bite a bit - workshop and concert with dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) and Yann Leguay

In this workshop dj sniff will cover issues in working with the vinyl medium and recorded media at large in a performance based practice. What is the relationship of "playing" and "play-back"? How can one reflect an recorded moment from the past within a performative moment of the now? How can one imagine a new form of turntable based music utilizing new computer technology? Participants will learn about the history and practice of turntable and vinyl based music covering both Hip-Hop / DJ culture and experimental turntablism.
Yann Leguay will present two of his projects; Cutter Off and Unstable Quasi Stacic Crackin. Starting from a blank vinyl and using surgical tools connected to micro-contacts, which creates both incredible sonic and visual experience to the audience. On the way of Nicolas Collins , Bruce Sterling's "Dead Media project" and of course Christian Marclay's work, with participants in the workshop he is going to operating a diversion of different medias, experimenting on the materiality of sound and the media distortions.

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artists info:

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit)  is a turntable musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music. His music focuses on the live reconstruction and narrativization of the phonographically amplified - the music, the sound, the technology and the past. To achieve this, he uses a unique setup of custom hardware and software along with one turntable and DJ mixer. He hopes he can reflect his influences from Hip-Hop and Free Jazz not stylistically but through an exploration of a distinct instrumental voice and practice. From 2007 on, he is STEIM's Artistic Director, guiding the institution's creative output and representing it's activities through performing and lecturing around the world.
http://djsniff.com
http://www.steim.org/steim/

Yann Leguay , born in 1981 (Fr), lives and works in Brussels. His approach to sound design for installation, performance and film centers on the materiality of sound. Both a visual artist and sound maker, and reverse, he has participated in numerous exhibitions including «Pixelache» in Helsinki , «Evento09» in Bordeaux and «Insubordination Microfestival» Genève.  He also composes sound tracks for short films, as Planet A of Momoko Seto (2008).
In different projects, Quasi static crack propagation / Cutter-Off / Wireless / RadioFreeRobots, he regularly performs live improvisation in concert places and multimedia festivals in Europe as "Mir" in Athens , "Le nouveau festival" in Centre Pompidou, Paris , "Our voices" in Hong-Kong...
He is directing a DRIFT serie on the ArtKillArt label and he edited his sound work on Phonotopy.
www.phonotopy.org


Anmeldung für Workshop :
echoho@khm.de