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with straight quotes as much as ghostly shimmmers, Talking to Ghosts has gathered 10 international artists to rework the 2008 “Ghosts” debut-album by Palac, using only what the original release has to offer, featuring new joyful twists, wide dissonant drones and patient re-compositions by El Fog (D/JP), Tilman Ehrhorn (D), Ennio Mazzon (IT), Jerome Pergolesi (FR), NQ (D), Talkigmakesnosense (UK), Moze (JP), Rechenzentrum (D), Sonicbrat (SG), Beneva vs. Clark Nova (NO) and the original artist Palac (D). Not much in the sense of a traditional remix release, but with the general spirit of openess drifting alongside the patterns and samples rumbling through the tracks. Talking to Ghosts is a collection of imaginary places made from gently glitch, compressed orchestral maneuvers and phantom tones, with a partly transparent ghost of internationalism living within. Out June 2009.

marc weiser is going to curate a special event due the 20th anniversary of germanys reunification at the famous concert location “rust club” in copenhagen on the 6th of nov. 2009. the programm is focussed on the berlin music scene after the fall of the wall and includes bands like “jeans team” and “bonaparte”. partners for the event are wundergrund festival and goethe institut copenhagen.

6th of june 2009, zürich - rote fabrik, switzerland @ taktlos festival

volksmusik: zeitkratzer comes with its own sound and immerses into folk music – into still existing folk music, not a leftover phantasm. the precendent research was concentrated on music of the danube abutters, but finally zeitkratzer used every kind of found material that proposed itself for further use: waltz-reminiscences were inescapable, zither and dulcimer are tested for their capability to produce noise, and the trumpet sings the pure and naive overtones of the mountain solitude… the lower Danube valley contributes rhythmical eruptions and finally everything leads to a wonderfull, free uprooting. Listen, be wild, enjoy!
„der standard“ (vienna) cheered for the first performance at the donaufestival: „espacially zeitkratzer could enthuse. It tested folk music from the danube region with means of the classical modernity for its capacity and also catered for moments of humor.
order the live cd at the zeitkratzer records online store here!

marc weiser aka rechenzentrum (video: robert seidel) will play an exclusive show at the inter-society for electronic arts (ISEA) in belfast 29th of august 2009! ISEA is an international non-profit organisation that promotes the relationship betwee arts, science and digital technologies. since 1988 ISEA has overseen a major international symposium on electronic arts taking place in various prestigious institutions across the globe biannually, and moving to an annual cycle following ISEA 2009.
www.isea2009.org

rechenzentrum 2.0 / video: robert seidel are going to present their recent work “crystal world” at the opening of the festival about recycling, sampling and jamming. find more infos about the festival and the whole programm here!

feb. 26th 2009 / berlin / akademie der kuenste hanseatenweg / 19:00

Cut & Splice: From the Seven Days
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October 2008

one of the rare images of the stockhausen brothers during a performance at the planetarium 1968 in japan.

Sonic Arts Network and BBC Radio 3 present a two day festival based
around Stockhausen’s Aus den Sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days).
the collection of 15 textparts were composed in may 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as “intuitive music“—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer(s).
“the piece may be performed only by a special ensemble, all works without conductor, all with electroacoustic equipement. durations variable.” (k.h. stockhausen)

Cut and Splice: From the Seven Days features over 20 performers,
installations and a four day durational piece, the festival is set in
one of London’s most atmospheric spaces, Wilton’s Music Hall, the
oldest grand music hall in the world. Under the Artistic direction of
Anton Lukoszevieze performers will include David Behrman, Angharad
Davies, Rhodri Davies, Reinhold Friedl, Frank Gratkowski, Robin
Hayward, Apartment House, Seth Josel, Aleks Kolkowski, Phil Minton,
Maja Ratkje, Twentytwentyone, Mark Wastell, Marc Weiser, Nikos
Veliotis, Michael Vorfeld.

Cut & Splice is the UK’s premier annual festival of radical
electronic music and sound art, co-produced by Sonic Arts Network and
BBC Radio 3.

cut & splice festival

rechenzentrum are invited to collaborate with the danish ensemble contemporanea for the wundergrund - festival, which takes place in berlin and copenhagen during october and november 2008. due to the seperation from former videoartist lillevän pobjoy, rechenzentrum is going to work at the wundergrund festival with german visual artist robert seidel. to signify the change, the new name of the project is rechenzentrum 2.0! it`s also planned to present a fluxus-set-clash between marc weiser and the danish bassplayer august engkilde, based on vinyl recordings of animal sounds, august engkilde did with the artgroup “superflex” and an exclusive live club - set at the culture box club in copenhagen.

welcome to the unexpected autopsy of now ….

the huddersfield contemporary music festival is celebrating the 60th anniversary of musique concrète and the pioneering work of pierre schaeffer by commissioning 60º by mathew adkins. his concept for the piece is to create a highly exciting and adventurous work that reflects the influence of schaeffer and the ideas that musique concrète has spawned across a wide range of experimental electronic music. essential to the project is the involvement and the contribution of sound materials by over 60 of the world’s leading electronic composers and sound artists like marc weiser, christian fennesz, david toop, scanner, conrad schnitzler, dror feiler, kasper toeplitz, christina kubisch etc..
the result will be premiered on 28th november 2008 at the huddersfield contemporary music festival.
read more here!

howlin to the milky moon
when the circus comes to town ……
the genre - generator - troubadour marc marcovic will play at the circus / bar 25 in berlin on the 31st of aug. 08 !