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In keeping with the recent run of mad Thursdays...
we kick out the kunst and boots up the live improv

thursday 22nd march from 20Uhr

with a unique and spontaneous meeting of rhythm and musiq concrete, two drummers, two guys with boxes, three sets and everything, from soft to loud and all points in-between

featuring:
robbert van hulzen (NL) drums;
oori shalev (Israel) drums;
ludovic fresse (France) toys and tools;
robert curgenven (Aus) harmonics/field recordings

DJ for the night is Govinda Lange (Disfunkt/Australia) in his final Berlin and Transit Lounge appearance (well for this time anyway) before leaving for Paris.
Films from the DotMov archive will also be presented by Kristina Matovic (Australia). Entry is free! and from the Spree gate by Bruckenstr, opposite Jannowitzbrucke.
Bar open from 19uhr

SUSPENDED PATHS - THE FIRST LEG OF THE JOURNEY

more photos of the exhibition here

feet up in the lounge?

After a bit of a warm-up on the winter chill in Japan, a few weeks in Sydney's not-so-summer paves the way for a return to doonas and beanies in Berlin. Got some new sounds from the back of beyond and a yen for collaborating 'round the Transmediale melee and through February's return to the great indoors. Das Kleine Fieldrecording festival should be a hoot and some abstract sound action for the month in the Lounge should rattle the rafters a little.
Was good to get the low-down and put some faces to the virtual identities at the meet-up in Newtown last night and looking forward to discovering the Berlin contingent's ideas.
More words presently when I'm not in a room full of adolescent network wargamers letting one another's avatar-blood. $%@# internet cafes....

BIOGRAPHY: ROB CURGENVEN

Working with harmonics and resonance as articulated not only through instruments/objects, in space and place, but also in time and the dislocation of the remote, Robert's sound explores slowly shifting layers in the fabric of what surrounds us. He has released one solo CD for privatelektro, "cichaczem" (2005), which was described by "disquiet" magazine as "absolutely beautiful distillations of sound mixing the familiar textures of field recordings, including falling snow and the period after a thunderstorm, with hyper-sensitive recordings of a grand piano that suggest the open spaces only alluded to by most synthesizers". He has completed two commissions for ABC's Radiophonic Unit (2003, 2006), is included on the recent "recorded in the fields by..." compilation by "gruenrekorder" (2006) and his soundtrack to Lezsek Paul's "Terrain der Zeit" has has been included in screenings at Filmfest Dresden, Germany (2006) and Experyment V Internation Art Meeting Zbaszyn,Poland (2005). He organised the inaugural Sounds Unusual Festival of New Music in Darwin this year, has had installations/group exhibtions in Darwin, Fremantle, Koln and Berlin and performed at the Darwin Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, 24HR Art (NT Centro for Contemporary Art), in Alice Springs, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Brussels, Amsterdam, Leipzig and recently at Electrofringe Festival (Newcastle) as well as Tokyo, Gihu and Nagano (Japan).