| Vitor Joaquim "Filament" - new Kvitnu release is out today! |
| Monday, 03 October 2011 07:27 |
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Kvitnu goes further to Portugal!
Today we have a new release by a new artist Vitor Joaquim, amazing work called "Filament".
Incredibly beautiful, powerful and complex work. Brings quite a new turn to Kvitnu to a different abstract deep space of sound.
Vitor's statement for Filament:
"Our daily life is being more and more polluted with fast and short messages. What is not intense and sharp has no effectiveness. The sense of belonging and timeless breathe is more and more away from us. We live in a world full of information and in risk of permanent ignorance. We are not aloud to stay, breath, and keep staying. We are constantly pushed toward something. Whatever it is something vital for us, or absolutely nonsense. It's a time where only short sentences can be effective. It’s the time of buzzwords and sound bites. A time where’s devotion is being displaced from every gesture that we do. All is reduced to a task, all must be easy and logical.
Filament is a silent scream against this massacre of intensity and constant pulse coming from out of us. We still have our hearts to feel what beat is, and what beat means. We don't need to push ourselves to the edge of ourselves at every moment. Time needs to recover he's own time. Filament is my answer to that question. An answer that is not linear, not sharp, not short, not fast, not easy. An answer that is all the contrary, having the ear and the listening as a corridor for a better understanding of the world and ourselves. Filament is complex, extended, nonlinear and concentrated on the detail.
Like life in itself."
Tracks:
1. Filaments And Voids
2. Filaments And Walls
3. Filament
4. Filaments Of Conformity
5. Filaments Of Devotion
Music written and played by Vitor Joaquim.
Designed by Zavoloka.
Released as CD and digital download by Kvitnu.
Few words about Vitor Joaquim:
Started performing improvised music and working with contemporary dance by the late 80's. Since then, he has created extensively for dance, theatre, video, installations and cross media platforms, having worked with such collectives and creators as Vera Mantero, Paulo Ribeiro and Rui Horta, amongst many others.
He collaborated with many international artists, such as @c, Scanner, Stephan Mathieu, Simon Fisher Turner, Phil Niblock, Colleen, Pure, o.blaat, Ran Slavin and Greg Haines.
In 1997, Vitor's CD “Tales From Chaos” (under the alias "Free Field") was considered one of the 10 best records of Portuguese electronic music of all time. His CD “Flow” was considered by the Wire magazine as one of the best electronic records of 2006.
Release page with track's previews:
http://kvitnu.com/releases/kvitnu19.html
Order CD here:
http://kvitnu.com/shop/Vitor-Joaquim/Vitor-Joaquim-Filament-CD.html
Order digital download here:
http://kvitnu.com/shop/Vitor-Joaquim/Vitor-Joaquim-Filament-mp3-320-kbps.html
Vitor Joaquim's site: http://vitorjoaquim.pt/
KVITNU 19
Made in Ukraine |
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| Kvitnu mixtape download at REDEFINE MAGAZINE |
| Tuesday, 12 July 2011 12:29 |
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REDEFINE Magazine from Seattle, USA asked us to make a Mixtape for their magazine's website, containing tracks from Kvitnu releases.
And here it is!
Enjoy this small "introduction to Kvitnu" podcast
http://www.redefinemag.com/music/mixtapes/mixtapes_2.php?artist=Kvitnu&id=2503 |
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| KVITNU 18 - "MYTHS & MASKS" Compilation is out! |
| Monday, 11 July 2011 12:07 |
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Today we are proud to present our latest work - a collaboration project between Kvitnu and Polish Institute in Kyiv - "Myths & Masks Of Karol Szymanowski Music By Ukrainian Sound Artists".
Some time ago eight Ukrainian sound artists were offered to represent their vision of Karol Szymanowski music, life and ideas in a free form of the musical implementation. As a result - audio disc contain tracks from Zavoloka, Kotra, v4w.enko, Dunaewsky69, Nikolaienko, Ujif_Notfound, Alla Zagaykevych and Andrey Kiritchenko. CD is packed in a special cardboard sleeve with 12 pages booklet describing each artist track's concept, with artist's photo and short biography.
Curated and produced by Dmytro Fedorenko.
Main part of CD's were produced for distribution via Polish Institute channels, but some very limited amount will still be given away for free with our regular CD orders.
Buy any of our CD's at our shop and we will send this compilation to you for free!
This is limited edition of 1000 copies.
Not for sale!
Preview tracks on a release page: http://kvitnu.com/releases/kvitnu18.html |
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| Article about Kvitnu in "Ukrainian Culture" magazine |
| Tuesday, 14 June 2011 12:36 |
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Big article about KVITNU in "Ukrainian Culture" magazine.
It was presented at Venice Biennale this year.
Text is in English. Just click on cover and look for the article about us.
http://issuu.com/culture.ua/docs/uc_1 |
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| Sturqen - interview and review on Dagheisha |
| Thursday, 09 June 2011 12:43 |
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Sturqen are talking with Italian metal / hardcore / punk webzine Dagheisha
(Text is in Italian)
http://www.dagheisha.com/music_section/interviews.asp?report=573
And review for Sturqen's "Colera"
http://www.dagheisha.com/music_section/cd.asp?idus=5602 |
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| Kvitnu is on WARP's store BLEEP now |
| Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:37 |
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Kvitnu is working with WARP's shop BLEEP now!
Full catalog of our releases in different formats is there already!
http://bleep.com/index.php?page=label_details&labelid=2125
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| ZAVOLOKA in THE MORNING LINE in Vienna in June 2011 |
| Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:17 |
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On June 7, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), the Vienna based foundation for contemporary art founded by Francesca von Habsburg, will inaugurate The Morning Line – its most ambitious public art project to date. A four-day Festival for Contemporary Music Composition featuring 27 sound artists and nine new compositions, specially conceived for the pavilion’s sonic architecture, will kick off The Morning Line’s six months residency on Schwarzenbergplatz.
Conceived by the New York based artist Matthew Ritchie as an inherently collaborative structure, The Morning Line is an interdisciplinary platform where artists, architects, engineers, physicists, sound designers and musicians each contribute their own specialized information to create a new form: a mutable structure, with multiple expressions and narratives intertwining in its physical structure, projected video and innovative spatialized sound environments. Ritchie teamed up with design innovators Aranda/Lasch, the Music Research Centre of York University and Arup AGU to create the next leap in a fully programmable
three-dimensional sound space. Based on advances in research on crystalline structures, parametric design and fractal construction units, The Morning Line is a fully scalable space; its innovative structure can adopt every configuration, it is
transportable from site to site and acts as a performance space.
THE MORNING LINE – An Interdisciplinary Pavilion Project
The Morning Line – an imposing 10 meter high and 20 meter long pavilion, built of 20 tons of black coated aluminum cut into drawings of our ever expanding universe – was developed during a 3-year research period and is challenging architectural convention: The team of collaborators has designed the first semasiographic building, a non-linear architectural language, based on fractal geometry and parametric design that directly expresses its content through its visual and sonic structure.
Sound Architecture
Beyond its architectural configuration, the artist conceived of the pavilion’s sonic identity. The Morning Line is equipped with fifty speakers, controlled by an advanced multispatial audio system, designed by the Music Research Centre of York University. As a result, the scope of the structure itself and its novel spatialization software support a new form of electronic sound composition – fully three-dimensional sound written for and performed in this new acoustic space. T-B A21 has invited an international group of composers whose work lies beyond the boundaries and the programming of traditional concert halls or music clubs for that matter, to open up this forum to experimentation with different approaches.
Soundfestival und Symposium zu THE MORNING LINE VIENNA
As The Morning Line continues to travel the world as a platform for contemporary music, and within its mandate to encourage and support the production of innovative composition wherever it tours, T-B A21 has appointed the internationally renowned, Austrian musician and sound artist Franz Pomassl to act as a guest curator for the project’s presentation in Vienna. New sonic works by Alexei Borisov (Russia), Christian Fennesz (Austria), Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen (Finland), Carsten Nicolai (Germany), Zsolt Olejnik (Hungary), Finnbogi Petursson (Iceland), Terre Thaemlitz (USA), Zavoloka (Ukraine) and Franz Pomassl himself will be premiered in the context of the Festival for Spatial Sound and Advanced Music Composition at the Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna 1 from Wednesday June 8 until Saturday June 11, 2011.
Festival Program
Live Acts, Performances & Premieres
June 7, 8 pm - Christian Fennesz, Zavoloka, Carsten Nicolai
June 8, 7 pm - Yasunao Tone, Terre Thaemlitz, Franz Pomassl
June 9, 7 pm - Peter Zinovieff, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen, Zavoloka
June 10, 7 pm - Florian Hecker, Carsten Nicolai, Finnbogi Petursson /& Ghostigital
June 11, 12 am - Matinée Batuhan Bozkurt, Erdem Helvacioglu, Mehmet Can Özer, Bryce Dessner
June 11, 7 pm - Zsolt Olejnik, Cevdet Erek, Alexei Borisov, Christian Fennesz
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Founded in Vienna in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art and is actively involved in commissioning and disseminating unconventional projects.
Committed to supporting the production of contemporary art and actively engaged in commissioning and disseminating unconventional projects that defy traditional disciplinary categorizations, T-B A21 sustains a far-reaching regional and
international orientation and explores modes or presentation that are intended to broaden the viewers’ perception. T-B A21 has been building up a reputation in the field of interdisciplinary practice through numerous workshops and the implementation of a number of innovative commissions, The Morning Line being the most ambitious to date.
New Music Commissions
Alexei Borisov – Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen – Christian Fennesz – Carsten Nicolai – Zsolt Olejnik – Finnbog i Petursson – Franz Pomassl – Terre Thaemlitz – Zavoloka,
curated by Franz Pomassl
Further Music Commissions
Carl Michael von Hausswolf – Yasunao Tone – Jana Winderen – Peter Zinovieff, curated by Russell Haswell
Batuhan Bozkurt – Cevdet Erek – Erdem Helvacioglu – Mehmet Can Özer, curated by Cihat Askın, Melih Fereli, Kamran Ince
Bryce Dessner with David Sheppard und / and Evan Ziporyn – Lee Ranaldo – Thom Willems, curated by Bryce Dessner
Mark Fellmit with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros – Bruce Gilbert – Florian Hecker – Chris Watson, curated by Florian Hecker
Jónsi & Alex – Ghostigital, curated by T-B A21 |
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