28.05.19, 20:00, The Fluid Computer KASK Spillover

met Floris Vanhoof (BE), Julia Eckhardt (BE), Little Doorways To Paths Not Yet Taken (film), Corridor (film)

Van 24 mei tot 2 juni presenteert kunstenaar Floris Vanhoof ‘De vloeibare computer’: 3 installaties in en rond de Zwarte Zaal. Tegelijk brengt concertorganisatie en muzieklabel KRAAK The Fluid Computer uit, een fotoboek met elpee. Verder zal er in samenwerking met onze studenten een performance- en filmprogramma op poten gezet worden. De titel komt uit een passage uit het boek The Pattern on the Stone van uitvinder W. Daniel Hillis. Met het woord ‘computer’ bedoelen we meestal een elektronisch, digitaal apparaat. Toch bestaan er ook computers waar water door stroomt in plaats van elektronen. Deze ‘vloeibare computer’ dient als inspiratiebron om de alomtegenwoordige algoritmische machine te deconstrueren, en via onbewandelde zijsporen vergeten technologieën nieuw leven in te blazen.

Little Doorways To Paths Not Yet Taken, by Aura Satz (2016, film)

An indirect, yet intimate portrait of Laurie Spiegel by Spanish sound installation artist and film maker Aura Satz. Shot in 2016 in musician's home studio in New York, it features Spiegel's music recordings.

Corridor, by Standish Lawder (1970, film)

An extraordinary exercise in visual polyphony, with music of Terry Riley and a sound prologue by Standish Lawder.

Julia Eckhardt

Julia Eckhardt is a viola player in the field of composed and improvised contemporary music. She has been performing in a number of music groups and orchestras, collaborating with composers such as Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Stevie Wishart, Jennifer Walshe, and many more. She has been teaching and lecturing at Lemmens Institut, Leuven and Sint-Lukas and La Cambre, Brussels. For this occasion, she will perform Occam IV, a renowned piece by Eliane Radigue.

The idea for this piece was initially inspired by a large mural that I saw by chance in 1973, at the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles. It showed the “spectrum of electromagnetic waves” moving from the largest to the smallest of known measurable wavelengths. Out of this large spectrum, there is a tiny zone from slightly less than 100 Hz to slightly more than 10 KHz that the ears of certain species populating the planet Earth, have transformed into sounds. - Eliane Radigue

Programma

• 20:00 Little Doorways To Paths Not Yet Taken (2016), 7min + Corridor (1970), 22min, KASKcinema
• 20:30 intermission & visit to 'The Fluid Computer' expo, Zwarte Zaal, KASK
• 21:15 Occam IV (Eliane Radigue, 2011) performed by Julia Eckhardt, KIOSK