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Distorsonie Festival 2004 bologna Italy ( "Mad" Mike, Mills, Swayzak and many more!)
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DF 2004 -Distorsonie Selected Music" Festival
The ninth edithion,23-24 April, Bologna,Link
Link associated, the University of Bologna - Department of Communication Studies, E-Bo/Le Gocce, Nuovo Cinema Lumiere,Velvet, 74, Zo caffè.
In collaboration with :TDK, Carhartt, Red Bull- Homegroove,Bosound
Two organisations from Bologna's culture and media centre, Link - H-uge (the big-event office) and Led (Link electronic department) - are proud to present the ninth DF for 2004.
DF stands for Distorsonie Festival, Italy's most long-standing event dedicated to electronic music and culture: the first DF took place in 1995. The original idea behind the festival remains its guiding principle today: to give space to contemporary, accurately-selected cultural productions, chosen for their similar cultural projects, new approaches and, above all, the ability to give high-quality results.
The ninth DF festival will be the last to take place at Link's (1994-2004) historical home - that in via Fioravanti, behind the central station: In fact, it will be in May this year - Link's tenth year of existence - that, due to forthcoming railway engineering works, Link will change location and all the interior hardware currently housed at Fioravanti will be transferred to a new building in the Bologna suburb of Quarto Inferiore.
And so, given the fact that Distorsonie has always been a reference point in the Italian electronic-art scene, given Link's anniversary and its change in location, this year's DF will "celebrate", "concentrate" and "synthesise" the experiences of the last 10 years, and as such the 2004 event will deliberately break from the "showcase" character of previous years' festivals.Coincidences and changes do not distance DF from but in fact bring it closer to its original character as an annual meeting for artists and other professionals, a place of debate and reflection with seminars and workshops, a moment of artistic fruition and sensory enrichment.
This year the meetings will revolve around the theme of "electronic culture", and will take the form of discussions about the interdependence of electronic music and its surrounding cultural frames.
The relationship will be analysed with the help of its protagonists and critics, all aware that they occupy different kinds of electronic places (spatial, but not only), all with the aim of arriving at a global view of the phenomenon. A view that incorporates the idea that, by now, electronic culture has gone well beyond geographic boundaries and the ins and outs of fashion to re-draw culture and incite new customs.
DF 2004 will concentrate on the most important content, aspects and influences of "electronic music" in its relationship with the cultural, media, and technological frames that run through it and surround it. DF 2004 renews the need to go beyond the impromptu, un-co-ordinated event which just seeks to maximise the number of styles, fashions and experiences on already on offer. DF 2004 instead pushes the "slow motion" button and will seek to linger on, confront and debate a set of particular themes in genuine discussion workshops, from which other projects will flow.
Such a choice was felt to be necessary, but above all it is also the choice of Italy's most-appreciated and widely-known label-organisation-distributor, Final Frontier, which helped invent Distorsonie 9 years ago and which has always participated in the Festival with always-fresh, always-superb ideas and shows. And in 2004 Final Frontier celebrates its tenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, FF has proposed to DF 2004 an exemplary showcase of its activities and releases. In addition to live acts by FF artists, an impeccable international guest has been recruited, American DJ and producer Mike Banks, central figure in the Detroit production network Underground Resistence. "Mad" Mike will be in concert for the DF on Saturday 24 April, together with his project UR Timeline (Friday 23 he will play at Rome's Brancaleone www.brancaleone.it ,) and accompanied by his friend and UR-co-founder Jeff Mills (Axis records USA), in the only Italian date where they are presenting their latest work, "The Exhibitionist" (DVD produced by React Records and distributed by Audioglobe). DF 2004 will be their third world appearance after their previous Tokyo and Paris shows.
DF 2004 >< Bosound
For both personnel and organisation Bosound is the most prominent new citizens' project (www.bosound.it ) in the field of music. DF is collaborating with Bosound via the show Emilia Romagna vibes, a name chosen in recognition of the dance-vibes which have animated the region since the 1970s. The DF-Bosound collaboration will culminate in an afternoon meeting (Friday 23 April, 4pm) which will involve protagonists of the "regional" scene along with some major Italian and International critics. The meeting will conclude with projections of visual documents of various periods plus a documentary on early 80s NY "house culture", "The maestro", which will be on national preview.
The final evening will be distributed between some of the local subscribers to the Bosound project - and a single pass will be on sale for entrance to the venues. Link, Covo and Cassero. There will also be a special service offered by Bologna's transport company ATC to connect the smaller venues, Kinky, Club 74, Velvet, Zo and Bancò. With this initiative DF is collaborating in the first Bosound festival, a series of musical shows that will go from April to June and take place in various locations around Bologna.
DF 2004 Provisional program and venue guide.
DF will offer a 2-day calendar of concerts/live acts and Dj sets, as well as dedicating a portion of the program to projections and multimedia installations which come into the project under the name of "Eva" (Experimental Visual Artist). They will be curated by Mediaweb in collaboration with the art magazine Boiler Mag. Also being planned are two workshops to provide introductory courses on the software programs Max msp and Eyesweb. The former will be run by Bologna's Studio Arki, the latter by Barbara Mazzarino (from Dist at the University of Genoa) and the performance artist Daniele Soffritti.
DF 2004 will also be providing a section dedicated to style and design called Digital Style. This will include fashion shows, performances and exhibitions of collections, projects and new prototypes, all of which will be under the direction of a series of "dj/muscicians/stylists/designers" and experts in multimedia projects. They will be seeking to unite the production of electronic music and youth-design projects in an aesthetic, creative symbiosis.
DF 2004 is dedicated to Fabrizio Usberti aka Sinapsi/DJ Kalapodis, veteran mastermind behind Link, Distorsonie and the whole electronic Italian scene, who recently disappeared in a tragic incident. In his honour there will be a live act involving several people, inspired by the sounds made by sewing machines with which Usberti used to produce his fashion lines. Usberti's closest collaborators will also participate: Mike Dredd (Rephlex Records UK), Strek vs Atzmo (Betulla Records, I) William of Apocalypse rec (FR).
DF-TV: Distorsonie (Interactive Web) Television
DF-TV is the online, interactive TV-broadcast of the festival, set up by Mediaweb (www.mediaweb.tv.it). Footage from previous years may be found at http://www.mediaweb.tv.it/DF3TV DF-TV will broadcast both live and prerecorded footage of the most important events, with a special connection that will allow an online public to join in with debates and pose questions to directly to artists and producers during interviews.
Timetable for meetings, workshops and music shows at DF 2004
DF will take place in the historical home of Link (still behind the central station) and in various spaces across Bologna. Those include Palazzo Re Enzo, the new Cineteca Comunale (Public Cinema), the department of Communicatons Studies at the University of Bologna and other key locations on the city's night circuit.
Friday 23 April
E-Bo, Le Gocce Piazza Re Enzo h.3 pm
Workshop about the software Eyesweb (www.eyesweb.org)
Lecture of : Infomus, Dist-Università di Genova, Daniele Suffritti
Lumiere Cinema,via Azzo Gardino 65 h.4 pm
Emilia Romagna Vibes - From via Emilia to New York's Lower East Side.
6.00pm projection of the film "The Maestro" (to be confirmed), followed by a meeting with the scriptwriters and producers.
Link ,Club 74,Velvet,Zo bar,Banco, Stile libero
23.00 The E'n'R/Emilia Romagna Vibes night
Evening in which some of the key Djs and musicians from the E'n'R Vibes collective will take over the decks and sound-systems in selected nightspots across the city. For Afro music there will be Baldelli, L'Ebreo and Mo-zart, for house Luca Trevisi, Aky Tune, Dino Angioletti-Pasta Boys, for tech-house/progressive sound Flavio Vecchi, Ricky Montanari and Cirillo, with the final phase represented by Alex Dandi-Pynktronix accompanied by Swayzak, Y-DK, the drum'n'bass crews of Maffia and Drum'n'bass Arena, Led Kollective, a representative from the label Mantravibes (Expanded Music), the group H2O and the electronic crew Eon Eighth together with collaborators.
Also participating in the night's activities will be Bill Brewster (essayist and Dj from London), Liam J Nabb (Liquid UK), and also, : the cult US dj Jepthe Guillame consultants for the film "The Maestro", (N.Y.). "The Maestro" is partly a documentary on the 70s and 80s US house music scene that laid the ground for the current, world-wide clubbing scene. The film also deals with the way that scene has been interpreted and developed in Emilia Romagna since the 1970s, and how those interpretations influenced the history and style of dance music in the region.
Saturday 24 April
E-Bo, Le Gocce, Piazza Re Enzo 3.00 pm
Workshop about software program: Max-MSP (www.cycling74.com)
Lecture of : Michele Tadini e Nicola Zonca
Department of Communications Studies , Via Azzo gardino 12 2.30 pm
Electronic culture
Electronic frames, beats and frame sequences
in collaboration with
Lucio Spaziante and DSC University of Bologna,Blow up mag
Lumiere Cinema,via Azzo Gardino 65
5 pm - projections of audio-visual materials, interpreted and soundtracked by the famous Dj and producer Jeff Mills, whose works, Medium, Metropolis and (latest) "The Exhibitionist" (React-Audioglobe) will be presented in chronological order. Author and producers will introduce their works and meet the public.
Link via fioravanti 14 (behind main train station )
Midnight. DF: Distorsonie-Finalfrontier Event + Electronic Cities members
The closing party of the festival, with Dj sets by Marco Passarani, Andrea Benedetti e Francisco from Rome's Finalfrontier, plus a live act by Raiders of the Lost Arp and Matt 101. All of whom will be honoured by the participation of Mike Banks with his UR Timeline project and, accompanying him, the exceptional Jeff Mills, also a representative of the Detroit sound and a 1990 co-founder of the world famous Underground Resistance crew. Also participating in the event will be artists and musicians hailing from other parts of Italy that are involved with the Electronic Cities group. In the remaining rooms, the following will appear: I:Cube from the Parisian label Versatile Records; an Apocalypse Records showcase with A.P.P.A.R.T, electro successors to the Gotan Project; Axium live; Chelou; Bemuzac projects accompanied by Touch Responses. From the Italian scene, there will be and Mass Production,SMBP from Genoa; Scribe (live) from Naples - prodigal brother of the famous Miele; Teaz Records and Minus Habens with Vegetable egg from Puglia; Volcov and Drama Society live (Baldini-Ricciardone); world-acclaimed selectors from the pre-European areas of Italy
Link Line-up
Hangar
Final Frontier show case Marco Passarani, Andrea Benedetti , Francisco, Mat 101 live
+
Mike Banks with his UR timeline project + special guest Jeff Mills (Detroit, USA)
Blu Room: Live for Sinapsi +Fingernail live
I:Cube Live (Fr), Scribe live (I) , Drama Society (I), Volcov (I)
Digital Room: A.P.P.A.R.T. live (Fr), Pola live (I) , Mass Production (I), Teaz Records
Showcase, Vegetable egg.
Black Room: Apocalypse Records showcase (Fr), DJ Chelou, Bemuzac ,Axium - live. Touch Response showcase (I).
DF 2004 organisations and contacts
H-uge (office for big events) / Led (Link electronic department)
Both at:
Via Fioravanti 14, 40129, Bologna, Italy
Tel-fax 051 6313497 - Tel 051 4154528
Mob 333 3000602 - 348 30 18348
info@distorsonie.it
www.distorsonie.it
**********************************
DF 2004 -Distorsonie Selected Music" Festival
The ninth edithion,23-24 April, Bologna,Link
Link associated, the University of Bologna - Department of Communication Studies, E-Bo/Le Gocce, Nuovo Cinema Lumiere,Velvet, 74, Zo caffè.
In collaboration with :TDK, Carhartt, Red Bull- Homegroove,Bosound
Two organisations from Bologna's culture and media centre, Link - H-uge (the big-event office) and Led (Link electronic department) - are proud to present the ninth DF for 2004.
DF stands for Distorsonie Festival, Italy's most long-standing event dedicated to electronic music and culture: the first DF took place in 1995. The original idea behind the festival remains its guiding principle today: to give space to contemporary, accurately-selected cultural productions, chosen for their similar cultural projects, new approaches and, above all, the ability to give high-quality results.
The ninth DF festival will be the last to take place at Link's (1994-2004) historical home - that in via Fioravanti, behind the central station: In fact, it will be in May this year - Link's tenth year of existence - that, due to forthcoming railway engineering works, Link will change location and all the interior hardware currently housed at Fioravanti will be transferred to a new building in the Bologna suburb of Quarto Inferiore.
And so, given the fact that Distorsonie has always been a reference point in the Italian electronic-art scene, given Link's anniversary and its change in location, this year's DF will "celebrate", "concentrate" and "synthesise" the experiences of the last 10 years, and as such the 2004 event will deliberately break from the "showcase" character of previous years' festivals.Coincidences and changes do not distance DF from but in fact bring it closer to its original character as an annual meeting for artists and other professionals, a place of debate and reflection with seminars and workshops, a moment of artistic fruition and sensory enrichment.
This year the meetings will revolve around the theme of "electronic culture", and will take the form of discussions about the interdependence of electronic music and its surrounding cultural frames.
The relationship will be analysed with the help of its protagonists and critics, all aware that they occupy different kinds of electronic places (spatial, but not only), all with the aim of arriving at a global view of the phenomenon. A view that incorporates the idea that, by now, electronic culture has gone well beyond geographic boundaries and the ins and outs of fashion to re-draw culture and incite new customs.
DF 2004 will concentrate on the most important content, aspects and influences of "electronic music" in its relationship with the cultural, media, and technological frames that run through it and surround it. DF 2004 renews the need to go beyond the impromptu, un-co-ordinated event which just seeks to maximise the number of styles, fashions and experiences on already on offer. DF 2004 instead pushes the "slow motion" button and will seek to linger on, confront and debate a set of particular themes in genuine discussion workshops, from which other projects will flow.
Such a choice was felt to be necessary, but above all it is also the choice of Italy's most-appreciated and widely-known label-organisation-distributor, Final Frontier, which helped invent Distorsonie 9 years ago and which has always participated in the Festival with always-fresh, always-superb ideas and shows. And in 2004 Final Frontier celebrates its tenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, FF has proposed to DF 2004 an exemplary showcase of its activities and releases. In addition to live acts by FF artists, an impeccable international guest has been recruited, American DJ and producer Mike Banks, central figure in the Detroit production network Underground Resistence. "Mad" Mike will be in concert for the DF on Saturday 24 April, together with his project UR Timeline (Friday 23 he will play at Rome's Brancaleone www.brancaleone.it ,) and accompanied by his friend and UR-co-founder Jeff Mills (Axis records USA), in the only Italian date where they are presenting their latest work, "The Exhibitionist" (DVD produced by React Records and distributed by Audioglobe). DF 2004 will be their third world appearance after their previous Tokyo and Paris shows.
DF 2004 >< Bosound
For both personnel and organisation Bosound is the most prominent new citizens' project (www.bosound.it ) in the field of music. DF is collaborating with Bosound via the show Emilia Romagna vibes, a name chosen in recognition of the dance-vibes which have animated the region since the 1970s. The DF-Bosound collaboration will culminate in an afternoon meeting (Friday 23 April, 4pm) which will involve protagonists of the "regional" scene along with some major Italian and International critics. The meeting will conclude with projections of visual documents of various periods plus a documentary on early 80s NY "house culture", "The maestro", which will be on national preview.
The final evening will be distributed between some of the local subscribers to the Bosound project - and a single pass will be on sale for entrance to the venues. Link, Covo and Cassero. There will also be a special service offered by Bologna's transport company ATC to connect the smaller venues, Kinky, Club 74, Velvet, Zo and Bancò. With this initiative DF is collaborating in the first Bosound festival, a series of musical shows that will go from April to June and take place in various locations around Bologna.
DF 2004 Provisional program and venue guide.
DF will offer a 2-day calendar of concerts/live acts and Dj sets, as well as dedicating a portion of the program to projections and multimedia installations which come into the project under the name of "Eva" (Experimental Visual Artist). They will be curated by Mediaweb in collaboration with the art magazine Boiler Mag. Also being planned are two workshops to provide introductory courses on the software programs Max msp and Eyesweb. The former will be run by Bologna's Studio Arki, the latter by Barbara Mazzarino (from Dist at the University of Genoa) and the performance artist Daniele Soffritti.
DF 2004 will also be providing a section dedicated to style and design called Digital Style. This will include fashion shows, performances and exhibitions of collections, projects and new prototypes, all of which will be under the direction of a series of "dj/muscicians/stylists/designers" and experts in multimedia projects. They will be seeking to unite the production of electronic music and youth-design projects in an aesthetic, creative symbiosis.
DF 2004 is dedicated to Fabrizio Usberti aka Sinapsi/DJ Kalapodis, veteran mastermind behind Link, Distorsonie and the whole electronic Italian scene, who recently disappeared in a tragic incident. In his honour there will be a live act involving several people, inspired by the sounds made by sewing machines with which Usberti used to produce his fashion lines. Usberti's closest collaborators will also participate: Mike Dredd (Rephlex Records UK), Strek vs Atzmo (Betulla Records, I) William of Apocalypse rec (FR).
DF-TV: Distorsonie (Interactive Web) Television
DF-TV is the online, interactive TV-broadcast of the festival, set up by Mediaweb (www.mediaweb.tv.it). Footage from previous years may be found at http://www.mediaweb.tv.it/DF3TV DF-TV will broadcast both live and prerecorded footage of the most important events, with a special connection that will allow an online public to join in with debates and pose questions to directly to artists and producers during interviews.
Timetable for meetings, workshops and music shows at DF 2004
DF will take place in the historical home of Link (still behind the central station) and in various spaces across Bologna. Those include Palazzo Re Enzo, the new Cineteca Comunale (Public Cinema), the department of Communicatons Studies at the University of Bologna and other key locations on the city's night circuit.
Friday 23 April
E-Bo, Le Gocce Piazza Re Enzo h.3 pm
Workshop about the software Eyesweb (www.eyesweb.org)
Lecture of : Infomus, Dist-Università di Genova, Daniele Suffritti
Lumiere Cinema,via Azzo Gardino 65 h.4 pm
Emilia Romagna Vibes - From via Emilia to New York's Lower East Side.
6.00pm projection of the film "The Maestro" (to be confirmed), followed by a meeting with the scriptwriters and producers.
Link ,Club 74,Velvet,Zo bar,Banco, Stile libero
23.00 The E'n'R/Emilia Romagna Vibes night
Evening in which some of the key Djs and musicians from the E'n'R Vibes collective will take over the decks and sound-systems in selected nightspots across the city. For Afro music there will be Baldelli, L'Ebreo and Mo-zart, for house Luca Trevisi, Aky Tune, Dino Angioletti-Pasta Boys, for tech-house/progressive sound Flavio Vecchi, Ricky Montanari and Cirillo, with the final phase represented by Alex Dandi-Pynktronix accompanied by Swayzak, Y-DK, the drum'n'bass crews of Maffia and Drum'n'bass Arena, Led Kollective, a representative from the label Mantravibes (Expanded Music), the group H2O and the electronic crew Eon Eighth together with collaborators.
Also participating in the night's activities will be Bill Brewster (essayist and Dj from London), Liam J Nabb (Liquid UK), and also, : the cult US dj Jepthe Guillame consultants for the film "The Maestro", (N.Y.). "The Maestro" is partly a documentary on the 70s and 80s US house music scene that laid the ground for the current, world-wide clubbing scene. The film also deals with the way that scene has been interpreted and developed in Emilia Romagna since the 1970s, and how those interpretations influenced the history and style of dance music in the region.
Saturday 24 April
E-Bo, Le Gocce, Piazza Re Enzo 3.00 pm
Workshop about software program: Max-MSP (www.cycling74.com)
Lecture of : Michele Tadini e Nicola Zonca
Department of Communications Studies , Via Azzo gardino 12 2.30 pm
Electronic culture
Electronic frames, beats and frame sequences
in collaboration with
Lucio Spaziante and DSC University of Bologna,Blow up mag
Lumiere Cinema,via Azzo Gardino 65
5 pm - projections of audio-visual materials, interpreted and soundtracked by the famous Dj and producer Jeff Mills, whose works, Medium, Metropolis and (latest) "The Exhibitionist" (React-Audioglobe) will be presented in chronological order. Author and producers will introduce their works and meet the public.
Link via fioravanti 14 (behind main train station )
Midnight. DF: Distorsonie-Finalfrontier Event + Electronic Cities members
The closing party of the festival, with Dj sets by Marco Passarani, Andrea Benedetti e Francisco from Rome's Finalfrontier, plus a live act by Raiders of the Lost Arp and Matt 101. All of whom will be honoured by the participation of Mike Banks with his UR Timeline project and, accompanying him, the exceptional Jeff Mills, also a representative of the Detroit sound and a 1990 co-founder of the world famous Underground Resistance crew. Also participating in the event will be artists and musicians hailing from other parts of Italy that are involved with the Electronic Cities group. In the remaining rooms, the following will appear: I:Cube from the Parisian label Versatile Records; an Apocalypse Records showcase with A.P.P.A.R.T, electro successors to the Gotan Project; Axium live; Chelou; Bemuzac projects accompanied by Touch Responses. From the Italian scene, there will be and Mass Production,SMBP from Genoa; Scribe (live) from Naples - prodigal brother of the famous Miele; Teaz Records and Minus Habens with Vegetable egg from Puglia; Volcov and Drama Society live (Baldini-Ricciardone); world-acclaimed selectors from the pre-European areas of Italy
Link Line-up
Hangar
Final Frontier show case Marco Passarani, Andrea Benedetti , Francisco, Mat 101 live
+
Mike Banks with his UR timeline project + special guest Jeff Mills (Detroit, USA)
Blu Room: Live for Sinapsi +Fingernail live
I:Cube Live (Fr), Scribe live (I) , Drama Society (I), Volcov (I)
Digital Room: A.P.P.A.R.T. live (Fr), Pola live (I) , Mass Production (I), Teaz Records
Showcase, Vegetable egg.
Black Room: Apocalypse Records showcase (Fr), DJ Chelou, Bemuzac ,Axium - live. Touch Response showcase (I).
DF 2004 organisations and contacts
H-uge (office for big events) / Led (Link electronic department)
Both at:
Via Fioravanti 14, 40129, Bologna, Italy
Tel-fax 051 6313497 - Tel 051 4154528
Mob 333 3000602 - 348 30 18348
info@distorsonie.it
www.distorsonie.it
yo, i'll be making my european tour at some point this year to check out some schools. i hope there's some fun, interesting shit going on when i'm there.
