Konzerte/Mitschnitte (Concerts / Live-recordings)

February / March 2010

Portrait zeitkratzer

all music performed by zeitkratzer

1. Bernhard Guenther / Insects / 18:50 (Elektronix, 2005)
2. Terre Thaemlitz / Superbonus / 11:39 (Elektronix, 2005)
3. Manfred Klauß, Onnen Bock / Was noch was / 12:37 (Elektronix, 2005)
4. Column One (Rene Lamp, Robert Schalinski) Dead Air Part 8 Autonomie Der Signale / 12:55 (Elektronix, 2005)
5. Keiji Haino, Reinhold Friedl, zeitkratzer / Aria I / 10:09 (zeitkratzer . Carsten Nicolai / Terre Thaemlitz / Keiji Haino . electronics, 2008)
6. Keiji Haino, Reinhold Friedl, zeitkratzer / Aria II / 13:19 (zeitkratzer . Carsten Nicolai / Terre Thaemlitz / Keiji Haino . electronics, 2008)
7. Keiji Haino, Reinhold Friedl, zeitkratzer / Sinfonia / 24:52 (zeitkratzer . Carsten Nicolai / Terre Thaemlitz / Keiji Haino . electronics, 2008)

zeitkratzer was founded in 1999. Its concept of a European soloists ensemble is unique worldwide. The nine musicians, the light and the sound engineer live in different European cities from Vienna via Amsterdam to London and meet for working phases at Berlin. Here, new projects are developed - in recent years as a steady guest of the Volksbuehne Berlin.

zeitkratzer finances itself through free projects and international concerts and thus is independant of institutional investors. This freedom allowed idiosyncratic and pathbreaking programs that made zeitkratzer internationally recognized. The repertoire comprises works and projects by and with such different musicians as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lou Reed, Carsten Nicolai, John Cage, Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, James Tenney, Helmut Oehring, La Monte Young, Merzbow, Alvin Lucier, … as well as many interdisciplinary cooperations.

Zeitkratzer has realized all those projects with different musicians and artists without ever worrying about preserving the “purity” of new music. Music, especially so-called new music, thrives on continuous contamination. The idea of „pure taste“ as an independent aesthetic category was revealed by Pierre Bourdieu to be a medium of social distinction. “Thus, pure taste is based on nothing else but a rejection or rather disgust for the objects that ‘force us to enjoy’, such as disgust for such crude, vulgar taste that is also appealing in this forced enjoyment.“ (Pierre Bourdieu (1987). Die feinen Unterschiede. Frankfurt am Main. p.761)

Zeitkratzer benefits from its musicians, their advanced and unique playing techniques, their acquaintance with electronics and technologies, their hybrid experience backgrounds: new or improvised music, experimental Rock and Pop, Noise, Ambient, Folk Music, … Meanwhile, the awards range from the German Jazz Award (Frank Gratkowski) via a fellowship at the Kings College Cambridge (Anton Lukoszevieze) to a composition commission by the French state (Reinhold Friedl).

Tours brought zeitkratzer to many European countries, zeitkratzer regularly performs at renowned festivals from Madrid, Rome or London to Vienna, Budapest and Berlin. Meanwhile there is more than ten record releases, many important European broadcasting stations have recorded and broadcasted their concerts. With zeitkratzer RECORDS there now exists an own record label too.
www.zeitkratzer.de

Hier können Sie Mitschnitte und Live-Übertragungen von Konzerten, Symposien und anderen Veranstaltungen aus dem weiten Themenfeld der elektroakustischen Kunst hören.