alien objects, and has exhibited them several times, most notably in Japan, also sold in shops in Paris and Tokyo.
He has performed 100s of times in Japan and Europe under the name Evil Moisture since 1991, as well as releasing dozens of cassettes, 4 vinyl LPs, several cds and cdrs on numerous noise labels. He has worked with artists such as Yamantaka EyE (Hanatarash, XoX, Boredoms), Hironori Murakami (Vomit Lunchs), Erik Minkinnen (as Intertecsupabrainbeatzroomboyz) Andrew Sharpley (as AA) Noel Akchote (as Lenny Kravitz U.K), John Weise, Howard Stelzer, Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & gurgelstock), as well as manufacturing modified toys for Luc Ferrari's last recordings, and making headphone equipment for "le placard" festival.
