Borderline Festival 2018 | 1st Day

Yannis Kotsonis

Yannis Kotsonis is a musician, sound artist and improviser based in Athens. He has composed electronic music for theatre, video dance, multimedia installations and film. He gives regular concerts and collaborates frequently with other musicians, including a longstanding improvising duo collaboration with Danae Stefanou, under the name ‘acte vide’. He has released seven solo albums, as Sister Overdrive and under his own name, and has contributed to several compilations. Since 2009 he has been active as a workshop, residency and concert curator/coordinator (Detritus Festival, Syros Sound Meetings, KNOTmusic, minor act).

The Network Ensemble

The Network Ensemble performs a granular exploration of situated network signals. A newly developed, ultra-portable machine collects live data from the WiFi networks surrounding it, passing them directly to a phone, as sound signal via the audio port.
A network parasite, the phone streams the local activity as sound around the world by means of a phone call. The sounds emitted thus reflect the specific quality, weight and speed of the network the machine is capturing information from, as well as the latency, transmission and compression characteristics of the network on which the phone is streaming.

Tim Shaw

Tim Shaw is an artist interested in the relationship between site and technology. Presenting work through musical performances, installations and site-responsive interventions his practice attempts to expose the mechanics of systems and to reveal the hidden aspects of communication and recording technologies. Tim has presented artwork all over Europe, in the USA, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. He currently works as a lecturer in Digital Media at Culture Lab, Newcastle University. Collaboration plays a central role in his approach, and he has been lucky enough to make artistic work with Chris Watson, John Bowers, Jacek Smolicki and Sébastien Piquemal. Shaw has recently presented work at New Ear Festival, New York (2018), Spektrum, Berlin (2018), bb15, Linz (2017), ARC, Switzerland (2017), Stereolux, France (2016), FACT Liverpool (2016), Eastern Bloc, Canada (2016) and The Wired Lab, Australia (2016).

Tim Ward

Tim Ward works principally within electroacoustic music, composing and performing works for fixed media. More recently his interests have expanded to include improvised electronic music and immersive interactive soundscape installations using mobile devices, both areas in which he is active with the artistic collective Medea Electronique as well as with a range of contemporary music ensembles and performers. Work in this field ranges from original compositions and improvisations through to the recreation of existing older works from the live electronic repertoire. He is also active as a teacher and researcher with a special interest in the use of computer programming within musical creation.

John Richards

John Richards explores the idea of Dirty Electronics that focuses on shared experiences, ritual, gesture, touch and social interaction. In Dirty Electronics process and performance are inseparably bound. The 'performance' begins on the workbench devising instruments and is extended onto the stage through playing and exploring these instruments. Richards is primarily concerned with the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, and the idea of composing inside electronics. His work also pushes the boundaries between music, performance art, electronics, and graphic design and is transdisciplinary as well as having a socio-political dimension. Richards has been curating the Telematic Hacking event and will performing telematically with the commissioned artists and online participants.

Rob Chafer

Rob Chafer has been involved with several performances and projects with the Music, Technology and Innovation Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, and the Dirty Electronics Ensemble over the last three years. As a composer, Chafer has largely explored Xenakian concepts of sound density and evolution; however, unlike Xenakis, he is more concerned with organic rather than mathematical models of grain structure. Chafer has helped develop the practical implementation of Telematic Hacking as part of the EU interfaces project.

With: Network Ensemble, Tim Shaw, Aram Bartholl, Dirty Electronics, Tim Ward, Rob Chafer, Yiannis Kotsonis

Telematic Hacking is organized in partnership with the Onassis Stegi and De Montfort University (UK) in the context of the Interfaces project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.