Rechenzentrum DVD-release concert at Berlin's Volksbühne
// Date: Sunday, September 23, 2007 // Time: 8 pm // Venue: Volksbühne theatre, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte // Tickets: Online ticket shop Volksbühne   After a decade of ground breaking audio-visual experimentation and several celebrated releases, the pioneering Berlin-based duo Rechenzentrum are back with their 4th full-length-album – programmatically titled "Silence" and officially released on October 12th.   The new album will be presented at Berlin’s beautiful Volksbühne theatre within a concert night of three outstanding audio-visual performances:   HAUSCHKA vs. SEMICONDUCTOR (Fat Cat, Karaoke Kalk, DE/UK)   RECHENZENTRUM (Weiser Music, DE) featuring: Reinhold Friedl (prepared piano, Zeitkratzer) Maurice de Martin (percussion, Zeitkratzer) Franz Hautzinger (quarter trumpet, Zeitkratzer)   FENNESZ & CHARLES ATLAS (Touch, Mego, AT/US)   Four years after their critically acclaimed DVD Director’s Cut, Rechenzentrum – Marc Weiser (sound) and Lillevan (video) – now present a completely renewed acoustic and visual aesthetic, framed in a stronger than ever conceptual approach.   The electronic surface of the tracks has developed into a predominantly electro-acoustic world of sound, receiving its impulse from Marc Weiser’s long-standing membership of the Zeitkratzer ensemble for contemporary music. As well as the purely instrumental tracks, there are now vocal tracks, sung by Weiser, which various critics have been rated as being somewhere between Marvin Gaye and David Sylvian, and which expand the Rechenzentrum universe, giving it a timeless pop facet. Consequently, for the release concert Rechenzentrum have invited Zeitkratzer members Reinhold Friedl (piano), Maurice de Martin (percussion), and Franz Hautzinger (trumpet) for a previously unheard live experience. For "Silence", video artist Lillevan has developed the visual vocabulary of his delicate video-tracks from his previously preferred collage-style towards handcrafted black and white drawings, manipulated and transformed with outstanding finesse to form a symbiotic unity with the music.   Three months after performing at the Volksbühne together with Mike Patton, Paris- and Vienna-based sound artist Fennez returns with a collaboration project no less extraordinary. Together with the US-American filmmaker and video artist Charles Atlas – in the spotlight through his longstanding collaborations with performers and dancers like Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, Merce Cunningham, and, most recently, an installation with Anthony and the Johnson at the Whitney Museum in New York – he has created and audio-visual performance, that bridges contemporary music and visual arts. While Fennesz layers complex and mysteriously iridescent sound textures with guitar and laptop, Atlas with his computers recombines courageously improvised video-sequences from film snippets and samples of documentary features, musicals, B-movies and war propaganda.   The concert night opens with a collaboration project by Düsseldorf-based piano experimentalist and composer Hauschka with British visual collective Semiconductor. Hauschka’s work focuses on the exploration of a musical instrument, which, thanks to John Cage, has inherited a prominent place within contemporary music: the prepared piano. Semiconductor improvise stunning, cutting-edge live animations, created in real time with their self-developed software tools. The unusual combination of Hauschka's piano play and Semiconductor's highly modern computer generated imagery create a fascinating audio-visual experience: strikingly coherent and rich in contrast at the same time.	> September 23, 2007
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