Club Transmediale 2006 :
3.-11. February 2006 Maria am Ufer / Berlin / Germany
CTM-catalogue text :
Tim Tetzner’s Handclaps project is an ever-expanding data bank of film and video about musical phenomena. The associative, non-linear and modular format of Handclaps allows changing themes to be examined in their respective contexts: subject matter can be accessed in various constellations. The comprehensive programs comprise music documentation, clips and art videos that give descriptions of specific contexts, investigate the iconography of musical phenomena, cross-reference individual artists and analyze their strategies and social impact. For CTM.06 Tim Tetzner has compiled a Handclaps program that reflects this year’s theme, Being Bold.
—
When i sold my soul to the machine
Igor Lesic, Ronald Lindgreen & Merijn Pancra, NL 2005, 41 min
When, in the mid-90s, artists such as I-F, Unit Moebius, Legowelt and Orgue Electronique, along with Bunker Records, turned Den Haag into the central publishing platform for electronic music and hence into the Netherland’s metaphorical Detroit, structures were put in place for some pretty damn agile sub-culture, as the interviews, backroom scenes and party shots in tonight’s feature will reveal.
—
Inside the Eyebal : Masks, make-up and fake aura
compiled by Tim Tetzner, FRG 2006, 75 min
The modifiable identities and market oriented image transfers that have long since marked the parameters of mainstream Pop, and how these might influence the image-making of non-academic experimental music are the subjects of tonight’s video block. To what extent is a new aesthetic of masks and anonymity a part of sub-cultural strategies? Are expectations of subversion fulfilled here, or is it all just about fantasy and having fun?
1) Animal Collective – Who Could Win a Rabbit?, 2:23 min.
2) The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra – Dome of Shang, 3:44 min.
3) Jason Forrest – Steppin’ off, 3:55 min.
4) Planningtorock – Bolton Wanderer, 4:23 min.
5) My Robot Friend – Irobot (Get to Know Me), 6:27 min.
6) Fischerspooner – Sweetness, 9:02 min.
7) Puppetmastaz – Pet Sound, 4:48 min.
8) Liars – We Fenced Other Peoples Garden With the Bones of Our Own, 7:15 min.
9) Desert Planet – Ninjadroids, 3:57 min.
10) The Stones Throw Singers – Rain of Earth, 4:47 min.
11) Burka Band – Burka Blue, 3:05 min.
12) Dälek – In Midst of Struggle, 7:44 min.
13) Daft Punk – Robot Rock, 3:15 min.
14) MF DOOM feat. Kurious – ?, 2:55 min.
15) Gary Wilson – Gary’s in the Park, 2:14 min.
16) Lightning Bolt – The Monsters Choice, 3:01 min.
17) No Neck Blues Band – The Black PopE, 5:38 min.
—
The legendary Joe Meek
Alan Lewens, UK 1990, 60 min
Britain’s first independent record producer, sonic innovator and eccentric uncle to studio geeks everywhere. From a chaotic flat on London’s Holloway Road he made futuristic tunes that caught the imagination of the not-quite-swinging sixties. A true original. Joe Meek was tone deaf, claimed to have made contact with Buddy Holly during a séance and was the first producer to record Tom Jones and Screaming Lord Sutch. On the February 3, 1967, at the age of 37, Joe shot his landlady then killed himself.
—
Haack – The King of Techno
Philip Anagnos, USA 2004, 70 min
Alongside Walter Carlos, Jean Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley, one can describe Bruce Haack as one of the most important composers of electronic Pop music. As well as developing experimental synthesizers, he composed commercials and music for children, which spotlights the diversity for which he was seldom acknowledged. This excellent feature film draws on comprehensive original material to put the record straight.
—
Jean Jaques Perrey on US Television
Unknown, USA 1969, 25 min
This program shows two rare TV appearances of Jean-Jacques Perrey on American TV at the end of the sixties. Perrey is a guest on a quiz show facing questions about his professions from the quiz participants. He and his partner at that time, Gershon Kingsley, also play a Moog-Set on the show.
—
The Getty Address (by The Dirty Projectors)
James Sumner, USA 2006, 42 min
James Sumner re-works The Getty Address, a concept album of the same name by the bizarre American Pop band, The Dirty Projectors, to create an anti-imperialist contemporary mysticism. A thirteen part, hallucinogenic state of the art opera, which links Aztec mythology and the effects of 9/11 with Don Henley, the head of the mainstream rocker band, The Eagles.
—
People Like Us: Story without End
Vicki Bennett, UK 2005, 30 min
Under her People Like Us alias, Vicki Bennett has been actively producing Found-Footage collages, bizarre Plunderphonic audio plays, and practicing media piracy with a good dose of dark British humor for almost 15 years. For CTM exclusively, she’ll be presenting three shorts from her DVD, “Story Without End,” published at the end of 2004 by Sonic Arts Network.
—
Anima-Sound : Europa Tournee mit 20 km/h
Ludwig Andús / SWF, FRG 1971, 40 min
It’s 1971 and artistic duo, Paul and Limpe Fuchs aka Anima-Sound set off with their two kids on a European tour – at 20mph in a tractor-drawn mobile home. With an improvised set-up comprising drums, wind instruments and electronics they play brachial free Jazz/ Noise improvs at everyday venues badly in need of some culture … such as pedestrian zones in Munich.
—
Jandek on Corwood
Chad Freidrichs, USA 2003, 89 min
After 25 years, countless releases on his own Corwood Industries label and perpetual anonymity, Jandek is considered to be an icon (along with Daniel Johnston) of American Outsider music. A telephone interview conducted with him by John Trubee is the subject of tonight’s film: a step closer to the eccentric and deeply melancholic world of Jandek on Corwood.
—
The Eye on Nurse with Wound
Jon Whitney / Brainwashed, USA 2004, 29 min
Steven Stapleton who – with his project Nurse With Wound – has hardly been visible in the past 20 years as a performing artist and mostly appeared as recording artist, is being portrayed in this feature on his farm with his family. The video was produced by Jon Whitney for the online video magazine The Eye.
—
You have bad taste in Music
Eman Laerton, USA 2004-05, 30 min
Eman Laerton’s episodic productions follow a standard pattern: go to a big show, like Christina Aguilera or Korn concerts and, as a one-man-show and cyber missionary, confidently confront the fan-mob with a dose of reality: taste is not necessarily to be found in places where a huge crowd gathers
—
Island Song
Charlemagne Palestine, USA 1976, 16 min
An example of the early ad-hoc video work of Charlemagne Palestine is Island Song. With a camera on his motorbike, Palestine takes a long single shot of an island, combining his voice with the engine sound to create a rhythmic drone, whose escapist phrasing is equally exemplary of his Gesamtwerk.
—
High Tech Soul – The creation of Techno Music
Gary Bredow / Glu Studios, USA 2004, 87 min
The film draws an arc between the Detroit riots in the late 60s and the emergence of Techno as the party culture of the African-American underclass in the mid-80s. Through interviews with Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig and Kenny Larkin it explores the phenomenon of how Techno developed into a global mainstream.