No days of innocence! Series of electronic music concerts

81% music 13% electronic 9% noise

Electroacoustic music has the reputation of being rooted in purely sonic materiality and trying to evade concrete, social codes at all cost. But as such, it ignores its sociocultural context and throws away its potential of critical participation. But the days of innocence are over: at first glance, Terre Thaemlitz’s and Franz Pomassl’s music is not l’art pour l’art, but very direct and involved.

Tue 02/10, 9.30 pm
Terre Thaemlitz (J/USA)
”No Sound Is Innocent“, Eddie Prévost once titled a book, giving the musician, the material, the performance and the audience a hint of their critical discursive potency. Terre Thaemlitz, the musician, author, intellectual and owner of the comatonse recordings label who lives in Japan, also sees himself as a critical propagator of queer, popular and uncompromising music as a discourse, always insisting on a concept of artistic practice as critical intervention.

Tue 09/10, 9.30 pm
Franz Pomassl (A)
Franz Pomassl’s music breathes not discourse, but provocation and revolt. The Viennese pioneer of electronica and co-founder of the Laton label creates arrangements of great force and radical intensity between energetic noise and rhythmic improvisation. Probingly, he dodges technical parameters and simply negates any purported limits of human perception. The performances of this enfant terrible of the electro scene are legendary. And loud.