Noise to Signal 0.02: 5IVElements

As the second installment of the Noise to Signal series, 5IVElements is a dynamic quintet featuring 5 prolific sonic improvisers from Russia, Switzerland and Hong Kong. In a multi-instrumental matrix of solo, duo, trio, quartet and quintet, incorporating acoustic and elec...tronic tools, 5IVElements is an unconventional performance that defies genres and categories with risk-taking improvisational practice.

Date: Mar-17, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Hidden Agenda
Address:
2A, Wing Fu Industrial Building, 15-17 Tai Yip Street
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tickets: $120 (at door only)

Performers:
Alexei Borisov (Electronics, Voice / Russia)
Olga Nosova (Drums, Voice / Russia)
Nelson Hiu (Multi-instruments / Hong Kong)
Patrick Donzé (Electronics / Switzerland)
Wong Chung-fai (Electric guitar, Electronics / Hong Kong)
Jointly presented by:
Hidden Agenda & Re-Records
http://hiddenagenda.hk/
www.re-records.com

For bookings and enquiries
Enquiry: hiddenagendahk@gmail.com
Tel : 91706073

About the performers:

Alexei Borisov (Russia)
Making music on the fringe since the underground movement ignited in Russia in the beginning 80s, Alexei Borisov has developed an impressively diverse body of work as a member of NIGHT PROSPEKT, F.R.U.I.T.S. and VOLGA, among many other projects. He is also founding member of ASTMA.

Born in Moscow on December 7, 1960, Alexei Borisov graduated the Moscow State University where he had studied History and Arts. His controversial performing career (as a guitarist) began in the

Among other Borisovs' collaborations are the joint projects with the performance-group "North" (Russia), KK Null (Japan), Jeffrey Surak (USA), Leif Ellgren (Sweden). Borisov also collaborates with the video-artist Roman Anikushin, multimedia-artists Aristarh Chernishev and Vladislav Efimov and also with Olga Subbotina, Moscow theatre director. Lately Borisov prefers solo music career. He also works as a DJ in clubs and on radio and contributed as a journalist to some Russian ("Bulldozer", "Ptjuch", "Fuzz", "Downtown", "man'Music", etc.) and foreign ("B'Mag", "Technikart") magazines and newspapers.

Olga Nosova (Russia)
Olga Nosova is a drummer, vocalist and sound artist from Russia, participating in various experimental, electronic and avantgarde projects, most notably – avantgarde/noise-punk band Motherfathers, and duo-project with Alexei Borisov (both as Borisov/Nosova and ASTMA).

Nelson Hiu (Hong Kong)
Nelson Hiu is a Hong Kong-based musician of Chinese and Japanese descent, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hiu studied ethno-musicology at the University of Hawaii and moved to Hong Kong in 1985. Nelson has been a founding member of many new music ensembles in Hawaii and Hong Kong, including Nuclear Tan, the Pagan Babies, Gain Dangerous Visions, the Pet Project Hawaii, Uncarved Block, CIMG (Collective Improvisational Music Group), Little Red Truck, Dancing Stone and Yihk, and has collaborated extensively with dance and theatre. His music for dance has been performed in Hawaii, Arizona, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Utah, New York City, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

Patrick Donzé (Switzerland)
Patrick Donze was born in Switzerland. He lives and works in Hong Kong since 2005. Beside his main activity in the financial industry, he started playing electronic music and developed a passion for sound design. In 1999, he joined the collective "Dolmen Associates", a personalized and independently minded service for all aspects related to contemporary art and music management, as financial Director and also played with international avant-garde musicians.

For 6 years, the collective organized several performances of avant-garde music and contemporary visual art in symbolic spaces such as a former state penitentiary, an underground lake or dam galleries.
www.dolmen.ch

Wong Chung-fai (Hong Kong)
Also know as Sin:Ned, an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic junkie, live-visualist, micro-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience.

He had offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in events such as HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival Guangzhou Station (2009), MILK+ (2010), and Whisper Music Festival (2010).

http://sin-ned.blogspot.com/ 

DAVY JONES RIP

Yes this Davy Jones from the MONKEES just left us. If you are old enough you will know the meaning of that.
Here the link from MATRIXSYNTH PLEASE CLICK HERE !

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Here some clip from my SOUND CLOUD collection (I still do not know why that Soundcloud widget not appears here...........). This is a tribute to ASHRA TEMPEL made on REASON 4 around 2009.
Here the cover from the album "Schwingungen":

MONOTRON FUN !

My son Marco loves the Monotron - he is often trying to get "out something of it":

KRAFTWERK IN NYC - 10TH OF APRIL - 17TH OF APRIL IN MOMA

Please read the below from Museum of Modern Art in New York City - a friend just called me from there - this sounds so great:

Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

April 10–17, 2012

The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

Over eight consecutive nights, MoMA presents a chronological exploration of the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk with a live presentation of their complete repertoire in the Museum's Marron Atrium. Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of Kraftwerk's studio albums—Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003)—in the order of their release. Kraftwerk will follow each evening’s album performance with additional compositions from their catalog, all adapted specifically for this exhibition. This reinterpretation showcases Kraftwerk’s historical contributions to and contemporary influence on global sound and image culture. Read more

Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider began the Kraftwerk project in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1970, setting up the pioneering Kling Klang studio, where all of Kraftwerk's albums were conceived and composed. By the mid-1970s the group had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electro "sound paintings" and their musical experimentation with tapes and synthesizers. Their compositions, which feature distant melodies, multilingual vocals, robotic rhythms, and custom-made vocoders and computer-speech technology, almost single-handedly created the soundtrack for our digital future. Kraftwerk anticipated the impact of technology on art and everyday life, creating sounds and visuals that capture the human condition in the age of mobility and telecommunication. Their innovative looping techniques and computerized rhythms, which had a major influence on the early development of hip-hop and electronic dance music, remain among the most commonly sampled sounds across a wide range of music genres. Furthermore, the use of robotics and other technical innovations in their live performances illustrates Kraftwerk’s belief in the respective contributions of both people and machines in creating art.
In recent years, starting with their performance at the Venice Biennale in 2005, Kraftwerk has been invited into the visual arts context, festivals, and museums, most recently performing at Lenbachhaus Kunstbau in Munich. In contrast to all former presentations, where Kraftwerk videos, visuals, or the “robots” were presented in a museum context but performances were staged as concerts, MoMA is realizing a groundbreaking new display: the first synthetic retrospective to present, simultaneously and in one location, Kraftwerk's complex layers of music, sound, videos, sets, and performance as a total work of art.
A presentation of Kraftwerk’s historical audio and visual material is on view at MoMA PS1, April 10–May 14, 2012.
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Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Performance Schedule
Tuesday, April 10, 8:30 p.m.
1 – Autobahn (1974)
Wednesday, April 11, 8:30 p.m.
2 – Radio-Activity (1975)
Thursday, April 12, 8:30 p.m.
3 – Trans Europe Express (1977)
Friday, April 13, 10:00 p.m.
4 – The Man-Machine (1978)
Saturday April 14, 8:30 p.m.
5 – Computer World (1981)
Sunday, April 15, 8:30 p.m.
6 – Techno Pop (1986)
Monday, April 16, 8:30 p.m.
7 – The Mix (1991)
Tuesday, April 17, 10:00 p.m.
8 – Tour de France (2003)

Tickets are $25.00 and will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, February 22, at 12:00 p.m., only at MoMAKraftwerkTickets.showclix.com. (You must paste the URL into your browser.) There is a two-ticket limit per person for the entire series. Tickets will be distributed exclusively via will call, and photo ID is required. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance.

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Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Director, MoMA PS1; with the assistance of Eliza Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1.

The exhibition is made possible by a partnership with
Volkswagen of America.

Man Machine. Image courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin and London. © Kraftwerk

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Nano block Synthesizer Part 2

So finally I assembled this NANO BLOCK Synth ...here three photos .........
The instruction is not very good - there are a lot of extra pieces in the pack ....so I walked a little different path compared with the instruction ...added some more buttons etc...here are the photos:

Nano block Synthesizer

Found yesterday in LOG-ON in Tsing Yi.
Price HKD 99 - Made in Japan. It is some kind of miniature LEGO. More than 130 pcs - I hope I can fix it soon. Here just the photo of the unopened package: