DISK Session #15: ERAN SACHS & KOTRA
// Date: Wed. June 27, 2007 // Time: 9 pm   Experimental Noise AV performances from Israeli artists Eran Sachs and Nistan Domidiando, and from Ukranian artist Kotra. Additional audio files from Ambient Pimp.   Eran Sachs will be performing his solo set played on his No-Input-Mixer. The music is largely based on the complex and unstable nature of the sonic textures from the mixer, both live and processed. The end result is drony, noisy and somehow influenced by Sachs’ Metal background. The visuals present a live modular video film by Nitsan Domidiano, which is edited in real time to create an interpretation of the improvised music and to shape an overall narrative. Kotra creates stingy noise compositions with intense dynamics, ranging from microtonal shifts to heavy sine-wave pulsations. DJ Ambient Pimp aka Klimek (Sebastian Meissner) will set the frame for both live-performances with selected audio-files from his archives.   Eran Sachs works as composer, improviser, sound-artist and curator in Jerusalem. Originally coming from a classical background, he turned his attention towards Metal and Modern music, and started performing at the age of 14. As an improviser Sachs has collaborated with Oren Ambarchi, Thomas Koener, Marc Behrens, Achim Wollscheid, @c, Eric Boros, Sebastian Meissner and many others, mainly playing his self-developed system, the No-Input-Mixer, which he has been playing since 1998. He plays this machine regularly in the Doom-Dub-Noise outfit Lietterschpich, (whose album “I Cum Blood in the Think Tank” was recently described as “Noise album of the Year” by Aquarius Records in SF) and John Zorn's "Cobra" improvising ensemble in Israel. He has presented his works and compositions at festivals such as Sonorities (Belfast), club transmediale (Berlin), Festival for Jewish Culture (Krakow) and Theaterformen (Hannover), as well as spaces and platforms such as Sonic Square (Brusseles), Podewil, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Melkweg (Amsterdam), Israeli Cinemateques, Kulturbunker (Cologne), Muffathalle (Munich), Sonic Process, Heara and many others. His work "Studio" with sculptor Eytan Ronel was awarded the Excellence Award by the NY International Fringe Festival. He also has collaborated extensively with sound artist Sebastian Meissner (Klimek, Random INC.), with whom he has recently released “Into The Void” (on Sub Rosa), a reflection on the old abandonded Jewish quarter Kazimierz in the city of Krakow. His works have been released on Mille Plateaux and Sub-Rosa, as well as various labels in Israel. As a sound-artist his works tend fuse the sonic with the political, as in the case of "Yannun Yannun", which portrays the harrasment of Palestinian villagers by fanatic right-wing settlers. He founded and managed the Yad-Vashem bookstore – the only holocaust dedicated bookstore in Israel.   > www.myspace.com/eransachs     Nitsan (Shorf) Domidiano Video artist, director, script writer (b. 1975), graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. Over the last few years she has devoted her work to the fusion of the artistic and the socially minded. This desire manifests itself in many projects, often focusing on the contradictious and fragile nature of narratives, which stems from gaps between different perceptions of reality. Examples of such endeavors include: Co-writing the script for the feature film “Dancing Arabs”, together with original author Sayed Kashua. Their script was recently awarded the Israeli Film Fund Grand for Production – Israel’s largest grant for film production (2006). In 2005 she co-founded a documentary production team for the AIC (Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization). In this capacity and others she was directing, shooting and editing short films in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. In 2006 she was the director of "Daila" (a cultural center founded by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, promoting alternative and minority discourses in Israel/Palestine). Her work was presented in various platforms, among them the Experimental Cinema program in the International Film Festival in Jerusalem (2003) as well as “Czechpoint”, the International Exhibition and Festival for Political Art in Prague (2006). She has collaborated with sound-artist Eran Sachs on a number of sound-installations, both interactive and non-interactive. Their common work will be featured in the 2007 “ctrl-alt-del” sound-art program in Istanbul.     Kotra Kotra is the solo project of Ukrainian artist Dmytro Fedorenko from Kiev. He is a member of the post-industrial band Zet and also known for his sound-design for the video works and interactive projects of Akuvido. His music can best be described as extremely precise digital sound manipulation – a so far unheared approach to glitch music with a touch of minimal techno and post industrial clicks and cuts. Definitely obscure and bizarre, abstract constructivism, noisy but with sometimes even funky stumbling beats. Kotra releases on the Ukranian Nexsound label run by Andrey Kiritchenko, with whom he organizes the annual Detali Zvuku festival for experimental music in Kiev.   > http://kotra.org.ua > www.nexsound.org > http://dz.co.ua	> July 14, 2007
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