new Elektronengehirn album out

16 years after the last complete Elektronengehirn album µc, block 4 releases the new Ø with electroacoustic pieces from 2002 till 2017. In that time Elektronengehirn became more a live project, with which I experimented with different means of expressions, exploring alternative controllers like wind-controller, data gloves and custom build ones.

codepage liveset on Mixcloud

For the Algosix anniversary codepage played a live set which was streamed from the block 4 studio on 17. March 2018. This is the studiorecording of the live coding set performed by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner. We use Tidal Cycles as our instrument.
http://codepage.tmkm.dk

Notstandskomitee concert video

Notstandskomitee performed a concert on March 2nd at the Astrastube in Hamburg. The complete concert inclusive encore was recorded on video and can be seen here:

A new release on vinyl is in preparation which includes an extended version of Maschinenangst which was originally released on the second Notstandskomitee CD Strom 1997.

new Elektronengehirn album

Next week block 4 is going to release the fourth album of Elektronengehirn on Bandcamp. Many have heard Fjord already on Soundcloud which will be the opening track. The pieces on this album are made between 2004 and 2017.

A fascinating insight of Elektronengehirn working in the block 4 studio can be seen here, showing a complex drone patch for a new piece on the modular synthesizer:

march concert dates

2.3. Notstandskomitee Astrastube Hamburg

16 years after block 4’s legendary Prima Party in Astrastube, Notstandskomitee returns for a concert to Hamburg. On March 2nd Malte Steiner is going to play along fellow tape-scene pioneers Sigmar Fricke and Dieter Mauson who had at one point the project DSIP together.

http://www.astra-stube.de/vorschau.php


17.3. Codepage live coding stream

On March 17th Codepage will be a part of the 6th year birthday celebration of the Algorave, which manifests itself in 144 live streams of algorithmic dance music over 72 hours.

You can watch the stream here: http://algorave.com/wearesix/

Link to facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/145609692767391/

concertvideo by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen

The video recording of Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen performing her piece
Varða # I at Noiseberg, Berlin (DE) from 4.February 2018 is now online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWZ0Y64rfb8

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen noise concert Berlin

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen is playing this Sunday, the 4. Februrary in Berlin at Noiseberg:

http://noiseberg.org

Atelier Äuglein
Oppelner Strasse 12, 10997 Berlin

Sonntag 4. Feb 17:00


Tina MK Madsen — wearable sounds /denmark
http://tms.tmkm.dk/
https://soundcloud.com/tmkmadsen/little-fists


Giovanni Verga — recycled electroacoustics /italy
https://fieldoscope.bandcamp.com/


Pollution — intangible blanket /italy & netherlands
https://thepollution.bandcamp.com/


Tonesucker — grave digging drone /united kingdom
https://onomaresearch.bandcamp.com/album/memento-mori

Eric Wong & Mark Alban Lotz — vibrating molecules / hong-kong & germany
https://soundcloud.com/ericszehonwong
http://www.lotzofmusic.com/

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Danish visual artist and researcher Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen primarily works with performance art, sound and open technology. Her piece Little Fists weaves together motion-triggered sounds, highlighting both patterns and freak occurrences, ultimately generating dark visions populated with slowly evolving textures and anguishing sonic artefacts.

A careful navigation in hazardous waters punctuated by abrupt transformations, the music of British drone band Tonesucker layers electric guitars, modular synthesizers, self-made electronic instruments and field recordings into intense mythogeosonic soundscapes—a map of pulses, neural noises and indistinct chimes. There is no telling whether any of this is real.

Basing their performance on the digital/analog dichotomy, Pollution force opposites to coexist. Natural and artificial, order and chaos contaminate each other in a continuous flow or feedback. Results a total fusion and mutual contagion—sounds becoming both cause and effect, a vibrating unit contracting in all directions. The duo's compositions are inspired by formal techniques found in century-old cinema and surrealist painting, as well as concrete music, electronic synthesis and free composition.

Electronic musician Giovanni Verga manipulates synthesizers and self-built instruments into organic, repetitive musical images reflecting as electroacoustic fata morgana. Faint, subtle and somewhat miraculous, his sounds function as a whole, from sources difficultly individuated, generating new living entities the time of a performance.

Composer and flutist Mark Alban Lotz and Guitarist Eric Wong join their skills the time of an improvised piece, during which subtle melodies made of vibrating molecules are expected to be generated and degenerated.

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Expected Schedule
5.00 = Doors Open
5.30 = Bar — Giovanni Verga
6.15 = Studio — Tina Madsen
6.45 = Bar — Tonesucker
7.15 = Studio — Pollution
8.00 = Bar — Eric Wong & Mark Alban Lotz

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