dBâle electronic music festival basel

interfaces-instruments-installations

30 may - 1 june 2008

Imprimerie

St. Johanns-Vorstadt 19-21

4056 Basel

DIE SCHRAUBER

Hans Tammen (NYC) - Endangered Guitar, realtime live sound processing

Joker Nies (Cologne) - Omnichord, circuit bent instruments

Mario de Vega (Mexico City) - SPK ®, glitch sampling

DIE SCHRAUBER is an ongoing collaboration between Hans Tammen, Joker Nies & Mario DeVega involving live sound processing, circuit bending and glitch sampling. The trio was formed to investigate the overlap of various elements of their technical and aesthetic practices.  A wide variety of dense musical textures, high-energy interaction, but also sparse and pointilistic statements result from the sophisticated and immediate control over their electronic instruments – Joker Nies with his resistance sensitive contacts, Mario DeVega’s Teleo-based proximity sensors, and Hans Tammen with his Endangered Guitar controller.

Hans Tammen (New York) works with a wide collection of mechanical devices on his "endangered" guitars, and uses an interactive software of his own design to rework his sounds in realtime. His music has been described as a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, his playing as reverse engineering of the guitar. www.tammen.org

Joker Nies (Cologne) modifies or builds his instruments to his needs.  Apart from other techniques, he acts as a connector of circuits not  intentionally related. He touches and combines the circuitry of the  instruments through skin-resistance, creating spontaneous and  delicate music with subtle control. www.klangbureau.de

Mario de Vega (Mexico City) works with real-time sample processing using external devices for data control and his own designed software SPK®. He combines glitch sampling with Teleo devices, body bending and real time signal processing in search of peculiar sound circumstances. www.mariodevega.info