Tickets for Tim Hecker + the Konoyo Ensemble Funkhaus Session Funkhaus Berlin on 09.10.18

Funkhaus Session

Funkhaus präsentiert:

Tim Hecker + the Konoyo Ensemble

Doors: 18:30
Show: 20:00

TIM HECKER

COMPOSER

 Tim Hecker is a Canadian composer and sound artist who has spent the last decade inhabiting a unique intersection between noise, dissonance, and melody. In his varied and celebrated works, digital and organic sources tightly intertwine. The result is a hybrid aesthetic that recalls electronic abstraction and psychedelic American minimalism. Across his 15-year career he has moved through shades of reflective electronic noise, experiential sound design, and modern composition with a deft and distinguished touch. Cultivating enigmatic, uneasy soundscapes, the beauty and crush of Hecker’s sonically processed noise has been compared to “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music.” As the New York Times put it, he plays “foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow-moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole.” Tim Hecker is an extensive, vigorous live performer, and the immense power and menace of his live shows makes him a contemporary master of volume and texture. His 2016 album Love Streams (4AD) continued to mark him out as one of the most vital contemporary experimental and electronic composers, using recordings from sessions in Reykjavik with an Icelandic choir, but then reconstructed into new and beguiling mutant form (“it variously feels blissful, soothing, profoundly creepy, uplifting and cathartic." Album of the Week, The Guardian). As well as his solo works, Hecker has worked on a wide range of projects, from installations with the likes of Doug Aitken and Stan Douglas or Unsound festival to score work for contemporary dance and film projects.

In October 2017, Hecker travelled to Japan to record with the Toshihiko Kasai ensemble at the Jiunzan Mandala-Temple Kanzouin temple, located just outside of Tokyo. These recordings will form a central part to Hecker’s forthcoming album (due for release in October 2018), and the framework for working on this broader live performance.

TOSHIHIKO KASAI

GAGAKU ENSEMBLE PERFORMERS

 This traditional Japanese court ensemble is led by Motonori Miura, a master Hichiriki player who majored in Gagaku studies at Tokyo Unveristy of Arts, and who will be accompanied by ryuteki sho performers. Motonori-san majored in Gagaku in Tokyo University of the Arts (studying Hichiriki, ancient singing and dance) and is a member of Tokyo Gakuso, Pro Musica Nipponia, and organized the ensemble Group-4-. Since 2015 he has been a lecturer of Gagaku at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He has been to the stages of Europe, Australia, South America and South Korea. He and the Toshihiko Ensemble performed pieces for Hecker at the Jiunzan Mandala-Temple Kanzouin.