Saturday 14 May 2022, 7pm
Fantastic line-up from the Swedish-based iDEAL label, who have been releasing electronic music, experimental stuff, drone depths, pulsating minimal acid and techno, since 1998.
Contemporary artist John Duncan lives and works in Bologna, Italy. His body of work spans performance, video, experimental music, installation, pirate radio and television genres, often involving the use of recorded sound— including recordings from shortwave radio, field recordings and voice. His events and installations are a form of existential research, often confrontational in nature. Duncan has worked with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and artists Chris & Cosey, z'ev, Pan Sonic and Jim O'Rourke. iDEAL has collaborated with John Duncan for a decade releasing several of his more recent key works.
Saturn and the Sun is sound and conceptual artist Henrik Rylander and iDEAL boss Joachim Nordwall. They have since their start in 2015 made an impact with their harsh, pulsating electronic music that draws attention from both techno and noise heads. Most recently, their album ”The New Age Is Shit” was released on Moscow based Stellage. Nordwall has worked with artists like Mats Gustafsson, Christine Abdelnour, Mika Vainio and CM von Hausswolff. Rylander was part of the Union Carbide Productions garage rock outfit. And together they played in ritual rock band The Skull Defekts.
Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy.
Klein is currently located in Berlin. Klein has operated a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception and is spending 2023-2024 developing a monthly invitational program at the Volksbühne Roter Salon. Klein has collaborated in various capacities and medial materializations with Wilted Woman, Audrey Chen, Das Ding, Hugo Esquinca, Jean-Louis Huhta, Erik Nystrand, Scant, Philip Maier, Makoto Oshiro and many more.
Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like The Amant Foundation (USA), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE), Empty Gallery (HK), Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).
Memotone is one of the various aliases of self-taught multi-instrumentalist and composer, Will Yates. Predominantly an improviser, working with minimal, ambient and contemporary classical music. Recent years have seen memotone lean towards a more free-form approach, exploring jazz, drone and more meditative musics, often emphasising the give and take between close harmony and dissonance, and showing a keen interest in sound design and textural experimentation. His last LP dropped on Accidental Meetings, full of back-alley jazz and blissful oddities. Following previous work for entities such as Black Acre, Disktopia & Termina. Not to mention supplying instrumentation for Batu's debut album, and scoring works for Palace Skateboards.
Officine is hard working Paris based trio working in the tradition of the no wave / noise rock energies. Inspired by bands MARS, Pussy Galore and Black Dice, they rule their own corner of the more intense part of today’s out there rock scene. Officine is an important part of the underground scene of Paris. A new 12” is released by iDEAL in 2022.
