here is information from lithuania:
the event of electronic sound will take place in Vilnius in March 4-6, 2004.
welcome to vilnius! r.

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From: "raimundas  m" <raimay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: an event in vilnius
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:38:17 +0200


ELEKTRODIENOS: unidentified audio object (at the speed of the mix) 

WHO?
Rosa Barba (Cologne), ciutausk@xxxxxxxxx (Kaunas / Marijampole), Club
Mikshys (Vilnius), Deadbeat (Montreal), Egle (Vilnius), Kiwa & Andres
Loo (Tallin), Nathalie Bruys aka KODI (Amsterdam), Ignas Krunglevicius
(Oslo), Byungjun Kwon & Ge-Suk Yeo (Seoul), Loop-Not-Loop (Vilnius),
Korb/Instancija/Skiox (Vilnius), Kaffe Matthews (London), Monolake
(Berlin), Mouse on Mars (Dusseldorf / Cologne), Neva (Vilnius), Jonas
Ohlsson (Amsterdam), Overtone (Vilnius), Alexej Paryla (Berlin), pb8
(Vilnius), Pink Twins (Helsinki), Gintaras Sodeika (Vilnius), Sutekh
(San Francisco), Stewart Walker (Boston / Berlin), zw-x (Vilnius)

WHAT?

a selection of some of the most innovative sound-artists will be invited
to the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius www.cac.lt to produce what
will be 2 days and 3 nights of undefined frequencies at the speed of the
mix.

WHERE?

City: Vilnius is a patchwork of different cities, constructed in
different periods through different visions of a present-future, sets of
streets often refer to streets in other neighborhoods, sometimes in
other cities, possibly with other purposes or headings in mind. The
capital of one of the former Soviet Union republics is an open field for
liberal democracy to interact with the heritage of communist planning,
yet before the major investments of global capital has reached the city,
a bronze monument for anarchomposer Frank Zappa stood up in one of the
squares as a homage for anarchy that never sleeps.

Venue: The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius www.cac.lt., often functions
as a platform for difference, sometimes inviting the unassimilable or
unthinkable into the centre to engage the public in a discussion about
the changing role of culture in everyday life. During the Elektrodays
CAC will become a sputnik, travelling to the zone of undefined
frequencies, unrestricted speed and unidentified sound objects.

Space: the big room is a rectangular space of 1000 square meters that
will contain two high platforms with separate sets of turntables /
desktops.


WHEN?
9 pm - 3 am, march 4 - 6: three days;

HOW?
(the logic of the mix)

There are a number of reasons for this particular concept of
Elektrodienos. First, there's a technological aspect since all the
artists invited use of electronic technology and simple, widely
available tools like laptop, thus bringing the production of music/art
into a democratic participation of everyone. At the same time there's a
certain scale of technology ranging from custom-made software to
Theremin and turntables.

The logic of the event is comparable to logic of the mix, but it
encompasses more than sound tracks or different sound cultures, it's
about horizontal and self-regulation-based mixing of:

- sound with vision;
- sound/vision with architecture;
- dj's with dj's;
- dj's with artists;
- artists with artists;
- aesthetics with politics;
- academy with club;
- theory with body,
- life with live.

Mix is the tool of experiment, experience and interpretation, involving
established artefacts and not yet public sensations into a
self-deconstructing flow. Rhythm A mixes with rhythm B, inventing a new
rhythm X while a performer A becomes B by playing the laptop of a
performer X.  Thus, the event invents not only new cultures of sound but
also figures producing them.

HOW?? 
(Remixology)

"Remixology doesn't replace a track so much as proliferate it into
parallel alterdimensions.  Remixology is the science of continuation and
the art of drastic remaking, total remaking, remodelling." (Kodwo Eshun)

Live remix is not the last intention of Elektrodienos.
 
"Music is always the first" (Dennis Cooper)


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS? (FAQ)

What is your motivation for this event?

The basic idea of inviting audio-artists to The CAC Vilnius is rather
simple: we want to introduce experimental and cutting-edge artists that
transcend both dance-club and academic industries (and thus do not
obtain their niche here) for Vilnius audience. The focus is rather on
producers and artists (sometimes working as DJs) of experimental
electronic music who are trying to extend the concept of music as well
as construct new ways of its experience via different technological
channels and methods. The solutions discovered in electronic music often
become a source of avant-garde recipes and strategies to more
conservative practices such as art and cinema. The remix of an audio
track can be released before the original itself, a performer can
multiply via different heteronyms and conceive products that have
nothing in common (thus ensuring the freedom of multi-ego in the culture
industry ruled by the tyranny of brands and signature), and the most
complex piece can be produced without leaving a bedroom. This is just to
say that electronic music isn't only the place of aesthetics but also of
political invention despite all its trivialisation by commerce.

Do you have any theoretical grounds for this experiment?

In a recent talk in New York, the philosopher Alain Badiou spoke about
art as a process of purification as opposed to one of pure rupture (as
the art and music worlds would often have you believe), a passage
whereby ideas, possibilities, or more specifically problems are  played
out. What remains irrefutably one of the greatest stories from the
culture of "the mix", is not only its ability to find the new inside the
old, but also its ability to physically embed the old within the new and
in doing so, preserving, even foregrounding this passage Badiou
describes.  

What do you mean when you write mixing 'life with live'?

Coming to the event may answer many of these questions, particularly the
latter.

Who program the event?

The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius &  GOIO: Group of Independent
Observers (Vilnius)

Where is the after-party going to take place?

Each night at Intro club in Vilnius www.intro.lt.

--

Raimundas Malasauskas & Rene Gabri  

raimundas malasauskas
tel + 370 618 192 15
contemporary art centre, vilnius
vokieciu 2, 2001 lt
www.cac.lt 




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