Coming up to the end of yet another big year we'd like to thank all of the continuing support that our public, artists, volunteers and friends have invested into the festival over the years. CTM would not be possible without all of you! As our final note of 2011, we're pleased to announce a few notable additions to the CTM.12 program.
First and foremost, we are very excited to confirm the German premiere of the Joshua Light Show (US), an audiovisual project that has performed with musical luminaries such as Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Frank Zappa, The Greatful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Soaked in the psychedelic iconography of rock culture, the Joshua Light Show is distinct for its "wet show" of coloured oils mixed and manipulated to create magical, biomorphic forms. The project held a longtime residency at New York's historic Fillmore venue in the late 1960s, and also appeared at Woodstock, Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Centre Georges-Pompidou, the Tate Liverpool and more. Programmed in collaboration with transmediale, the Joshua Light show will perform three concerts at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, with support from Norwegian avant-garde free jazz group Supersilent on Wednesday, ambient drone experimenter Oneohtrix Point Never (US) on Friday, and, as a special highlight, no other than Krautrock / cosmic / minimalism giant Manuel Göttsching on Saturday.
An additional program has been added to the festival's closing day. On Sunday, February 5th, the Shitkatapult crew will be presenting their Random Noize Musick Matinée, an ambient event perfect for a Sunday afternoon. Running at the .HBC from 3pm to 8pm, the afternoon is headlined by a live performance by respected techno and experimental producer Cristian Vogel and a live A/V set by Shrubbn!! – the collaboration of T.Raumschmiere with Schieres – project in support of their upcoming debut release on Shitkatapult in January 2012. Joining the noise explorations of Shrubbn!! is video artists Transforma. The afternoon also includes a live performance by Oval, a project known for its pioneering role in glitch music in the 90s that has seen a recent revival by remaining group member Markus Popp's recent releases under the Oval name, as well as CTM co-founder Marc Weiser (aka Rechenzentrum), and a DJ set by Thomas Fehlmann.
Cristian Vogel Live Panoptikum Kassel, 02/10/11 7am by station55.
Latest tracks by SHRUBBN!! .
Friday night's program at the Berghain Kantine sees the addition of James Ferraro (US), an underground artist much talked about recently for his prolific explorations of the fetishes of today's capitalism via goofy bricolages of hyper-reality that end up haunting the listener despite their overt ridiculousness. Ferarro comes to top up a lineup that is already strong in exploring all that is garish and vulgar: a DJ set of exotica by Andy Votel (US, of Finders Keepers and Pre-Cert Home Entertainment fame), the retrofuturist raw analog beat music of Novo Line (US), the consumerist kitsch and daydream nostalgia evoked by rocksteady and 50's rock reworkings of Co La (US), and the camp-loving new-age IDM by Kettel (NL). Don't expect to walk away unscathed from this trip into new age paranoia, and fast-forward multi-tasking media culture.
James Ferraro - 'Far Side Virtual' by Hippos In Tanks
Latest tracks by Novo Line
Another program as of yet unhighligted is the Horst Krzbrg lineup on Saturday February 4th, featuring the new explorations taken by seminal techno and crackle dub artist and scape label founder Stefan Betke, aka Pole. Revisiting the aesthetic baselines of his earliest critically-acclaimed works 1, 2 and 3 (1998, 1999, 2000) and rather a concert than a club set, Pole will be performing material from his brand new 3-EP series Waldgeschichten (Kompakt, 2011). Joining Pole is Germany's Harmonious Thelonious (aka. Antonelli Electr.), also supporting his new album Talking (Italic, 2011) which combines recordings of african drumming with western minimalism and raw sequencing. Chicago fringe sound producer and fearless code bender Hieroglyphic Being (Klang, Mathematics, International Deejay Gigolo), also performing at CTM.12 under his IAMTHATIAM moniker, embarks for a multi-hour cosmic, ecstatic and transcendental house meltdown to energize sound and spirit, while the crunchy Detroit sounds of Kassem Mosse (DE) round out this deep probe into the raw realness of electric currents.
Latest tracks by pole original
Finally, Berlin-based artist Bill Kouligas (GR) will be rounding out the Wednesday night Berghain Kantine program with a DJ set in support of Cut Hands, Haxan Cloack, and PRSZR. Founder of the respected experimental sound art label PAN, Kouligas is also known for his Family Battle Snake solo experimental music project, and his many collaborations with the likes of Joseph Hammer, John Olson, Christian Weber, and Chris Corsano among others.
Stay tuned as the full CTM.12 program, including the Discourse (conference) and Exhibition series will be announced in January. In the meantime, we invite you to keep checking the CTM.12 Program Preview on the CTM website for updates.
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