Archive: January, 2007

ernesto rodrigues

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

ernesto2.jpgHe has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and improvised music, live and in the studio.His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music. The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements. Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.

Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups. Music for Dance, Cinema, Video and Performance. Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music.

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dr. amanda mueller’s complete fall into madness

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

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Collaborations rarely culminate so succinctly as evidenced in the case of Francois Louie Camille, Christof Christofovich Tuninsky and Dee Harris - all masterful musicians and scholars of the absurd. Here, in what will be the first in a series of releases from Liar Leaver Records, is a truly remarkable and stunning work of beauty and imagination entitled Cardboard Amanda. This music was inspired by the true story of a brilliant scientist and inventor Dr. Amanda Mueller’s complete fall into madness that ended in her suicide (she literally threw herself away in the trash).

14 Euro incl. shipment world-wide

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hits / stills

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

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14 Euro inclusive shipment cost world-wide.

In collaboration with the video artist and photographer Beat Streuli Percaso produced a dual disc - one side as music CD, the other as DVD, enabling the viewer/listener to enjoy the music with the images together. Christoph Gallio’s friendship and working relationship with Beat Streuli goes back to 1988, when they first performed together at the Kunsthalle Basel. Out of that cooperation came the percaso release no 5, “certainty /sympathy“ (with Alfred Zimmerlin on cello, and Ernst Thoma, later to be replaced by Matthew Ostrowski doing live electronics). The duo collaboration “Controlled Lovesongs” had its debut performance in 1992 at the Dokumenta 9 in Kassel.

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