D/B Recommended: My Imaginary Portrait Gallery by Stephan Guillais @ Staatsgalerie PBerg | 18.12.2010

Das Visier präsentiert vom 18.12. bis 15.01.2011 die Ausstellung “My Imaginary Portrait Gallery” von Stephan Guillais. Imaginäre Portraits und Akte, die man auch Abstrakte nennen könnte, sind das Hauptmotiv Stephan Guillais. Die menschliche Figur taucht immer wieder in Guillais Bildern auf, der sich buchstäblich in seine Arbeit vertieft und ihnen mit expressivem Gestus zu Leibe [...]

D/B Video Feature: Into The Cosmos by Architeq & Chopsy

“INTO THE COSMOS” is ChopsyAnimations (chopsyanimation.com) first foray into the world of music videos, a tie-in with music maker Architeq from Tirk Records. Originally it was conceived as a short film by Chopsy (director Darren Robbie), with a simple premise: “what happens to all the old vinyl people used to play? From out of attics, [...]

D/B Recommended: Exhibition: Ein kleiner roter Raum @ Invaliden1 Galerie in Berlin | 09.10. – 20.11.2010

Pedro Cabrita Reis complex œuvre is marked by a highly individualized philosophical and poetic discourse, and encompasses a variety of media: painting, sculpture, photography and site-specific installations composed of found and manufactured objects. Cabrita Reis’ Ein kleiner roter Raum mit drei Fenstern at Invaliden1 Galerie revolves around the themes of housing, habitation, construction and territory.

D/B presents: KREATIONEN 2010 | Festival of Berlin Puppeteers | 30.10 – 05.11.2010 @ The SCHAUBUDE in BERLIN

From October 30th till November 5 th 2010 eight productions of the Berlin independent Puppet Figure and Object Theatre Scene will be presented as part of a small fine Festival at the SCHAUBUDE BERLIN. An exhibition with theatre posters in the foyer will enrich the Festival. The productions are both designed to enrich the evening [...]

D/B Recommended: Eva Castringius / In Transition | Das Dreilinden-Projekt @ Raststätte DREILINDEN, 23.10.2010

Under the title In Transition.  Das Dreilinden Proje k t Castringius presents a dramaturgical re-reading of the autobahn rest stop DREILINDEN. Castringius’ art installation in the circular first-floor section of the venue directly references its architecture, drawing explicitly on the existing structures, and combining them with fictitious elements

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Grischa Lichtenberger | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Grischa Lichtenberger, born Bielefeld 1983, is involved in a variety of arts such as writing, graphics, installations, video and music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]For his recent album he recorded sounds from the world around him like a sliding table top, the noise of a radiator or the droning of a broken machine. [...]

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Peter Broderick | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Peter Broderick is an American musician and composer from Portland, Oregon. He has released solo material under his own name, been a member of Efterklang, and played with several ensembles as a session musician. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Peter learned a number of musical instruments whilst at school, and went on to become [...]

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Ben Frost | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Frost’s music is about contrast; influenced as much by Classical Minimalism as by Rock & Metal, Frost’s throbbing guitar-based textures emerge from nothing and slowly coalesce into huge, forbidding forms that often eschew conventional structures in favor of the inevitable unfoldings of vast mechanical systems. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]His compositions are created [...]

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Mehr & Sixt perform KOMO | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

KOMO is an audiovisual band got together: Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt integrate music and visual arts. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]“Komo” is an aural Mantra. The introverted and self-contained a minimalistic string phrase circles upon itself. The use of a traditional canon compacts the already repetitive character of the piece.

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: The Beautiful Schizophonic | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

The Beautiful Schizophrenic is the pseudonym of portugese sound designer Jorge Mantas, an artist who clearly has a bit of a fixation on Marcel Proust. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Sometimes the laptop is a vault of memories. It’s loaded with many sound fragments from our wireless imaginary past. You open it and [...]

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Peter “PITA” Rehberg | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Austrian electronic musician Peter “Pita” Rehberg was one of the pioneers of dissonant music composed through digital noise. In 1999 he received Prix Ars Electronica Distinction Award for Digital Musics, alongside Christian Fennesz. He also runs the Editions Mego label, formerly known as Mego. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He has collaborated with: Jim [...]

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Stephan Mathieu | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Stephan Mathieu (October 1967) is a German musician and sound artist whose work is based on digital and analog processing techniques. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He works in the fields of digital art and electroacoustics, mainly as a self taught composer and performer of his own music.

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Janek Schaefer | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Janek Schaefer is a London-based sound artist, musician, and composer born in England to Polish and Canadian parents in 1970. He is known for his innovative work with sound and installation art. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] In 2008, Schaefer won The British Composer of The Year Award for Sonic Art for his [...]

MADEIRADIG Artist Feature: Simon Whetham | 03-06.12.2010 @ Madeira Island / Portugal

Simon Whetham has been capturing and composing with field recordings since taking part in a research trip to Iceland in 2005. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Since then he has been gaining a steadily increasing profile: exhibiting in Iceland; recording in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil; performing at a large number of festivals and [...]

D/B Festival Feature: Chromatologies – International Festival of Digital Art and Music | 04.09. – 02.10.2010

Chromatologies brings together highly acclaimed international artists to the wonderful market town of Rotherham, UK. D/B highly Recommended! They host the UK premier performances of Oval’s ‘O’ and Frank Bretschneider’s ‘EXP’; the first ever UK performance by Grischa Lichtenberger; and a new version of Carsten Nicolai’s highly acclaimed audio visual installation ‘unitxt’.

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