Concerts
past and forthcoming live performances
15.10.2010
Live Performance at Placard Headphone Festival, La Générale en Manufacture, Sevres
MTBF performance for CataRT, controllers, and field recordings diffused on headphones and via streaming at Visionsonic Placard headphone festival,.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Mathieu Chamagne for the fantastic work on the Max Multitouch Framework (MMF), and Pink Twins for the Fantastick application for the iPad.
Alarm–Signal played at Sound and Music Computing Conference, Barcelona
Concert around freesound
Diemo Schwarz performs the piece Alarm–Signal, for CataRT, controllers, and freesound sounds
Alarm sounds and signals are usually lying in wait all around us to alert our attention, warn us of danger, wake us up. This piece finally gives them a chance to express themselves freely, just what the freesound project was intended for.
“Alarm” and “signal” are the search terms used in freesound to find the sounds out of which this piece is exclusively constructed. Despite the startling nature of most of these sounds, the use of corpus-based concatenative synthesis techniques in the CataRT system makes it possible to compose smooth evolutions and soothing combinations of timbres, thereby reflecting on the inner qualities of these sounds that are richer than their everyday use.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Pascal Baltazar for the loan of the Stantum SMK 15″ multitouch interface, and to Mathieu Chamagne for the fantastic work on the Max Multitouch Framework (MMF).
29.06.2010
Les Coupeurs de Têtes live at Non_Jazz, Le Tunnel, Paris
Ce trio ne s’est pas formé depuis plus de deux ans car à la base un quartett ou Hamlet-Machine en duo, voilà où se situait la vérité ; si bien que de caves en bars ils n’ont pas joué avec Syd Barrett Deshit ni Elton John John DRK, encore moins Scarlett Boulezhon ou Ramiroc Bosac, n’ont jamais coupé de têtes ni manoeuvré de guillotines mais ont déjà oeuvré à Gaza dans l’explosion de tunnels en tout genre avec des artifices sonores jamais employés auparavant: saxophone à poing, clarinette fuselée, mini-drones, le tout commandé par le grand Ohrdinaturing.
Les Coupeurs de Tetes (Cyril Touzé guitare+effets, Diemo Schwarz CataRT+drums, Jac Pochat saxo+grelots) live at Le Non_Jazz#2906 au TUNNEL, 86, rue Baron Le Roy, M° Cour St-Emilion
et aussi Cobra Matal, Faux Amis, Sgure, Blenno Und Die Wurst-Brücke
22.06.2010
Les Coupeurs de Têtes live at Qabaret du mardi, Instants Chavires, Paris
Du non-bruit au silence il n’y a qu’une feuille qu’il faut dérouler jusqu’à la souris qui cliquète ; du souffle au plectre il n’y a qu’une pédale sans délai tu végètes de la vie à la mort un souffle continu oublie ça et rallume ta télé”
Les Coupeurs de Têtes (Cyril Touzé guitare+effets, Diemo Schwarz CataRT+drums, Jac Pochat saxo+grelots)
et aussi Google Blum, Emmanuelle Gibello, Erick D’Orion, La Ligne Claire
Entrée libre, petite restauration. Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Paris
21.06.2010
Rooftop Concert, Paris
Oldine invites to his 10th floor terrace above the highest elevation spot in Paris in the 19th arrondissement.
Sorry, private only.
22.05.2010
live performance at placard headphone festival, Instants Chavires
cataRT, binaural field recordings
MTBF live at the placard headphone festival, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Paris.
Video documentation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppxN5YtfZVA
13.05.2010
Concert–Conference at STEIM, Amsterdam
Conferences and concerts by Diemo Schwarz, Kaffe Matthews, Daniela de Paulis, Takuro Mazuka Lippit
MTBF with live corpus-based concatenative synthesis with Hans Leeuw on Electrumpet.
See steim.org for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
Interpretation of Je suis l’écho de l’ombre d’une ombre by Emmanuelle Gibello, Paris
infos: http://www.youtube.com/user/nosuninparis, http://myownspace.fr/946
video excerpt 1, video excerpt 2
20h à la société de curiosités
9, Cité des 3 Bornes, 75011 Paris
Diemo Schwarz interprétera Boucle #1 d’Emmanuelle Gibello, pièce pour deux ordinateurs et 7 interfaces de contrôles
http://www.myspace.com/xmtbf
http://www.myspace.com/catartsoftware
Julie Rousse jouera live
http://julie.la.rousse.free.fr/
Karine Dumont diffusera “dans ma nuit obscure”
http://www.myspace.com/kalalunaticproject
23.07.2009
Live Performance at Sound and Music Computing Conference, Passos Manuel, curated by Evan Parker, Porto
SMC Concert 2, Curated by Evan Parker
Program:
* “Porto_xx0709_Radio_Remixed”, Hannes Raffaseder – live electronics
* “BrainWash”, Yasuhiro Otani – live electronics
* “Corpus-Based Improvisation”, Diemo Schwarz – acoustic instrument & live electronics
* “Hands On Stage – Untitled 1″, Chi-Hsia Lai – Custom-built electronic interface
* “LiveImprovS~”, Koray Tahiroğlu – live electronics & solar panel musical instruments
* “Superimpose I”, Alexander Schubert – piano, double bass, saxophone, percussion & electronics
http://www.passosmanuel.net
Venue: Sound and Music Computing Conference, Passos Manuel, curated by Evan Parker , Rua Passos Manuel 137 , Porto, Porto 4000 385 , PT
21.06.2009
Rooftop Concert, Paris
Oldine invites to his 10th floor…with 12 more above…
Venue: ROOFTOP CONCERT , Telegraphe , Paris, Ile-de-France 75019 , FR
DVD documentation is available.
Photo by Marie-Eve Bouillon
06.06.2009
Exciting sound art festival, Montreuil
The first deambulatory sound art event “FESTIVAL D’EXPÉRIMENTATIONS SONORES” takes place in Montreuil, France, with performances in unusual places such as a whig workshop, a van, a hairdresser’s saloon, an elevator. MTBF will team up with guitar magician Cyril Touzé for a musical exploration of the earth’s stratigraphy.
http://www.myspace.com/circuitsonore
13.03.2009
Improvisation with Victoria Johnson, Bergen, Norway
Concert with classical-turned-experimental violinist Victoria Johnson organised by BEK at the Landmark Gallery in the Bergen art museum Kunsthall.
Also playing: James Webb.
04.01.2009
Live Performance at La Guillotine , Montreuil
Une très bonne année 2009 à tous, et pour bien commencer, il y a un sound-in des Dimanches de l’Impro à la Guillotine de Montreuil aujourd’hui vers 17h avec Alexis Baskind à la basse, Cyril Touzé à la guitare, Jac Pochat au Sax, et Diemo Schwarz à CataRT et cymbale sur caisse claire.
Venue: La Guillotine , 24 rue Robespierre , Montreuil-sous-bois, Ile-de-France 93100 , FR
12.12.2008
Live Performance at La Vapeur, Festival D’Jazz en Scènes, Dijon
E5T > création e5t = Electronic Quintet. Comment fusionner les genres de l’ambient au free-jazz à partir de la notion d’improvisation
07.12.2008
Live Performance at le CUBE – Sublime Sonus 2 (with theconcatenator)
http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/breve.php?id=413 Après le succès du premier rendez-vous de Sublime Sonus : à la découverte de la musique électroacoustique, proposé par Roland Cahen en mars 2008 au Cube, prolongez l’exploration passionnante de ce genre musical en découvrant quatres grands noms de la musique électroacoustique qui interprèteront quelques unes de leurs œuvres. theconcatenator présenteront un live audio-visuel improvisé, Christian Zanési jouera sur différents dispositifs une version live de 2006, l’aube rouge. Xavier Garcia, aux claviers, présentera Solo, performance improvisée selon le lieu, la circonstance, la pression de l’air et la température ambiante. Enfin, Marco Marini jouera une nouvelle pièce sur Piège à Rêve, l’instrument textile de Maurin Donneau
Venue: le CUBE – Sublime Sonus 2 (with theconcatenator) , 20, Cours Saint Vincent, 92130 Issy-les-moulineaux , Paris, Ile-de-France 92130 , FR
28.10.2007
Live Performance at Agence XP
see http://www.leplacard.org/2007/Placardée l’agence XP 12:00 (CEST) .Mean Time Between Failure. – .improvisation + decontextualisation. – .mtbf solo with drones, bidules et field recordings. .12:30 (CEST) .ring sax modulator. – .Etienne Brunet. – .longue traine roll & catenary samba. .13:00 (CEST) .Diemo Schwarz + Etienne Brunet. – .improvisation + recontextualisation. – - .MTBF invite Etienne Brunet pour un Bass corpus clarinet concatenative free drone, ou l’inverse.
Venue: Agence XP , 15 rue de l’aude , Paris 14e, Ile-de-France , FR
28.10.2007
Live Performance at Agence XP
see http://www.leplacard.org/2007/Placardée l’agence XP ::: 12:00 (CEST) .Mean Time Between Failure. – .improvisation + decontextualisation. – .mtbf solo with drones, bidules et field recordings. .12:30 (CEST) .ring sax modulator. – .Etienne Brunet. – .longue traine roll & catenary samba. .13:00 (CEST) .Diemo Schwarz + Etienne Brunet. – .improvisation + recontextualisation. – - .MTBF invite Etienne Brunet pour un Bass corpus clarinet concatenative free drone, ou l’inverse.
Venue: Agence XP , 15 rue de l’aude , Paris 14e, , FR
27.07.2007
Live Performance at Placard 2007
le placard headphone festival http://leplacard.org/2007/placard%20X%20paris/
Venue: 6 grande rue , Sevres, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France , FR
27.07.2007
Live Performance at placard 10, la generale en manufacture
19.12.2006
Rien du tout Performance at Live Algorithms for Music Conference, London
Concert 2: New Computer Music by LAM Network members
Performance “Rien du tout” with Diemo Schwarz and Sam Britton using real time concatenative synthesis:
Drawing on compositional models proposed by John Cage and Luc Ferrari, we assert that it is possible, through a process of re-composition to record environmental sounds and interpret and contextualise them into a musical framework. We propose to demonstrate the possibilities of such an approach by using the CataRT corpus based concatenative synthesis engine as a tool for real-time analysis and catagorisation of recorded sound whilst simultaneously affecting a process of re-synthesis using specific compositional strategies and techniques. We will present various derivatives of this approach in a performance scenario where the emphasis will be based on capturing sound events in real-time using microphones and processing these recordings using CataRT. During the duration of the performance we hope to be able to start with nothing at all (Rien de tout) and by recording and re-composing environmental sound, evolve a musical structure by tracing a non-linear path through the increasing corpus of recorded sound and thereby orchestrating a counter-point to our own linear perception of time. Our aim is to construct a compositional framework from any given source material that may be interpreted as being musical by virtue of the fact that it’s parts have been intelligently re-arranged according to specific sonic and temporal criteria.
2 – 4 pm Venue: <i>Great Hall</i>, Goldsmith’s University , New Cross, London , UK