Ciplak and Klangmutationen
@ Central Market Annexe
with Tatsuya Yoshida (of Ruins fame) as the headlining act.
Ciplak plays on the 24th (Saturday) and Klangmutationen on the 25th (Sunday).

Check here for all details:
http://ricecooker.kerbau.com/2007/03/21/saturday-24th-sunday-25th-march-2007-ruins-alone-the-annexe/

BORIS BALTSCHUN
@ Chamber,
Arts House (Singapore)
10pm, Saturday, 10/03/07

with
Thierry Monnier, Yandsen,
Kok Siew Wai, Tham Kar Mun,
Robert Gomez, and Xuan.


Brought to you by:

EMACM http://www.emacm.org/
Ang Song Ming http://www.circadiansongs.com/
The Arts House (Singapore) http://www.theartshouse.com.sg/

NOTE: A bundled discount or package deal on tickets is on offer for those who attend both this concert and the screening of “Surviving Beijing” which will occur at The Substation, 8.30pm on the same day.

“Surviving Beijing” is a documentary about the early Malaysian-Chinese Underground scene with Chong Yang’s and Moxuan’s (Tham Kar Mun’s and Yandsen’s respective bands during the 90s) tour of China as the focal point.

emacm.org PRESENTS

BORIS BALTSCHUN (Germany)
@ The Annexe (1st Floor Studio)
Central Market, KL
8pm, Friday, 9th March 2007
Admission by donation

with
EMMANUEL MIEVILLE (France)
THIERRY MONNIER & YANDSEN (France & Malaysia)
THAM KAR MUN & AZMYL YUNOR (Klang & Bangi)

BORIS BALTSCHUN is an established figure from a new generation of European musicians and artists currently immersed in the global forefront of avant garde and experimental music, specifically within the province of "free improvisation", "sound art", and "electronic music".
His use of the sampler as an instrument which traverses the familiar and the unfamiliar territories of music is well documented and widely celebrated.

He has performed and exhibited extensively in Europe and America, including Documenta 11 (2002) and Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (2005), and has collaborated with the likes of Tetuzi Akiyama, John Butcher, John Oswald, Wolfgang Fuchs, Tony Buck, amongst many others.

He has also given lectures at world renowned experimental music departments at University of California at San Diego, Mills College, and California Institute of the Arts.

Reviews of a selection of his (collaborated) CDs can be found at:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2684
http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/b/baltschun-boris/no-furniture.asp

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EMMANUEL MIEVILLE is a Paris born French sound artist and experimental musician who studied at the world renowned GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in the field of musique concrète. He also studied sound engineering and attended a cinema school. His aesthetic concern and direction as a composer originate from a desire to give the listener a shifting or blurred perception of soundscapes. Musical experiments with sound-field materials or objects and instruments are composed mostly through a "free association of brain stimulations", with some
collaborations or improvisations yielding patterns or structures, that express musical ideas. His tropism towards sound scapes, sound sculpting and gathering of spatials tools for compostion, provides him with a better understanding and perception of sound, as a vector for social awareness and wisdom.

He played for two years with a Javanese gamelan orchestra, and is interested in merging ethnic intruments into electroacoustic music. Amongst other collaborations, he has worked with several dancers for Butoh performances, with French composer/performer Eric Cordier a for live concert (2005), and with Korean video performer, Heesok Yu, for a concert. He also contributes and participates with much constancy to Framework, on Resonance FM (London), which is a radio show dedicated to field recordings.

http://www.acousmafield.net

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THIERRY MONNIER is a French musician who plays prepared guitar by using different objects. His main focus is the guitar feedback and he tries to work on the sound itself by modelling it. His musical influence is at the crossing of experimental rock and « musique concrète ». Since 2005, he has worked in a guitar duo with Pierre Faure called Sun stabbed. He is also active as an organiser of experimental music shows at a venue called Le 102 (www.le102.net), and as a DJ playing experimental music on a campus radio station. He runs a label with Pali Meursault (universinternational).

http://www.myspace.com/sunstabbed
http://ui.universinternational.org

MONNIER'S DISCOGRAPHY
Sun stabbed « radio » CD-R (Seedy R !/Pseudoarcana –
2006)
Thierry Monnier « Intermezzo » 3'' CD-R
(Universinternational – 2003)

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Produced by EMACM (www.emacm.org) and Anagrama.
Text by the artists themselves, Ang Song Ming (www.circadiansongs.com) and Cibai-Lang
(www.superkengcock.com).
Enquiries: emacm{{at}}emacm.org
Boon 012-2633 799

UPCOMING GIGS!!!!

Klangmutationen @ Little Havana, KL.
Friday, 23rd February 2007
Locos Furioso
(with Modar, MUZE, Onani, Nuisance Drilled)

Ladang Gempak @ Tunestone, Klang.
Saturday, 24th February 2007
Pay to Play 3

iGAGALIST, 16th Feb @ Annexe Central Market

Featuring a bunch of EMACM-ers and friends:

Yandsen & Robert Gomez, Yeoh Yin Pin & Tham Kar Mun, and Kok Siew Wai films.

Others billed include: Meteor Feather (from Singapore), Au Sow Yee films, and of course Meor.

All info, details and updates @ Ricecooker

::HYMEN The Genetic Tones::
Ladang Gempak Album Launch!
Friday, 09 February 2007
8.00pm -11:00pm
admission by donation

::at::
studio in cheras kl No75, Tingkat 3, Amber Business Plaza, Jalan Jelawat 1, Cheras 56100 (You can take Star LRT, Sri Petaling line, stop at Cheras Station. SiCKL is right next to the Star LRT- Cheras Station. Only a 2 minute walk.)

::Bands::

Boon Not Pop
http://www.myspace.com/boonnotpop

Boon Not Pop is an experimental electro-acoustic improvisation project and sometime features Fairuz Sulaiman on visuals. Tan Kok Hui or better known as Boon, former drummer of Moxuan and ChongYang. He is currently drums for Furniture and occasionally appears for KLPHQ and The Maharajah Commission .

Bintang Bendahara
http://www.myspace.com/bintangbendahara

Bintang Bendahara started with just a bedroom tune and drift further slowly into a simplex multi tune composition. Generally, experimenting into all sorts of element that can be mastered and giving new hope in music recognition is our main task. Concentrating more into ambient intermission rather than normal complex type of composition. Simplicity is a must in every composition, while balancing loudness, silence, and looping process.

Zalacca
http://www.myspace.com/zalacca

Zalacca was born out of suburban lull and ennui.. scuzzy, vaporous, empyreal, sprawling, squalling.. damaged sonic vignettes for fractured electric dreams.

Ladang Gempak
http://www.myspace.com/ladanggempak

"Ladang Gempak is an artifact of strange and caustic Malaysiana. It's like taking a customary dump on a caked shit-stained toilet bowl, of every petrol station stop between Penang and Singapore, left unflushed for the gazillionth time. You know you have to but you don't want to. Sonically, if you dig the Sightings or the recent output of Whitehouse (but it bears reminding that this LG recording was made in 1998), or the handful of noise acts screaming of punk rock chutzpah, this LG release will be worth every ringgit and sen you give Laminal Records." -- TOK SAWAN

Krosot

http://www.myspace.com/mykrosot
DESTROYING MUSIC SINCE 1999


contact yandsen 012-9198031 / yandsen[at]yahoo.com
contact ron roniku[at]yahoo.co.uk

Yeoh Yin Pin - afield @ framework, resonance fm

Yeoh Yin Pin curates an edition of ::afield:: for framework, Resonance FM, London.YYP's edition broadcasts 31/01/07.

framework broadcasts wednesdays locally in London (UK)
and worldwide online at resonance104.4fm from 1-2pm gmt

TEXT & PLAYLIST

"The selection is loosely based on an idea for a novella which never really got off the ground from a few years back. The main of the idea focuses on a solitary, nomadic and non-interventionist consciousness roaming various territories and sensibilities (affects, lives, dreams, livelihoods, etc.) that generally revolve around century old "subject matter" like Religion, Man, Culture, Being, Time, and Nature. Briefly, the narrative commences like any other and typical existential search for an/the all-consuming Meaning but slowly turns into a discovery of and connection with Auditory Life in all its complexity and nuances."

||| PART 1 |||

a) Kyoto, Hanazono (Ukyo): Myoshinji Temple (AD 698), reprise
[from Bonsho: Japanese Temple Bells (8th-17th Century)]

b) Len Lye - Bell Wand (Components)
[from Len Lye, Composing Motion]

c) Jean-Luc Herelle - End of a Thunder-Storm With Numerous Bells
[from Jean-Luc Herelle, Pastoral Bells]

d) End of festival, with temple bell, and drums and trumpets
[from Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan]

||| PART 2 |||

a) Bela Bartok - Elindultam a Hazambol
[from Bela Bartok, Hungarian Songs]

b) Steven Feld - Nauvo, Finland
[from Steven Feld, THE TIME OF BELLS, 1 Soundscapes of Italy, Finland,
Greece and France]

c) Approaching a village in the early morning
[from Honeywind: Sounds From A Santal Village (India)]

||| PART 3 |||

a) Church bell and Coptic Bible recitation
[from Egypt: Echoes of the Nile: Aspects of Egyptian Music]

b) Azan
[from Indian Soundscapes]

c) Justin Bennett, Tracks 3, 8 and 9
[from Justin Bennett, The Mosques of Tanger]

||| PART 4 |||

a) Yeoh Yin Pin - Outside a Taoist Temple @ Tepi Sungai, Klang
[unpublished]

b) Dan Gibson - Storm on Wilderness Lake
[from Dan Gibson, Solitudes 6: Storm on Wilderness Lake/Night on Wilderness Lake]

c) Dan Gibson - Dawn on the Desert
[from Dan Gibson, Solitudes 5: Dawn on the Desert/Among the Mountain Canyons and Valley]

Kok Siew Wai @ International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007

"In Solitude, A Camera-eye" (2006) by Kok Siew Wai

short video entering short film category: "As Long as it Takes", 25-29 January 2007

under special theme programme: "Lonely Demons"

in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007, The Netherlands.

::3X3!=6? (music and film screenings)::
three artifiers of visual motion and three bruiticiers of audiotory notions
Saturday, 27 January 2007
8.00pm -10:00pm
admission by donation


::at::
studio in cheras kl
No75, Tingkat 3,
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Jelawat 1,
Cheras 56100
(You can take Star LRT, Sri Petaling line, stop at Cheras Station.
SiCKL is right next to the Star LRT- Cheras Station.
Only a 2 minute walk.)

::Films::
Kok Kai-foong
studied Computer Science at Tamkang University (Taiwan) and became film critic. Since 2003
he has made several shorts. His films were selected to be screened at film festivals in Netherlands, UK,
Germany, France, Korea, Thailand etc.

Two guys in a hotel room (2004, 3:24)
Two Malaysian programmers went on a business trip in India for two months. One day, in their hotel room...

Life is Elsewhere (2004, 7:14)
Haven't you ever had the feeling you are being watched? And who is watching whom? And what do you see
when you look in the mirror? And what happens to the man who collapses in his living room?


Sow Yee
graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute (USA) in 2004.Working with elements such as projected light and gleaned objects, she has been showing her performative cinema pieces since 2003. She is the recipient of Krishen Jit Astro Fund and is the 2007 artist in residence of Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan).

Scene Under the Autumn's Stream
16mm transfer to dv, colour hand made, silent
Hand made crusted life of what is beneath. Mapping out memories and lives decayed.
A short exercise on the dimming light of autumn.

Blushes of Memory
S-8mm transfer to dv, b&w hand processed
A time in exile.


Kok Siew Wai
lived and studied in the US between 1998-2005 and gained her MFA at Alfred University. She works with video, sound and performance. She has participated in international art festivals such as 25hours Videoart Festival 2003, Beyond/In Western New York Biennial 2005 and most recently the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Intercourse (2001)
10:42 min/color/sound/minidv
Intercourse shows the conversation between two hands, together with a candle.

Duet (2003)
08:34 min/color/sound
DUET is a sound meditation piece with a human voice and the sound of water pipes running through the building.

::Music::
Yong Yen Sin -- Tham Kar Mun
Improvisation with pencils, books and paper in the
usual way.

contact yandsen 012-9198031 / yandsen@yahoo.com
contact aziz me@triyae.com

Yandsen, Tham and Aziz
@ The Annexe, Central Market KL

8.30 PM
Wednesday, 17th Jan 2007
2nd Floor, The Annexe,
Central Market KL

For more information: Ricecooker

Last CALL! 2 Minutes Sound Project 2006

Deadline for SiCKL's 2 Minutes Sound Project has now been extended to the 31st January, 2007. All welcome.

http://emacm.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-kok-siew-wai-call-for-works-2.html

GLK and YYP on Mandarin Button

Mandarin Button is a free radio and live-streaming show
hosted by Liu Pei-Wen aka PEI, a sound-artist from Taiwan.

Goh Lee Kwang and Yeoh Yin Pin are featured on this show.

http://proces.artia.org/tiki-index.php?page=MandarinButton


offical stream hub (live from zurich) :

MP3 for all known : http://proces.artia.org:8080/proces64.mp3.m3u

OGG for linux, pc, VLC : http://proces.artia.org:8080/proces64_MandarinButton.ogg

playlist (off-beat) : http://www.little-object.com/_mandarin_button/MandarinButton_playlist.m3u

Film Screening : Uli Aumüller & Theo Gallehr

::Film Screening : Uli Aumüller & Theo Gallehr::
Saturday, 16 December 2006
8.00pm -10:00pm
admission by donation

::at::
studio in cheras kl
No75, Tingkat 3,
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Jelawat 1,
Cheras 56100
(You can take Star LRT, Sri Petaling line, stop at Cheras Station.
SiCKL is right next to the Star LRT- Cheras Station.
Only a 2 minute walk.)

::Films::

For those of you who are acoustically and visually
curious about the working methods, creative processes
and philosophies in the creation of musique concrete
composition and improvisation, you are welcome to join
us for an evening of educational screenings - Cinema
for the Ears and Azioni - details following this
paragraph.

My Cinema for the Ears
The musique concrète of Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky
A Film by Uli Aumüller, 59 mins, 2002

"The work of the Franco-Canadian composer Francis
Dhomont, pupil of Pierre Schaeffer, the legendary
founder of musique concrète, is at the centre of this
staged documentary movie. The film is about how to
make music with sounds, microphone, tape and computer.
Dhomont was commissioned to compose a new, another
“Spring” for this film, based on the poem by Antonio
Vivaldi from his composition "The Four Seasons:
Spring" using the sounds mentioned by Vivaldi, bird
song for example, the splashing of a stream, the
murmur of the wind, rolling thunder or a dog barking."

"Dhomont records these sounds (on location in Canada)
in sequences which sometimes quote Jacques Tati and
reprocesses them in his studio, altering and
recombining them... He reflects upon the idea that
composing musique concrète is very similar to the work
of a film director. Rewinding, starting again,
cutting, mixing and changing, processing the speed,
the colours, the notes. Debussy also talked about
creating pictures."

"The film plays a kind of game: To approach a noise
microscopically with the microphone changes the form
of his perception. The noise gets more abstract and
because of that actually more musical. The same is
true of pictures. The closer a camera approaches an
object, the more abstract it becomes: No longer one
concrete picture, but a composition of colours,
shapes, structures, textures. The object in question
is a river, a stream, heard and seen from several
perspectives, composed in ever closer perspectives,
cubist, so to speak, until the perception changes into
pure abstraction and then back again into its original
concrete form. The aesthetic of musique concrète is
translated back into a possible language of this
film."

"A central theme of the film is perception; perception
of the visual and the acoustic and how they refer to
each other, how one can dissolve these contexts and
put them together again in a new way; how the context,
i.e. the composition, focuses perception."

"Francis Dhomont meets Paul Lansky, a composer from
Princeton, USA. They cross a bridge while talking
about whether urban sounds can be used in composition.
As with the water of the river, the bridge is also
broken down into its acoustic and visual components, a
kind of homage to Walter Ruttmann, but again
completely different. The topic here, once again, is
cubist dismantling and rejoining, the production of
imaginary rooms."

"The conversation continues in Dhomont’s kitchen and
focuses on the tinkling of cups - whether one must
recognise a sound’s origin in electro-acoustic music.
Does the physical gesture suffice or must the sound
more or less proclaim its origin? One says "yes", the
other says "no", and a quarrel almost arises. There
are, indeed, different schools of thought among
composers who work with sounds."



Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Azioni III
A film by Theo Gallehr, 46 mins, 1967

"The dvd presents some of the most compelling
improvisations of this extraordinary improv group
active in the '60s and featuring such names as Ennio
Morricone, Ivan Vandor, Roland Kayn, Franco
Evangelisti, Walter Branchi, Mario Bertoncini and John
Heineman. Spanning from free-jazz to total abstract
noise and wild electronic sounds, the enclosed video
DVD, shot in a stunning black and white, is a unique
document that captures the rehearsal of the thrilling
concert that the group gave in Rome in 1967."

"Il Gruppo was a brilliant and prolific composer's
collective exploring extended techniques and new sound
sources through the medium of improvisation. Although
very much a product of its time, their music remains
timeless. They were instrumental in founding a radical
tradition of western musical improvisation that owed
little or nothing to anybody and created some of the
strangest music ever made. They were utterly unique."



contact yandsen 012-9800-428 / yandsen@yahoo.com
contact aziz me@triyae.com
http://emacm.blogspot.com

Aziz, Ronnie and Azmyl @ KLue Words & Tunes

Aziz and Ronnie doing real-time manipulation of text/spoken audio thanks to the wonders of max msp and ableton live for part 1 of KLue Words & Tunes. Azmyl featured in part 2.

KLue Words & Tunes I
9 December 3.00pm

Unlike our previous installments, this month’s series of Klue’s Words & Tunes will be a collaborative effort between singer-songwriters and musicians. This installment of the spoken word and music event is themed ‘The Music of Language’ and will feature partnerships between Jaclyn Kee and Mei Chern, Ronnie Khoo and Aziz as well as acoustic outfit, Estrella.

Borders The Curve
6 Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Admission is free

KLue Words & Tunes II
16 December 3.00pm

The second installment for this month’s new and improved Words & Tunes sees a pair-up between Jasmine Low and Hannah , Crystal Woo and Jerome Kugan as well as Fahmi Fadzil and Azyml Yunor. Expect a mind-blowing showcase of spoken word and song as each duo give an original collaborative performance.

Borders Berjaya Times Square
1 Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur
Contact No : 03-2141 0288
Train : Imbi (Monorail)

Admission is free

YYP @ Singapore Fringe

Yeoh Yin Pin presents Unwound with Ang Song Ming

11th February 2007
7.30pm
105 minutes with a 15-minute interval
Esplanade Recital Studio
$28 (Standard) | $18 (Concession)

http://www.singaporefringe.com/www/iframe_musicunwound_s.html
http://www.singaporefringe.com