Andi Studer
 | Andi Studer, London based producer, is the driving force behind Cenatus Music Projects. Andi is one of the New Music Plus Producers, where he is working with London's Serpentine Gallery on a number of musical events. This includes two events as part of the Gallery's public programme, taking place in the Summer Pavilion between July and September. |
Andi founded Cenatus in 2005 and aims to promote new music, to develop artists and enable wider public use of new digital technologies for their creativity. Through Cenatus, and with co-director Matt Spendlove, he has developed work in the fields of live events, sonic arts installations, interactive media projects. Netaudio, the UK's foremost festival dedicated to the musical sounds of the internet, is Cenatus' flagship project organised in collaboration with a team of independent producers, funded by the PRS Foundation. It promotes the creative output of musicians who use digital and network technologies to explore new boundaries in their work, and actively supports the development of new talent. In 2008, Netaudio took over the spacious Shunt Lounge for 4 days. The programme included 8 audio-visual installations and 45 live performances with a total of 81 artists involved. Following the success of Netaudio'08, Andi Studer was invited to programme a showcase at Berlin's Club Transmediale festival. With his partners in London and Berlin, he curated a Netaudio highlights programme including a newly commissioned collaboration between German and British Musicians as well as his interactive music game Netaudio Ping Pong.
As a producer, Andi Studer is keen to work with live music projects which surprise with the 'unexpected' and which explore new sound aesthetics, new forms of composition and performance. Within his work he is particularly interested in music that makes use of emerging technologies and performance that experiments in audience interaction. Collaboration is a core element of Andi's work: with Netaudio and other Cenatus projects he actively involves people with a range of talents and perspectives. Andi is currently developing a wider European partnership with a network of independent Netaudio festivals, with Cenatus presenting work in Ljubljana, Berlin, Zurich and Barcelona in due course of this Summer.
Here's what Andi has been listening to/reading...
Daniel Padden and Sarah Kenchington: The Bellow Switch (Shadazz) 
With my work for the Serpentine Gallery, I had the pleasure of managing Daniel and Sarah's Shadazz album launch at the Serpentine Gallery on 30 May. Having seen Sarah's fascinating collection of homemade musical instruments live in action, I admit that the CD of recorded music struggles to reproduce the performance - yet listening gives me the pleasure of remembering the event.
spatial: 90121 (Infrasonics)
Much of what is hypothesised by Simon Reynolds' controversial Hardcore Continuum theory is encapsulated on vinyl within this dubstep track: it brings together hefty sub bass lines, clipped, crisp garage-esque drums and soft vocal elements as seen in various dance genres since early nineties "hardcore". It serves as the result of a constant search for new musical interpretations with the dark euphoria of original Detroit techno and the most sensuous moments in rave and jungle surging through its bloodstream.
Nisennenmondai: Neji/Tori (Smalltown Supersound
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A friend introduced me to the music of Nisenenmondai recently, and it has not left my brain ever since: noise and a heavy, motoric rhythms create a violent energy that is played with feedback in never ending cycles. Nisennenmondai are over from Japan for a series of gigs in the UK, which is definitely something I am looking forward to!
David Stubbs: Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen (Zero Books)
My current read: I've just received this book and it is too early to comment on it. Yet, Fear of Music covers a topic that is part of my own ongoing theoretical and practical research: audience interaction in different art-forms particularly in merging points of visual arts and music as seen in video festivals such as onedotzero, new music projects including The Fragmented Orchestra and of course my own work with the Serpentine Gallery and Netaudio.