QuWack is an ongoing set of events that revolves around an imagined (or not) scene of musicians who seem to avoid categorisation, work solo and play weird. They have an ability to untie themselves from all shackles and play with extraordinary uniqueness but also retain that certain X-ness that makes them QuWack.
After all-male and all-female events, QuWack (e) goes all-electronic and features 14 solo electronic acts. Get lost in a maze of voltage surfing control freaks, 21st century composers and unhinged solo show stoppers presented on two stages, within customised gallery conditions. These include an overhead video projection stream that will revisualise and then track each musician's performance.
The rules are simple. Each act has 15 minutes to perform on their own to their heart's content. In the spirit of a musical tag team, each performance will be bookended by two 5 minute collaborations with the previous and next acts, who will be set up on the other stage. The result will be one continuous stream of performance where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One performance in the afternoon and another in the evening, each featuring new artists and strange juxtapositions. Quadraphonic DJ’s either side.
Saturday 22nd September 2007
At Spike Island Gallery, Bristol
Two shows: 2pm & 7pm
Produced by Qu Junktions & Blackout Arts
QuWack (e) Artists :
Janek Schaefer - Be it minimal delay lines, modified turntables, field recordings, off beatz or sound-art he is one of the most erratically compelling composers of our time. Exhibited with Scanner, Philip Jeck and Brian Eno. Played with Christian Marclay and in Sydney Opera House www.audioh.com Tim Exile - He has a history in Bleep, been through Rave, Electronica, Breakcore, Drum and Bass and come up shining the other side as a purveyor of crazed live performances www.timexile.com
Infinite Livez - Gameboy programmer, comic book artist, and soft toy lover puts out wonky hip hop on Big Dada, plays with electro jazz boffins and self-releases freestyle noise cds for fun www.infinitelivez.com
Isambard Khroustaliov - An early intro to Warner Brothers cartoons (and the music of Carl Starling) caused him to be put through a series of English public schools in order to try and compensate. AKA Sam Britton of Icarus (Leaf) http://www.posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=233
Man From Uranus - Uses analogue oscillator boxes, reel to reel tape, toy sequencer, and TV/shortwave receiver – all wired together into one great synaesthetic sound machine www.manfromuranus.com
Bela Emerson - The art of cello is reflected through the looking glass and into a parallel world of cosmic electronics. She was spellbinding at this year's Supersonic Festival www.cellobela.com
Artamonova - a composer and improviser from Russia. She appears in hysterical art-noise act SWPOU and as White Nightie, this guise sees her on that wild edge between acoustic folk and lo-tech electronics www.myspace.com/artamonova
Twocsinak - A self-styled autodidact who may yet be famous (although he is feted by Matmos) with a very distinct, mischievous, obscenely detailed collage/ege sound world www.myspace.com/twocsandsarah
Vi - There is a sense of Richie Hawtin’s dedicated vision, Kraftwerk’s dis/utopia and Pan Sonic’s harnessing of powerful instruments within his music. He has that self absorbed electronic sound that is well worth fetishising www.bristol-channel.org
My Ambulance Is On Fire - Histrionic vocalisation made intoxicating by electrification. An obsessive cine-pile, who plays in Geisha, loves Italo-Disco and whose stance is always a provocative one www.myspace.com/antonmaiof Katapulto - Broken and smashed beat genius from Rzeszow, Poland. He wants to take over the UK music charts and pays tribute to Phil Collins, “the King of England" www.myspace.com/katapulto
Alexander Thomas - coaxes delicious ripples from his Theremin. Vaudeville, mad-cap hip-hop and ghostly soundscapes are all defined and then re-defined by his sense of otherworldiness www.myspace.com/alexanderthomasmusic Leadtowill - Plays Throat Synth, Jar Wind Chimes and a Pringles microcontroller to perform sonic brain massage. Half of Leadtowine and loves to home brew www.myspace.com/leadtowill
James Scatter - One half of glitterbeat duo Hook & The Twin this man is coming in from the unknown to spice up the proceedings with his raffle style www.myspace.com/hookandthetwin
Plus: VJ Rodell – Nutty electric light magician will install a reactive, highly sensitive colour generator to beam overhead
DJ Undertow – This former QuWacker (aka Lovewig purveyor of ‘Satchel Beat’) will demonstrate the PA system's unique qualities to disorientate the dancer and splice the looker.
Music type: Electronic
Funding Scheme: Live Connections
Region: South West
Mark Slater
qujunktions@gmail.com