D/B Recommended: Drawing in the age of electronic expression – Opening @ LEAP Berlin | Saturday, 28.01.2012

How has the role of the artist been transformed by the impact of digital technology? Can the producer leave the surface and program equipment, with data controlled by insects and machines, which in themselves turn into the actual producers or synthesize sounds into images?

D/B Recommended: Lionel Williams – Exhibition & Concerts @ Mindpirates Berlin | Sunday, 22.01. – Saturday, 28.01.2012

Berlin, January. Cold … wet … dark … isolation. One either grins and bears the temporary depression or packs up a melancholic soul and escapes. The long-looming year 2012 has already become our current calendar. The countdown is on.

D/B Recommended: CTM.12 Festival @ Different Venues in Berlin | from Monday, 30.01.2012 to Sunday, 05.01.2012

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January [...]

D/B Recommended: Plastic People Special with Floating Points & Abdul Forsyth @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Saturday, 21.01.2012

147 Curtain Road – Shoreditch, London. A legendary address, home of one of the most fascinating underground music clubs worldwide, Plastic People – a place truly defined by the love of music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With its 200 people capacity and its incredible custom built sound-system, Plastic People has been the shelter [...]

D/B Recommended: Faux Images IV @ LEAP Berlin | Tuesday, 13.12.2011

“Faux Images” is a regular meeting, which provides a platform for showing and exchanging work and networking for the Berlin animation and motion design scene. Besides the opportunity for artists to present themselves and their work, central to “Faux Images” is the idea of community and mutual inspiration.

D/B Recommended: BodyControlled 1: Other Spaces @ LEAP Berlin | Saturday, 26.11.2011

BodyControlled is a new exhibition and performance series at Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance /LEAP. It presents artists who are dedicated to performance art and have explored in their work the medium of sound in electronic as well as other expressive art forms.

D/B Recommended: Soundfair presents SYMPHONY @ Berlin Weekly Berlin | Thursday, 13.10.2011

SOUNDFAIR is pleased to announce an exhibition with editions from the performance series SYMPHONY. Augustin Maurs’ s “Sinfonietta Concertante For Two Ambidextrian Cellists, Umbrellas And Sake Drinkers” will be performed at the opening.

D/B Recommended: Sonic Network # 9: John Aslanidis & Brian May @ dr. julius | ap Berlin | Thursday, 06.10. – Sunday, 06.11.2011

dr. julius | ap is pleased to announce a cooperation of Australian painter John Aslanidis and Berlin-based British musician Brian May. This will be the first vision + sound installation ever in the gallery of the New Concrete. The exhibition will comprise of a large painting, Sonic Network No.9, constructed of four panels measuring 244 [...]

D/B Recommended: Digging in the Crates Installation @ Letters Are My Friends Berlin | 01.10.2011

Digging in the Crates is an interactive installation which offers possibilities to explore Sampling as a production technology of modern music. While dynamic data visualizations will be navigated using modified turntables, information graphics as well as auditory contributions helping to understand complex contents and relations.

D/B Recommended: Interval Studies by Tristan Perich @ LEAP Berlin | Friday, 16.09.2011

We are pleased to recommend a solo exhibition by New York-based artist and composer Tristan Perich. Inspired by the aesthetics of maths and physics, Perich works with simple forms and complex systems. For this exhibition, Perich will be exhibiting a body of work that include the sound sculptures Interval Studies and Machine Drawings – the [...]

D/B Tech Feature: Digital Harinezumi

The Digital Harinezumi is a tiny camera, created by the creative minds at Powershovel/Superheadz in Japan (a music label, art book publishing company and more). Released for the first time in 2009, the Harinezumi has become a cult item among photographers and artists, due to its peculiar qualities:

D/B Book Feature: CONSTRUCTED STYLES | LEGO Bricks in Urban Art

The CONSTRUCTED STYLES book covers 25 international artists and their stunning urban art sculptures, 3D-graffitis and room installations made from LEGO® Bricks. It features over 220 full-color photographs of cutting edge urban art pieces. The German street art crews Sketched and Buntlack, internationally renowned artists like Jan Vormann and graffiti artists of two generations have [...]

D/B Recommended Exhibition: No cage by Lucas Lenglet @ Invaliden1 Galerie Berlin | 29.01. – 05.03.2011

Although based on architectonical approaches, Lucas Lenglet oeuvre extends over a range of materials and media including sculpture & photography. His site-specific project no cage presents one of the leading concerns in the work from Lucas Lenglet, staged architectural forms as point of departure for reflections.

D/B Recommended: Konono N°1 & Kompaktorama @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 25.02.2011

Their first show in Berlin in 2007 has been a feast, now they are coming again: Konono No.1 is a collective of Congolese musicians standing for an indigenous urban sound of  amplified likembés (thumb pianos). [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Taken together, the patterns of all of Konono No 1′s likembé-players sum up to [...]

D/B Album Feature: Sun Ra – The World Is Not My Home @ Jazzman Records

Following the unparalleled success of Jazzman’s previous Sun Ra triple pack which sold out worldwide within 24 hours of release, here is the second & final installment of their foray into the intriguiing, beguiling and mythical world of the Sun Ra 45. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The triple 45 set includes 6 sides [...]

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