21 november @ 7pm

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KAZEMAT PRESENTATION & closing exhibition oktober…LETS PLAY TENNIS …for the last time……!!!!!

The enchanting cut-and-paste alchemy of the Kazemat label, presented live.

Kazemat presents a new generation of alchemistic cut-and-paste composers, music that is made out of other sources, based on samples and sounds that are put in another context. Many composers have used existing material in their work, like folk melodies, quotations or stylistic elements from other composers. In the twentieth century composers started to use recorded sounds, and in hiphop entire songs are made out of samples of existing music. This tradition is continuing with the ever growing possibilities of technology and digital instruments. Many new artists are finding their own voice and are making beautiful, cinematic and colourful music that is often lost to the music loving audience. The first split LP with Vinkenpeezer and Morsanek will be released in November 2008.

ARTISTS

(DJ) MORSANEK is Amsterdam-based guitarist, DJ, and sound editor Mark Morse. His DJ and editing projects are heavily influenced by extramusical editing techniques and the possibilities of chance music. In these editing works, small timbral and organizational complements are continuously connected and disconnected in an attempt to build a kind of audio narrative from previously unrelated source materials. As an improvising guitarist, Morse uses prepared guitar and a variety of amplifiers to act as a sort of inaccurate sampler or emulator. His most frequent collaborator in this setting is trombonist/composer Hilary Jeffery, but he is also a member of the no-effects guitar quintet The Family Tapes, as well as Sleepgunner, a duo with guitarist/composer Jeroen Kimman dedicated to the music of 1950s close harmony duo The Louvin Brothers.

VINKENPEEZER Soundvillain, cut and paste composer, sonic painter. Vinkenpeezers’ music is build out of many tiny sampled fragments that reappear in as a swarming flock of birds, falling apart and building up again in ever changing forms. His music is organic, cinematic, warm and thickly layered, full of contrast. The music is performed live with an unique instrument consisting of game controllers such as the Wii remote, and by acoustic instruments played by musicians that reinterpret his compositions. Vinkenpeezer is Dutch composer, sound artist and performer Ivo Bol, who works internationally with filmmakers, theatremakers and choreographers.

ERIKKMCKENZIE studied fine Arts and dance in Norway before moving to Amsterdam to study choreography in the School for New Dance Development. He is interested in the crossing of disciplines and in collaborative process, and works as musician, video artist, dancer and choreographer. His experiences often create basis for the continuation of his artistic work; with sound or image recordings, or simply from the experience of own reflections. Innovation, fusion and soul are key elements in his artistic outlook. Erikk McKenzie will present HUASCO SONGS live; In 2007 Erikk McKenzie and Gerardo Gonzales did audio and video recordings in Chile related to the political and ecological consequences of Pascua Lama, a gold mine in the high Andes above Valle Huasco. Erikk McKenzie presents a live mix of audio and video recordings, blended with his own electronic music.

www.kazemat.com