kaspar könig

Waterland Kwanyin #115
November 6th, tuesday, 9:30pm

1, Kaspar König (NL)
2, Shenggy (Beijing/London)
3, Unique Oil Free Air (AU)
4, audience and artists play with Kaspar Konig’s bended objects (and artist talk)

venue: 2 kolegas bar, qi che dian ying yuan (drive in movie theater, north side of dong feng road, 300 meters west of dong feng qiao)
tel: 81964820

http://www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun

Waterland Kwanyin #115
November 6th, tuesday, 9:30pm

1, Kaspar König (NL)
2, Shenggy (Beijing/London)
3, Unique Oil Free Air (AU)
4, audience and artists play with Kaspar Konig’s bended objects (and artist talk)

venue: 2 kolegas bar, qi che dian ying yuan (drive in movie theater, north side of dong feng road, 300 meters west of dong feng qiao)
tel: 81964820

Kaspar Konig (NL)

With the sound of the use of daily objects, Kaspar Konig tweaks, bends and changes the daily (auditive) habits. He uses the recorded results in performances, concerts and contemporary dance music. For instance, he’ll play the electric razor that turned into a sound shaver which effects the feedback or will play one of his modified soundbicycles.
In the circuit bending workshop he inspires participants to open the box of the machines, mainly to discover the enormous world of the shielded short-circuit. The objects have the tendency to become alive and the he prefers to leave them that way!
His performances take place in Berlin, Zürich, Barcelona, Maastricht and Athens where he
composed for several danceperformances and theater pieces in small and independent
theaters, galleries and concertspaces.

For more information and listening samples you can visit the website
www.kasparkoenig.com

http://myspace.com/kasparkoenig

Shenggy

Beijing’s Shenggy is one of the new generation of avant-garde representatives in China and also the first and only female harsh noise player from the country. She has also set up her self-titled label for the female noise and avant-garde ladies in the world.

biography

She started her music career in 1998 as a drummer when she was 16 years old, but after a revelatory, watershed year in 2003, her work began to demonstrate increasingly noticeable avant-garde / noise tendencies. Suddenly the drum kit was no longer enough: static and silence hypnotised her heart and she has never looked back.
Her father works for the Chinese government’s space programme so she grew up in the middle of Beijing’s astronomic and scientific community; as such she was inflienced by dreams of the cosmos since she was a young girl with an ambition to become the first woman on the moon; that dream still stands, but now she wants not only to land on the moon, but to play her music there too.
In February 2006 she formed a new unit, White, with Xiao Wang of Carsick Cars, with the aim of developing a form of cosmic industrialism and noise that makes reference to everything from the phase patterns of Steve Reich, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Japanese noise artists, John Cage and the gu zheng masters of Chinese classical music.
This year has seen, too, successful collaborations with visiting New York avant-garde legend Elliott Sharp, Branca collaborator John Myers, electronic pioneer Alvin Curran, and Einsturzende Neubauten’s leader Blixa Bargeld.
She is also currently working on a solo performance art project that is focused on creating sonic universes with only her voice, Korg MS-20 synth, tape recorder, and a handful of samples.

philosophy

Sun Ra once said that a musician’s soul should be lit by happiness and freedom. This is the spirit I hope radiates from my work. Freedom independence from all things is very important to me. It takes a really strong person to be independent, and I see this as necessary for creating meaningful art. It works the other way, too, in that the process of creation is liberating in itself.
I see independence as a kind of ability to control and examine yourself without flinching. What people think of me and what I do is not important.
It all about self-realisation, which itself is a kind of endurance test. To me, achieving something in this way is far more satisfying than to have woken up one day with a magical talent. True enlightenment is hard work. It requires bravery and determination, but the ultimate reward is to be discarded by the world, left in peace to float freely along your own path.
My work is the product of this continuing struggle. It is the sound of my journey towards the lonely bliss of the cosmos.

Unique Oil Free Air
a solo harsh noise artist from Austalia.
his act has involved tapes or cassettes played through effects and a small mixer to create harsh noise.
he has played gigs in brisbane, newcastle, sydney, melbourne, and new zealand (as part of noise group Sun Of The Seventh Sister).
www.myspace.com/uniqueoilfreeair

Unique Oil Free Air
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waterland kwanyin
°™-sound, music, visual, ecology environment

kwan (guan1): view, observe, watch, experience
yin (yin1): music, sound, sonic existence, information

since June of 2005, Waterland Kwanyin is the first open plate for experimental, improvised musicians and sound artists who live or transiently in Beijing. as the idea from KwanYin Records, it offers opportunities for artists from different background who now (or in the future) be into free music, e.g. abstract and spiritual sound, field recording mix, noise, electroacoustic, sonic explore, as well visual art, body performance, etc.

also combined with film screenning, lecture, workshop and special party. sugar jar (www.sugarjar.cn/) selling CDs.

every tuesday, free entrance. charged shows were plused since October of 2007.

it’s a KwanYin/sub jam production.

who was played here since June 2005:

718, Wu Quan, Wu Ziyi, Wang Fan, Yan Jun, Zhang Jian, Feng Jiangzhou, Xiao He, Shi Zi, Sun Wei (THX), Jian Cui, Yang Tao, Tie Guan Yin, Pisces Iscariots (US/CN), Szkieve (CA), Yao Bin, 8gg, Mei Zhi Gua, HZ, Ou Ning + Cao Fei (video), Mogauwane Mahloele (ZA), Christiaan Virant, Guo Long, Li Tieqiao, Zeng Yong (aka 21g), Melvin Gibbs (US), Jin Shan, Sic, Wang Changcun, FM3, Cui Jian, Einstürzende Neubauten (DE) (video), Huoratron (Aku Raski) (FI), Earweego (DE/CN), Jackson Garland (US), White, Staalplaat Soundsystem(NL/DE), Wu Na, Wang Lei, Nara, iLoop, Double Fish, Liu Xiaoning, Tang, Tie Ziyi Duo, Dead J, DJ OK, me:mo, SUN Dawei, Randomk(e), DDV (BE), Yi Liqi, Zhou Risheng, Eugene Martynec (CA), A Train Wreck for My Comrades, Xie Tianxiao (aka XTX), 2J, Tatsuya Nakatani + Audrey Chen Duo (JP/US), Frédéric Blin + Aymeric de Tapol (FR) , Pink Twins (FI), Kristian (UK), Theory Of Everything: Video Art From Tokyo (video screening), NASA, Tian Peng, Cao Cao, Jeff Zhang (aka Shouwang), Shen Jing (aka Shenggy), Ma Fei San, Amoeba, Wu Junde, Zhao Yiran, Carlos Djanuno Dabo (FR), Zbigniew Karkowski (PL/SE/JP), Li Chin Sung (aka Dickson Dee) (HK), Fannullone (DE), Yoshida Tatsuya + Tsuyama Atsushi + Kawabata Makoto (JP), Hang On The Box, Vialka (FR/CA), Umbrellas, 10 (Marqido + Itta) (JP/KR), Acidzen, D!O!D!O!D!, Xie Yun (Tipsy Verse), SAM2 (JP), DINO (TW), Lin Chi-Wei (TW), EL Yang (TW), Si Xian Fang Ge (4 Lines Pane), Zafka, bai+ian, A Lower Summer, JEFF (aka Impregnable) (US), Fathmount (HK), Long 2 +Po (visual), Liu Qian (visual), Chen Xiongwei (visual), Jules Ambroisine (AU), Steve Barker (DJ, UK), Leo De Boisgisson (DJ, FR), DE (Wang Xuliang), Shengjie, Guoan £´ Hueiling (HK/TW), Gao Yihan (visual), Li Zenghui, Wei Zen Ho (AU), Xiao Ke (dance), Waldchengarten (DK), Miha Ciglar (SI), sys.view|view.sys (US), noise crush (US), Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein (DE), Boogie (SE), Jet Echo (KR), Maxwell Miller (NL), The Lowest Summer, KBN (TW), Zhou Sheng, Alessandro Bosetti (IT), Aaron Hull (AU), Laurent Jeanneau (FR), splinter vs stalin (IT), IOIOI (IT), Spicy Boys, Ten Joint Array, Joel Grip (SE), David Coulter (UK), Auranoisazzzz (JP), Biki (JP), Yasuhiro Usui (JP), Satoshi Yashiro (JP), Keisuke Oki (JP), Meri Nikula (FI), Emil De Waal (DK), Bandapart (DK), Justice Yeldham (AU), Philippe Bizot (Mime, FR), Olivier Palai (FR), Manels (FR), Fish and the Bedroom Riot (TW), Qiao Xiaodao, Lisa Nordstr?m (SE), Ivo Bol (NL), Justin Padro (US), Henri Seng (multi-media), Johan Soderberg (documentary film), Noiscape Oceanaunts, Neil B. Rolnick (US), Shi Yang, Maria Kohnke (DK), Frishzelle (DE), Patel Pretal (UK), Morgan Packard (US), Fabio Fonda (IT), More Less More, Jeff Rehnlund (US/KR), SAM2 + BlastSam + xinix + VacuumCar’ori + ShiYang + TronOrchestra +, Ujino Muneteru (JP), Cindy Ng Sio Ieng (TW), TSENG Wei-Hao (TW), china…