which gives the good opportunity to experience what some already said:

The combination of sonic and visual beauty with a delightful sense of playfulness is just breath-taking.
[Guy Klucevsek]

About Zimoun

Zimoun, born in Switzerland in 1977, is autodidact and residing in Bern. To develope his work he has often collaborated with other artists and experts working in related fields (developement, architecture, science, research, engineeing,…
The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic».
Zimoun is interested in an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviours in sound and motion. He creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.

Examples of Art Works

Info

Personal: http://zimoun.ch/index.html

About Flo Kaufmann

Flo Kaufmann is a wanderer and collector in the large field of experimental music. On his long trip he carries a big bag of improvisation, turntablism and ambient dub around the world. He works with homemade instruments out of electronic junk, selfmade records, analog synthesizers, weird keyboards…
Read More and listen to one of Flo Kaufmann ‘s sound pieces.

On his long trip he carries a big bag of improvisation, turntablism and ambient dub around the world. He works with home-made instruments out of electronic junk, self-made records, analogue synthesizers, weird keyboards…..
In his work the borders between fine arts, scientific work and music vanish in a strong electromagnetic cloud. Technological flotsam like typewriters, vacuum cleaners or x-ray machines are converted into electronic music instruments, objects or interactive installations. Recurring subjects are mechanical sound recording, clandestine technology and useless machines. Be sure to hear his performance and visit Zimoun and Flo’s video installation

Examples of Sound Art

Listen to a 20min trip of electronic experimental music and brainwaves by Flo Kaufmann

Info

Personal: www.floka.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/flozki3000

Related show

• Artist: Flo Kaufmann & Javier Milara
• Apparat: Performances
• Date: Friday, 22 October 2010
• Time: 21.00
• City: Flo Kaufmann & Javier Milara in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
• Notes:

  
  Flo Kaufmann is a wanderer and collector in the large field of experimental music.
  Javier Milara is a professional visualist, and is specialized in audiovisual live performance.
  Together they will make a performance that is worth you while.

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at the opening of Apparat LAB with flamenco dancer and performance artist Raquel and the transdisciplinary visual creator Javier.

About Milara

Javier Milara currently lives and work in Aalborg and is a transdisciplinary creator with an architectural education as background, and is wide experienced as photographer, graphic and audiovisual designer. As a art director, he also designs and produces immersive video installations since the year 2000. Moreover he is researching the potential that non-tectonic devices have in the generation of spatial sensations. Last but not less, as a professional visualist, he is specialized in audiovisual live performance.

Examples of Milara’s visual performances

Info

Personal: http://javiermilara.net/

About Raquel Espinosa

Raquel is a performer, with training in contemporary dance, butoh and flamenco. Her field of work focuses on the place where the body meets new technologies. At the moment she is researching audiovisual live performing, producing videoinstallation.

Moreover he will host a one day workshop on the 21st October (more details TBA).

About

Sami Sänpäkkilä aka Es lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. He is a musician, film-maker and the head of Fonal Records.
To date he has released five full lenght releases under the name Es. Sami has made tens of short films and music videos which have been screened in various museums, art galleries and film festivals around the world. The films and the music are experimental moodscapes that explore the themes of melancholy, pathos and hope.

Examples of Art Works

info

Personal: http://samisanpakkila.com/

Related show

• Artist: Sami Sänpäkilla
• Apparat: Workshops
• Date: Thursday, 21 October 2010
• City: Sami Sänpäkilla in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
• Notes:

  
  Secret life on an artist
  Participants are encouraged to bring their own artwork to the workshop and together we discuss their meaning and the reasons why they were made. What gives a piece of art it’s validity and how do we convey that to the audience.

  Schedule: Thursday the 21st Oct 16.00-20.00
  The workshop is for free of charge.

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• Artist: Sami Sänpäkilla
• Apparat: Installations
• Date: Friday, 22 October 2010
• City: Sami Sänpäkilla in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
• Notes:

  
  Sami Sänpäkilla is going to present a new video piece – made on location during the days of Apparat LAB Moreover he will host a one day workshop on the 21st October

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The aim of the project organized by Lars Lundehave Hansen is through a selection of spaces to target a broad audience in order to promote sound art and “cutting edge”-music to new and hopefully curious ears. experience the SoundGate at Kunsten(the museum of modern art), Utzon Centre (the architectural centre) and here at the Apparat LAB. The audience will only be able to access the sound at selected spaces through high quality headphones. There’s no audience interaction such as skipping, fast-forwarding or stopping. This clearly challenges new concepts such as ”on-demand” and requires old school skills such as patience, and thus hopefully stimulates focus on the actual work. The project only requires one action from the ”user”: Listening!

Read more about the project and how to participate at http://www.soundgate.dk/

About

Lars Lundehave Hansen, has spend more than a decade promoting sound art and other noise-related activities through, the now defunct, legendary organisation Noisejihad. An organization founded in 1997, having since then presented numerous notabilities in Denmark and promoted Danish acts abroad.
He is also the brain behind renowned Danish drone act Wäldchengarten; – a joint venture-project with Dennis L. Hansen. Wäldchengarten has had several releases on various international labels such as Desolation House / Relapse, Drone Records and Phisteria as well as extensive touring all over the world.

Examples of Artworks

Info

Personal Blog: http://blog.monoeffect.com
Project Site: http://www.soundgate.dk/

Related show

• Artist: Lars Lundehave Hansen
• Apparat: Installations
• Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 - Saturday, 23 October 2010
• City: Lars Lundehave Hansen in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
• Notes:

  
  Soundgate
  Experience a platform where artists globally can contribute with their sound works and partake in the exhibition.

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The project “Aşure” (pronounced as Ishuré) is an audio-visual concert series which consists of live electronics by Turkish composer Mehmet Can Ozer, live visuals by Max Hattler and a live improvisation by an invited musician. For each concert a different musician is invited to take part.
For the concert at Apparat the Danish musician Christian Skjødt is invited.

The live electronics is based on Mehmet’s ASURE software (max msp based) which improvises and interacts with the musician. This is mirrored visually by Hattler’s visual live improvisation based on a vvvv setup, a visual instrument, which Hattler is developing with Sune Petersen who also is participating at the LAB.

The project has different aspects in order to explore and to make research. All of them are connected with various fields such as composition, improvisation, software and hardware development, ethnomusicology, sociology, interaction between human and computer, and most importantly cultural exchange.

About Max Hattler

Max Hattler is an animation filmmaker and media artist interested in the space between abstraction and figuration in the moving image, where storytelling is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. He works across the fields of short film, music video, installation and audio-visual live performance, and has collaborated with bands including Basement Jaxx, Jemapur, The Egg, Ladyscraper, and his dad’s outfit Hattler. Max has shown his award-winning experimental films at hundreds of festivals worldwide, including the British Animation Awards, EMAF, Onedotzero, Resfest, Rotterdam, Image Forum Festival, Annecy Animation Festival and Animafest Zagreb. He has performed live audio-visuals across Europe, Asia and the Americas, including London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, Media Art Friesland, Curtas Vila do Conde, The Animation Show, and SuperDeluxe Tokyo. Max graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 with an MA in Animation, and is currently doing a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art. He is signed to Partizan worldwide.

Examples of artworks

Info

Personal site: http://www.maxhattler.com/
Selected Press Clippings: http://www.maxhattler.com/press/
Live and Direct: http://www.maxhattler.com/live/
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/maxhattler
Twitter: http://twitter.com/maxhattler

About Mehmet Can Özer

Mehmet Can Özer was born in 1981. His professional career started when he was accepted to Bilkent University FMPA composition division with full scholarship. After graduating, he was accepted to Conservatoire de Géneve. In 2005 he moved to Turkey and took a job in Baskent University as a Lecturer. He took part in the Halici-Midi Composition Competition (1998), Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (2003, 2007), received the Goethe Institute Artist Award (2006) and SWR Experimental Studio Grant (2008). He has performed in several international festivals such as Bourges (France), AudioArt (Poland), Remusica (Kosovo), Busan Biennale (Korea), Pyramidale (Germany), Acousmania (Romania), SMC (Greece), Generator (Switzerland), Electro-Globe (Belgium), Create (USA) and EMUfest (Italy). Apart from being commissioned at home, he received commissions from I.M.E.B. (France) and Musiques-Recherches (Belgium) and has been invited from their studios to realize a piece. In 2005 he has started an electroacoustic music concert series in Ankara and organized many concerts up to the present day. In 2008, he has commissioned by Goethe Institute for Ernest Lubitsch’s silent movie “The Oyster Princess” and gave improvised concerts through Turkey. Currently he is working on his software “Aşure” and giving concerts with it. Mehmet Can Özer’s instrumental compositions also played in various places and he continues to write for both instruments and electronics.

Info

Personal Site: http://www.mehmetcanozer.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mcozer

About Christian Skjødt

Musician Christian Skjødt mainly works with improvised music and has a great interest in the interaction between different art forms. He has received several awards for his music and is involved in a huge amount of projects, including curating and managing the record label Tonometer Music. He’s also a part of the four-person group organizing and curating Apparat LAB.

Info

Personal: http://www.skjodt.net/

Our daily lives are increasingly filled with steadily flowing information. Through an appropriate visualization and presentation it is possible to place focus on relations that otherwise can be difficult to discover and grasp.

The workshop participant will be introduced to various examples of data visualizations that place focus on specific issues. The student will also get an introduction to and work with that can retrieve and visualize data.

The course will be held as an intensive workshop over 4 days where the student will work with online data sources like pachube, twitter and Facebook. The workshop participant will through the workshop make simple visualizations using the graphical programming environment vvvv.

The workshop participant will make projects that will be exhibited at the Apparat LAB.

Expected skills achieved:

• Basic knowledge about online data sources and how to use access them
• Basic programming skills in vvvv
• Basic skills in using machine readable data formats
• Basic skills in data visualisation

About the teacher

Sune is an engineer specialized in submersive interactive performance, and have been participating in various projects involving perfomances and installations using modular real time visual software.
Currently Sune teaches at Art and Technology at Aalborg University.

Example of Sune Petersens visuals

Info:

Personal: http://galakse.dk/

With a sound with distinct references to the instrumental dub-music of Jamaica, but in a more brisk version, which in interplay with the crackling sound fragments from the radio receiver creates an emotional expression that communicates without words. An almost lost language.
Kiloton’s many performances has granted him great recognition among fellow producers as well as among the crowds.

New Album release – Language Lost

For over two years Kiloton have elegantly recorded, edited, manipulated, distorted and modulated the crackling – and globally originating – short wave sound samples to form pieces in the complex, melodic and challenging puzzle that is his musical creativity. Having produced and performed for several years as well as contributed to several releases both domestically and abroad, Kiloton aka. Mads Weitling now finally releases his solo-debut ‘Language Lost’.

An abstract, wordless and dark dreamy album that carries a distinct nordic tone. Characterized by sharp, abrupt rhythms under deep, smouldering and crackling dubscapes, Kiloton has developed an almost cinematic sound that leads its listener through changing moods; beatiful and sincere as well as melancholic and thoughtful.

Info:

Personal: http://kiloton.dk/
Urlyd: http://www.urlyd.com/audio-roster/kiloton/
Urlyd: http://www.urlyd.com/releases/kiloton-language-lost/

with concert on the 23th Oct in the old warehouse by the harbour!

Listen to Sea of Pulses by Tim Hecker

About

Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Kranky, Alien8, Mille Plateaux, Room40, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as “structured ambient”, “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music”. More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to songcraft which is both physical and emotive. The New York Times has described his work as “foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole”. His Harmony in Ultraviolet received critical acclaim, including being recognized by Pitchfork as a top recording of 2006. Radio Amor was also recognized as a key recording of 2003 by Wire magazine. His work has also included commissions for contemporary dance, sound-art installations, minimal techo works under the name ‘Jetone’, as well as various writings. Tim has presented his work in a live setting around the world, including performances at Sonar (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Victoriaville (Quebec), Vancouver New Music Festival (Vancouver), and Transmediale (Berlin). He currently resides in Montreal.
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Press

A shuddering, visceral implication of… epochal decay, of penumbras of radiation emanating into space from an old, saturated world.
‘Cokemachineglow’

One of Canada’s most celebrated sound artists imbuing electro-magnetic b-rolls with humanity and grace.
‘Pitchforkmedia.com‘

Info

website:

• http://www.sunblind.net

Related show

• Artist: Tim Hecker
• Apparat: Concerts
• Date: Saturday, 23 October 2010
• Time: 23.00
• City: Tim Hecker in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
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Those in love with the art of sounds (and noise ! ) can already count the days until Derek Holzer (US) arrives to Aalborg.

His main profile is precisely the studies of noise and its art-tech application. Holzer will run a four-days long workshop under the title Neanderthal Electronics where the participants will construct their own personal analog synthesizers and in the end they will collaborate in a public performance. During this workshop both simple-primitive/found objects and modern devices (capacitors, transistors, LEDs, sensors and different audio inputs etc) will be applied in order to achieving the perfect and very personal sound environment.
Beside leading the noise-workshop Holzer will perform himself as well. A solo and improvised performance will be presented by him and a bunch of analog sound equipment.

Please note that pre-registering is required for the workshop. More info on this to come.

About

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught instrument building and audio recording workshops across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.
Holzer is currently a fellow at the KHM (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) in Cologne.

Info

Website:

• Macumbista

Workshop:

• Neanderthal Electronics

Self-constructed devices:

• Macumbista Modular
• Tonewheels

Related show

• Artist: Derek Holzer
• Apparat: Workshops
• Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 - Saturday, 23 October 2010
• City: Derek Holzer in Aalborg
• Venue: Utzon Center
• Address: Slotspladsen 4
• Country: DK
• Notes:

  
  Neanderthal Electronics – Workshop on designing your own analogue synth.
  Holzer will run a four-days long workshop under the title Neanderthal Electronics where the participants will construct their own personal analog synthesizers and in the end they will collaborate in a public performance. During this workshop both simple-primitive/found objects and modern devices (capacitors, transistors, LEDs, sensors and different audio inputs etc) will be applied in order to achieving the perfect and very personal sound environment.
  Read the full information her

  Schedule

  • Wednesday 12.00-16.00
  • Thursday + Friday 16.00-20.00
  • Saturday 12.00-16.00 (Performance in the evening)
  
  
  • Participation: Free
  • Participants limit: 15 people
  • Material Fee: DKK 100
  
  
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• Artist: Derek Holzer
• Apparat: Performances
• Date: Saturday, 23 October 2010
• Time: 20.00
• City: Derek Holzer in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
• Notes:

  
  Performance in the evening by the workshop participants

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• Artist: Derek Holzer
• Apparat: Performances
• Date: Saturday, 23 October 2010
• Time: 21.00
• City: Derek Holzer in Aalborg
• Venue: Platform4
• Address: Rapsgade 4
• Country: DK
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