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Borderline Festival 2012

Dates

Prices

15 — 24 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Saturday-Sunday
Time
21:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

20 € / 24 € two-day ticket
Concs 15 € / 18 € two-day ticket

Experience the festival where noise meets music and acoustic sounds approach electronic ones! Live into the world of new media and technology. Live the Borderline Festival.

Borderline explores the frontier zones of contemporary music, convinced that today’s most interesting developments are taking place where the dividing line between noise and music is being renegotiated, and where acoustic and electronic sound are drawing on each other for their mutual enrichment. The artists in this year’s Borderline festival are as far removed from academicism as they are from Pop. While they draw their inspiration from advances in new media and digital technology, they remain firmly founded in improvisational practices or experimental approaches to musical instruments and the human voice.

Borderline Festival 2012 will cover a wide range of musical practices and sounds.

Program

7th of April
Erdem Helvacioglu
Trevor Wishart

8th of April
Spunk feat. Andreas Paleologos
Floros Floridis/ Carlos Zingaro/ Jean-Marc Montera

Αrtwork: bend

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  • Erdem Helvacioglu will be reworking the sounds of his home city in Farewell Istanbul, intervening in the urban soundscape on a hybrid, futuristic instrument of his own devising: the “TogaMan Electric GuitarViol”.
  • Trevor Wishart, an important figure in contemporary English music with a significant body of writings, compositions and research to his name going back to the 1970s, will be presenting a performance for solo voice along with two electro-acoustic works.
  • Spunk, the Norwegian quartet of young female improvisers, create a homogenous, free-form sound-meld with multiple references and roots that can be traced back to jazz, contemporary experimentation and improvisation or perhaps to electronic music, contemporary composition and performance in its broadest sense. For this concert, they will be joined by the visual artist Andreas Paleologos (live drawings).
  • The members of the electronic and electro-acoustic Floridis / Zingaro / Montera trio have long been at the cutting edge of the European improvisation and contemporary music scene. Over the years, the sonic palette of their acoustic instruments has evolved, initially in an electric and later in an electronic direction. Improvisation and easy cross-overs between electronic and acoustic music will definitely be keynotes of their concert at Borderline 2012.

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