D/B Movie Feature: The Sound After The Storm | Trailer & Exclusive Screening @ The MADEIRADIG Festival | 3-6.12.2010

The Sound After The Storm is a documentary film by Sven O. Hill & Patrik Soergel & Ryan Fenson-Hood. Three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is part ghost town and part developing world country. Well known musicians Lillian Boutté, Dr. Michael White and photographer Armand “Sheik” Richardson use music as a philosophy and tool [...]

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 11+3 Interview with Peter Broderick

11+3 is designed to give you an insight into the motivations and aspirations of the best creative minds in the world. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This time with American musician and composer from Portland Peter Broderick. Each artist is asked 11 set questions and to contribute 3 “facts” which can be any statement [...]

D/B 11+3 Interview with Hugo Olim

11+3 is designed to give you an insight into the motivations and aspirations of the best creative minds in the world. This time with Madeira Island based visual artist Hugo Olim. Each artist is asked 11 set questions and to contribute 3 “facts” which can be any statement from them on absolutely anything:

MADEIRADIG Festival 2010 | SAVE THE DATE | 03 – 06 December 2010 / Madeira Island

Only 5 months to go now until Digital in Berlin’s unique Festival – the MADEIRADIG. While it’s cold in the rest of Europe, experience some of the most formidable avant-garde musicians in the world and stay in a gorgeous Design Hotel located on a cliff in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This intimate festival [...]

D/B News: Brian Eno To Mentor Ben Frost & Ben Frost confirmed for MADEIRADIG Festival 2010

Australian musician Ben Frost is one of a handfull of artists from all disciplines (dance, literature, film, music, theater, visual arts) to have been selected to take part in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative for 2010/11. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Under the scheme Frost will be mentored by ambient pioneer, [...]

D/B Video Feature: The MADEIRADIG Festival 2009 Documentation

A documental view of our MADEIRADIG Festival edition 2009. Based on an interview with Tony Herrington (The WIRE Magazine). Directed and produced by Vitor Joaquim / Editing: Maria Pacheco / Cameras: Hugo Rodrigues, Maria Pacheco, Rita Martins & Vitor Joaquim.

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