April sees SHAPE – the Creative
Europe supported platform for innovative music and audiovisual art – returning
to concert-goers via the Rokolectiv festival in
Romania (April 20 – 23), which will feature six performances by artists,
participating in our platform. Read more about this event, new mixes and small
changes to this year’s artist roster in our news update.
SHAPE is eager to announce that French rhythmic
music/digital art project NSDOShas joined the
platform – by choice of Rennes-based festival Maintenant, NSDOS will be replacing producer Jacques, who cannot
continue his participation in SHAPE as his schedule for 2017 is incompatible
with the sequence of SHAPE festivals and one-offs.
NSDOS -
aka Kirikoo Des – is a hybrid artist who works simultaneously on dance, music
and digital art. He is passionate about the interactions of man and machines,
fascinated by the links between body and computer and endlessly curious about
the infinite possibilities of the confluence of the organic and technology.
After studying dance, Kirikoo Des aka NSDOS, felt the need to
create his own sound in order to explore movement. This is how he started
imagining a whole new sonic order, an alternative approach to music –through
abstraction. NSDOS can’t restrain himself to existing technological tools and
softwares, he prefers creating his own mediums: futurist instruments made of
old audio converters (carte son), Gameboy emulators, pieces of metal dismantled
and weld together giving form to surreal machines. Surrounded by his hybrid
tools, NSDOS unravels the rectilinear anatomy of techno music. Textures are
exploded, sounds mutilated, and brought back to their essence. This sonic
odyssey, NSDOS initiated in his native town Paris before exploring it deeper in
Berlin –a city that he sees as a giant laboratory in which he experimentedthe
field of possibilities.
Another important announcement is
that Rokolectiv –
SHAPE platform’s Romanian partner festival – will hold its 2017 edition
on April 20 – 23 in Bucharest. Alongside such acts as Foodman and
Silent Servant, the platform will be represented by Romanian DJ Chlorys, Black
Zone Myth Chant - a project of Afrocentric
psychedelia and hypnotic footwork by French psych-drone artist High Wolf,
Lithuanian musician J.G.
Biberkopf, whose “audio theater” works are
impressive collages that draw on a wide range of influences, including grime
and musique concrète, hardwave and minimal electronics influenced techno
producer Maoupa Mazzocchetti, Russian-born, Bunker
records-associated DJ Inga Mauer and
experimental duo Amnesia
Scanner whose
sound design decimates and regurgitates tropes of trance, future grime,
Atlanta, noise, and mainstream pop.Also, French electronic music
festival Les Siestes Electroniques has
announced the dates for its 16th Toulouse edition - it takes place between 29
June and 2 July. Les Siestes Electroniques is one of the founding members of
the SHAPE platform. As far as SHAPE is concerned, Céh, a
noise-rock influenced duo from Budapest, has been announced. They are set to
play alongside the likes of Huerco S, Marie Davidson, Princess Nokia, and
others.
The latest episode of SHAPE platform’s monthly radio
show is streaming online, and features interviews with Slovenian artist Robertina Šebjanič, Black Zone Myth Chant and
experimental rhythmic music duo N.M.O. Listen
to it here.
Also, don’t forget to check out our website for new SHAPE mixes
by Julien Desprez, N.M.O., Oriole and Dynamons, presented in collaboration with our partners
NTS Live and Resonance FM:
http://shapeplatform.eu/category/listen/
The SHAPE platform is a three-year initiative, co-funded
by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
To find out more details and full line-ups of the aforementioned events, please
visit: http://shapeplatform.eu/events/event/