Raster-Noton tonight in Cambridge, MA

from the e-mail -

***Thursday, June 4, 2009***

Non-Event, Basstown, and WZBC present

The Return of Raster-Noton!!!

ALVA NOTO & BYETONE

w/DJ Volvox

at Make It New at the Middlesex Lounge
315 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(617) 868-MSEX
Doors: 9:30pm, Show: 11pm
21+ / Admission: $10

Musician and visual artist CARSTEN NICOLAI (aka ALVA NOTO) works
in the transitional area between art and science. In his intensely
dynamic work, Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Clicks
and glitches are not used as ornamental additions, but make up the
essential elements of the work, which is often structured around
the rhythmic grooves of hip-hop and R&B. Nicolai has performed in
many of the world's most prestigious spaces including The Guggenheim,
MOMA SF, MOMA Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern, and Venice Biennial.
http://www.carstennicolai.com/

OLAF BENDER (aka BYETONE) is a founding member of the Raster-Noton
label, as well as its lead designer. Bender creates his music digitally,
assembling sine tones into complex sound fabrics of deep sub-bass
and rhythmic clicks and crackles. He creates abstract animations
to support his abstract music, transforming the rhythm of the music
into a graphic equivalent, which he controls in real time.
http://www.myspace.com/benderbyetone

Upcoming Non-Events:
June 12 - NOVI_SAD w/Benjamin Nelson at MassArt

Show Links:
Raster-Noton: http://www.raster-noton.de
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Basstown: http://basstown.blogspot.com/
WZBC: http://www.wzbc.org

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Judex - introduction

the haunting beginning.

This Week.

Wednesday night: China Mieville (British Sci-fi author) is giving a talk in Harvard Sq. (Parlour of First Church) about his book "The City and The City".

Thursday night: Raster-Noton show at the Middlesex
MAKE IT NEW
6.04.09
FEATURING RASTER NOTON
315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
617 868 MSEX

Friday night: I'm doing my radio show.

This weekend is up for grabs so far.

I'm currently reading the last Martin Beck mystery: "The Terrorists"

Speaking in Code - Megapolis - NEXT WEEK

The newSpeaking in Code premiers at the Somerville Theater April 23, 2009. It is a documentary about new electronic music full of beauty and madness. I highly recommend it. Tickets are available now


Upcomingnext Friday the MegapolisAudio Art Festival is happening in Cambridge, Somerville, Jamaica Plain and other places in the Boston Area. I'll be there the first couple of nights providing DJ activity in some capacity. It should be interesting. Note the Schmedule! Ticket information is here.

from way back when

The Wolfhounds: "Me"

Stieg Larsson's work on screen

Swedish Thriller based on Stieg Larsson's work due out soon. Looks promising. Due to open Cannes Film Festival 2009.

Sorcerer Trailer

For future reference.

Xeno and Oaklander - Live

Nuit - Celeste.

From the Celebrations I missed.

short notice - NCP 1 tonight

I'm on the air again finally. tune into WZBC.

X/O live at Wierd tonight!

Again, I wish I could be there but work commitments keep me stuck in Boston for the moment.

from the e-mail:
Hello all, due to an unfortunate scheduling conflict the John Wiese, Xeno and Oaklander, Zaimph, and Led er Est Show Wednesday at the Knitting Factory is cancelled, apologies to everyone for any inconvenience.

The Xeno and Oaklander show will now be moved to the WIERD weekly party this Wednesday featuring the return of guest DJ Anarexia(sic)! In addition John Wiese will be playing live at West Nile on Thursday night and Led er Est will be back at WIERD live on October 1st, so please come on out and support these great events! Info on the John Wiese show is below.

So this week WIERD proudly welcomes the return of Xeno and Oaklander for a live performance at midnite! This will be the most complex show Liz and Sean have ever done as they debut the a whole new set of trax from their forthcoming debut LP for the first time! It doesn't get any colder or rarer than this week...see you all in the WIERD...VR

Pieter, Glenn and Anarexia Spin Cold Wave, Minimal Electronic Music!
(Live Performance by Xeno and Oaklander at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St @ Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
http://www.wierdrecords.com/

Coming Soon to the WIERD World:
Thursday September 18th 10pm: John Wiese, Barry Weisblatt, MV Carbon with DJ Pieter from Wierd Records NYC, The West Nile, 285 Kent Ave (btw South 1st and South 2nd Sts), BKNY
Friday September 19th: Minimal LA and Pendu dot org Present Xeno and Oaklander, SSPS, Terrible Eagle, Birth(Los Angeles), and Chaos Magik Live at Fat Baby 112 Rivington St NYC
Wednesday September 24th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Envenomist!(Columbus, OH)
Wednesday October 1st: WIERD Welcomes the Return of Led er Est
Wednesday October 8th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance byThe Hunt(Two week UK Tour send-off party!)
Wednesday October 15th: WIERD Presents the NYC debut of WIERD Compilation Volume II artists Ronin
(Miami)!
Wednesday October 22nd: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Blacklist!(CMJ Festival)
Wednesday October 29th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Martial Canterel!
Wednesday November 5th: WIERD Presents the Minimal Electronic Pleasures of Further Reductions(Shawn NoEQ of Led er Est + Ms Katie Rose)
Wednesday November 12th: WIERD Presents the return of Xeno and Oaklander
Wednesday November 19th: WIERD Proudly Presents a Live Performance by Opus Finis(Miami)!
Friday November 21st: THE WIERD 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY!!! (Location TBC)
Wednesday December 3rd: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Cult of Youth!
Wednesday December 10th: WIERD Presents the Return of Tobias Bernstrup!
Wednesday December 17th: A Very Rare WIERD Christmas Party featuring a Live Performance by Sleep Museum

Tuxedomoon - Live in NYC - Sept. 17, 2008

From the Press Release:

Usually more visible along the coast of the Mediterranean or the Baltic, legendary band Tuxedomoon will be making a rare appearance stateside in New York City for one show only at Le Poisson Rouge - a brand new multimedia art cabaret founded on the former site of the historic Village Gate.


Don't expect to see them repeat poses from their youth as Tuxedomoon seldom look back and, if so, more often than not, choose to refine and distort their past in terms concurrent with their muses of the moment. No room for '80s nostalgia here, their recent compositions feature a wide and surprising variety of styles, influences and themes gathered along their varied journey through space and time. Appearances of Tuxedomoon in the USA are unusual occurrences, there having been only 4 others in the last 21 years.


If you're in that part of the world, come witness this unique event.


Tuxedomoon, Gutbucket,
Wednesday September 17 at 10pm

(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
www. lepoissonrouge. com / 212.505.FISH – phone / 646.478.
9197 – fax

Der Baader Meinhof Complex

This looks excellent. I don't think it will arrive in the United States until sometime next year. (I was recently reminded of it in this post.).

Misery at Wierd Tonight - Epee du Bois Live (NYC)

from the e-mail:
an excellent party this week's WIERD is destined to be(he says in his best hackneyed attempt at an Aristo accent)as we welcome back WIERD's long time resident Master of the cloudy cold gloom Epee du Bois for a creepy dripping wet Korg MS-20 live performance at Midnite! And yes for all of you who emailed us to ask if Cheyney will be playing his WIERD Compilation V2 frozen dancefloor VRasterpiece(including the charming young lady who said she'd drive from Indiana to hear the cheery track live) the rumours are yes Monsieur Epee will indeed be performing 'Misery' live for the first time this week so cheer the fuck up everyone! As if that wasn't enough WIERD is proud to this week also play host to the long awaited record release party for Tamaryn's debut LP where she will have the full-length album of her idiosyncratic cold guitar gypsywave sounds available for the first time!

Pieter, M Canterel and The Speculator Spin a Miserably Minimal Mess!
Wednesday July 16th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Epee du Bois and Tamaryn Record Release at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St@Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
http://www.wierdrecords.com/

"Off the Cuff" NCP I - Friday July 11 2008 - playlist

Fri Jul 11th 2008 7.00pm–10.00pm

Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.

Time zone: Eastern

July Skies “Waiting to Land” from The English Cold CD ALBUM (make mine music 2004)
Hazard “Windmill” from Land CD ALBUM (Touch www.touchmusic.org.uk 2003)
Howie B “Five Days” from Freezone 3 CD COMP (SSR 1996)
Carlos Giffoni “There Are Other Gates” from Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 LP COMP (Wierd 2008)
Tuxedomoon “The Waltz” from Ten Years in one night Live LP ALBUM (Crammed)
Xeno and Oaklander “Celeste” from Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 (Wierd 2008)
Ruth “Mots” from Des jeunes gens modernes CD COMP (Naive 2008)
Coti “Tiptoe” from [metamoria\> (vibrant music 2001)
Bernard Bonnier “"I can't sing..."” from Casse-Tete CD ALBUM (Oral 2008)
Medikao “Detective” from Des jeunes gens modernes (Naive 2008)
Les Hurleurs “Hotel Varlin” from Ciel D'encre (Barclay 2000)
Robin Saville “Colin the lazy cormorant (part 1)” from Peasgood Nonesuch
Steven Brown “sous quell etoile suis-je ne?” from a tribute to polnareff
Francois Bayle “allures” from La Forme Du Temps Est Un Cercle CD ALBUM (INA GRM)
The Honeymoon Killers “histoire a suivre” from Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel
Martial Canterel “Ascent” from confusing outsides LP ALBUM (genetic music)
Arbol “you travelled my heart inside out” (Lejos Discos 2008)
Brian Eno “Bone Bomb” from Another Day on Earth CD ALBUM (Hannibal 2005)
Yann Tiersen “la plage” from Les Retrouvailles CD ALBUM (Labels www.labels.tm.fr 2005)
Ben Watt “North Marine Drive” CD ALBUM (Cherry Red 1987)
Antena “Camino del sol” from Antena EP (Les Disques Du Crepuscule 1982)
Yann Tiersen “l'echec” from L'absente (Virgin France 2001)
Sylvain Chauveau “Nuage III” from Nuage CD (type records 2007)
Michel Polnareff “le bal des laze” from les premieres annees
The Durutti Column “head glue” from sunlight to blue... blue to blackness (Kooky 2008)
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd “Snowfall” from Mysterious Skin OST CD
July Skies “The Weather Clock” from The Weather Clock (EP) CD EP (make mine music)
Emak Bakia “Ils sont americanes?” from Despues CD ALBUM (Acuarela)

Epee Du Bois “Misery” from Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 (Wierd 2008)

Desormais “violent feelings often pass” from climate variations CD(intr_version)
Xeno and Oaklander “Non Senti” from The Wierd Compilation 2006 LP COMP (Wierd 2006)
The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa “Sooper Kosmos” from Free-D (Original Soundtrack) (Free Records 1994)
Laszlo Dubrovay “A2” from Live Eletcronic

Holidays - radio - Metropolis

Happy Canada Day, Bonne Anniversaire Quebec, Happy Independence Day!

I will do 4 hours of radio on WZBC 90.3fm tomorrow night from 18:00 to 22:00 EST.

Listen in.

AND this exciting news: a Restored print of Fritz Lang's film METROPOLIS is in the works!

Locust - Your Selfish Ways

I just found this clip from French TV in 1998.

I still regret not seeing Mark Van Hoen play Mutek.

Lest we baguette

Suddenly I'm home after a bit drinking with my roommates. I realize this is raw and uncouth however I quite like it. I'm Listening to the FIRE ENGINES wondering why more people haven't heard of the genius that is the this band from Scotland. I will endevour to do my best to remedy this situation. (for give the grammar and misspellings) as if it were a remedy for past transgressions i hope for the future as manic impressions linger on and the truth comes fast and hard into this reality I look for consequence I wish i was in in Montreal for the summer to bask in the sun and enjoy the onslaught of music that the Quebecquois succumb to in such a fashion. I want to see the rest of Canada but Montreal has so much to offer its hard to give up. I work and I life towards this point.

The Passions -- video for the weekend

I'm in love with a German Film Star

It Seems

I never have time for this any more. I'd actually set aside some time this morning for this express purpose but now things have changed yet again. I'll have to look at this after work. I can't bear to have people looking over my shoulder while I am typing. Its too much. Needless to say, I want to get into so many issues that have been on my mind of late. I've had several busy weekends, I don't see the activity subsiding any time soon.

RASTER-NOTON SHOWCASE tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts

from the e-mail:

**Thursday, May 15, 2008**

Non-Event, Basstown, and the Goethe-Institüt Boston present

RASTER-NOTON SHOWCASE

with SIGNAL + solo sets by
ALVA NOTO, FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER, and BYETONE

Middlesex Lounge
315 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(617) 868-MSEX
Doors: 9pm, Show: 10pm
21+ / Admission: $10

SIGNAL is a Raster-Noton supergroup, featuring Carsten Nicolai
(aka Alva Noto), Olaf Bender (aka Byetone), and Frank Bretschneider.
The trio performs intense, hypnotic music to a spectacular backdrop
of graphical information that reveals the complex geometry of the
sounds in play. Most of their sound sources are taken from a huge
memory bank of music from long jamming sessions dating from the early
days of Raster-Noton. These are processed and folded into a taut
and energetic web of rhythmic clicks, bristling static,
and deep bass pulses that are unexpectedly sensuous and undeniably
funky. Their most recent album, Robotron, was released in 2007 on
Raster-Noton. This will be SIGNAL's Boston debut.

mp3 of Signal, Robotron:
http://www.raster-noton.net/download/rn-69_robotron/02_Ermafa.mp3

Video of Signal Live in Copenhagen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2kyrrtVy_c

Musician and visual artist CARSTEN NICOLAI (aka ALVA NOTO) works
in the transitional area between art and science. In his intensely
dynamic work, Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Clicks
and glitches are not used as ornamental additions, but make up the
essential elements of the work, which is often structured around
the rhythmic grooves of hip-hop and R&B. Nicolai has performed in
many of the world's most prestigious spaces including The Guggenheim,
MOMA SF, MOMA Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern, and Venice Biennial.
His latest album, unitxt, will be out this summer on Raster-Noton.
This will be Nicolai's Boston debut. Website: http://www.alvanoto.com

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER is a founding member of Raster-Noton and one
of the pioneering figures in ultra minimal post techno. Using the
most basic sound sources (sine waves and white noise), Bretschneider
creates minimal, flowing pieces with delicate textures and complex
rhythmic patterns. Described as "abstract analogue pointilism,"
"ambience for spaceports," and "hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat,"
Bretschneider's subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals:
perfect translations of the qualities found in music into visual
phenomena. His most recent album, Rhythm, was named one of The Wire
magazine's Top 50 Records of 2007. Website: http://www.frankbretschneider.de

Video of Frank Bretschneider Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rb9IGRaOF4&feature=related

OLAF BENDER (aka BYETONE) is a founding member of the Raster-Noton
label, as well as its lead designer. Bender creates his music digitally,
assembling sine tones into complex sound fabrics of deep sub-bass
and rhythmic clicks and crackles. He creates abstract animations to
support his abstract music —transforming the rhythm of the music into
a graphic equivalent, which he controls in real time. His new album,
D.O.A.T. (Death of a Typographer), is due out this summer on Raster-Noton.

mp3 of Olaf Bender, "Plastic Star":
http://www.raster-noton.net/download/rn-81_plasticstar/plasticstar_original.mp3

Links:
Raster-Noton: http://www.raster-noton.de
Basstown: http://basstown.blogspot.com/
Goethe-Institüt Boston: http://www.goethe.de/boston
LEF Foundation: http://www.lef-foundation.org/

Non-Event concerts are supported in part by a grant from the
LEF Foundation.