kagablog

UNYAZI
Electronic Music Symposium and Festival 2005
1st - 4th September 2005
Johannesburg, South Africa
Venue
The Convent Building, Digital Arts, Viewing Room

Friday 2 September
20h00 (8pm) 63 minutes
ARYAN KAGANOF’s ELECTRONIC CINEMA Prt.1
Come To The Point
(5min,1995, Netherlands)
Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten performing a vocal piece accompanied by a matrix of shattered electronic loops.
Reich Dance Redemption
(8min,2004, South Africa)
Distorted postvideo fragments featuring music by Berlin inconoclast Alec Empire set to frantically edited hypertextbombs.
Techno: Space And Flow In The Radical Frame
(50min, 1995, Netherlands-Germany-Japan-United Kingdom)
An exploration of state of the art computer musics featuring interviews with David Toop, Scanner, Ken Ishi, Oval, Thomas Fehlmann, Pete Namlook and the music of Autechre, Kraftwerk, Neu, Herbie Hancock, Sun Electric, Karlheinz Stockhausen etc

Sunday 4 September
14h00 (2pm) 90 minutes
ARYAN KAGANOF’S ELECTRONIC CINEMA Prt 2
Two Heads Are Better Than One
(8min, 2005, South Africa) WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING
Electronic music composer Joel Assaizky provided the soundtrack for this radikal re:mix of a short film by Guto Bussab called The Incubus. Starring Czech actress Sylvia Saint this work has been completed just in time for world premiere at this festival.
Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones
(20min, 2003, South Africa)
A slowly evolving re-mix experiment that seeks to fuse sound and image so that the eye hears and the ear sees. Soundtrack by Air, Underground Resistance, Kraftwerk etc
Signal To Noise
(9min,1997, Japan)
A collaboration beyond axis between Merzbow (Masami Akita) and Aryan Kaganof based on a short text by Roland Barthes, featuring music by Gore Beyond Necropsy and Merzbow.
Merzbow Beyond Snuff
(25min, 1998, Japan)
An open form documentary conceptually based on the Merzbau of Kurt Schwitters from which Masami Akita took the name for his electronic noise music project Merzbow. The Merzbau was a house made of garbage, a “junk house”. Schwitters designed and built it- it was the house a Dada architect would have built - with corridors going nowhere, rooms that imploded on themselves, windows facing nothing. The merzbau was destroyed by Allied bombers during the second world war. Inspired by the original merzbau, the documentary is a literally untenable construction, with many sections apparently entirely disconnected to either the topic or indeed, to sanity. It’s an extremely frustrating documentary for those who would like to see a BBC take on Merzbow. Not for the squeamish, the work features images from Akita’s rarely seen seppuku video series which feature beautiful and naked young Japanese women committing suicide.
Virgins Live
(27min, 2002, South Africa)
Pioneering work by South Africa’s only hardcore electronic noise outfit. Recorded at the NSA Gallery in Durban at the closing party of the Virgins exhibition, the police were called in to stop the action but both band members managed to sneak out via the ladies toilet window.

advance booking is recommended
for more information phone dimitri voudouris (083) 6321897
or check out the websites
www.newmusicsa.org.za
www.virusfilms.com
www.freedomfighter.co.za