PRESSEINFORMATIONEN
DISK/CTM und YAMAHA präsentierten:
TENORI-ON
Exklusiver Launch-Event und Präsentation des neuen innovativen Musikinstruments von Yamaha
Präsentation von und Diskussion mit dem Medienkünstler und Erfinder des TENORI-ON
TOSHIO IWAI
Danach Live-Performances mit dem TENORI-ON von
TO ROCOCO ROT
(Domino)POLE
(scape)NATHAN MICHEL
(sonig)SUTEKH
(Soul Jazz)I AM ROBOT AND PROUD
(Darla)STEWART WALKER
(Persona)Sowie einem TENORI-ON DJ-Set von
NORMAN FAIRBANKS
Am 8. April 2008 um 20:00 im Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Berlin-Friedrichshain Eintritt frei!
Berlin den 3.3. 2008
Der Abend am 08.04. im Berghain verspricht zweierlei zu werden: höchst fortschrittliches Clubevent und Präsentation einer musikalisch-technischen Innovation, dem TENORI-ON. Von den Yamaha Entwicklungslaboratorien mitnichten unter Verschluss gehalten, vielmehr von Marketingstrategen medienwirksam auf eine lange Testreise geschickt, präsentiert man stolz und im angemessenen Rahmen ein neues Musikinstrument, das im April nun auch in Deutschland auf den Markt kommt. Die Gestaltung des Abends überließ man der Geschmackssicherheit der Club-Transmediale-Festival-Macher von DISK/CTM. Das Line-Up liest sich so heterogen wie spannend: Kompositions-Wunderkind und „Zukunft des Pop“ (Berliner Zeitung) Nathan Michel trifft auf To Rococo Rot, internatonal gefeierte Helden des Grips-Techno. Der Nu-Dub-Experte Pole spielt ebenso wie der kanadische Melodien-Jongleur I Am Robot And Proud, das Club-Noise-Chamäleon Sutekh und der Minimal-Techno-Aktivist Stewart Walker.
Sie alle benutzen an diesem Abend TENORI-ON, ein neues digitales Musikinstrument, das spontaner und vor allem haptischer besser zu bedienen ist als ein Laptop und herkömmliche elektronische Interfaces. Es ist ein kleines, handliches Gerät – die Fachwelt spricht von einem „Handheld“ – das in erster Linie aus einem Feld von 16 mal 16 beleuchteten LED-Druckknöpfen besteht. Mit diesen Knöpfen kann der User sechs verschiedene Klang-Modi benutzen und miteinander verschalten. Damit besitzt er ungeahnte Möglichkeiten zur Improvisation mit eigenem Sample-Material oder den Sounds per MIDI angeschlossener elektronischer und digitaler Klangerzeuger. Das TENORI-ON generiert also selbst keine Klänge, sondern wurde als Speicherbank für Samples und als Interface zwischen verschiedenen digitalen Instrumenten entworfen. Mit der „connection“-Funktion sind synchronisierte Live-Sessions mit mehreren Spielern möglich. Zudem sieht das TENORI-ON blendend aus. Sein ausgeklügeltes Interface macht die Musik durch synchronisierte Lichteffekte auch visuell erfahrbar. Vor den Konzerten wird Toshio Iwai persönlich das TENORI-ON und sein Entwicklungskonzept vorstellen. Dabei können die Besucher an Display-Stationen das Instrument ausgiebig testen.
TENORI-ON hat bereits eine lange Entwicklungs-, Test- und Präsentationsphase hinter sich. Toshio Iwai himself benutzte es 2006 bei Live-Performances auf dem Sonar/ Barcelona und Futuresonic/
Manchester. Seine „Tour-Tauglichkeit“ wurde seit der ersten Version 2001 getestet von Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Matthew Herbert, Mouse On Mars, Cornelius, To Rococo Rot, Jim O’
Rourke, Rei Harakami, Taylor Deupree, Tortoise und Atom Heart. Demotracks, die die besonderen Funktionen des Tenori-on zeigen sollen, stammen von Jim O’Rourke, Atom Heart und Robert Lippok.
Der japanische Medienkünstler und TENORI-ON-Erfinder Toshio Iwai ist selbst ein fleischgewordenes Multimedia-Ereignis. Das Spektrum seiner kreativen Projekte reicht von Arbeiten für und mit dem Fernsehen, über musikalischen Performances und Installationen bis zum Design von Museen und Videospielen. Von letzteren entwarf er einige, deren gemeinsame Charakteristika interaktive musikalische Elemente sind. So war Iwai der erste Designer digitaler Spiele, der dem Benutzer die Möglichkeit gab, eigenständig Musik zu generieren. Toshio Iwais Installationen, etwa Time Stratum von 1985, wurden mit namhaften Preisen ausgezeichnet.
"In days gone by, a musical instrument had to have a beauty, of shape as well as of sound, and had to fit the player almost organically. [...] Modern electronic instruments don't have this inevitable relationship
WEITERE INFORMATIONEN
Weitere Informationen zum TENORI-ON und Beispielvideos:
http://www.global.yamaha.com/tenori-on/index.html
Weitere Informationen zu DISK/CTM: Weitere Informationen zum Berghain:
http://www.clubtransmediale.de http://www.berghain.de
PRESSEKONTAKT
Guido Moebius Autopilot Publishing
Max-Steinke-Str.9, 13086 Berlin Tel. +49-(0)30-29002161 Fax - 92092009
guido@autopilotmusic.com
ARTIST BIOS
TOSHIO IWAI
Toshio Iwai was born in Aichi prefecture, Japan, in 1962. As an interactive media artist, Iwai began making experimental animations in 1981, moved on to working with pre-cinematic toys such as flipbooks and zoetropes, and since 1986 has been interested in the computer game as a visual music system. After becoming the youngest winner of the Contemporary Japanese Art Grand Prix in 1985, he has exhibited many interactive works at exhibitions worldwide and is now considered as a leading media artist. In 1987 he graduated from the Plastic Art and Mixed Media master's course of the Tsukuba University, Japan and in 1992 he finished the Artist-in-Residence Program at the
Exploratorium, San Francisco. He has designed computer generated virtual sets and characters for the immensely popular daily interactive children's show for Fuji TV, UgoUgo Lhuga (1992-94).
He has had one-person exhibitions mounted in Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Antwerp, Karlsruhe, Espoo and Amsterdam, and taken part in group exhibitions in Canada, Australia, France and etc. His performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto "Music Plays Images X Images Play Music" won the Prix Ars Electronica in the catergory of Interactive Art in 1997. "Composition on the Table" won a Gold Medal of Interactive Media Design Review, I.D. Magazine, New York in 2000. His collaborative installations with Hayao Miyazaki, the animation film director are now the permanent exhibit at Ghibli Museum in Mitaka,Tokyo. He has created „Electroplankton“ for Nintendo DS in 2005.
TO ROCOCO ROT (Domino)
To Rococo Rot is a mostly post-rock trio from Berlin and Düsseldorf, Germany. Composed of bassist Stefan Schneider (also of Kreidler and Mapstation) and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, effects). Ronald Lippok has also gained praise for his work in Tarwater. The bands name is a palindrome as it can be spelled the same both forwards and backwards. The group's debut arrived in 1996 in the form of an untitled picture disc (subsequently reissued on CD by Kitty-Yo), with the more widely distributed „Veiculo“ (released by UK indie label City Slang) appearing the following year. In 2004 they moved to Domino Records. The band released The Amateur View in 1999 and Music Is a Hungry Ghost in 2001, Hotel Morgen in 2004 and ABC123 in 2007.
http://www.myspace.com/torococorot
POLE (scape)
Pole took his name from a Waldorf 4-Pole filter which he accidentally dropped and broke in 1996.
Though the filter was perhaps no longer appropriate for DJ work in its damaged state, Betke found the strange hissing and popping noises the filter now made interesting, and began using the broken filter to create music, launching his musical career. Betke's first four albums, titled "1", "2", "3", and "R" (an intentional trilogy of albums, followed by a collection of remixes of Pole's 1998 debut EP Raum), were all based around this filter, with songs usually taking the form of dub basslines and rhythms with percussion provided by the eponymous filter. In 2003 Betke departed from this style for the album Pole (a combination of tracks from two EPs, "45/45" and "90/90"), which utilized more traditionally electronic but still eclectic production methods. Pole has been distributed on several different labels, including Matador Records and Mute Records, and in 1999 Betke co-founded (with Barbara Preisinger) the label
~scape, also known for publishing Jan Jelinek, Deadbeat and others.
http://www.myspace.com/poleartist http://www.scape-music.de
NATHAN MICHEL (sonig)
Nathan Michel is an American experimental electronic musician. He primarily composes and performs his music on a laptop. He has released albums on labels such as Tigerbeat6, SKI-PP and Sonig and has collaborated with well known laptop group DAT Politics. Nathan has received numerous awards for his work including a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP and a Charles Ives
Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received his PhD in music composition from Princeton University in 2007.
http://www.myspace.com/nathanmichel
SUTEKH (Soul Jazz)
Since 1997, San Francisco-based Sutekh has released consistently inconsistent electronic music on labels such as Soul Jazz (UK), Leaf (UK), Force Inc./Mille Plateaux (Germany), Orthlorng Musork (USA), and his own label Context. Manipulating and abusing computers, samplers, synthesizers, various acoustic instruments, and found sounds, he has created everything from deep, minimal house
I AM ROBOT AND PROUD (Darla)
I am Robot and Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-Han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. After spending a decade progressing through the Royal Conservatory classical piano program, Shaw-Han combined his love for music and computers under the name I am Robot and Proud in 2000 while completing a degree in Computer Science. Most recently his music was chosen as the soundtrack to a short film produced by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC, and he was commissioned for a collaborative audio/video performance at the Chicago Cultural Center. Shaw-Han has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan sharing the stage with fellow electronic musicians Manitoba (now Caribou), Mum.
http://www.myspace.com/iamrobotandproud
STEWART WALKER (Persona)
Stewart Walker started making electronic msuic in 1993 when he bought his first synthesizers and a drum machine. His first European release “Artificial Music for Artificial People” came out on Cristian Vogel's Mosquito imprint from Brighton, England. In 1999 he released his debut on Tresor Records,
“Nothing Produces Stark Imagery” and the now-classic album “Stabiles” on Mille Plateaux which cemented Stewart a seminal role in the development of minimal techno. In 2001 Stewart created his own label Persona Records with the intention to bring humanity back to electronic. After Kraftwerk, and Plastikman, he felt it was time to dispose of dehumanized avatars, and hopefully communicate human emotion through analog and digital waveforms, and occasionally the plucked guitar string. Since 2005 Stewart lives in Berlin. Life in Berlin strongly renewed Stewart's appreciation of club culture, and new environments to enjoy dance music. Opposite of the hard and fast techno which inspired him in the early days, he explored the bubbling micro-rhythms and looser construction utilized by contemporaries while still bringing his own melodic interpretations and unmistakably American grooves. His live technology switched from the hardware setup of his early career to a computer with greater flexibility.
His latest album “Concentricity” was written during most of 2006 as Stewart reconciled his multiple perceptions of “the Berlin sound” from past and present, and presenting the music as a mix, since even the structural and song-shaped music he produces requires a context from which to emerge.
http://www.myspace.com/stewartwalker http://www.personarecords.com
DJ NORMAN FAIRBANKS
Audio artist, musician and novelist Norman Fairbanks was born in Los Angeles. The first 18 years of his life he spent living with his family in an Art Deco villa in North Hollywood, a minimalistic mix of glass, concrete and stone and a visionary environment with paintings, music and pervasive art in general. The eclecticism of this place was one of the key drivers for his creative mission which is a random
combination of sound with aural output of todays overkill society to transform both aspects into an audio witness and reflection of american culture. Fairbanks has created the first TENORI-ON album titled „7- days Micorsleep“, which can be downloaded for free from his website.
http://www.normanfairbanks.com
