Derek Holzer: ‘TONEWHEELS’

Subfusc + Noise.Stop.Repeat + Justin Yang

Tuesday 8th September / 8pm / Black Box / £5

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TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures. This all-analog set is performed entirely live without the use of computers, using only overhead projectors as light source, performance interface and audience display. In this way, TONEWHEELS aims to open up the ‘black box’ of electronic music and video by exposing the working processes of the performance for the audience to see.

Derek Holzer is a Berlin-based sound artist who has performed live audiovisual sets using laptops and the Pure Data programming language since 2001. Becoming frustrated with the performance limitations of the computer, he began new experiments with all-analog, light-driven systems in the summer of 2007 which led to the TONEWHEELS live performance. Since then, TONEWHEELS has been performed in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Estonia, Poland and Belgium.

SUBFUSC
Subfusc comprises the collaborative work of musician/composers Saul Rayson and Iain McCurdy. Drawing on styles and influences as diverse as electronica, jazz, electroacoustic and funk, Subfusc explore a seam of music that, whilst always experimental, offers accessible inroads to the uninitiated listener. Rather than draw inspiration from current strands of music, Subfusc find the kernels of their music in found sounds and found objects. In their performance Subfusc attempt to break free from the laptop lid captivity of live electronic music by interfacing with their custom built software through live sampling of everyday objects and homemade gesture capture devices.

This performance will feature accompanying live visuals from recent Subfusc collaborator Beserker a.k.a. Ed Huges

NOISE.STOP.REPEAT
Noise. Stop. Repeat. Make sounds with instruments you have seen, heard or played before. Noise. Stop. Repeat. Also make sounds with instruments they have never seen, heard or played before.

Conceived in 2009, Noise. Stop. Repeat. focus on improvised musical interactions. Combining the known and ‘controllable’ sonority of traditional acoustic instruments with the unknown and often chaotic sonority of home-made circuit-bent electronic instruments and live processing through systems programmed in Supercollider.

TONEWHEELS video
www.subfusc.com
myspace.com/noisestoprepeat