01 November 2010 / Sound Friction / Sound Friction No.1: ::vtol:: Live At Videotage


Sound Friction No.1

Live At Videotage
::vtol:: & Introducing Bent Orchestra
8:00pm – 10:00pm, 20 Nov, 2010

Videotage
(No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK)
Admission (incl. 1 drink): $120 (at door) / $100 (advanced)

Live Visuals: Wong Chung-Fai
Opening Act: Shelf-Index

When digital electronic music hardware and software is presenting us unlimited choices and options through a mass production industrial model, are we simply operators facing unlimited options? Or is there still room and possibility beyond such mass production model? Returning to the small scale family business model and the philosophy of “small is beautiful”, a group of advanced Circuit Benders have been designing and producing limited run of handmade electronic instruments of their own design.


Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol::

They evolve directly from the “no rules” philosophy of Circuit Bending and insist on handcrafting creative chaos out of hardware limitation. Russia electronic artist ::vtol:: (Dmitry Morozov) is one of them. In Sound Friction No.1, he will be performing with his own handmade modular synthesizer system, demonstrating a new possibilities in electronic sound as well as generated visuals.


Synthesizer modules by ::vtol::, Astat (Left), Volfram

Using a collection of obscure handmade electronic instruments/devcies designed by famed sound artists/benders Folktek, BugBrand, Eric Archer and others, local Experimental Electro-Acoustic duo No One Pulse will be performing an improvisation set with ::vtol:: and his synthesizers as Bent Orchestra.

For those who are interested, few units of ::vtol::’s home built synthesizers are available to purchase at the show.


Matreshka Generators by ::vtol::

::vtol:: Presents Matreshka Generators Workshop
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 21 Nov, 2010 @ Videotage

Videotage
(No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK)
$350 (Reservation required, limited to 10 participants, incl. all parts & materials for the Matreshka Generators constructions)

In addition to the performance, ::vtol:: will presenting his Matreshka Generators Workshop introducing the basics of synthesizers and leading the participants to build their own Matreshka Generators, a sound generating object conceived by ::vtol::.

For reservation and enquiry
Tel: 2573-1869 (Kami Liu)
Email: info@videotage.org.hk


Sound Friction is a performance series jointly organized by Re-Records and Videotage.

Taking sonic art as the anchor point, the aim of Sound Friction is to develop a creative performance platform for cross-cultural, cross-media, cross-disciplinary and cross-genres collaboration between artists.