Live Acts: VJ MEAT//C-DRIK//COMPANY FUCK//KAKAWAKA/////
Dj Sets: Laserlove//Zamboni//N.A.F/////
@RAUM 20, Berlin, MAY 28.
VJ MEAT (Belgium)
Vj meat, this avatar from V-Atak label, is a true visual ecarissor : he hacks, crushes and laminates his different sources to the last fragment. He mixes the videos of v-atak, famefame, madame chao, Lovid and more, thus creating a subtly brutal, scathing and immersive atmosphere.
Founded in 2002, V-Atak is a label dedicated to audio and visual art
Made up with a hybrid mix of Vj’s, movie makers and musicians, our label grew year after year and developed an edgy identity on the Audio/Video live scene
When performing video/audio live art and producing music clips as well, our crew is at its best by taking risks. Our services and products (installations, Vjing, DVDs) reflect that constant questioning we have on manner and matter, playing with the ever-changing digital technology and its limits.
While society, corporations and politics use images and medias to exert a control on the masses, V-Atak challenges common sense and ideas through images and sounds. The process that has become our trademark, distorting contemporary media icons to recreate an original sense, offers the public an opportunity to question with irony and violence the mass media representations.
http://www.v-atak.com/artists/vj-meat-whois
C-DRIK (Belgium)
Cedrik Fermont (aka C-drík Fermont, C-drík, Cdrk, Kirdec, Y-drík, M-drík, F-drík and many other "-drík") is a multifaced vegan artist, academically trained musician, dj, singer, composer and drummer ; he is electroacoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne former student (Conservatory of Mons, Belgium).
Of Greek, Zairian and Belgian descent, born in Zaire (RDC), he lived in Belgium, the Netherlands and relocated to Germany in 2010.
C-drík started his first project in 1989 and juggles in between many projects and genres such as electro, noise, breakcore, digital punk, electro-acoustic, industrial, ambient, free jazz, hip hop, etc.
http://www.syrphe.com/projects/c_drik/c_drik.html
COMPANY FUCK (Australia / Germany)
A one-man noisecore karaoke explosion, Company Fuck (or CxFx) is in reality Scott Sinclair - an Australian with a long history in improvised music, who left this behind years ago and has since been performing cutup noisecore in psychedelic costumes to audiences all around Europe, Australia, Japan, and North America. CxFx's super fast mixes of more 'serious' and 'difficult' sounds with pop and karaoke firmly place him in the realm of the 'avant retard'. To use the words of Dolly Parton - "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!"
CxFx is known for his brutal and unpredictable live shows. Sure, CxFx uses a laptop, but any similarity to other computer musicians stops there. In performance CxFx is a totally improvised wireless noise monster, able to fast-forward through an entire rainbow of musical styles with every electrified scream, grunt, cough, or spit. In his own unique way, CxFx transforms the stage into a hyper-violent karaoke bar of the future - and he may even persuade the audience to sing along.
http://www.companyfuck.com
http://www.facebook.com/companyfvck
KAKWAKA (DE)
Kakawaka makes noise. Often with a fork.
"More avant-garde weirdness. More childish tomfoolery. More mind mangling noise. More sonic experiments with unusual objects. More throbs than you’ll ever need in a lifetime. More frazzled squiggles formed by whatever he had at hand at the time. More ding dang donging with hammers for fingers. More tunes that even the Devil would reject as being too much too soon and a sin to release onto mankind. More abrasive sound sculptures to endure and love. Rewind. Love? How in fucks name can you love this pervasive all encompassing noise bugger crap? Because he beats you into submission with it. He won’t let go. He force feeds you his work until you are sick on the carpet. He spits in your eye and pisses on your face. Such a nice guy."
-Aural Pressure Webzine
“There were some parts that were almost good.” -Guillaume Siffert (experimental music mogul/exhibitionist)
ca. 1987: seahorse badge for swimming 25m at Rosdorf public pool.
Since 2001: Noise on the internet.
Since 2005: Live performances.
http://www.chproductions.de/kakawaka/index.htm