Carlos Casas (E)
Cemetery (Archive works)
produzione Xing/Netmage 10

Carlos Casas is filmmaker and visual artist. His work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. He studied Fine Arts, Cinema and Design. His last three films received awards from prestigious international festivals including Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Mexico City; several of his videos have been shown in group exhibitions. After the experience at Fabrica in 2001, he began a trilogy dedicated to planetary environmental conditions, focused on Patagonia, The Sea of Aral and Siberia. Carlos Casas, who among other activities steers the Von Archives label together with artist Nico Vascellari, nurtures a special interest in sound and sonic landscapes, as demonstrated in 'Fieldworks' (monaural video, installations done while location-hunting or during pauses on film shoots) and in frequent presentations of his work in live-media.

He is currently working on a film about a cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal. At Netmage 10 he premieres his archive, his modus operandi, appunti, audiovisual experiments, and film previews. A first public presentation in different articulations that becomes the coordinated image of the festival and a series of visual and sound ambients, also between live sets.

carloscasas.net

Cluster / Canedicoda (D/I)
Live-Media
production Xing/Netmage 10

Cluster is a German seminal experimental musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic and ambient music. They have recorded albums in a wide variety of styles ranging from experimental music to progressive rock, all of which had an avant-garde edge. Cluster has been active since 1971, releasing a total of 13 albums. Musician, writer and rock historian Julian Cope places three Cluster albums in his Krautrock Top 50 and The Wire places Cluster's self-titled debut album in their 'One Hundred Records That Set The World On Fire'. After a decade long hiatus Cluster reunited in 2007. They were selected to perform at the opening of Documenta 12.

Cluster's new album qua, their first studio recording in 14 years, is out on Klangbad (their classic sky releases of the 70es and early 80es are currently reissued by bureau b). Cluster are immensely influential but painfully underrated: Brian Eno (who collaborated with them), David Bowie, Autechre, Tortoise and Mouse on Mars among others, are quoting Cluster as a major inspiration. The legend goes that Eno enjoyed working and hanging out with Cluster in their hideout in a former farm house in rural forest so much that Bowie literally had to drag his then-producer back to finish his album. Cluster can easily be understood as 'the originators of the space age' or the forefathers of the recent cosmic disco hype. At the age of 74 and 65 Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius are stronger and more vital than ever, maintaining their almost naive pleasure to constantly re-invent their unmistakable music on stage. At Netmage they will present a special project where the legendary German formation is flanked by the artist Canedicoda for an unreleased visual collaboration.

roedelius.com
dietermoebius.de

Canedicoda is a visual and graphic artist. He started performing in the punk group With Love at the age of 15; by now has actively performed under various aliases and with bands throughout the world. Currently part of WW, Lago Morto, Nastro Mortal and solo as Ottaven. With the name Canedicoda in 2003 he gave life to a project extending through graphics, music and fashion, conceived and realized exclusively by hand: from designs to unique or limited-edition silkscreen prints on paper or cloth, to projects linked to music or to t-shirt and garment realizations. Canedicoda has developed a rich artistic universe, changing yet always immediately recognizable, producing personal t-shirt collections and graphics for 8mm Records, Von Archives, Dumb Skateboards, Bastard, Marsèll and conceiving the image of Netmage 2007. As Ottaven, his solo project, he has released a variety of cd-r's and audio cassettes, as well as performing in a number of clubs, squats, basements and festivals of every type throughout Europe.

canedicoda.com

Be Maledetto Now! is Andrea Giotto aka Nihil Is Me (or Maledetto), ex postpunk With Love guitarist, and Marco Giotto aka Be Invisible Now!, currently members of the improv collective Squadra Omega.

BMN! offers invasive, fluctuating music deeply influenced by co(s)mic-social suggestion, expressing themselves through the manipulation of synthesizers, guitars, objects, voice and silence in the creation of sounds that vary from extremely sparse to chaotically dense. They write: "Be Maledetto Now! sees Space and the dazzling obscurity of the cosmic void. The Moon as a customs gate for open space, the Moon landing as human hubris of being able to colonize the uncolonizable. What if the Moon colonized us? BMN! at Netmage proposes to overturn assumptions, reverse roles. The Moon over us, not the other way around".

beinvisiblenow.net
nihilisme.org

André Gonçalves (P)
Live-Media

André Gonçalves, Lisbon based sound and media artist. SInce 1998 he has been working in several artistic fields that include painting, music, video, installation and performance. Empathy programmer with googlian self-education, he has been developing several audio-video applications in max-msp, flash, java, processing and C++ along with various experiments in the analog world. From 2002 on, he was always getting closer to 'do it yourself' electronics, experimenting with sensor interfaces and programming. More recently he has been collecting and recycling found electronic hardware, hacking it to make possible the idea to create analog devices that can act like bots with specific functions such as printing, drawing, tv graphics, sound creation, etc. These actions are orchestrated by PIC micro-controllers, small computer processors that can be programmed to control multiple devices.

The new project presented at Netmage 10 involves a super 8 projector and a Doepfer analogue modular synthesizer. The super 8 projector was hacked so that the amplitude of the sound played controls the intensity of the light bulb with a manual control for the speed of the projector flickering, allowing real-time destruction of the projected images. The performance develops in several stages, with different burning processes and sound approaches.

undotw.org

Rachida Ziani/Dewi de Vree (NL/F)
Elektrolab
Live Media


Rachida Ziani and Dewi de Vree, two artist from the Hague, are developing Elektrolab, a series of electrical music performances and installations based on electrochemical principles. Elektrolab is based on the first battery, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800. By making an 'open' battery in which the different elements are taken apart, enlarged and amplified, they show the process of generating electricity. A device of which many are hidden in the portable machines around us, is opened up and the beauty of this natural phenomenon is made visible. Most electronic machines and computer systems nowadays lack the tactile, sensory impressions that we experience in the rest of our daily surroundings. With Elektrolab, Ziani and de Vree are developing different sound interfaces in which various parameters of electronic sounds can be controlled by the manipulation of different chemical reactions. Elektrolab emphasizes the sensual perception and the physical control of invisible processes.This makes the set-up an interesting musical-theatrical work.

Rachida Ziani is a french artist, living and working in The Hague, The Netherlands. Rachida started her artistic formation in EPIAR, the International School of Contemporary Art, La Villa Arson, in Nice, where she researched and refined her skills in illustration and etching. Later on she developed a strong interest in music and sound, and a deep fascination for mechanical machines and devices, automatas and tricks used in abstract cinema and magical performances.
She completed her studies ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and together with Dewi de Vree she developes the Elektrolab series.

Dewi de Vree is a dutch artist. Her first works consist of drawings and paintings. At the VAV department at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam she developed her first interest in sound, natural phenomena and translations between time-based processes and still images. She created different graphic partitures, sound installations and performances.
Her growing interest in the interaction between the human and the machine led to the making of 'translating-machines' and sound interfaces. With these interfaces the beauty of electricity is shown by open up different electronic components. Together with Jeroen Uyttendaele she developed Graphite Circuits, sound installations and performances using graphite as a conductor for electricity. At the moment she is completing her studies ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and together with Rachida Ziani she developes the Elektrolab series.

(The video has been Recorded at Zeebelt Theater Den Haag)

elektrolab.org