TALKING ABOUT SOUND WITH KARL BARTOS The Ableton Education Team met recently with Professor Karl Bartos at the University of the Arts in Berlin to discuss the university's new master's program, called Sound Studies, the professor's teaching philosophy, and the next generation of audiovisual media design.
Robert Heel: drip-drop (H20-outro)
FESTWOCHEN BEI ARTE! MOEBIUS REDUX – EIN LEBEN IN BILDERN
Regie by Hasko Baumann, Soundtrack by Karl Bartos
ARTE, in der Nacht vom 18.4. auf den 19.4. um 01:25 Uhr
Wer sich die spielfilmlange Dokumentation über den legendären Comiczeichner Jean “Moebius” Giraud noch nicht angesehen hat – hier ist noch eine Gelegenheit. Mit Philippe Druillet, Stan Lee, H.R. Giger, Mike Mignola, Enki Bilal, Dan O'Bannon, Jim Lee und Alejandro Jodorowsky steht eine Starbesetzung bereit, Giraud den Tribut zu zollen.
“Moebius Redux” wurde soeben beim New York Independent Film Festival mit dem Preis für die “Best International Biographical Documentary” ausgezeichnet. Und vor dem Film zeigt ARTE Jodorowskys Meisterwerk “Holy Mountain!” Ein toller Freitagabend!
MOEBIUS REDUX - A Life in Pictures/Opening Video
POSTBLOC Thanks from the AudioVision team to all BLOC family, for making it happen. And thanks to all BLOC production crew for putting on such an incredible show. And last but not least thanks to Marcos from Sevenseven Disco and Oliver from EPM.
It was a real good time being involved and also very, very British with fish & chips, the seaside and the fog. See you soon!
Picture above: The incredible robots have been there...
LA RITMICA PANTALLA FESTIVAL ASTURIANO DE MÚSICA AVANZADA
Gijón, March 20th, 2008 – HIPERSONICA, Victor Rodrigues
Atrás quedó el firmar sus trabajos, primero como Elektric Music y luego como Electric Music, desde que Karl Bartos publicó en el 2000 con su nombre el single 15 minutes of fame. La noche del jueves fue la estrella de la primera jornada del F.A.M.A. (Festival Asturiano de Música Alternativa), que en su segunda edición también nos trajo, entre otros, a Kevin Saunderson, uno de los pioneros del Detroit Techno.
SOLD OUT! BLOC 2008 has now sold out. If you want to be put on a waiting list for last minute cancellation chalets please ring 0870 8031626. London and Norwich airport coach tickets are available from BLOCSHOP. If you have purchased Coach tickets, all you to board need is a print-out of your confirmation email and some ID. The London coach leaves at 2pm on Friday 14/03/08 from York Way, King's Cross, it will return on Monday 17/03/08 at 10am. The Sunday bus will depart at 8pm.
PHAENOMENALE 2007 Handy, Ipod, Computer – wir sind komplett maschinisiert in unserem alltäglichen Leben. Unter dem Motto „Maschinen für alle!" startete am Wochenende das Festival „Phaenomenale", die diese Schnittstelle zwischen uns und den Maschinen untersucht und fragt: was macht eigentlich die Kunst daraus? Wo sonst als in Wolfsburg – sozusagen einer der Maschinenhauptstädte Deutschlands, denn hier produziert vollautomatisiert VW seine Autowelt. Was Künstler aus Computerspielen jenseits von Killerspielen – Egoshooter machen, welcher Sound dazu passt und dass Roboter mehr können als langweilige Autos bauen, die Phaenomenale fasst das zusammen…
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MULTIMEDIA 2007 / VIDEOS
FESTIVAL ASTURIANO DE MÚSICA AVANZADA F.A.M.A. 02 tiene el honor de presentar como cabeza de cartel a un Karl Bartos que ocupa un lugar muy elevado y por derecho propio en la historia de la música electrónica. F.A.M.A. 02 acogerá, en auténtica primicia en Asturias y gran parte del norte de España, un espectáculo en el que imagen y sonido se dan la mano consiguiendo un efecto con un claro sabor clásico y reminiscencias a la mítica banda de Düsseldorf. Veremos una actuación en la que las "máquinas" toman vida propia.
MULTIMEDIA 2008 / VIDEOS
LIVE AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE IN THE UK Karl Bartos & AudioVision will headline BLOC 2008 with an incredible full live AV show. United Kingdom, Hemsby (Norwich), 14th-16th March.
WELCOME TO SOUND STUDIES, SAM AUINGER My Definition of Sound Studies: “Since the Rennaisance we have had an agreed visual perspective, and language to speak acurately about images. This we still lack in the world of sound, where words fail us to even describe for instance the complex waveforms of an urban environment, much less what those sounds do to us and how they make us feel. We are lost in a storm of noise with no language for discussion.”
Photo by Thekla Ehling
LIFESTYLE 1993 Karl worked with the ensemble “Theater der Klänge” (artistic supervision by Jörg U. Lensing) in Düsseldorf on a visual performance for the song “Lifestyle.” The “Mechanical Ballet” (Das Mechanische Ballett) of the Bauhaus-artist Kurt Schmidt served them as example, whose debut performance was given in 1923 at the Bauhaus-stage in Jena.
LIFESTYLE / SHOP
MUSIC IS HERE TO SAVE US Interview for HigherFrequency, NL – conducted by Nick Lawrence
Not many artists will start musing about Mozart, Thomas Edison or the binary alphabet during an interview, but then again most DJs do not lecture at the Berlin University of the Arts in a course about sound.
Karl Bartos didn’t seem particularly interested in talking about CD releases or the next big thing in dance music, but after thirty years in the business, who can really blame him?
Karl Bartos started out his musical journey as a classically trained percussionist and keyboardist. Shortly after, he joined up with possibly the most renowned electronic outfit of the 70’s and 80’s. While performing and writing for the German legends, Karl was instrumental in the creation of modern classics like “Radio-Activity”, “Trans Europe Express”, “Man Machine”, “Computer World”, “Tour de France” and “The Mix.”
The sound of his former band had a great influence on the world of electronic music, although this is something he plays down. Despite being in his 50’s and being dedicated to his work at the Berlin University, Karl is still traveling the world with laptop in his hand playing to packed dancefloors and entering the realm of sound art.
CROSSTALK 1st EDITION We are very happy to open for public viewing the first edition of 'CROSSTALK' at our white cube section. The program holds twentyone films, remixes, coverversions, mashups from Sweden, Belgium, Netherland, Germany, United Kingdom, USA and Japan.
Contributions include: auditory works by Martin Böhm, Electric Moose, Electrolad, Keith Hill, Wolfgang Kulas & the Roboband, Andrew Lagowski, Rheingold, Sveta & Nikita, Tan, The Weathermen, Yasuhiro Yamaoka, Richard Yerardi, Jens Zimmermann; audio-visual works by Bread, Holden Caulfield, Jan Hämler, The Mobile Homes, J.Scriba, Televela, Testify; computergraphics by Korefuji Sakaki.
MULTIMEDIA 2008 / WHITE CUBE
DER INBEGRIFF VON GRAU DER FILM “CONTROL” INSPIRIERTE DIE HAMBURGERIN KATJA RUGE ZUM BUCH “FOTOREPORTAGE23”
Die Fotografin begab sich auf die Spuren des Joy-Division-Sängers Ian Curtis, dessen Geschichte nun ins Kino kommt.
Von Volker Behrens
Foto: Katja Ruge (c) Peter Walsh
Hamburg –
Dieser Film hat schon Folgen, bevor er überhaupt ins Kino kommt. Am 10. Januar startet “Control” über das kurze Leben und den frühen Tod von Ian Curtis, Sänger der Band Joy Division. Starfotograf Anton Corbijn führte erstmals Regie. Alexandra Maria Lara, die Curtis' Freundin Annik spielt, verliebte sich während der Dreharbeiten in Hauptdarsteller Sam Riley. Und die Hamburger Fotografin Katja Ruge hat einen Fotoband über Ian Curtis herausgegeben, der jetzt vorliegt.
