Bob Ostertag will play new music on the Aalto synthesizer controlled with a gamepad. Ostertag played a Serge modular synthesizer with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, and many others in the 1970s and 1980s. More recently he has recorded with a Buchla 200e. This performance will be done entirely with the Aalto virtual synthesizer.
If the weather is dry and warm, Bob Ostertag will perform outside in the yard of ausland! We will start in time, so that he plays from 9:00-9:30 pm. Playing outside gives the possibility to have much stereo separation, which creates an expansive sound space – ideal for Bob Ostertag’s new music.
httpv://https://youtu.be/Wdw2YXPAPHs
The Lightning Ensemble, led by electronics maestro Dr. Richard Scott, focuses on a highly interactive, conversational post-free jazz form of free music that Scott calls “molecular improvisation” which is influenced disciplines originally pioneered by John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music.
Scott’s approach to electronics is fast and visceral and the Ensembles reflects his interest in speed, intensity and collective musical communication. The Lightning Ensemble itself has been in existence for 5 years but the individual players in the group have a much long history of playing together in groups such as Grew Trio and Bark!. Marks and Birchall separated in age by 30 years, nonetheless discovered their absolutely compatible natural musical affinity and over the past five years via the very creative improvising scene in the North of England.
httpv://https://youtu.be/KY1iAPsgkMM
At ausland the Lightning Ensemble will be joined by Jon Rose, “the major philosopher and cosmologist in a violin-centric world” (David Harrington from Kronos Quartet). For the benefit of those who missed the premiere of this invention at The Rosenberg Museum, Jon Rose will exhibit the freakish Data Violin and play violin duos/duels with it.
The Data Violin is a robot that is played by data generated live from the criminals and marketeers that run the financial deals at Wall Street. Music will be heard of that fundamental delusion at the centre of capitalism – infinite growth on a finite planet. Or to put it simply; the sound of money.
httpv://https://youtu.be/Tf9JukT1iMY
The Data Violin is a joint project between Martin Riches (who invents machines that physically “talk” amongst other wonders of science, creativity, and perseverance), Sukandar Kartadinata (who is one of the most in demand creative software engineers in Berlin, a fine musician, and a problem solver par excellence) and Jon Rose, who is glad to realise a fantasy that has been sitting in one of his sketch books for over 10 years.
Biegungen w/ Bob Ostertag, Richard Scott Lightning Ensemble, Jon Rose
Friday, 12 June 2015 | 20:30 CET
Ausland | Lychener Str. 60 | 10437 Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg
bobostertag.com | richard-scott.net | jonroseweb.com | ausland-berlin.de
