Novi-sad Sound Performance
Diapason
This event has ended.
Novi_sad's piece will be based on field recordings from Gotland, Sweden, the Amazon tropical rainforest, Brazil and vibrations from the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges in NY.
The perfomance will take place in absolute darkness. Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones vs overtones, all come together in a hyper structure of iconoclastic form. The strength of his soundscapes works in the same elaborateness for the whole creation process, starting from a basis of very strong conceptualism, the intense examination of field recordings over the actual composition work, to the point of performing back the result onto location. Every sound that occurs is treated with a sculptural integrity and his sonic power operates on a level in which the audience participates as transcendental listeners. His approach is similar to the 'cinema pour l'oreille' (cinema for the ear) and in turn would like to 'donner a voir' (lead to seeing) by means of sound. Being immersed in his sonic environment offers an absolutely visceral experience. His music has been described as 'transcedent departure from the sense of space', 'emotional charge noise texturing', 'haunting streams of consciousness on the edge of clinical abduction', 'thunderous deep ambient drones' and 'soundtrack for a dream or a nightmare'.
Novi_sad has performed his work live in cinemas, industrial spaces, theatres, churches, museums, galleries, squats, and in festivals like Ultrahung [Budapest, Hungary], Observatori [Valencia, Spain], Field recordings festival [Berlin, Germany], Full-Pull, [Malmö, Sweden], a.o. He has worked and collaborated with: Francisco López, Richard Chartier, CM von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard, Carsten Stabenow, Helge Sten [Deathprod, Supersilent], Beckie Foon [A Silver Mt Zion, Set fire to flames], Scott Konzelmann [Chop Shop] a.o.
Novi_sad's audio works have been released by Sedimental [U.S], Touch [U.K], and another one will be released by Staalplaat [NL] in the 'Mort Aux Vaches' series.
Media
Schedule
June 16, 2009 from 20:00