CTM presents Jean Jacques Perrey at Todays Art Festival 2006
// Venue: Theater aan het Spui // Address: Spui 187, 2511 BN Den Haag // Time: 19:00 h // Admission: 12–15 €   Jean Jacques Perrey & David Chazam (FR, live) Candie Hank (DE, live) PA Dual (NL, DJ) Mobiletti Giradischi (IT/ DE/ NL, DJ,)   After last years success, CTM (club transmediale), Berlin’s annual festival for adventurous music and related visual arts, again has put together two ravish concert nights for the TodaysArt Festival 2006. Headlining the first night and definitely a major high-light of this year’s TodaysArt celebration is a rare stage performance by 76-year old French electronic music pioneer JEAN-JACQUES PERREY. The Breakcore-mini-festival WASTED 3 for the second night brings some of the most radical and freshest electronic music around these days.   CTM is very proud to present 76-year old electronic music pioneer Jean Jacques Perrey live on stage for a second time after his memorable first-ever appearance in Germany together with American synthesizer-otaku Dana Countryman at this past CTM.06 festival. Now he his back on stage for one of his rare and jolly shows with likeminded compatriot and strange music weirdo David Chazam. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the big personalities in the history of electronic music.   Jean Jacques Perrey, "clown-prince of the avant-garde" and a pioneer of sampling is incorrigibly committed to his art: an inspired personality and a musical inventor in the very best sense. At a time when electronic music was sober and serious, the dose of humour and playful glee he brought to it was revolutionary. But more than that, Perrey has always been an unflinching apologist of a “gleeful science”. His work combines childish absurdity with well-founded experiments, uncomplicated popularism with the provocative curiosity of the avant-garde, eclecticism with sonic innovation, and unbounded enthusiasm with scientific methods. Autodidact Perrey recognized early on that his passion was not for academic music, but for what he shaped as “Electro Pop.” For close to fifty years now he’s been conjuring up his “Music for Laughs and Smiles,” vivacious oddities created with the legendary Ondioline, tapes and the Moog synthesizer, and a radical modernity that can be vexing. His infectiously optimistic attitude, which unites the societal revolutions of the sixties, futuristic tech-fascination and joie de vivre, makes him a child of his time. A bold character not least because of his unwavering commitment to his vision, steadfastly pursued in the face of waning interest in his music and a dramatically changed social situation to this day. Perrey’s art rises from his faith in humour as an immunization against the ever-present threat of insensitivity that grows from worry, fear and paranoia. Driven all his life long by a gleeful “little music devil,” Perrey, now 76 years old, has recently made a new album with Dana Countryman which is to be released on Oglio Records this September. This evening pays homage to a major artist in the world of electronic music, whose sound and spirit continue to inspire many of his musical successors. In Mobiletti Giradischi and Candie Hank he will find two similar minded spirits whose work reflects many aspects of his own.   > www.jeanjacquesperrey.com > david.chazam.free.fr/ > www.catani-music.de/CANDIEHANK/ > www.todaysart.nl	> September 22, 2006
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