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The Joshua Light Show

New York City 1967. When the Summer of Love blows its wind from the West Coast to the city, it brings with it new ideas, colours and sounds.
That was the beginning of the Joshua Light Show, but this incredible show never reached middle-europe, till now. In Line with the transmediale and the CTM.12 Festival he performs with three outstanding musicians in Berlin.
Supersilent with Stian Westerhus, Oneohtrix Point Never and as a special highlight, no other than Krautrock / cosmic / minimalism giant Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra, de).
I just can say it was really impressive. Hear and see for yourself.

The projections are complete analog. Only with lights and the visuals of colors in a petri dish projected on a wall, he creates fantastic abstracts forms and patterns. The analog procedure makes the whole composition even more realistic and touchable.He plasticise your imagination. In every form your mind creates your own symbols and figures and puts it together in a adventoures realistic dream. In combination with the the electronic music you even get more carried away. I picked some pictures from the website. And I hope the show is coming back soon to Berlin.
To see some videos from the Show go to –> this site

Here some old and new Impressions from the Show.

Highly recommended. Every Year in the end of January and beginning of February the CTM Festival in cooperation with  transmediale  takes place in Berlin.

For every Year now, I joined the Festival. Its taking you away in another universe of music and cultural adventures. It will sharpen your senses and put your percipience on an higher level. Mostly it is really experimental. It’s more music for your mind then for your feet.

CTM Festival

“With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials.

In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskirche, Gretchen, Kater Holzig and Horst Krzbrg, a discourse series developed in collaboration with the philosopher, psycho-historian and author Andreas L. Hofbauer will address the festival’s theme by pursuing questions concerning art, theory, and music. ”

Here are just some great Musicians – for the specific programm go to this site

Eleh (US) / Jana Winderen (NO) / Hildur Gudnadottir (IS) / Charles Matthews (UK) / Marcus Davidson (UK) / The Eternal Chord (US)

Conrad Schnitzler (DE), Wolfgang Seidel (DE) and his Free Arts Lab project / Qluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius + Onnen Bock (DE) / Borngräber & Strüver (DE), Köhn (BE)

Mouse on Mars (DE) / Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop (DE) / Sølyst (DE) /DJ Elephant Power (BE)

Ben Frost with Borgar Magnason (contra bass) and Shazad Ismaily (drums, synth) (IS/US) / Roly Porter with videos by MFO (UK/DE) – world premiere /Ancient Methods (DE) / G.H. (UK) – German premiere / Opium Hum (DE)

Sendai (BE) / Kangding Ray (DE) / Mark Fell (UK) / Byetone (DE, DJ set)  and many more

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Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak built this mind-boggling Soundtank which he simply calls “Panzer”. It is based on a japanese miniature tracked dumper, equipped with around 4 KW and ready to host live-acts on the rearside.
Check more of Nik’s work based on auditory installations on his website www.niknowak.de.

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Our friends from OneBeat Berlin are doing another event worth telling ya’ll. It will be exploring the experimental side of music and music performance with a concert by Schloss Mirabell.
The concert will take place at João Cocteau, a new multidisciplinary art space in Neukölln.

João Cocteau
Kienitzer Strasse 98
12049 Berlin

About Schloss Mirabell:

Schloss Mirabell aka Florina Speth, born 1983 in the mountains near Salzburg, started playing the cello and piano at the age of 6 and began studying music at the “University Mozarteum Salzburg” when she was just 11. After finishing school and her cello education she studied cognitive music science, neuro-musicology, neuro-linguisitcs and music therapy at the University of Cologne. Her personal research fields bridges explorative experimental media arts with neuroscience to get inspired output for technical solutions in neurological rehabilitation systems as in music perception and music performance.
In current live performances she is working with a set up consisting of laptop, cameras, cello, voice and a variety of sound toys.

Schloss Mirabell by OneBeat

Also check out the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163484060404102

“KRAKE ist an annual Berlin based fes­ti­val for chal­leng­ing elec­tronic music and visual trans­duc­tion ini­ti­ated by Nico Deuster of KILLEKILL and Hol­ger Hilgers.

The fes­ti­val took place at the Sui­cide Cir­cus for the first time in 2010 and was an over­whelm­ing suc­cess: numer­ous ground­break­ing artists of high rep­u­ta­tion rocked the crowd such as Warp’s elec­tron­ica heroes PLAID, techno leg­end CRISTIAN VOGEL, RADIOACTIVE MAN of the infa­mous two lone swords­men or break­beat weirdo BOGDAN RACZYNSKI. But there were also a lot of new tal­ents who sur­prised the audi­ence with their fresh­ness. PLASTER with their audio/visual con­cert and KARSTEN PFLUM deserve to be named here.

For 2011 KRAKE will take the next level and con­sol­i­date its rep­u­ta­tion as the most dar­ing Berlin club fes­ti­val with a mas­sive line up in 4 venues and, a new web­site and an art­work by inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed graphic design­ers DOPPELDENK. Musi­cians con­firmed for 2011 include JIMMY EDGAR live set, BOLA live set, LEGOWELT live set, MIXMASTER MORRIS dj set, EMIKA live and many, many more.”

Is there anything more to say ?

just check their site
and be sure to go through the artist lists. HERE are some nice examples:

Krake Festival Berlin August 2010 from adam_weishaupt on Vimeo.

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I am very happy to announce that my non-profit music project OneBeat will be opening the first night of FriKK Festival 2011 , an 10 day art festival at Bethanien in Kreuzberg. The festival is going from the 8th of August until the 17th.
The Frikk Festival is a non-profit festival as all profit will be donated and directed towards the art scene.

Tonights lineup:
RTZ23 – DJ/VJ Live – 23:30 – 0:15
Wermonster – Live – 0:30 – 1:45
Maroq DJ – 2:00 – end

Location:
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Mariannenplatz, Kreuzberg – im Südflügel.
(Not the new place at Kottbusser Damm).

The entry fee for the night will be 6€ (from 4 pm).
Come early, there’s an exhibition, theater and a burlesque performance before our the party.

Join the Facebook event at: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223185381056621

Find out more and listen to the artists on www.onebe.at
Check out the Festival program at www.frikk.de/programm

Check out the OFFtrack radio show. Tracklistings are more then convincing and the shows are full of real gems.  The Episode below features Toshiya Kawasaki (Mule Music, Tokyo) in the mix and more great music to end the show. Some insight:

OFFtrack today is an internet platform providing all music lovers around the globe with an eclectic blend ranging from boogie, disco, house, detroit, electronica and beatscience to folk and jazz music. basically the music we love and try to create a platform for no matter what kind of pigeonhole.

Established in the year ‘98 as a weekly radioshow hosted by the originator Dirk Rumpff it is now available as a podcast broadcasted from Berlin. Additionally the show is available through soundcloud, righton.fm and bln.fm

Our frequently updated page with an archive of past shows offers regular interviews and exclusive guest DJ-Mixes by the likes of Jazzanova, Henrik Schwarz, Trickski etc. in a bi-weekly rhythm. Along with the usual suspects the idea is also to promote new talents and establish a forum for names that are new on the court. To many as well as we are.

OFFtrack July 20th 2011 by dirkrumpff

(Tracklist after the jump)

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his website but in the moment it is under construction, but be sure to check it some time. He is a crazy creative head, who has to offer a lot more outstanding interactive art. He his a revoltionary urban artist, using modern technical knowledge to perform his ideas in the public.

“The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.”

for more information about his project check this site