Manfred Miersch & KalmaNew Subharmonic Sounds and Visions
11.10.201919:15hKuppelhallefree entry
The attempt to discover soundscapes of the future has always been linked to new and innovative technologies. At last year's festival, Manfred Miersch presented the subharchord and the theremin - both instruments that have been connected with artistic utopias in the past century. This year, he will carry the utopian moment into the future with a new subharmonic instrument based on the sound generation of the subharchord and the mixturtrautonium. He will also present a theremin that makes whole sound archives available and playable without touch.
A live laboratory is created in direct dialogue with a realtime video projection by visual artist Kalma. She will imagine a landscape inspired in visual representation of audio frequencies, cymatics, nature and the intrinsic relation between light and sound.
A native of West Berlin, Manfred Miersch studied art history and the fine arts. After playing guitar in punk bands and sound performances, he learned to play the theremin from Andre Smirnov and Lydia Kavina. He founded atelierTheremin, worked as an instructor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and has composed music for RBB, among others. He is a founder and employee of the BBK media workshop, gives presentations and worksops, and works as a journalist for trade magazines and encyclopedias. Manfred Miersch has been honored internationally as the re-discoverer and promoter of the subharchord instrument. He has independently developed and organized events (including for the legendary Zodiak Club of Berlin), is a member of "initiative neue musik berlin e.V.", and exhibits his work in Germany and abroad.
Kalma is a visual performer that used real time processes to create lightinstallations, interactive sculptures, mappings and vj sets with unique atmospheres and unrepeatable experiences and new adventures from one moment to the next. Kalma has performed since a decade at art festivals and played in clubs and events around Europe including Contemporary Performing Arts of Glastonbury (UK), BSeite Festival (Germany), TOA Festival (Berlin), Lummix Light Festival (Bulgaria),Laptoprus (Madrid), Transmediale Vorspiel, Perspective Festival, Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Weekend, Suicide Circus, Ohm, Urban Spree,Arena (Berlin), Fabrik, Mondo, Goa electronic parties (Madrid) a.o.
[DE] Der Versuch, die Klangwelten der Zukunft zu entdecken, war stets mit neuen, innovativen Technologien verbungen. Im letzten Jahr präsentierte Manfred Miersch das Subharchord und das Theremin, beides Instrumente, mit denen sich im letzten Jahrhundert künstlerische Utopien verbanden. In diesem Jahr wird er das utopische Moment in die Zukunft tragen mit einem neuen subharmonischen Instrument, basierend auf der Klangerzeugung des Subharchords und des Mixturtrautoniums. Er präsentiert außerdem ein Theremin mit dem ganze Soundarchive zur Verfügung stehen und berührungslos spielbar sind. Es entsteht ein Live-Laboratorium, in dem Miersch im direkten Dialog zu einer Realtime-Videoprojektion der VJ-Künstlerin Kalma experimentiert.
