Massaccesi und Gregg Kowalsky am 25.03. in Hannover

[nossek]

silly art fick #11
cut up multi noise vs. drones & noise

GREGG KOWALSKY (san francisco, kranky)
&
MASSACCESI (berlin)

samstag / 25. maerz 2006 / 22 uhr
silke arp bricht
Königsworther Straße 20
Hannover


Born in New York City and raised in South Florida, Gregg Kowalsky has
had the opportunity to perform throughout Europe and the United States
under the Osso Bucco moniker for the past several years. He participated
in festivals such as WDR's SoundArt-Köln Festival, Sonar, OFFF (Online
Flash-Film Festival) and The Nursery Summer Festival in Sweden alongside
artists like Stephan Mathieu, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Wolf Eyes, fm3
and others. He now resides in Oakland, California where he completed a
Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at
Mills College with the guidance of Fred Frith. Kowalsky's compositions
range from textural ambient to drone and noise pieces, which are highly
influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived
for most of his life. He is interested in filling the spaces his music
occupies through dense, live, multi-channel mixes. He has composed for
film, dance, acoustic ensembles and sound installations. Gregg's debut
full-length album, Through The Cardial Window, will release in 2006 on
Kranky.

http://www.greggkowalsky.net


It's been a long time since I reviewed 'I Never Fall Apart Because I
Never Fall Together' by Massaccesi (Vital Weekly 345). Although still
traveling around the world, playing his audio mayhem on stage, he now
moved from the USA to Berlin, where it all apparently is happening. His
new release deals with the refugees of the world. With the handmade
edition of this release, one get a small paper tent to assemble yourself
and send a picture of your micro-refugee camp. A highly political
release. I suggest reading the liner notes to each track on the website!
Massaccesi plays a high energy punk version of plunder-phonics. Nothing
can be easily recognized or traced back to the original source, since
it's all in this ultra fast blender of sound. Massaccesi uses the
computer (or sampler) to cook up all of these sounds together and throws
them around, like garbage at a refugee camp. It's certainly not easy
music, since there is no catchy rhythm keeping the material together,
which is then perhaps also the problem of the music (if we take the
liberty of just looking at the music): it's all a bit too much. It goes
on and on in this high energy mode and some fatigue leaps in. Which is
kind of sad, since Massaccesi certainly has a good point, but perhaps
that point is missed here in the information overload. But play bits and
pieces and things do make sense. Noise of an entirely different nature,
and that is something worthwhile. _Vital Weekly (Holland) February 2006 _
by Frans de Waard

http://www.massaccesi.com

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