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September 14, 2013

Shackle at KISS2013

Shackle has been invited for a concert and artist talk at KISS2013. This is the yearly Kyma Symposium, held in Brussels this time, from 12-15 September.

More information: http://kiss2013.symbolicsound.com/

November 3, 2013

'The First Law of Kipple' and 'Shackle Affair: Organ' premiere at Orgelpark

A virtuoso chain reaction in noise and sound
Van Heumen, Dramm & Ferrari with Marco Blaauw, Dominik Blum and Shackle

Location: Orgelpark, Gerard Brandtstraat 26 Amsterdam
Time: afternoon (exact time TBA)

Ferrari / Visages V part 1 & 2 (1959) 6:33
Dramm / new work for solo trumpet (2013) 3:00
Dramm / (chaincurve) (2006-7) 22:00

Van Heumen / The First Law of Kipple (2012, premiere) 21:05
Van Heumen / Shackle Affair: Organ (2013, premiere) 20:00

The First Law of Kipple (Robert van Heumen 2012, premier) (FLoK) is a composition for 4-channel tape and MIDI-controlled organ. ’FLoK’ is inspired by Gorecki’s Miserere and a library of processed recordings in various churches. It is about creating order in chaos and crunching melody into noise. ’FLoK’ is commissioned by Het Orgelpark in Amsterdam.

There’s the First Law of Kipple... ’Kipple drives out nonkipple.’...Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up there is twice as much of it. It always gets more and more. No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot. (Philip K. Dick)

Shackle Affair: Organ (Robert van Heumen 2013, premiere) is a composition for various organs, flute with electronics and laptop-instrument, performed by Dominik Blum and Shackle (Anne La Berge & Robert van Heumen). ’Shackle Affair: Organ’ is the next step in Shackle’s research project into restriction and structure in electro-acoustic improvisation. For this installment 10 new musical sections will be composed, each of which prescribes a way of playing the instruments or a limitation in sound material. During the concert these new sections will be presented to the players through the Shackle System. The players will have the option to cancel proposed sections or request new ones. ’Shackle Affair: Organ’ is developed with financial support from the Performing Arts Fund NL.



http://www.orgelpark.nl/
http://shackle.eu/affair/

November 23, 2013

Spoon3 concert Baarle-Nassau

Spoon3 is Jodi Gilbert (voice), Albert van Veenendaal (piano), Meinrad Kneer (bass), Robert van Heumen (laptop-instrument).

In many aspects a band that crosses over many styles. The classic trio combination of piano, bass and voice forms a basis for transparency and beauty. The laptop-instrument adds a mix of confrontation and adventure to subvert this well-known trio constellation. Spoon3 has created songs using texts, absurd and comic with a careful dose of pathos, the clichéd anguish of emotions, juxtaposed with a sharp edge and a tongue-in-cheek. All of this mixed with the sensibilities of free improvisation. Listen here.



http://www.spoon3.blogspot.nl/
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