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NK & UdK Berlin, in collaboration with STEIM Amsterdam, present:

Electronic and Computer Music Series
LECTURES & CONCERTS

Lectures @ Udk Berlin
Grunewaldstrasse 2-5,
Schoeneberg, U Kleistpark, Room 111
http://medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/pages/Aktuelles

Tuesday, 26/6/2012 16h
Yutaka Makino: Perception, Agents, Systems
Yutaka Makino’s work often engages with subtle shifts in the spectators’ perception; he will speak about his use of sound and other media that anticipates listener experiences from the moment of cognition to perception and reflection, i.e. how such sensory inputs can potentially create conditions for perceiving one’s own perceptual processes.

Friday, 29/6/2012 16h
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit): “Play the Playback” Artistic Director of STEIM will discuss about his own approach to musical archives as well as STEIM’s research involving instrumental approaches to large collections of datasets and sound repositories.

Digital archives and data systems are ever increasing in magnitude due to the ease and power of dissemination on the net as opposed to physical archival sites. How can artists use these already existing sound archives to produce new works reminiscent of the turntablists and djs who once reinterpreted and created new genres of music based on their record collection?

Concert: Yutaka Makino / dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) / Alberto de Campo

Saturday, 30/6/2012, 20h doors
FEED SOUNDSPACE
Hobrechtstraße 65 | Hinterhaus, Etage 4 | 12047 Berlin-Neukölln
U-Bahnhof Hermannplatz
info@6554.de

ARTIST BIOS:

Yutaka Makino was born in 1976 in Japan and lives in Berlin. Active primarily in the field of computer music, Makino also uses installations and performances to explore the various dimensions of human perception. On the basis of his investigations into spatial perception and new methods of sound synthesis, his works make use of concepts inspired by his current research into areas such as phenomenology, experimental psychology and complex dynamic systems. Makino’s recent works provide environments in flux to experience shifting modes of perception. He works with computational dynamic systems to generate and control elements such as sound, light or fog. These pseudo matters lay out the environments of which the audience becomes an active part.

He presented his works internationally such as DAAD Gallery (Germany), Clubtransmediale (Germany), Akademie der Künste (Germany), Kontraste (Austria), Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space (The Netherlands), STRP Festival (The Netherlands), and Japan Society (USA). He has had extended residencies at the MacDowell Colony (USA), STEIM (The Netherlands), Technical University Berlin (Germany) and ZKM (Germany).

He has been received prizes and grants from DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Germany), Prix Ton Bruynèl (The Netherlands), Agency of Cultural Affairs (Japan), Pola Art Foundation (Japan) among others and commissions from Foundation Ton Bruynèl (The Netherlands), STRP Festival (The Netherlands), STEIM (The Netherlands) and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Germany). He also has given lectures and presentations at numerous institutions and festivals.
In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto.

http://www.yutakamakino.com

Alberto de Campo is a musician, composer, artist and educator working in many different contexts: among other things, he plays in several improvisation ensembles, composes, creates sound-based installations, and designs software instruments.

After studying composition and jazz guitar in Austria, he focused on electronic/computer music while being Visiting Scholar and later Research Director at CREATE (UC Santa Barbara). After teaching at IEM Graz and Media Arts Academy Cologne (KHM), he held the Edgard Varèse Guest Professorship for Electronic Music at TU Berlin, kindly funded by DAAD Berlin, in 2005.

From 2005-2007 he was lead researcher in ‘SonEnvir’ (at IEM Graz), an interdisciplinary project which experimented with possible applications of sonification of scientific data with a team of scientists from several different disciplines. From 2007-2009 he was Professor for Music Informatics at the Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, and since 2009 he is Professor for Gnerative Art / Computational Art at the University of the Arts Berlin.

He works with the artist collective “Society for Nontrivial Pursuits”,  the ensembles powerbooks_unplugged, Quiet Noise Quartet, realtime_research, with Elisabeth Harnik, Florian Hecker, Marcus Schmickler, Mario de Vega, Hannes Hoelzl, Andres Bosshard, and others. His artistic and research interests include algorithmic art, just-in-time programming, practices of improvisation, and performance and interaction with complex systems.

Recent publications: Chapters in The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, 2011), on Microsound, Object Modeling, Sonification and Auditory Display, Just in Time Programming, and Systems within Systems; Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum (installation, group project with students, 2010); Reversing Pendulum Music (composition/performance, 2010), Science By Ear – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sonifying Scientific Data (dissertation, 2009).

http://albertodecampo.net
http://medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/pages/Kunst_und_Medien

Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka DJ Sniff) is a musician, curator and producer in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music.

His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design and free improvisation. He is interested in how a mediated musical memory, from archival collections of vinyl records to digitally captured sound events during a performance, can be used to create a new sonic reality that emerges through the fleeting notion of the “now.” This pursuit has led him to create customized instruments that allow him to intuitively access and re-play these different temporalities ingrained in our listening consciousness. His live performances range from carefully constructed solo sets to improvisational groups with virtuosic instrumentalists.

His curatorial work aims to present a global overview on new experimental approaches to music, sound and performance. He is often involved in facilitating the technical or conceptual development of the works that he features, and his network is built from being an active artist in the field. As Artistic Director of STEIM in Amsterdam, he has curated and produced over 100 projects including large scale international festivals and award winning art works.

Born in 1978, Mizuta Lippit spent most of his formative years in Tokyo. He studied Art History and Philosophy at Keio University, where his graduating thesis was on concepts of the frame and the sublime, based on a critical reading of Kant, Derrida and Lyotard. During this time, he was also active as a DJ in the underground electronic music scene and formed a collective called smashTV productions which organized club events and salon style gatherings. After professionally working as a translator, researcher on alternative art spaces, DJ and construction worker, he moved to New York to pursue graduate studies at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where he received his Master’s degree in Physical Computing and Interaction Design.

Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM’s (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab. From 2007 on, he is STEIM’s Artistic Director, guiding the institution’s creative output and representing it’s activities through performing, curating and lecturing around the world.

He has performed throughout Europe, Asia and The United States at various venues and international festivals including Club Transmediale Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Japan Society NYC, The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) Los Angeles and FLOW Festival Helsinki. He has released 12 DJ mixes and 2 solo albums from labels in Lebanon and the UK and his work has been reviewed in the New York Times, All About Jazz, The WIRE and createdigitalmusic.com. He has received grants from Tisch School of the Arts, Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, Performing Arts Fund NL (FPK), Amsterdam Arts Fund (AFK), and Dutch Consulates in various countries.

takuromizutalippitisdjsniff
http://djsniff.com