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ganik · Post by **ganik** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:04 pm

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MUTEK_NEWS + + + September 2004 + + +
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* MUTEK in EUROPE (part 2)
** MUTEK_REC: 2 NEW TITLES AVAILABLE ON VINYL
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* MUTEK IN EUROPE (part 2) *
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This month, MUTEK continues a brief European 'season' initiated in August. After Germany, Finland, Estonia and Norway, 4 new cities are targeted: Rome, Paris, Berlin and Riga.

Dissonanze presents MUTEK / Rome, Italy
September 17, 2004
Deadbeat, EGG, Crackhaus, The Mole - live performances
Skoltz_Kolgen, [ silent room ], Film
Italian artists: Claudio Fabrianesi (DJ), Oxtongue (DJ), Mylicon/EN (Installation).

Connected with other analogous festivals, Dissonanze started four years ago as the Italian festival which represents the best of international electronic culture. As it awaits its fifth edition, which will be held in Rome in May 2005, Dissonanze is curating a series of events dedicated to showcasing some of the most significant trends in music and the visual arts produced by means of new technologies and electronic languages.

Address: Brancaleone, via levanna 11 / 11 pm / 8 euros
Produced by_Dissonanze and Brancaleone.
Partners_Ambasciata del Canada in Italia, Agenzia Culturale del Québec in Italia, MUTEK.
Media partners_Zer0, Nero, Music Club.
Links:
http://www.dissonanze.it
http://www.brancaleone.it

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Nouveau Casino presents MUTEK / Paris, France
September 23, 2004
EGG, The Mole - live performances
Guest visual artists: Bowling Club? (Paris)

Address: Nouveau Casino, 109 rue Oberkampf / Midnight / 5 euros
Coproduction : Nouveau Casino and MUTEK
In partnership with Dalbin
Links:
http://www.nouveaucasino.net
http://www.dalbin.com

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CTM and MUTEK present NAROD NIKI / Berlin, Germany
September 30, 2004
Support: EGG (CA) - The Mole (CA) -
Video: Transforma (DE) & Pfadfinderei (DE)

NAROD NIKI, the only laptop supergroup in the world! Paralleling Berlin´s first "Popkomm" Club Transmediale, Montreal's MUTEK Festival and the Volksbuehne theatre will present the Europe-premiere of the electronic all-star band NAROD NIKI. Also appearing for the first time in Berlin the two newcomers to Montreal's flourishing micro-house scene EGG and The Mole, who swept the awards of this year's MUTEK Festival. Berlin's most outstanding visual-collectives Transforma and Pfadfinderei will round out the show with a live-video environment.

NAROD NIKI is a collaboration project founded by Ricardo Villalobos and Dimbiman that was presented for the first time at the 2003 edition of the MUTEK Festival. The idea of the project is to bring together a number of techno masterminds to do a live jam, hiding their identities behind a collective alias to keep the attention dedicated to their music. Ritchie Hawtin, Dimbiman, Ricardo Villalobos, Monolake, Akufen, Dandy Jack, Daniel Bell, Cabanne and Luciano got together in Montreal, demonstrating that realtime-improvisation and beat-oriented music don't necessarily exclude one another. No surprise - as all names involved stand for first-class innovative electronic music and feel well at home in all parts of the world with their message.

The exact Berlin line-up will of course stay secret until the end. Still, it should be quite obvious that the list of artists at this event can be nothing but long and extraordinary !

CTM, MUTEK & VOLKSBÜHNE. Ever since their beginnings in the mid- to late 90s, the two festivals Club Transmediale - international festival for electronic music and related visual arts Berlin - and MUTEK have been working on similar goals. Both are dedicated to the promotion and presentation of contemporary experimental electronic music, merging subculture and academic tradition. In addition, they make a strong effort to showcase these kinds of productions and place them in the context of global media culture. Questioning the role of music developments and its share in technological and cultural transformation processes is one of their main interests.

MUTEK and Club Transmediale have been cooperating since 2002 in exchange of content and information as well as presentation of artists, bringing together the scenes of Berlin and Montréal.

The Berlin NAROD NIKI appearance, presented by CTM and MUTEK, will take place independently from Popkomm. Those artificially maintained music-industry trade fairs, that regard music only from the perspective of profit and judge artistic content only by economic values contradict the collaborative idea of this project.

Furthermore, we are pleased about the collaboration with Volksbühne theatre - an institution that has successfully expanded its cultural commission and role in the field of music in the recent years. The event part of the fifth and last of its “Club Neustadt" series.

Address: Volksbuehne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin / 10 PM / 10 _ 14.- EUR
Coproduction: Club Transmediale, Volksbuehne and MUTEK
With the friendly sponsorship of Ableton and Smirnoff.
Media partners: De:Bug, INTRO, Radio 1, die Tageszeitung
Links:
http://www.clubtransmediale.de
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de

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7th International Art+Communication Festival / Riga, Latvia
Closing evening: October 2, 2004
EGG, The Mole - live performances - with more artists to confirm

The "Art+Communication" festival is dedicated to new media culture. Exploring the theme of "Trans- Cultural - Mapping", the 7th edition of the festival will offer a space of exchange for new media practitioners and grassroots activists and who are critically exploring ideas of locality, in response to the continental European (and global) "normalization processes". While dealing more with the locative media, this year's festival will also explore the idea of "acoustic space", which is one of the research axis of the RIXC (Centre for New Media Culture in Riga), through 3 programs/evenings of sound art performances.

Production : The Centre for New Media Culture RIXC/Riga.
Links:
http://rixc.lv/tcm
http://rixc.lv/04
http://locative.net/tcm

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All events presented by MUTEK in August and September have been made possible thanks to the help of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec.

cutting roland · Post by **cutting roland** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:28 pm

This looks fucking amazing !!! Maybe planning a trip to Berlin this date!

ganik · Post by **ganik** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:40 pm

cutting roland wrote:This looks fucking amazing !!! Maybe planning a trip to Berlin this date!

for me is roma,much closer than berlin......great event

Aron · Post by **Aron** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:52 pm

Man, I wanna go to Latvia. Too late now.

Jesse Somfay · Post by **Jesse Somfay** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:17 am

If you get the chance and are going/live close to Berlin, go see Narod Niki. It is not a show to be missed at all. Not to mention that Narod Niki performances are quite rare.

Harm Rhebergen · Post by **Harm Rhebergen** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:21 am

Damn, why aren't they coming to Holland?