9s Project. "Collapsing Borders—Einstürzende Grenzen."

November 20, 2009
6:00PM - 8:30PM, Video and Performance Studio, Duderstadt Center, 2281 Bonisteel.

Host Department: CESEUC

A trans-Atlantic live digital audio-video jam session with Markus Guentner (Regensburg, Germany) and nospectacle (Detroit-Ann Arbor, U.S). Sponsors: SAC, CES-EUC, Digital Media Commons, WCED.

Further Information

This special audio-visual live electronics presentation will feature a North American appearance by Markus Guentner, a German artist known as an innovator of the pop ambient sound, and Detroit-based digital dub stylists nospectacle. The performance at the University of Michigan's Duderstadt Center will include composed and improvised music and video, mixed and sequenced by the artists. The point of focus is to show how art and entertainment technologies play a crucial role in transcending political, cultural, and psychological borders. Guentner is best known for his work on Cologne's Kompakt record label, which released his full-length albums In Moll (2001) and 1981 (2005), and various single tracks on its annual Pop Ambient series. He has a new LP, Doppelgaenger, released this fall by Sending Orbs in the Netherlands. He has produced soundscapes for Ambient Work,a comprehensive workstation for creating cinematic atmospheres for feature films, documentaries, commercials, and new media project applications. He lives in Regensburg. nospectacle is an electronic music, video, and DJ project based in Detroit. The group is made up of Christopher McNamara, Jennifer A. Paull, and Walter Wasacz. They perform original works by McNamara, a founding member of the Windsor-Detroit laptop group Thinkbox, re-shaping the source material into drones, dubs, disembodied voices, subsonic bass immersion, and streaming images. The group performs frequently, most recently at Cranbrook and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). In 2009, nospectacle performed at the Detroit Institute of Arts' Detroit Film Theatre at a multi-media program called Live in Time.

 

 

  

 

Contact Information: ces-euc@umich.edu