Berlin: Podewil: x-tract Record-Release-Concert on June 14th 01, 20 pm

[Elke Moltrecht <Musik@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Podewil presents:
x-track Record-Release

The new label reflects Podewil?s position in the vanguard of the
international contemporary music scene. It will provide a home for
cutting-edge music defying neat categorizations, running the gamut from
experimental electronic club sounds to Stockhausen to Noise and Sound.
x-tract will release projects that are directly or indirectly connected to
Podewil: live and studio recordings of pieces and compositions that have
been performed at Podewil, projects by musicians who have performed or been
artists-in-residence at Podewil in the last few years, and the results of
collaborations initiated through projects supported by Podewil.
The label is starting with four releases.


Concert at Podewil on June 14th, 2001  :  20 p.m.


With Christophe Charles (F/J), Werner Durand (D), Lothar Fiedler (D), Boris
D. Hegenbart (D), Rolf Julius (D), Aleks Kolkowski (D), Brandon LaBelle
(USA), Steve Roden (USA), Michael Vorfeld (D), Michael Walz (D)


julius, (halb) schwarz
Rolf Julius (D), small sounds
 julius (halb) schwarz deals with the world of ?small sounds,? a term coined
by John Cage to designate sounds so subtle that they are usually barely
discernible.

sampling rage
Christophe Charles (F/J), Boris D. Hegenbart (D), Brandon LaBelle (USA),
Steve Roden (USA), Terre Thaemlitz (USA/J)
The live and studio recordings of material performed at Podewil showcase the
creative possibilities opened up by the use of samplers and computers as
musical instruments.

vestige vertical
Lothar Fiedler (DMichael Vorfeld (D), Michael Walz (D), Boris D. Hegenbart
(D), Aleks Kolkowski (GB/D)
vestige vertical blends vertical layers of acoustic, electro-acoustic, and
purely electronic sound output. Constantly changing, delicately textured
levels of sound are the result.


Werner Durand - The Art of Buzzing (Excuse the Delay Vol. 1)
Werner Durand (D) prepared PVC wind instruments, Iranian ney
In the six pieces, Durand uses sounds ? including delays and loops ? to
create layers, without, however, interfering with the internal structure of
the original sounds.


The CDs are available from June 14 at Podewil and at www.podewil.de and
www.edition-rz.de.

Curator Elke Moltrecht,  Podewil, Klosterstraße 68-70, 10179 Berlin.