12º AVLAB Meeting: Gengivas Negras, Laborg & Retrigger x Reverse Tunes + DJ Kaska
Place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
On Saturday 16 February, within the framework of the monthly AVLAB gatherings held by Medialab-Prado since October 2006, there will be a live presentation of three Brazilian sound and visual art projects: Gengivas Negras, Laborg and Retrigger x Reverse Tunes, with DJ Kaska as special guest.
The project includes an information point about on-line Brazilian platforms for collaborative artistic production, media, and volunteer activities within the concept of “free culture”.
As part of this series of meetings, AV_BR presents the following Brazilian artists:
La Borg
Audio-visual creation nucleus engaged in the developing installations and performances which integrate digital media with the manipulation of chemical substances mixed in a laboratory set up with aquaria, cameras, and computers. This way, dynamics are created that arise from the reaction of these substances, oils, and pigments, in synchrony with soundscapes.
Gengivas Negras
The duo Gengivas Negras from the Brazilian city of Curitiba is made up of Carlos Morevi –also in charge of the Fetalcohol project - and Theo Cordeiro, member of the group Mecanotremata.
Their work investigates synthetic sounds that combine the industrial universe with the spontaneity of current noise. In their high-impact live performances, they use distortion pedals, software, samplers, electronic percussion, and hacker hardware. Their projects include the net-label Container Inc, which launches their albums and those of other experimental Brazilian artists.
http://gengivasnegras.blogspot.com/
Retrigger x Reverse Tunes
Joint project by two artists active on the experimental electronic and underground scene in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte, which combines live PA and DJ sets with the use of theremin, megaphone, and midi controls. The project mixes copyleft music and audio programmes on free software, resulting in broken melodies and fractured beats merged with breakcore, dubstep or noise sounds, which also tend to form a surprising bridge with surf music, funk, Big-Band jazz and electronic samba.
Retrigger and Reverse Tunes, who work together via the Internet, are an essential reference in the field of projects related to underground music and cyberactivism, and they are involved in several activities including net radio programmes, urban interventions, and the management of net labels. They have participated in festivals such as FILE-Hipersonica, FAD (Digital Art Festival of Belo Horizonte) and Gives Me Wood (Belgium).
http://www.retrigger.net
http://www.myspace.com/reversetunes
http://www.myspace.com/tozziniDJ KASKA (Global Beats)
This Brazilian DJ, a Madrid resident since 2002, explores the fusion of Brazilian, African, and Asian rhythms, as well as recent Balkan music from Eastern Europe. His sound spectrum encompasses Funk electronic beats, Broken Beats, Nu-Jazz, Dub, Hip-Hop and drum'n'Bass, all in perfect harmony, a free music without borders. He is also the director and producer of the radio programme Global Beats on Radio Círculo de Madrid.
He is also takes part in the Colectivo “Planet Groobeat” with DJ Roberto R and guest musicians (percussion, berimbau, didgeridoo, sax...), with whom he has performed at festivals and major clubs around the world, including: the Notthing Hill Arts Club, Jazz Café of London, Tisunami Club in Germany, the International Arts Festival of Castilla y León, Zuco 103 (Holland), the Festival Espantapitas and the Festival REC Madrid with Bugz In The Attic and State of Bengala. In his performances, he has shared billing with international artists of the stature of Faze Action, Thievery Corporation and Future World Funk (United Kingdom), Dj Dolores and Dj Patife (Brasil), Kosta Kostov (Germany), and Bruno E, from SuperJazz.
www.myspace.com/djkaskaglobalbeats
www.djkaska.com
www.circulobellasartes.com
