Stephan Mathieu + Tashi Wada

STEPHAN MATHIEU & TASHI WADA
play "REVENANT"
JASON VAN GULICK 

WOENSDAG / MERCREDI / WEDNESDAY • 14 MAR • 20:00 • 8€

TIME SCHEDULE /
JASON VAN GULICK 20h30-21h40
STEPHAN MATHIEU & TASHI WADA 22h-22h50

Tashi Wada wrote 'Revenant', a piece for Virginals and electromagnets in 2011 for Stephan's 'Virginals' project which connects the sound of early instruments, the application of historical media in the context of composing and performing contemporary music, as well as the act of paraphrasing a written score. For this occasion Wada and Mathieu will present for the first time a duo version adding a second voice played on ebowed Phonoharp, a table top zither from the late 1800s.

STEPHAN MATHIEU is a self taught composer and performer of his own music, working in the fields of electroacoustics and abstract digitala. His sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound and obsolete media, which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution; it has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, the work of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly. During the last decade Mathieu’s music has been released on 30 CDs and vinyl records. Apart from refining his solo work, he currently collaborates with Sylvain Chauveau, Robert Hampson/Main, Taylor Deupree, Jozef van Wissem and David Sylvian in live and studio projects. He’s also a devote collector of 78rpm records from the 1910s and 20s, the era of acoustic and early electronic audio recording.
http://www.bitsteam.de/ 

TASHI WADA is a composer and performer based in San Francisco. His recent work focuses on sound perception as a basis for direct listening experiences. Wada's music can be hypnotic, inviting the kind of contemplation that is too often reserved for quasi-religious experiences. But it also has a certain dryness that brings you into the present rather than pushing you away from it. Wada’s work has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and for several years now he has performed alongside his father Yoshi Wada. "To make an exact reference point Tony Conrad's Fantastic Glissando matches similar aesthetic and conceptual moves. This may be an easy comparison due to both pieces utilizing the distinct sound of the violin, but beyond mere instrumentation each hold at their core slowly gliding pitch's and perceptional experiments. But unlike Conrad's abrasive pre-noise take Wada brings a more accessible and dare I say engaging take to such concepts."
http://lastnightsrecords.blogspot.com/2011/12/tashi-wada-duet.html
http://soundcloud.com/destijlrecs/tashi-wada-duet

JASON VAN GULICK / A self-taught drummer who has travelled far from the beaten path, arrived in Brusels in 2009. From his origins in rock and HxC, he now finds has way evolving towards improvisation and experimentation with his drum kit and percussion elements. Drummer for Carla BOZULICH /EVANGELISTA for a number of European tours, he now collaborates in Belgium with the project YERMO (with Yannick FRANK and Xavier DUBOIS), the group MUEROS, the project SHEEP THONG OF MAYATHANS with Phil MAGGI (idiosincratics), Aymeric DE TAPOL and Frederic ALSTADT, the project BOTO BOTO with Arno PAQUOTTE (Cheresse) and Fabrice Cesario. At Lille he just joigned the doom/sludge band THE LUMBERJACK FEED BACK and continuous to perform for the theater compagnie la MANIVELLE théâtre & VACHE BLEU.

FR / Une préparation idéale pour le concert de Stephan Mathieu, artisan d'une
musique électronique abstraite et colorée, qui suscite la comparaison avec
les paysages de Caspar David Friedrich, ou les oeuvres de Mark Rothko,
Barnett Newman et Ellsworth Kelly. Avec le projet Virginals, il initiait
en 2008 une passionnante entreprise de collusion temporelle : une
relecture de classiques du minimalisme (La Monte Young, Phill Niblock,
Alvin Lucier, Charlemagne Palestine) au moyen d'un virginal (ancêtre du
clavecin) amplifié et de quatre grammophones. Revenant, du Japonais Tashi
Wada, est la première pièce spécialement composée pour ce dispositif. Un
dispositif aux allures d'installation, à l'intérieur duquel l'auditeur est
libre de déambuler.

PICTURES / 

Jozef Van Wissem

CONCERT TAKES PLACE @ BRASS, av. van volxem 364, 1190 forest
NEW MUSIC FOR OLD INSTRUMENTS
RESIDENCY OF JOZEF VAN WISSEM
WITH PERFORMANCES BY KEIJI HAINO, ERIC CORDIER, VANISHING TWINS, KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT (STEF HEEREN), ROBBIE LEE, CHE CHEN, STEPHAN MATHIEU, CARO MIKALEF, THE URPF LANZE AND HERESY OF THE FREE SPIRIT

FRIDAY + SATURDAY + SUNDAY • 10-11-12 DEC

TICKETS /        

Tickets available at the door
FRIDAY:  12€
SATURDAY:  10€
SUNDAY: 6€ 

PROGRAM /
Les Ateliers Claus invites Jozef Van Wissem into its house to explore the two seemingly different worlds of modern composition and early instruments. “New Music For Old Instruments” sees Jozef Van Wissem collaborating with several artists, all adding essential elements to an ongoing dialogue between the music of our times and the practices of old music, when there were less compositions, less detailed compositions and evidently: no recordings. Instead of recreating this early music, Jozef Van Wissem, along with some of the most relevant artists on this subject, look forward, appropriating old instruments for contemporary composition and playing techniques.

FRIDAY, 10th of DECEMBER, doors 20:00
20:30 Lecture on the liberation of the lute by Jozef Van Wissem 
21:10 Eric Cordier + Jozef Van Wissem 
22:00 Keiji Haino + Jozef Van Wissem 

SATURDAY, 11th of DECEMBER, doors 20:00 
20:30 Vanshing Twins
21:00 Vanishing Twins + Jozef Van Wissem
21:35 Robbie Lee + Che Chen
22:20 The Urpf Lanze
22:40 Heresy Of The Free Spirit

SUNDAY, 12th of DECEMBER, doors 15:30 
16:00 Stef Heeren + Jozef Van Wissem
16:45 Stephan Mathieu + Caro Mikalef
17:50 Jozef Van Wissem

LOCATION /
This concert will take place at BRASS, avenue van volxem 364, 1190 saint gilles. Click the map for detailed info.

ARTISTS /
Vanishing TwinsJOZEF VAN WISSEM is renowned for his ability to appropriate the Renaissance and Baroque lute in the context of contemporary experimental music.  By cutting and pasting classical pieces, reversing melodies, "medieval sampling" and adding processed field recordings, Jozef is able to bridge the language of 17th century music with the music of our times.

KEIJI HAINO is a legendary Japanese avant garde artist and rockstar who collaborated with an infinite amount of artists: John Zorn, Fred Frith, Jim O’Rourke, Faust, ... The sheer volume of his guitar playing, added to the astonishingly raw emotion of his vocals, creates a clear impression that one is witnessing the closest rock equivalent to primal scream therapy.

CHE CHEN & ROBBIE LEE are Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalists who have been steadily developing their unique approach to free improvisation over the years.  Using a constellation of instruments, they create earthly, slow moving improvisations that are informed as much by folk traditions as they are by 20th century music.

Eric Cordier (Photo by Jean-Michel Monin)ERIC CORDIER was born in 1963, now living in Paris. As an improviser, he plays a singular instrument: hurdy-gurdy in connection with electronic processors. As a composer he is known for his various electro-acoustic tape music pieces.

VANISHING TWINS is the project of Jeanne Madic, encompassing a fusion of experimental folk and abstract modern classical compositions.

STEF HEEREN is the central figure of Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat, a band which brings dark & looming dronefolk, often referring to medieval times both in instrumentation as in its grimy lyrics

STEPHAN MATHIEU & CARO MIKALEF will present the audio part of their installation ‘Constellations’ which debuted at sonar 2010. Constellations is a piece for 2 renaissance claviers dedicated to the work of Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish Renaissance composer.

THE URPF LANZE is the alter ego of Wouter Vanhaelemeesch. He is known for his labelwork with the excellent labels audioMER and Smeraldina-Rima - but even more so as a graphic artist. Primitive outsider psychfolk on a guitar played as a piano.

PICTURES /