Concert evening, 8 pm, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
curated by Jens Brand
hot & cold (Anne Wellmer/Relly Tarlo): hit & blow No.3 (for computer and glass instruments)
echo ho: Persona (for video and electronics)
LIGHTBRINGER (Marcelo Aguirre): Imprecations at the Cave of Skulls
The second part of Music 3 also deals with ideas about percussion, hitting and being hit, as well as the questions: “Why?” and “With what?”, or “Who?”.
Relly Tarlo and Anne Wellmer miraculously move motors and electronics to beat up innocent objects. Echo Ho – as the inevitable exception to the rule – stays out of fights and impresses with self-made sounds and videophony.Marcelo Aguirre is at the end of the long line of unpredictable behavior finally someone who just does it, and does it properly, that is, loudly and with a
drum kit and drumsticks… but: very slowly.
Relly Tarlo and Anne Wellmer began collaborating on the hit & blow project during a residency at Q-O2 in Brussels in 2008. Two motorized mechanical glass tube instruments form the core of the work. Their sound is progressively alive and layers of electronically generated noise and manipulated outside recordings are added to create a rich and intriguing soundscape.
Anne Wellmer is a composer and media artist. She studied electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and composition with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT/USA. In 2007 she was awarded an “Honorary Mention in Digital Music” by the Prix Ars Electronica.
Her works include “sonic environments for performances”, sound installations, live music for dance and theater, radio art, music theater, network projects and improvisation with electronica.
Sound artist and sculptor Relly Tarlo (*1949) is mainly known for his large-scale architectural installations, which he has designed specifically for certain locations, e.g. an external staircase, a park or a square under a bridge. His next major work will include an entire building that has been cleared for demolition. Relly Tarlo has been active since the 1970s. His art works always include mechanically generated sounds that occasionally need to be amplified. Typically, all kinds of tubes are part of his work: marbles roll through cardboard tubes, table tennis balls fall through PVC tubes or – in his new work for q-o2 – air is blown through glass tubes. Sound is always a central component of Tarlo’s art and performances. In 1987, Relly Tarlo took part in Documenta 8 in Kassel.
Echo Ho artist, lives in Cologne. She grew up in Beijing and moved to Hong Kong in 1994, where she received her diploma in Technical Arts (Film/Television) from the Academy for Performing Arts. In 1998 she came to Germany and in 2003 she graduated with a diploma in Audio/Visual Media from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Her artistic work spans a broad field from video/sound to audiovisual installations, designing instruments for live improvisation and intermedia performances. She investigates the coding of the body in the midst of the metamorphosis of the urban / natural landscape
Since September 2007 she has been working as an artistic-scientific assistant in the field of electronic media / sound at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Since 2010 she has been a fellow of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Marcelo Aguirre comes from Argentina and has lived in Berlin for the last six years.
A self-taught percussionist and vocalist, his playing reveals a spectrum that ranges widely across delicate pulsation, exploding from pure tone color into free music or charged noise with an eye to continuous sound and shifting interplay of forces. He curated and co-curated events at the Podewil Contemporary Arts Center in Berlin 2003-2004 (Sculpture Musicale; Violet Music I & II; der negative horizont). He has also been actively writing about experimental music for various magazines since 1992 and created his small, self-made label minúscula, which is still in progress.
His involvement in various intermedia projects includes live improvisation with Anna Barth’s Butoh dance performances; the quartet Val Afumo together with visual/performance artists Peter Morrens, Juha Valkeapää and musician Andréas Fulgosi with music for avant-garde cinema; the duo The Inner Metal with Karen Scheper combining sound performance and live painting and environments. Active collaboration with composer Michael Jon Fink (California), events in Berlin, Paris, Lier, Brussels, Berkeley and Los Angeles, works together with composers and improvisation artists John Duncan, Hans W. Koch, Bettina Wenzel, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Mark Trayle, Daniel Varela, José Marchi, John Hegre, Raymond Dijkstra, Timo van Luijk, Z’EV and Ulrich Krieger.
Music 3 takes place as part of klangpol.
Curated by: Jens Brand