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Place:

Preses Nams

Main location:

Preses Nams, 3 Balasta Dambis

An unusual collaboration between two heavyweights of respectivelly Latvian music an art, the most prolific veteran electronic musician Gas of Latvia and one of the most talented and highly acclaimed Latvian visual artists Katrina Neiburga, will take place on stage with their piece Preses Nams (Press House) that is specificially dedicated to the venue. The performance is built on their light and sound installation of the same name that was carried out in – or rather, on - that very building last November. The rest of the performance will base itself of on yet publicly unavailable Gas of Latvia old techno tracks that are processed and prepared especially for this appearance. Both artists have collaborated on many of Neiburga's art pieces but they haven't worked together onstage. However vj'ing that Neibugra will perform alongside Gas of Latvia musical performance, is well rooted in her artistic experience – she started as a videoartist and vj.

Martinsh Rokis works with sound in different contexts, creating abstract compositions-processes, installations and performances. His alienated and sometimes noisy hyper-psychedelic sound world is influenced more by science, technology, contemporary art and philosophy, than by western musical traditions and means of expression. He synthesizes, organizes, controls and realizes his sound ideas mostly in digital domain, combining prepared generative strategies with elements of improvisation. His current interests include the mechanisms of sound perception and interpretation, spatiality, auditory illusions and non-standard sound synthesis.

IN COOPERATION WITH THE FRENCH CULTURAL CENTRE IN RIGA French producer and musician Etienne Jaumet started out in the ’90s with folk rockers The Married Monk, before going into the studio as an engineer and working on his own projects. One of these is the Krautrock-infused electro-disco outfit Zombie Zombie with Neman Herman Düne (of Herman Düne). Jaumet’s debut album, Night Music was released in October 2009 by Domino Recording Co. in the US. Inspired by the work of avant-minimalist Steve Reich, the record was produced by Carl Craig.

Grischa Lichtenberger, born 1983 in Bielefeld, now lives in Berlin. The years between 2005 and 2007 saw the beginning of his works on ~treibgut in Düsseldorf, based on reflections on the landscape of the river Rhein. Starting at written and drawn reflections these works by now cover an extensive visual, acustic and theoretical archive. From the produced works various installations were born (Vinzenz, Düsseldorf, 2007, Waldstelle Nordpol, Steinhagen, 2007, Weser Portfolio, Minden, 2008), as well as the film Die Erzählung der vermittelten Geschichte unserer Entfernung, 2006.

Aoki Takamasa is born in Osaka, Japan, 1976, and presently lives in Berlin, Germany. An artist who expose physical occurrences and natural phenomenon including humankind itself, by sound and photography through his penetrating point of view. He is well known for his releases over the 00s on Japanese electronic music imprints and for his collaboration with Tujiko Noriko that was released on Fat Cat Records. Takamasa toured Japan with Fennesz and has recently been brought into the Raster-Noton fold with the 12 Rn-Rhythm-Variations. Takamasa started making music at 17 with acoustic guitars, bass and drums with a 4-track tape recorder in his hometown of Osaka. By 20, he’d moved on to computers and electronics, researching real-time audio synthesis and audio programming. Soon after, he formed the duo Silicom with Takagi Masakatsu in Kyoto, creating electronic music and visuals.

Olaf Bender’s experimental work with film material started during school time. The casual finding of a complete 16mm movie equipment gave the initiation. From this time on started an intensive dealing with the medium “film” as well as the raw material “film”. After the falldown of berlin wall in 1989 he was working with a music distributor. The work experiences he collected there led to the idea of publishing own musical projects by himself. Together with Frank Bretschneider he founded the recordlabel Rastermusic in 1996. Rastermusic wanted to publish their own electronic music projects and those of other similar working artists. The special process of creating electronic sound should be reflected also in the graphical presentation of the label and his products. One of the earliest Rastermusic productions was the project Signal, which Olaf Bender has been continuing together with Bretschneider and Nicolai until today. Nicolai owned the sublabel Noton, which finally merged with Rastermusic to Raster-Noton in 1999. Beside the management of Raster-Noton he is responsible for graphic design and public appearance of the label. Additionally Bender performs solo under the pseudonym byetone. Bender creates his music digitally. He assembles sine tones to complex sound fabrics. Digital clicks and effect plug-ins are essential to create the rhythms. All this is brought in a timely relation and so a track is born; an artificial world without any physical effort.

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