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[The User]
Canada, Performance, prod . : Performance architecture 1
Boornsnap! Production contact : Thomas MGlntosh, Emrnanuel
Madan, 306-494, de la Gauchetiere Quest, Montreal, Qc, Canada
161, : (514) 390-0742 e-mail : peac,vscam .org
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VIOLIN POWER
Steina Vasulka
ftals-Unis . Performance, contact : Sreina Vasulka . 6' rue .
Box 100, Santa Fe . NM 87501, Etah-Unis t6l . : (505) 424-8786
fax : (505) 473-0614 e-mail : woody4santafe-edu
URL : hltp :llwww-conrentrie-netl vaslllka
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« En 1991, aprCs avoir branche man violon sur un
violon MIDI et
douze ordinateurs, douze imprimantes, ainsi qu'un materiel magrletoscope a vitesses variables, j'ai ac hete un
entre
ces instruvideodisques
PioneerL'interface
de logiciels et cablage do reseau- Plut6t que de s'arreter aiun lecteur de
symphonic
ments et I'ordinateur me donnait un acces instantane a n'im. . .- .-- :n° i s'approprie tout le contexte do bureau d'informatlque porte quelle image video sur le disque, alnsl q
violin Power
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Symphony for dot matrix printers was willed ment .
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into being during two weeks in 1997 spent in a room with too programme est modifie a cheque performance- .
"In 1991, after having experimentally interfaced my acoustic
much office equipment . It navigates the passage between _E
future and past, progress and obsolescence, absolute and violin with a variable speed video cassette player, I bought a MIDI
absurd, functional and funk- Employing twelve eomputer_violin and a Pioneer Disk Player. Interfacing these instruments
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twelve dot-matrix printers, network hardware and cabling . with a computer gave me an instant access to any video frame
fast/slow
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disk
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v+ell
as
access
to
some proprietary software and a soldering gun, the Symphony
with
goes beyond the mere sampling of printer noise . it appropri functions . Violin Power is an ongoing continuous project
ates the entire office context- Accordingly, the role of the two ; an ever-Increasing
performers is an administrative rather than a musical one .
rep -1- ire" . So far I have made five videodisks
and I change the program for every performance ."
Reykjavik, on lslarrde, en 1990- Elle a etudid
Le duo (The User] est ne un matin autrnrr du petit de- Sreina est nee ~.
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jeunor . PI utdt que d e." se situer A la fine poirtto de la tech- le violon et la musicologie- Woody et Sreina se sont maries
syrclnologie . [The Uscr] a choisi de rnaintenir envirnn quince Prague en 1964, puis se sont joints A 1'Orchestrv
aux r',I .atsans de retard sur Fa(tualite, histoire de s ,,,,,,frir un phonique de. VIslande . Apres lcur denlenagement
meilleur recul . Uritilisation du bruit de fond oomine Unis en t s)fi5 . Sreina a travaiII0 cornme musicienno
A t.ramatice r premidre vise l'cxploration du tote banal de la I autonome A NF" w York . Les Vasulkas ont camrnenC6
fonde The Kitchen,
condition humaine et de:; sons-produits de 1'existence- vailler en video rn 1969 : its ont ensuite
. dons to
[The User] lest donne comme t :mhe de passer an tarnis~ern 1971 . Depuiy 1 080 . its vivent A Santa Fe
Reykjavik,
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Steins,
was
born
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quelques
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Nouveau-Mexiquc
cette plago de bruit, afin do selectionner
music theorysignaficati£s . - :, I'onned one morning over breakfast, Ik: .aand, In 1940 . She studied violininand
1964, and shortly
[The User] follow, the trailing edge of technology- The Woody and Steins, married in Prague
rearview vantage point provides a novel perspective on thr " ruafter she joined the hiclandic Symphony Orchestrashe worked in
technology- Exploring the more prosaic : side of the After moving to the United States in 1965
bs :gan
human condition, (The User] has chosen ambient noise, New York City as a freelance musfcri:u[ . The VasulkasAndres
the by-product of existence, ,is its medium . Sifting a few working with video in 1969, and its 1971 . with
n c " imtronic media thepertinent grains from the beach of noise is (The User)'s Mannik . they founded The Kitchen . aSanta
Fe . New Mexicoatre . Since 1980 1hc " y have lived in
self-imposed and inexplicable task-
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0CTOBRE
DIAL
H-I-S-T-0-R-Y
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CON CERT
DAVID
SHEA
Johan Grimonprea Belgique 1997, betacam,
cool, n&b, 68 min . v . o- anglaise prod . : Kunsten
Genlrum Stuc- Centre Georges Pompidou (MNAM)
con taef : Runy Vlssers, Incident, Kunstencenlrum
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Buckle up for the unofficial chronicle of worldwide airSTUC- E : Van Evenstraat, 2d, B-3000 Levven, Belgique
plane hijacking! This pseudo-documentary will take you on a
tel- : (32 2) 16 23 67 73 tax : (32 2) 16 22 46 76
e-mail : iiicidentaskynetbe
playful-subversive tour from the romantic hijacker-revoluDavid Shea E`lats-Unis . Performance sur la bande
tionary of the sixties and the seventies to the cynical, anonyvideo do Johan Grimonprez contact : David Shea
e-mail : dshea0474concentrir-net
mous parcel bombs of the nineties- Its blending of archival
footage and personal home-movie imagery investigates the
media politics of contemporary catastrophe culture- Inspired
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Attachez vos ceintures pour cette chronique officieuse des by two Don DeLillo novels - White Noise arid Mao 11- and
detournements d'avions . Sue. un tan ludique et subversif, cc savouring the writer's motto "Home is a failed idea", director
pseudo-documentaire couvre le piratage de I'air, do la periode Johan Grimonprez fully demonstrates how the spectacle of
romantico-rdvolutionnaire des annees 60 et 70 aux cyniques international terrorism and the desire for the ultimate disasannees 90- Inspire par deux nouvelles do Don DeLillo, White ter invade all living rooms to threaten our domestic bliss .
Noise of Mao If , le realisateur Johan Grimonprez demontre que New York composer-musician David Shea wrote the original
le spectacle du terrorisme international et le desir do desastre soundtrack to this accelerated journey through the explosive
ultime envahissent nos salons et menacent notre quietude quo-!history of this century- David Shea will accompany the
tidienne . L'alliage d'archives et do films amateurs permet d'ex- screening of the film, during one projection (Wednesday
pIorer la politique de la catastrophe pratiquee par les medics October 21
contemporains . La bande sonore do cc surval accelere et ,. . J
OHAN ORIMONPRE2 it the director of the interna
explasif de cette portion do Chistoire do notre siEcle a eteitiorrally acclaiinrd video piece Kob7rweng or where is
COn~Ue par le musicien-compositeur new-yorkais . David 5hea .lyour helieoptvr (1992) and of the multi-channel video
irrstallxtiott It. will be affright if you come again, only
Cc dernier donnera un concert d'accompagnement du film, un next time. don't bring any gear, except a tea kettle- Dial
H-I-S-T-O-R-Y has been labelled as one of the most imporsoul soir (mercredi 21 octobre), au Media Lounge .
tant discoveries at Documents, X and has since been
festivals worldwide . Johan
fi JOIIAN GRIMONPIIE7, eat le directeur de 1'eeuvre video shown in many cities and
working and living on a DAAD
de rencnnmee internationals . Kobarweng or where is your Grimonprez is currently
.
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DAVID SHEA (LISA) is the composer
helicoptcr' (1992), et de l'installation video Inultipiste It l grant in Berlinpieces for soln sampler x-v well as live ensernwill be a Iri ght if you come again, onty next time. dna> . t :of
. several
tiles including samplers- tic" also anrnposes for dance perbring aAy gear, except a tea kettle. Dial 11-1-S-T-U-R-Y a
prti d e xt s regularly in
designee one des plus imporantes d ." noLlvertcs de
1,e.. formances and . .~s a c t .
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Documents X . et a depuis ere priaec .t[: dais pliaicur% villra rrnprr)visat.l[rn projects . He worked extensively with
Hibot . Suanner, John Zorn and many others- His
et festivals a travers le rnonrh" . --;- DAVID SHEA (Mats- :Mar[
Unis} est Is compositeur de pirrxicurx piACes solos ct do per- dtsrnyraphy includes Shock Corridor, Prisoner, 1, Tower
formances Aorir r :nseinbIv . T7 avaiIIant avec des echa n t iiion- of Mirrors and Satyriconneurs, il compose.. aussi pour la danse- 11 participe
reguliierement :t des prgjets d'improvisation en Cant quo
musicien, notamment avec Marc Hibot, Scanner, John
Zorn . Il a oeuvre comme Di do techno . Soukouss, Hip Hop,
Reggae, Rai et House dans des clubs it[".w yorkain . Sa
discographie eomprend : Shock Corridor, Prisoner, I,
Tower of Mirrors et Sxtyrirrort-