Transart Biennial presents three evenings of concerts that explore the blurred edges between sound, art, video, performance and improv.

ENTRY FREE!!
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DAFNA NAPHTALI + HANS TAMMEN: “Mechanique(s)”
Tuesday, August 6, 18:00

LYNN BOOK: “Escapes”
Wednesday, August 7, 18:00

ENSEMBLE XENON: “Perfect Hotel”
Thursday, August 8, 18:00

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MECHANIQUE(S)

mechanique(s) is a collaboration between Dafna Naphtali and Hans Tammen involving live electronics, sound processing, analog modular synth and voice. The duo formed in the late 90‘s to investigate the overlap of various elements of their technical and aesthetic practices — in compositions and improvisational settings for Naphtali’s interactive processed sound/noise system and Tammen’s custom analog modular synth built around chaotic behaviors.

LYNN BOOK

Book will perform an extended media work that is part of a larger project, UnReading for Future Bodies, where she investigates the dark mists of alien-ness that both conceal and accentuate pathways for flight and resistance at the borderlands of life. Lynn Book’s interdisciplinary practice engages bodies as becoming, bodies being with. Her hybrid projects include full scale performance media works, concerts in contemporary music and club settings, exhibitional stagings, recordings and public actions that draw from performance art, movement, the theatrical, visual art, language, sound and new music.

ENSEMBLE XENON

Ensemble Xenon, formed in Berlin in 2009, is a composer-performer ensemble straddling the fence between free and noted music. Central to their work are the compositions and concepts of the members of the ensemble as well as free improvisation, sometimes including other genres like dance, installation or video. The ensemble also performs a repertoire of new music of composers that relates to the its working style.