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COLORAMA invites you to:
BOOKS ON BOOKS
one week about publishing as an artistic practic.
 
DO 17.8 // 18H // SALON
SO 20.8 // 17H // RELEASE
 
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5 design-teams
5 private collections
5 books on books
 
1 week, 5 design teams, 5 private collections -> 5 books on books.
For one week, ten book-artists team up to create five books, one of each dedicated to a private collection: prose, literature, zines, vinyl… they zoom in on those curated or unintended assemblages of knowledge that exists outside of institutional settings. Join us for the release evening with drinks, a little dance and books on books!
 
Participants:
Flemming Ove Bech + Tea Palmelund
Knock Knock Books
Lieven Lahaye + Ott Metusala
Gloria Glitzer
Richard Rocholl + Jolanda Todt
 
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SO 20.8 // 17H
ACUD GALLERY // RELEASE
COLORAMA: BOOKS ON BOOKS RELEASE
… join in for the release evening with drinks, a little dance and books on books!
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Sun bathed soul music with the finish pop crooner Jaakko Eino Kalevi.
 
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DJ JAAKKO EINO KALEVI
Combining synth-pop, folk, funk, and psych-rock into trippy experimental pop, multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi grew up in Jyväskylä, a city in central Finland. He began making music as a boy after discovering Dream Theaters prog-metal and hip-hop, teaching himself how to play guitar and use beat-making software before exploring reggae, disco, techno, and more. Kalevi issued a string of releases reflecting his omnivorous musical taste, including 2010s coldwave-inspired album Modern Life and 2013s hazy, fittingly named Dreamzone EP. The following year, he released the disco homage Yin Yang Theatre, an EP on DJ Tim Sweeneys Beats in Space label. His 2015 self-titled album arrived via the Domino imprint Weird World.
 

 
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BACKYARD SUMMER
Every Wednesday throughout the summer, we invite you to our backyard to cool down with music, food, drinks and friends. Summer sounds from DJs and performances in the courtyard, plus live sets in the club, a special summer drinks menu and soul food from Glory Box Spicy Soulfood.
 
Spend the early evening hours and welcome the best part of the week with us!
 
ACUD BACKYARD SUMMER 2017
 
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MI 23.8 // 19-23H // PWYC
ACUD COURTYARD // DJ
BACKYARD SUMMER X
JAAKKO EINO KALEVI
sun bathed soul music with the finish pop crooner
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Foul-Up presents the release party for “Information City”, Beastie Respond’s new album.
 
LINE-UP
 
BEASTIE RESPOND
GALAXIAN [Live]
CERA KHIN
MISTANTROP
 
File under: Electro, footwork, drum’n’bass, jungle, grime, UK garage, dancehall, noise, experimental, industrial, techno, house, trance and beyond.
 
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BEASTIE RESPOND [Copenhagen]
Since debuting with the EP “Syncopy” back in 2011, Beastie Respond has re-invented his sound with every release, moving from the moody drum’n’bass of his debut EP into more colourful realms. On “Information City” Beastie Respond presents a stylistically unchained work, drawing on a wide array of sounds while reflecting upon an increasingly digitized society with endlessly expanding data pools and digital realities. Beastie Respond is mainly known for his releases on Teal Recordings and appearances on Circle Vision, dBridge’s Exit Records and Loxy’s Cylon Recordings. Expect an ADHD-fuelled melting pot of sounds and unreleased productions in Beastie Respond’s ever-eclectic DJ sets!
 

 
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GALAXIAN [Glasgow, Live]
Seeking to challenge perceptions of self, society and being through a helter-skelter vortex of unsettling rhythmic convulsions and incendiary electronic collages. Releases on labels including Last Known Trajectory. Lower Parts and (solo as well as in collaboration with DJ Stingray) on Shipwrec are both distinctive, remarkably vital and have further cemented Galaxian’s reputation for pushing boundaries in unexpected and exciting new directions. A provocative visual style, political and philosophical attitude further submerge the listener in Galaxian’s visions and ideas. Kitted out in trademark helmet and mask, as if to foresee a collapse of the current social fabric, his live shows are dripping with raw energy and atmosphere generating an immersive experience which commands attention. April this year saw the release of the “Blowback” EP on Foul-Up, Galaxian’s widest ranging release thus far with dance floor ready cuts side-by-side with Galaxian’s lesser known (but equally intricate) experimental tunes. Late 2017 promises a new EP on Helena Hauff’s Return To Disorder.
 

 
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CERA KHIN [Berlin]
From Berlin via Tunis, Cera Khin has quickly made a name for herself as a Selectress & DJ that can find the finest thread between disparate sounds, connecting the dots between Modern club & Experimental music as well as Musique Concrète, Dub & Dancehall styles in an effortless way. Bored of mindless club-attitude, Cera is not afraid to take her spirited approach to the dancefloor, and she has been invited to play at Berlin’s finest parties as well as respected international events such as Bristol’s Young Echo Sound and Milan’s Macao venue, to name a few. She also transmits her unique style and selection via her monthly residency on the airwaves of Bristol’s Noods Radio, as well as guest appearances on London’s NTS Radio & Rinse FM, Amsterdam’s Red Light Radio, The Hague’s Intergalactic FM and local stations Cashmere and Berlin Community Radio.
 

 
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MISANTROP [Berlin]
Danish-born and Berlin-based Misantrop is the founder of Foul-Up, having initiated the label with his debut EP “Limerence” in late 2016. Misantrop’s music aims to defy singularity, drawing from all over contemporary music and noise grounds – building upon the past but mostly sidestepping solid amalgamations.
Sets by Misantrop keep listeners alert by placing them at the centre of his stylistic chaos and taking them on a unique exploration of a extensive sonic territory.
 

 
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FOUL-UP // Soundcloud – Homepage
 
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FR 1.9 // 22H // 10€
ACUD CLUB // CLUB NIGHT + RECORD RELEASE
foul-up presents:
BEASTIE RESPOND
GALAXIAN // CERA KHIN // MISTANTROP
launch party for “Information City”, the new album of copenhagen beatmaker beastie respond
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Das Punckrock-Outfit Belgrad präsentiert sein selbstetiteltes Debütalbum im ACUD Club.
 
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BELGRAD
… wurde Anfang 2015 von Rosenkranz und Leopoldowitsch, die schon vorher miteinander gearbeitet hatten, gegründet, als sie zusammen auf einer mehrwöchigen Osteuropareise waren. Doch sie sollten mit ihren Ideen nicht lange alleine bleiben. Ein paar Monate später hatten die beiden mehrere Songs zusammen und suchten sich mit Stephan Mahler am Schlagzeug (u.a. Slime) und Ronnie Henseler am Bass (u. a. KOMMANDO-SONNENMILCH) prominente, musikalische Unterstützung.
 
Zwei Generationen, drei Städte in Ost und West, Widersprüche als Chance: Wohnhaft in Berlin, Dresden und Hamburg und künstlerisch sozialisiert in verschiedenen subkulturellen Szenen vereint die Band BELGRAD unterschiedliche Sichtweisen. Ein vielschichtiger musikalischer Background, der sich widerspiegelt in den Bands, in denen die vier Musiker bereits vor ihrer Begegnung aktiv waren: Stalin vs. Band, Dikloud, Slime, Torpedo Moskau, Kommando Sonne-nmilch, um nur einige zu nennen. Aus den gemeinsamen Aufnahmesessions entwickelte sich dann fast nebenher und unwillkürlich das erste, selbstbetitelte Album auf dem Hamburger Label Zeitstrafe.
 

 
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SA 2.9 // 19H // 13€
ACUD CLUB // CONCERT
greyzone presents
BELGRAD
the punckrock outfit plays songs from his debut album
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Livia Rita & artists present the avant-garde concert of her forthcoming debut album “Rewild”
 
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LIVIA RITA
… has developed her own eclectic musical style together with composer and producer Tom McLuckie drawing on a wide range of influences and genres spanning electronic, pop, experimental, classical and new wave styles. She subverts the listeners with each song, as wild, brutal textures meet vulnerable, otherworldly melodies in adventurous and emotional ways.
 
Livia Rita explores more avant-garde ways of performing her synthesiser drenched music through a strong visual identity; formed of bespoke costumes, theatrical staging and stylised movement created by herself; realised by dancers. Together, it collides into a 4D explosion of art; a surreal live music video that straddles fantasy and reality, capable of intoxicating audiences with the exploration of love, freedom, dreams and progressive thinking. The audience is lured into Livias mind, and is taken on a journey to gain ownership over the future. This work was developed at the Barbican in London and in Switzerland. // Facebook – Instagram
 

 
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FR 8.9 // 21H // 6-8€
ACUD STUDIO // CONCERT+LIVE ART PERFORMANCE
LIVIA RITA + ARTISTS
present the avant-garde concert of her forthcoming debut album “Rewild”
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NAAMA ARAD
 
OPENING: FRI, 15. SEPTEMBER 2017, 7 – 10 PM
EXHIBITION: 15. SEPTEMBER – 22. OCTOBER 2017
OPENING HOURS: FRI & SAT, 1 – 6 PM
 
Followed by an after party at ACUD Club
 
Curated by Elodie Evers
 
Image: Naama Arad, Handle with Care, 2016
Courtesy of Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv
 
 
With kind support by
 

Mit dem Duo Hacklander / Hatam und Giovanni Civitenga sorgen wir im ACUD Club dafür, dass zum Bergfest des Monats der zeitgenössischen Musik nicht nur gehört, sondern auch getanzt werden kann. // Halfway through the Month of Contemporary Music, we feature the duo Hacklander / Hatam and Giovanni Civitenga, ensuring that you can dance as well as listen.
 
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HACKLANDER / HATAM
GIOVANNI CIVITENGA
GUESTS
 
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Für das Bergfest des Monats der zeitgenössischen Musik hat das ACUD ein spannendes Programm zusammengestellt, bei dem nicht nur gehört, sondern auch getanzt werden kann: Hacklander / Hatam ist ein Drum- und Elektronik-Duo von Colin Hacklander und Farahnaz Hatam. Ihr Interesse gilt rhythmischer Stabilität und ihre Abwesenheit, der Tiefe radikaler Material-Heteronomie im zeitgenössischen Kapitalismus und der Natur unserer Konditionierung. Sie verstehen Ton als plastisches Material und Klang als Medium für Ideen: digitale Klangsynthese mit SuperCollider. Abgelöst werden sie am späteren am Abend von Giovanni Civitenga. Er ist der Kopf hinter dem Berliner Label S K Y A P N E A und der gleichnamigen Radiosendung auf NTS, in der er regelmäßig Gäste einlädt und mit ihnen Visionen eines eindringlichen Sounds verbreitet.
 
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To mark the halfway point of the Month of Contemporary Music, ACUD has prepared an exciting evening where one can not only listen to music but also dance to it. Music for the mind and the body. Hacklander / Hatam is the hard hitting drum and electronics duo from Colin Hacklander and Frahnaz Hatam. Interested in transparency, liberation, rhythmic stability & its absence, the depth of radical material heteronomy in contemporary capitalism & the nature of our mobilised conditioning; sound as sculptural material; sound as a medium in which ideas are communicated; digital sound synthesis with SuperCollider; drums, percussion & gongs. They will then make way for Giovanni Civitenga, who will take control of the decks. Founder of the Berlin label S K Y A P N E A he also has a radio program on NTS which goes by the same name, inviting guests and exploring their idea of immersive sound.
 

 
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SA 16.9 // 21H
ACUD CLUB // CONCERT + CLUB NIGHT
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PARTY – MONAT DER ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN MUSIK:
HACKLANDER / HATAM // GIOVANNI CIVITENGA // GUESTS
halfway through the month of contemporary music, a night for dancing and listening
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Free jazz is frenetic, hypnotic, disorienting. At its very inception in the 1960s, it was a rallying cry for self-actualization and emancipation, not just from traditional cultural values and aesthetics, but from a repressive, racist and sexist social hierarchy. Although most closely associated with the burgeoning Afrocentric and Afrofuturist cultural arms of the US civil rights movement, the radical sounds and attitudes of the so-called New Thing would come to resonate far beyond its original context.
 
In this installment of Sounding Images, New York Eye and Ear Control by Canadian film-maker Michael Snow will be screened in 16mm original, with an introduction by Zoë Harris, looking at avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and 70s and its representation in film, with special interest in the use of improvisation and deconstruction as radical formal and political operations in audio and/or visual practice.
 
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“New York Eye and Ear Control is ‘about’ what this is about. It was very carefully, I might say, (to get your sympathy) painfully composed. This could be
as arbitrary
as something
found or bought
or something
done while high or done by someone else.” (Michael Snow)
 
Michael Snow is a Canadian filmmaker, artist, and musician, considered one of the pioneers of North American experimental cinema and structuralist film in the 1960s. He is perhaps most celebrated for his works Wavelength (1967) and La région centrale (1971). But Snow’s commitment to an expanded artistic practice is best illustrated by New York Eye and Ear Control (1964), a film featuring a two-dimensional cutout feminine silhouette navigating “real” 3-D environments. Its soundtrack widely considered to be one of the seminal free jazz recordings. Snow had been active in the avant-garde jazz scene, primarily as a pianist, and the ensemble he initiated for the film is a veritable who’s who of luminaries: Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Sunny Murray, Gary Peacock, Roswell Rudd, and John Tchicai. Even the “Walking Woman” figure featured on film is based on the likeness of another friend, jazz pianist Carla Bley.
 
New York Eye and Ear Control
1964, 34 min, 16 mm
 
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ZOË HARRIS
… (b. 1991, New York) is a Berlin-based freelance writer, editor, and archivist.
 
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The series SOUNDING IMAGES focuses on different approaches to documenting and visualizing musical performances, scenes and movements as well as close collaborations between filmmakers and composers, including soundtracks. The aim of it is to open up a wide range of perspectives on the interrelation of music, experimental filmmaking, and video art, including issues regarding race, class, sexuality and gender. Invited guests will discuss selected works and a short introduction to each screening will provide background information, sometimes a Q&A will follow.
 
SOUNDING IMAGES is organized by Fiona McGovern. // Homepage
 
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Foto: Courtesy of Michael Snow and LUX, London.
 
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DI 19.9 // 19H30 // 4-6€
ACUD STUDIO // SCREENING
SOUNDING IMAGES #9: EYE AND EAR CONTROL
free jazz on film with zoë harris
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Is the city of Tbilissi a chessboard for the hidden elites or a kingdom of frogs? With an ironic symbolism, a very own humour, and some bitter seriousness, video artists from Georgia can tell you a lot about their country. Aleksi Solasia, filmmaker and curator of Georgian Video Art – the first big exhibition about contemporary video art in the country – will present a selection of works from the show on Thursday, sept. 21, and for the first time in Germany. Afterwards there’ll be drinks and some sound impressions of hyper modernism and neo traditionalism
 
With works by Irina Gabiani, Uta Bekaia, Levan Mindiashvili, Gegi Khaburzania, Koka Tskvediani, Wato Tsereteli a.o.
 
Presented by Berlin Art Prize and Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi
 
Language: English
Duration: ca. 1,5 hours
 
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DO 21.9 // 20H30 // FREE
ACUD STUDIO // SCREENING
BERLIN ART PRIZE PRESENTS
KINGDOM OF FROGS
video art from georgia selected and introduced by filmmaker aleksi solasia
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The brilliant songwriter and melody maker Nina Hynes from Dublin will play a solo show of mostly new material with friends as special musical guests
 
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NINA HYNES
… has released 4 albums(Creation: 1999, Staros: 2002, Really Really Do: 2007 Goldmine: 2013) and various EPs. She is also a member of art-music collaborations A=Apple, Sending Letters to the Sea and A Generous Act. In July 2017, she has finished the soundtrack to ‘GLUE’, a feature film by artists Oisin Byrne and Gary Farrelly. Release TBC.
 
At an early age, she toured with experimental composer Hector Zazou and collaborator Harold Budd. Nina has written songs for all her own releases as well as for other singers and projects including Jane Birkin and Melanie Gabriel on Strong Currents by Hector Zazou(2003).
 
She has toured in America and Europe and has played many supports including Roxy Music, Terry Callier, Smog, Stereolab, Cat Power, Julee Cruise, David Gray, Glen Hansard, Damien Rice. In 2013, Nina launched the crowdfunded album Goldmine on her bandcamp page www.dancingsuns.bandcamp.com with limited release vinyl she sells at shows.
 
In recent years, Nina has performed with many choirs including children and adults. She plays solo concerts every so often. She teaches music to kids. Nina has taken part in Art exhibitions with photographic images, sonic installations and soundtrack work.
 
Nina has a 2 year diploma in sound engineering and music technology. She lives in Berlin with her Dancing Suns/Sending Letters to the Sea collaborator Fabien Leseure and their two children. // More Info

 
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FR 22.9 // 20H // 8€
ACUD STUDIO // RELEASE
NINA HYNES
the brilliant songwriter and melody maker from dublin will play a solo show of mostly new material with friends as special musical guests
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