Here we go then.... updated line up (sorry - no tim exile), full facts & figures. There are going to be 2 sessions - 1 in the afternoon, 1 in the evening - each with different line ups (each act plays once). Plus keep an eye out for the unveiling of the mysterious special guest and other updates on the QuWack myspace:
www.myspace.com/quwacke
QuWack(e) is a one-off Bristol-based mini-festival. Expect 14 electronic artists creating collaborative and solo performances in a non-stop tag team across two stages. Get lost in a maze of voltage surfing control freaks, 21st century composers and unhinged show stoppers presented on two stages, within customised gallery conditions. Prepare for sensory overload, as opposing sound systems face off in an integrated, quadraphonic ocean of sound, while visuals are projected overhead. There will be a performance in the afternoon and another in the evening, each featuring new artists and strange juxtapositions. Quadraphonic DJ's either side.
QuWack (e) celebrates a roll-call of extraordinary musicians from an evergrowing micro-climate. These are hybrid performers that evolve in dark rooms, run away from natural habitats and devour popular/high culture while sounding mightily mutant. They seem to be generating all around the world. Hence this QuWack features guests from places such as Poland, Earth’s Solar System, Russia, Birmingham and even Cambridge. There seem to be ideal conditions in Bristol to help propagate such QuWackers: the city’s historically incestuous leftfield music scene, the heroic lack of need to impress record companies, a strong sense of DIY culture, prolific underground theatre and circus activities, bedroom animators gone mad, an abundance of sonic experimentation and the delirious sense of abandonment that comes with good living conditions, green pastures and credit cards.
Quwack(e) is open to all ages and tickets are available from Bristol Ticket Shop (0870 4444 400), Here Shop, Rooted Records & 20th Century Flicks in Bristol.
Janek Schaefer - Be it minimal delay lines, modified turntables, field recordings, off beatz or sound-art he is one of the most erratically compelling composers of our time. Exhibited with Scanner, Philip Jeck and Brian Eno. Played with Christian Marclay and in Sydney Opera House
Infinite Livez - Gameboy programmer, comic book artist, and soft toy lover puts out wonky hip hop on Big Dada, plays with electro jazz boffins and self-releases freestyle noise cds for fun
Isambard Khroustaliov - An early intro to Warner Brothers cartoons (and the music of Carl Starling) fused with the fastidiousness of an IRCAM composers training battle it out in an over-enthused psyche. AKA Sam Britton of Icarus (Leaf)
?????? - Arrhhh of course, the mystery component, guest, wild card. As with all other QuWacks an unknown performers enters the fray at the last minute, to up the intrigue and through a final spanner in the works.
Man From Uranus - Uses analogue oscillator boxes, reel to reel tape, toy sequencer, and TV/shortwave receiver – all wired together into one great synaesthetic sound machine
Bela Emerson - The art of cello is reflected through the looking glass and into a parallel world of cosmic electronics. She was spellbinding at this year's Supersonic Festival
Artamonova - a composer and improviser from Russia. She appears in hysterical art-noise act SWPOU and as White Nightie, this guise sees her on that wild edge between acoustic folk and lo-tech electronics
Twocsinak - A self-styled autodidact who may yet be famous (although he is feted by Matmos) with a very distinct, mischievous, obscenely detailed collage/ege sound world
Vi - There is a sense of Richie Hawtin's dedicated vision, Kraftwerk's dis/utopia and Pan Sonic's harnessing of powerful instruments within his music. He has that self absorbed electronic sound that is well worth fetishising
My Ambulance Is On Fire - Histrionic vocalisation made intoxicating by electrification. An obsessive cine-pile, who plays in Geisha, loves Italo-Disco and whose stance is always a provocative one
Katapulto - Broken and smashed beat genius from Rzeszow, Poland. He wants to take over the UK music charts and pays tribute to Phil Collins, "the King of England"
Alexander Thomas - coaxes delicious ripples from his Theremin. Vaudeville, mad-cap hip-hop and ghostly soundscapes are all defined and then re-defined by his sense of otherworldiness
Leadtowill - Plays Throat Synth, Jar Wind Chimes and a Pringles microcontroller to perform sonic brain massage. Half of Leadtowine and loves to home brew
James Scatter - One half of glitterbeat duo Hook & The Twin this man is coming in from the unknown to spice up the proceedings with his raffle style
PLUS:::
VJ Rodell – Nutty electric light magician will install a reactive, highly sensitive colour generator to beam overhead
DJ Undertow – This former QuWacker (aka Lovewig purveyor of ‘Satchel Beat’) will demonstrate the PA system's unique qualities to disorientate the dancer and splice the looker.
