Receptionistic Avant Meeting for 2013 with performances by Anne James Chaton (FR) and Das Ding (NL).
Reasons why you should join: 1. as a good speed of for 2013, 2. for your personal kulturale regulation and 3. as a spatial come back in our renovated club-house. Doors open: 20.30 hrs, show starts at 22.00 hrs.
Anne-James Chaton is like a human synth, a poet, and performer who presents his verse in a constant, almost robotic wave. Bills, bus tickets, packs of cigarettes, leaflets—all of this banal, everyday rubbish is verbalized, repeated, and rearranged in a chant-like performance that at times seems mechanical.
Extra: In Witte de With CCA Anne James Chaton will play as opener for the Causerie that day (also see www.wdw.nl).
Das Ding (nl)
In the early 80s, punk, post-punk, and new wave inspired a lot of DIY initiatives including cassette labels. Tear Apart Tapes was an excuse for Danny Bosten and Johan de Koeijer to publish and distribute their own music and that of others. Das Ding is electronic music, mostly inspired by the equipment itself, sequencers and synthesizers, rigid and robotic. The Internet plays a major role in the emergence of all those obscure releases, and labels like Minimal Wave and Analogue specialise in reissuing such items.
In 2007, 433rpm, of the exhaustive music blog ‘No Longer Forgotten Music’, posted some of his old Das Ding tapes, and Veronica Vasicka- who runs the New York based ‘Minimal Wave’ label and specializes in reissues of 80s synth-wave proposed the release of a Das Ding album. Old tapes were uncovered, and Minimal Wave released a remastered version of ‘HSTA’ and other tracks in 2010. A wave of renewed interest followed the records release and soon people were in touch to propose live shows. Twenty years later, and after some deliberation, Das Ding was reincarnated under its old moniker but now with a revised line-up and a working set-up that reflected inevitable technological change. Suddenly, Das Ding was a ‘Dutch electro-pioneer’ and the apparent pinnacle of ‘Minimal Wave’.
Entrance: 6,-
Event data: Sat January 19, 20:30 in De PLAYER, Hillelaan 49D
Link: http://deplayer.nl/
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