I'mPULSE Clandestino: 4th Asia-Europe Music Camp
I'mPULSE is an initiative by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) to
nurture the development of innovative methods and practices in music
through the empowerment of young musicians from Asia and Europe, and
the encouragement of continuous dialogue amongst them.
I'mPULSE began as an Asia-Europe music workshop in the Philippines in
2005, connecting traditional musicians from Asia with classical
musicians from Europe. At the end of that year, I'mPULSE also gathered
traditional singers in Ireland. In 2006, ASEF co-organised a programme
for Asian and European DJ's in Beijing, focusing on comprehensive
digital music experimentation. I'mPULSE continues to be a unique
platform for multilateral artistic exchanges between musicians of both
regions.
This year's I'mPULSE, focused on dub music, is co-organised by ASEF
and the Clandestino Festival. Both organisations share the goal of
encouraging dialogue and enhancing collaboration and facilitating
experimentation opportunities for artists. I'mPULSE brings together 25
professionals (young artists, VJ's, lecturers and curators) from 16
countries in Asia and Europe for a series of closed-door workshops and
rehearsals. Participants of I'mPULSE will then bring the fusion of
ideas and their musical exploration to the public through performances
during the Clandestino Festival.
http://www.myspace.com/clandestinofestival
http://www.asef.org/
18000018018018401 [SWEDEN]
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18000018018018401 describes herself as an experimental musical
illiterate with a great fascination for music as a concept. The way a
construction of percussive language and sound fragments can be
combined into units is a highly spiritual and intellectually
stimulating process. Her composing is steered by the affection of
creating visual patterns of sound components. The eye is as important
as the ear. The music could be defined as industrial dub electronica
wave - somehow club related. She is also part of the audiovisual art
concept The Konference, promoting sustainable evolution, and
collaborates more in depth with electronica producer hab.
Dub Terror [ITALY]
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Dub Terror is a London-based music project specialised in bass-heavy
dubs and futuristic electronic music production. It's conceived and
operated by Italian producer Simone Lombardi and signed to Zion
Train's Deep Root\Universal Egg label. After joining the local music
scene in his native town, Turin, Simone realised how big the crave for
creative spaces was among the youth, as big as the social discomfort
towards the institutions. The struggle towards a grey and impersonal
society became the leading force behind his determination in becoming
a successful music producer and plays a central role in establishing
his musical identity. His approach to making music is freeform and
instinctive, usually preparing multi-tracks, recording several
versions and only then choosing the one that his instinct leads him
towards, in the style of the dub pioneers. He plays with the mixing
desk as if it was part of the music, like a director, and produces the
final track as creating a story. He sees each instrument as a
different character, bringing its own personality to interact with
other instruments, as actors do in a play.
Genys [LITHUANIA]
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As a child Jevgenijus Konstantinovas spent nine year at a music
school. In 1995 he started working as a MC in UZI, a hip hop group
that dominated the charts in his country Lithuania. During his
experimental period DJ Genys started collecting jazzy hip hop, dance
hall, soul, broken beat, ragga, roots reggae, ska and dub. As one of
Lithuania's biggest VD's, he performed his own favourite music from
the Baltic coast, and organized parties for hungry ears all around the
country. DJ Genys LP:s have also been played in Berlin, Belgium,
Russia, Latvia and Sweden. Two years ago, Geny started the electronica
project Dublicate, a co-operation with Paulius Kilbauskas. The band
has performed live together with big names such as Rhythms and Sound,
St. Paul Hilaire, Roni Size, MC Dynamate, Togetha Brotha Soundsystem.
He participated in the Rotterdam film festival in 2006 och at the
Baltic electronica festival in Dortmund in 2007.
Jethro Joaquin [THE PHILIPPINES]
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Jethro Joaquin is a sound designer, educated at the acting studio of
the University of Phillipines, whose sound art has been performed at
the Prague Quadrennial and World Stage Design in Toronto. He shapes
sound landscapes and works with derivations of already existing
pieces. He also runs the company Sound Bay Recording Studio, and works
with different theatre projects. Joaquin also produces music outside
the theatre, where he creates dub inspired electronica pieces by using
the inherent sound caracteristica of maximalized every day sounds,
such as rain, traffic and thunder. He has toured around Europe and
North America with these compositions dealing with the dub landscape
of acting.
Manucher [AUSTRIA]
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Manucher is a music producer involved in various projects, and a DJ
and organizer, resident in Vienna. The aim of his different music
projects is to show the necessity of global co-existence. Manucher is
himself influenced by contemporary music created through meetings
caused by modern migraton. His work has through the years resulted in
many interesting co-operations with artists such as Roots Manuva,
Asian Dub Foundation and State of Bengal. In 2006 he started the label
01 Recording, that produces eastern influenced experimental
electronica.
Masanori Amakura [JAPAN]
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Masanori Amakura is one of the prominent figures of the new generation
of progressive Japanese musicians. As a percussionist he is inspired
by different kind of music, including jazz, African rhytms and
Japanese techno pop. His musical width provided him with the
opportunity to combine drums, percussion and computers in a unique
way. Masanoris homemade instruments, produced by junk, scrap and
kitchen utentils are also a peculiar part of his sound image. Masanori
was born i Hiroshima, but moved to New York at the age of twenty.
Mel Gray [IRELAND]
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Mel Gray, a.k.a Eating Betty, is originally from Irland, but is now
resident in New York. His occupation is to try and find the perfect
rhythm and to develop the ultimate dub, through both digital and
analogue means. He is inspired by the dub artists of the Jamaican
70's, and combines the traditional elements of dub with modern
instruments and recording techniques with the aim to create a music
that sounds at the same time retro and progressive.
Molecule [FRANCE]
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The French artist Molecule is among others influenced by Basic Channel
and Scape Productions and mixes dub vibrations with minimalist
electronic sounds and hip hop experiments. He performs on stages
around France, and is inspired by Pink Floyd as well as Debussy and
uses both bass and Indian sitar as musical instruments. In co-
operation with artists such as Jamalski, Leeroy (Saïn Supa Crew),
HoneyChild and Webbafield, Molecule has composed music for visual art.
In March his album In Dub V1.0. was released.
Nuphlo [UK]
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Nuphlo's DJ carrier began at a local pirate radio station in Leeds,
where he played a range of eastern influenced electronic music.
Through friends he was given the opportunity to experiment with music
production, which led to a shift of focus from DJ:ing, and the
interest in production itself flourished. After a few years of sending
out demos to labels, he caught the eye of Nasha Records in London, who
started getting involved in his musical development. The co-operation
has recently led to his participation with some dubstep and
drum'n'bass tracks on their forthcoming LP.
Rachel Saraswati [INDONESIA]
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The Indonesian musician Rachel Saraswati combines classical pop, blues
and jazz with traditional Javanese and Balinese dancing. She is one of
the founders of Next to Kin, a group which is behind the performance
project Rhymes of Passage och mixes different art forms with the aim
to overcome the cleavage between popular culture and high culture. She
has earlier participated as a vocalist in the percussion group Gebuin,
and she also experiments with modern and classical song in her music
production.
Slimmah Sound [THE NETHERLANDS]
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Slimmah Sound is Tim Baumgarten from the Netherlands. Over the past
few years he has been producing roots reggea. He has participated on
the LP Dub Shoe, Episode One, released by the German label Dub Flash.
He has played at festivals and on bigger stages around the
Netherlands, and in 2007 the record Love Fire Burning, a musical co-
operation with the singer Jah Melodie, will be released at the Dutch
label Bush and Shadow.
Sweet Susie [AUSTRIA]
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Sweet Susie has been an active DJ for almost fifteen years, and is
regularly hired by clubs all around Europe. She is based in Vienna,
where she also works as an artist and hosts the legendary Dub Club.
The club, which has existed for twenty years, mixes dub with hip hop,
jungle, break beat and brazil, and has been visited by icons such as
Mad Professor, Jungle Brothers and Gangster. Sweet Susie is also
herself a musician and an artist. During the last three years she has
had a close co-operation with Mani Montana and the duo is at present
producing an album where pop, dub and jazz is combined.
Tri Minh [VIETNAM]
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Since the beginning of the 90s, after graduating from the Hanoi music
conservatoire, Tri Minh has played jazz at different places in Hanoi
together with other young musicians. After a period of jazz
improvisation, he started exploring his own territory within the
electronical music. In 1999 this resulted in solo performances on
various scenes. Tri Minh has established himself as the first true
electro music artist in Vietnam. His ability to combine electro sounds
with classical Vietnamese music has made him famous as an avant-garde
musician and sound artist.
Variam [SWEDEN]
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Mariam Wallentin, a.k.a. Variam, is from Örebro and has sang
everything from pop to soul to jazz. Besides her own projects under
the name Variam, she sings in many different groups such as, Wildbirds
and Peacedrums, Backdrop, Sinclair/Wallentin duo Lindblad
StudioShowcase, and XiaoHe, and has also guest stared artists such as
Papa Dee and Laakso. At the moment she is studying at the Individual
Improvisational Performance program at the University of Gothenburg.
She has participated in different art projects and has co-operated
with film creators and dancers such as Marta Dauluite, Moa Matilda
Sahlin och Ylva Henriksson. In the autumn of 2006 she lived in Beijing
to study the musical scene of China.
Vidya [SWEDEN]
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Vidya has been described as a mix of Björk, Ella Fitzgerald and Pippi
Longstocking, but only identifies with the last-mentioned. She workes
with improvisation and transcendent stage art, mostly alternating
between singing, talking och telling poetry, and uses her own made-up
language. She can be seen in different artistic contexts, has perfomed
at the biggest Swedish scenes and co-operated with musicians of
different genres. She currently works with the design and art
collective Thekonference, a project for a more durable world.
ZenLu [CHINA]
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ZenLu is an experimental musician and sound artist, who lives in
Chinese Shenzhen. In 2002 he founded the post-rock group Conciousness,
and two years later he joined the group YOUNG CRAZY. He has a great
interest in experimental electronica and industrial noise, and in
April 2006 he started the band Zen Bobo, which completely focuses on
minimalist ambient music.
Mad Professor & Blonddub Sexy Sound [UK]
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Blonddub Sexy Sound is the name of the Israeli producer, singer and
songwriter Orly Frinder, who mixes dub with dancehall and electro on
her debut EP Blonddub Sexy Sound. She is a former member of the world
music group Auru and has cooperated with Sir Larsi, Dub Rogue and
Yossi Fine. On her record she combines echo effect and percussion, and
her satirical lyrics often speak about the role of woman in society.
Her next record, with the title God Save the Empress, will include
numerous musical co-operations. Together with Mad Professor (see
artists) she will hold a workshop.
Dr Das [UK]
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Dr Das is a bass player, programmer and producer, and one of the
founders of Asian Dub Foundation, developed through the workshops he
ran in London during the 90s. Recently his first solo album Emergency
Basslines was released; an instrumental record that puts the emphasis
on melody and driving basslines, mixed with distorted Indian och
Arabic percussion loops. He defines his music as dubnoise, and is at
the moment engaged in preparing his second solo album SUDAMALA VOL 1.
Dr Das has also been involved in two other records and in numerous co-
operations, productions and remix projects.
Dickson Dee [CHINA]
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Dickson Dee has been involved in the music business in Hong Kong,
China och Taiwan for more than twenty years, and has had a great
influence on the development of Chinese underground culture. He
started his career as an importer of European independent music and
has ever since been active as a producer, composer and curator, and
has also started a label under the name Dicksonia Audio. Dee performs
under several names depending on what he plays, such as Li Chin Sung,
DJ Dee and Koomi Soundmachine. The music can be described as
aborderland of electronica, art music, avant-garde jazz och industrial
noise.
Daito Manabe [JAPAN]
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The producer Daito Manabe's goal is to constantly redefine existing
media by attacking it from new angles. He creates sounds, lights och
images by analysing and converting numerical data from sensors and
various recording instruments. Daito's background as a mathematician
and programmer makes it possible for him to constantly be at the
cutting edge of the development of electronic culture. He has co-
operated with dancers, designers, artists, performance artists and
fashion producers all around the world, the last time was with Ryichi
Sakamoto.
Steve Barker [UK]
Steve Barker has been braodcasting on the BBC for almost thirty years,
his On The Wire show (www.onthewire.uk.com) was first broadcast in
1984 with Adrian Sherwood as special guest on the first programme, the
show is still running today. Over the years Stev has interviewed many
of the reggae great including Augustus Pablo, Burning Spear, Dennis
Brown, Joe Hill from Culture and Lee "Scracth" Perry. Steve has been
an associate of both On U Sounds and Pressure Sounds record labels,
writing sleevenotes, reseaching samples and performing an ad hoc A&R
role. For the past ten years he has writtent the dub column for the
Wire magazine. He has lived in Beijing, China for the last five years
and plays the occasional DJ for the Upstepper Crew or Beijing Home
Town Hi Fi, appearing as DJ Lao Lao Shu (DJ Old Rat!)
VJ Milosh [POLAND]
VJ Milosh
The visual intermedia artist, video director, performance artist and
painter Milosz Luczynski has lived and worked in Paris since 2001.
After having studied anthropology at the university and art at the art
school of Cracow, he then moved on to study in communucation and
multimedia at the art school of Tolouse. The passion for music and
performance opened new doors within the electronic culture. He started
working as a VJ at raves i Cracow in 1996, and shortly afterwards he
entered the electronic scene in Germany. At the same time as he was
VJ:ing on scenes in Berlin, he produced videos and installations.
Milosz projects are characterized by a mix of images, sound and texts.
He co-operates a great deal with musicians in electronica, composers
in contemporary music, poets, writers, and visual artist. Since 1995
he has performed his projects more than 300 times in several
countries, on three continents.
VJ Mo-P [Sweden]
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Miguel-Oliver Pissarra, born in the 70's on the other side of the
equator, is a multi-disciplinary designer & audiovisual artist who,
fascinated by the effect symbols have on the conscious and
subconscious, started working professionally with graphic design back
in 1996. Over the years he has furthered his exploration on the impact
of visual culture in a myriad of other mediums such as photography,
film & 2D / 3D animation tools to convey a message, tell a story or
simply create a reaction within ...
PARTICIPANTS I'mPULSE Clandestino:
Manucher Raschidy (a.k.a Manucher, Austria)
www.myspace.com/manucher
Susanne Rogenhofer (a.k.a Sweet Susie, Austria)
www.myspace.com/dubclubvienna
Lu Zheng (China)
www.zenlu.com
www.weplayrec.cn
Delahaye-Serafini Romain (a.k.a Molecule, France)
www.myspace.com/moleculeproject
Mel Gray (a.k.a Eating Betty, Ireland)
www.acetonestudio.com/eatingbetty.html
Simone Lombardi (a.k.a Dub Terror, Italy)
www.myspace.com/dubterror
Jevgenijus Konstantinovas (Genys, Dublicate, Lithuania)
www.myspace.com/dublicate
Milosh Luczynski (a.k.a VJ Milosh, Poland)
www.vjmilosh.com
Tim Baumgarten (Slimmahsound Dub System, The Netherlands)
www.myspace.com/slimmahsounddubsystem
Mariam Wallentin (Sweden)
www.wildbirdsandpeacedrums.com
www.myspace.com/wildbirdsandpeacedrums
www.myspace.com/mariamwallentin
Vidya-Liselotte Sundberg (Sweden)
www.myspace.com/vidyalise
Karin Holmgren (a.k.a 18000018018018401,
Sweden)
www.myspace.com/18000018018018401
Miguel-Oliver Pissarra (a.k.a VJ M-OP,
Sweden)
www.myspace.com/supremefidelity
Manjinder Sandhu (a.k.a Nuphlo,
United Kingdom)
www.myspace.com/nuphlomusic
Thang Doan Huu (a.k.a Tri Minh,
Vietnam)
www.em411.com/triminh
www.soundclick.com/electrovn
www.myspace.com/triminh05
LECTURERS I'mPULSE Clandestino:
Neil Fraser (a.k.a Mad Professor)
www.myspace.com/madprofessordub
Aniruddha Das (a.k.a Dr.Das)
www.myspace.com/drdas
Orly Frider (a.k.a Blondub Sexy Sound)
www.myspace.com/blondubsexysound
Daito Manabe
www.daito.ws/
Dickson Dee (a.k.a Li Chin Sung)
www.myspace.com/dicksondee
http://www.noiseasia.com/dick/?page_id=9
Steve Barker (On the Wire/BBC Radio)
www.onthewire.uk.com
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