Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - KONTAKT

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Kontakt

music meets art ( Scroll down for English version )

BURNT FRIEDMAN & JAKI LIEBEZEIT in concert
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Art installations and workshops from H16:00 by:

Felix Bonowski
Alessandro Lupi
Mahir Duman
Vinicius Jayme Vallorani
Marina Stavrou
Katharina Fitz
Vlad Margulis
Sarmad Attar Bashi

Soundscapes by:

Francesco Assenza
Hubble

Tickets:

Pre-sale: 12€ at http://www.eventim.de/
Door: 15€

Buffet & Free admission until H19:00

Concert start at H21:00

KONTAKT - Music meets Art at Glashaus

Kontakt is a blank canvas in which different forms of art find the perfect playground to express themselves without limits.
It is a place where different disciplines have the possibly to interact not only with each other but also with the audience, who become an active part of the show.

One Saturday a month, the Glashaus in the Arena complex will turn into a cultural space, hosting installations, workshops, exhibitions and performances from some of the most interesting contemporary artists on the international scene.

Sounds, materials, lights, flavors and scents will stimulate you for a complete sensorial experience in an unexpected setting.

The opening will be held on Saturday 18 January at 16:00 and will host installations and workshops of some of the most interesting emerging Berlin-based artists, who have already exhibited in important galleries such "Saatchi Gallery" in London or "Museo degli Uffizi" in Florence just to mention some.
So we´ll experience the interactive video projection by Felix Bonowski, the lights of the italian Alessandro Lupi, and the performances and installation from the curator Vinicius Jayme Vallorani and more to be confirmed.

With a warm and cozy mood, as the afternoon unfolds guests will have plenty of opportunity to socialize with the help of cocktails, fine food and an ambient music meets art project slected by Kontakt´s music directors Hubble and Francesco Assenza, from the experimental Berlin label, Sleep is Commercial

To close this unique event, we are very excited to announce an exclusive, live performance by the world famous jazz duo Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - their first live performance in Berlin in over 2 years.

Burnt Friedmann

Burnt Friedman is a German musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of Electronica, Dub and Jazz.
Friedman was raised in Kassel where he studied painting, performance and video at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1984 to 1990.
His first recordings of found and self-built instruments, done with Wolfram Der Spyra from 1978 to 1982, were released under the name TOXH in 1989.
Since then the ever-growing list of projects includes:

Some More Crime (1990 - 1995, Friedman and Frank Hernandez)
Drome (1991 - 1995, Friedman and Frank Hernandez)
Nonplace Urban Field (1992 - 1997)
Flanger (1999 - , Friedman and Atom Heart)
Nine Horses (2005 - , Friedman and David Sylvian)

Friedman's music defies easy categorisation.
His instruments include ambient noise and speech samples, analogue synthesizers and organs, as well as toy piano, steeldrum, kalimba, vibraphone or Melodica.
Over the years his trademark sound became easily recognizable even in his remix work for other artists.
Often complex polyrhythmic patterns stand beside long passages without audible drums.
Since 2000 Friedman runs his own "nonplace" label.

Jaki Liebezeit

Jaki Liebezeit is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral"
In the mid-1960s, he was part of Manfred Schoof's quintet, who were early exponents of European free jazz.
He subsequently moved towards the new possibilities being opened by psychedelic music as a member of Can.
His drumming was prominent in the band's sound, particularly in his much-admired contribution to the side-long "Halleluhwah" on Tago Mago.
Liebezeit is best known for his exceptional "metronome" style of playing; other members of Can have suggested that he sounds as though he is "half man, half machine".
In 1980, he became a member of Phantomband, and has formed drum ensembles such as Drums off Chaos and Club off Chaos.
Later he recorded with numerous musicians, such as Jah Wobble and Philip Jeck, with whom he produced an album for Jah Wobble's 30 Hertz Records, and has contributed drums and percussion to many albums as a guest throughout the years, such as the Depeche Mode album Ultra and Brian Eno's album Before and After Science.
Recently, he has worked with Burnt Friedman on the Secret Rhythms albums and with Schiller on the Atemlos album.

Links:

Glashaus http://www.arena-berlin.de/glashaus/
Burnt Friedman http://burntfriedman.com/
Jaki Liebezeit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Liebezeit
Nonplace Records http://nonplace.de/
Felix Bonowsky http://syntheticmatter.wordpress.com/
Sarmad Attar Bashi http://www.sarmadphoto.info/
Marina Stavrou http://www.marinastavrou.net/
Katharina Fitz http://www.katharinafitz.com/
Alessandro Lupi http://www.alessandrolupi.com/
Vlad Margulis http://www.margulisvlad.com/index.php?p=p5
Vinicius Jayme Vallorani http://www.vjvallorani.com/
Sleep Is Commercialhttp://www.sleepiscommercial.com/
Kontakt http://www.kontaktberlin.com/
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