DISK Session #13: ELECTRONIC MUSIC & DIGITAL CULTURE IN ROMANIA
Electronic Music and Digital Culture in Romania – an introduction by Rokolectiv   // Date: Fri October 20, 2006 // Time: 8 pm   Presentation and talk by and with Michaela Vasile and Cosmin Tapu from Rokolectiv festival, Bucharest. Followed up by and audio-visual performance by Yvat & Cut-Raw Videos   Rokolectiv Rokolectiv is the msot important festival for electronic music and related visual arts in Romania. The very first edition was held in January 2006, at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, MNAC in Bucharest.   Rokolectiv emphasizes the interdisciplinary character of music, visual arts, new media and technology, celebrating the potentials of the interplay between electronic music, design, video, motion graphics and other formats.   With the creative effervescence that characterize festivals, Rokolectiv digs for Romanian emerging talents and introduces international artists to the Romanian audience. Besides the festival, the organizers behind Rokolectiv Mihaela Vasile and Cosmin Tapu organize a variety of cultural events during the year, most respectively AVmotional (together with Stefan Tiron) – Romanias first and only festival dedicated exclusively to live audio-video-performances. The third edition of AVmotional takes place this November in Bucharest.   > www.rokolectiv.ro > www.avmotional.com     Yvat & Cut-Raw Videos Yvat and the two visual artists Alexe Popescu and Paul Dersidan claim to be the first Romanian artists to release a DVD with experimental explorations of sound and image interplay. Their audio-visual compositions combine mysterious, tense analogue sounds with pure, rough images, not processed by computers. Previously to Yvat & Cut, Yvat has released 10 albums on various lables like SubliminalTapeClub from Belgium and Experimental Seafood Records from Birmingham. Though only little known in Romania, Yvat lives in Bucharest, where he operates his own company for sound design.   > www.yvat.com     The presentation has been made possible with the kind support by the Romanian Cultural Institute.	> October 20, 2006
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