MARCELLO AGUIRRE (ARG)
PIERRE BASTIEN (FR)
MARIA BLONDEEL
GUY DE BIEVRE
RIK DE BOE
JENS BRAND (D)
RAYMOND DIJSTRA (NL)
YOKO ENOKI (J) & ADA VAN HOOREBEKE
IGNACE VAN INGELGOM
YOSUKE ITO (J)
HANS W. KOCH (D)
PHILIPP LACHENMANN (D)
TIMO VAN LUIJK
TILL NACHTMANN (D) & STAEFAN SILIES (D)
TREKANTEN VIDEO FORMIDLING (TVF)

zaterdag 30 september 2006 vanaf 18 uur
zondag 1 oktober 2006 vanaf 14 uur t/m 18 uur

opening: zaterdag 30 september 2006 vanaf 18 uur
live performances zaterdag vanaf 19.30 uur:
- HANS W. KOCH
- IGNACE VAN INGELGOM
- GUY DE BIEVRE
- MARCELO AGUIRRE/ TIMO VAN LUIJK/RAYMOND DIJSTRA
- YOKO ENOKI (J) & ADA VAN HOOREBEKE

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Naar aanleiding van het 10-jarig bestaan, organiseert Voorkamer een reeks van 4 tentoonstellingen. Dit derde project focust, gedurende een weekend, op tijdspecifieke ingrepen: performances, concerten etc...

Marcello Aguirre (ARG)
“When playing, I improvise, and don’t think I am improvising, though thinking in ‘form’, while doing it, also don’t consider myself as a composer. With drums as the main instrument –and snippets of lazy vocalizing- to produce sound/music/rhythm/waves thus without rebuilding it, there’s power and a sudden of violence. Many thoughts come at once with the need to slow down, to make it tender or mysterious; is that all allowed?”

“Can ommisions be profuse? Is displeasure an Ignominy? Is adoration just a mandolin for pick-pockets?” (Dick Higgins)

Aguirre is an Argentinean but since 6 years he composes his music in Berlin. He curated and co-curated events in the podowil Contemerary Arts Center in Berlin. He is the author of several texts on experimental music, and worked with many artists in Europe and the U.S..

Pierre Bastien (FR) ‘The Rotary Flutes And The Paper Snakes’, 2006
Bastien started building his one mans orchestra in the end of the 80’s, his ‘Mecanium’. An ensemble of musical automats, composed of Mecano-elements, activated by electro-motors. They play instruments from over the whole world. His mechanical orchestra became a collection of more than 80 elements. With those he has been giving concertsin many European countries and in the US. He also works with many European musicians.
“A composer’s dream: a fail-safe orchestra at one’s fingertips obeying ever so gently to his every command: a timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music.” (Michel F. Côté)
www.pierrebastien.com

Maria Blondeel ‘R20 Brussel (Binnen)’ DVD, 48’, kleur/colour, stereo, 2004
‘R20 Brussels (Inside)’ is a video of the performance Blondeel did a couple of years ago. Visitors could take a ride in a vehicle that was provided with sensors, connected with sound generators. This video is a registration of one of those rides. Whilst sunset, she drove around on the R20, a ring road in Brussels. We an see the sky that becomes dark, on the sound of which the pitch is depending on the intensity of the light.
The performance was held during the Argos-festival in 2004.
Maria Blondeel made sonic light installations and site-specific works for vehicles, telephone and radio. She took part in concerts and performances in cooperation with musicians, and she produced discs and videos. Her work was shown in galleries, museums and festivals in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. 
www.mariablondeel.org

Guy De Bièvre ‘Crossroads/Invocation’
“If you want to learn how to make songs yourself, you take your computer and go to where the road crosses that way, where a crossroad is. Get there be sure to get there just a little ‘fore 12 that night so you know you’ll be there. You have your computer and be playing a piece there by yourself. A big black man will walk up there and take your computer and he’ll install new drivers on it. And then he’ll play a piece and hand it back to you. That’s the way I learned to play anything I want.”

Guy De Biévre developed a musical study of the microphone-feedback. A Performance, using this tone as the only source of sound. This tone will be manipulated by several filters. One of thos filters, the central one, is programmed on base of existing melodies by Robert Johnson (1912-1938). It’s a way to exhort the spirit of Johnson in the music.
In this work De Bièvre want to get control on the feedback, a sound that normally is been avoid, a squeaking sound in the margin of the real music, that sound becomes the base for a new composition. The sound is submitted to the acoustic circumstances, like that, every performance is different, depending on the specific environment.

Rik De Boe ‘The hideaway Tune’, DVD, 2’43”, 2006
A newsreel flash from 1933 in which a farmer shows how he can produce popular melodies just by pressing his hands together was woven into an archive film (with missing sound) from 1959 for the promotion of a television cabinet. The farmer tells us how he discovered his particular talent of his. A mix of 2 found footage films, as if they had always belonged to each other.

Jens Brand (D) ‘G-Pod, (one player-one planet)’
Jens Brand started a company: ‘Brand Europe’. He developed the G-player, a sophisticated machine that traces the position of over 1000 satellites. A receiver that plays a sound every time a satellite is located. It should give the owner the possibility to follow the trace of an object that travels around the earth.
Besides that the work says something about marketing- and publicity-strategies. Brand presents his product in a performance, one in which he’s like a sales representative, trying to sell his product. This time he’s here to present the portable version, the G-Pod, a bit like the I-Pod.

Brand-Europe/GP-central office
Burgmauer 20, 50667 Cologne
Germany
www.jens-brand.com

Yoko Enoki (J) & Ada Van Hoorebeke
The slide projections of Enoki & Van Hoorebeke are an approach towards installation from a painter’s point of view.
“We reconstruct classical compositions with real objects or interpretations of objects using the slide, because, just like painting, it’s a two-dimensional representation, yet it has a moving element. In these projects we’re moving from 2- to 3- dimensional. These installations are a source or many, many things. We’re trying to find our place in the present.”

Ignace Van Ingelgom ‘The Universal Speech’ 2005
Van Ingelgom is a performance artist. He observes everything that moves in and around the art-environment and write texts about it. While there is a monotone beat playing he rhymes, quickly, in a way that reminds us of hip hop or stand-up comedy. On his background plays a image-montage, existing of many contemporary eyecatchers.
With this performance Van Ingelgom focuses on the commercial atmosphere and spectacle value that is connected to the art-scene.

This performance was already brought on several locations, such as:
- MuHKA, Antwerp
- Lineart, Ghent
- Museum, Luik
- Marta-Herford Museum, Herford (Germany)

Yosuke Ito (J) ‘Time Space Light’
Ito shows a slide-show from the photo’s of streetlights which are taken at sunset. Photo’s taken at that ambivalent moment, between the end of natural light and the start of the artificial light. When time meets space through the light as a catalyst.

Hans W. Koch (D) ‘Circle Of Fifths’/‘Spacescan’
W. Koch is freelance sound artist. He creates open musical forms which a combines with the development of installations. For this installation he analyses parts of classical music, divided in 12 channels. Like this the viewer/listener has the possibility to follow a little separated part, or, he can experience the music as a space.
Here, Koch will give a concert, and perform his ‘Spacescan’
www.hans-w-koch.net

Philipp Lachenmann (D) ‘Space Surrogate I (Dubai)’ 31’30” (loop), 2000
The video installation, Lachermann shows, is based on the airplane-hijacking of 1977 in Dubai. Terrorists demanded the release of leading figures of the RAF in Germany. The video shows the airplane, while it is waiting to be refuelled.
The work is situated between still-image en moving pictures. A single shot without any kind of montage. The only thing that shows that time is passing by is the hot air that makes the image blurry. After all it seems to be a manipulated image... the airplane was cut out in put in the dessert-scene. With this work the artist thouches the border between the natural and artificial. And, in the same time, it could be like a reconstruction of the original scene, in real time.

The work was shown in:
- Projectraum, Cologne (July 2001)
- Transmediale 02, Berlin (February 2002)
- Biennale, Changai (September 2004)

Timo Van Luijk
Van Luijk is autodidact in experimental and improvised music. Since the 80’s he’s mainly working with the combination of several acoustic instruments and analogue electronics. Most of the time he performs solo (Af Ursin), although, occasionally he plays in bigger formations, such as Noise Maker’s Fives, Astra, In Camera, with Kris Vanderstraeten... Here he plays with Raymond Dijkstra and Marcello Aguirre.

Selected discography
- Af Ursin; ‘Murille’ (La Scie Dorée), LP, 2002
- Af Ursin; ‘2me Fascicule’ (La Scie Dorée), CDR, 2003
- Af Ursin; ‘Aura Legato’ (La Scie Dorée), LP 2005
- Asra; ‘Souvénir à Astra’ (Le Souffleur), LP 2003
- In Camera, ‘In Camera’ (Some Fine Legacy), Lp, 2005
- Timo Van Luijk/Kris Vanderstraeten; ‘High Noon’ (La Scie Dorée), LP, 2006
- Various cd releases with Noise Maker’s Fives, (NMT productions), 1993-2000

Till Nachmann (D) & Stefan Silies (D) ‘Live Socks’, sinds/founded in 1999
“In the following years lots of films with sockpuppets and bluescreen. Socks get anxious. Wanted more. They begun to wonder with if. More space. Installations. Tools. A home. Trips to far away destination, a rocket, the universe. Out of TV. Please.
Upcoming events: Truck-tour with socks on small roads. Rafting on a bullriding motor.”

Exhibitions in Kassel, Dortmund, Leipzig, Bochum...

Trekanten Video Formidling (DK) ‘Art Documentation Video’
TVF (Svend Tompsen) is a video production company, functioning since 1980, creating and archiving documentation of many aspects of art but specially focusing on time based art. These include: visual arts, performance arts, theatre, dance, experimental music and sound works, installations, exhibitions, festivals, lectures and seminars on all aspects of art. Also many interviews with artists, musicians, video artists, etc.
TVF also maintains an archive, open for researchers, containing all the recorded material of more than 2000 titles. They program for institutions, museums, galleries, workshops, universities, libraries and other organizations.