In the Antic Teatre's framework international project
ANTIC TEATRE (BCN) & PIATTO FORTE (BLN)
present
B2B - ANTIC GOES ELECTRIC VOL.V
International festival of electronic music and multimedia art with artists from Berlin and Barcelona that offers a comprehensive but carefully selected DJ sets of experimental music, dance, electro, electro-punk and visual art.
International electronic music and mixed media festival featuring artists from
Berlin and Barcelona
What is the B2B Festival – Barcelona <> Berlin?
The B2B project ‘B2B Festival – Berlin to Barcelona’ first emerged in 2008. It
was conceived both as a platform for music groups and artists working with
new technologies to show their work, and as a means for two multidisciplinary
art venues, Piatto Forte in Berlin and Antic Teatre in Barcelona, to realise and
produce various projects.
Support is given to artists of all ages: they may be emerging and unknown, or
have long-running careers, but they share a difficulty in finding outlets for their
work on existing, conventional music circuits and festivals. Each artist develops
his or her own line in research on sounds, programmes, video creation, and
so on, working outside commercial and established parameters. We select live
acts and DJ sets in experimental music, dance, Electro, Electro-punk and visual
arts in order to give these artists visibility and establish a regular exchange
between the two cities.
Why Berlin?
Because Berlin is happening. At the moment, Berlin is the most dynamic
and lively city with regard to all art sectors. Artists in Berlin have a wealth of
possibilities for realising and exhibiting their work that is way above what is
available in any other European city. Also, Berlin is still economically accessible
to artists of all social backgrounds. The city is full of all-night venues, galleries,
clubs, shops, creation spaces, theatres, festivals, concert halls, bars, etc., with
local legislation adapted to make all these activities possible.
The material result of this project is the international electronic music and mixed
media festival featuring artists from Berlin and Barcelona, which will run for the
fifth consecutive year this November in Barcelona as Antic Goes Electric Vol. V.
This year and for the first time, thanks to the support of the Institute of Culture
(ICUB) and the Instituto Ramon Llull of Barcelona, the festival will also take
place in Berlin. On September 21st and 22nd seven Barcelona artists will
join Berlin artists to create the B2B Festival programme at the Gretchen
Club, one of the best-known venues in the Kreuzberg area – an opportunity
for experimental music from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands to reach
international audiences.
The B2B project is supported in Berlin by Piatto Forte, a music shop and venue
that also functions as a platform for happenings, performances and live acts. It
is managed by DJ Baroxmix, Michele d’Alessio, musician and well-known DJ
at many European clubs, and committed backer of anti-conventional electronic
music.
Festival B2B Barcelona to Berlín (21-22 September 2012). Festival B2B Berlín to Barcelona - Antic Goes Electric Vol.V.(17 November
2012).
For more information on previous editions of the B2B Festival Berlin to Barcelona:
Carles López aka Carlazz
Barcelona-born musician, producer and DJ Carlazz has performed in over 40 countries at all kinds of events including clubs and festivals: Sónar (Barcelona, New York), Sziget Festival-(Budapest), Ars Electronica (Linz), Microwave Festival (Hong Kong), Big Day Out (Sydney), Red Bull Academy (Oporto), Ushuaia Beach Club (Ibiza) and at the MTV Awards / EMA Europe 2011 (Belfast). He has composed music for Alejandro González Iñarritu (Babel, Amores Perros), Sol Picó Cía de Danza, Marcel.li Antúnez and Sergi Faustino.
He is part of Reactable Systems, working on the development of Reactable and, as its main musician, performing on the instrument all over the world.
DJ Steve Morell will present some of his works as remixer, dj, producer.
Steve Morell, remixer, DJ, producer and musician, founder of record label “Pale Music Int.”
and German underground festival “Berlin Insane”.
As founding member of the DJ & remix duo “The Scandals’ with Emma Eclectic, he
worked on Remixes & Collaborations for artists like: Miss Yetti, Bruder & Kronsädta
feat. Nina Hagen, Eric D. Clark, Ascii Disko, Punx Soundcheck feat. Marc Almond, Pink
Grease, Neonman, Beroshima, Lola Angst, Atomizer, Junesex, The Nihilists, Boy George,
Trafalgar, Schwefelgelb, DJ Donna Summer and DJ Wool.
As an international DJ Steve Morell plays at Clubs and festivals all over the world and
has himself produced remixes of : Mona Mur & En Esch, Gods of Blitz, The Vanishing,
Martha & The Muffins, Shed, The Antiquark, The Stylists, Narcotic Fields, The Prostitutes
& Warren Suicide, and is currently working on remixes for Nikaya (Germany), Hanin Elias
(Germany), and Sister Chain & Brother John (Israel/Ireland).
Morell is currently focusing on the work for his new Solo Album “The Life and Death of
Jimmy Pheres and his Rise from the Underworld”. The full Album is going to be released
in October 2012 and includes a huge spectrum of guest musicians like N.U.Unruh
(Einstürzende Neubauten), Andi Sexgang, Valerie Renay & Sebastian Lee Philipp
(Noblesse Oblige), Hank J. Manchini (Kill the Dandies!), Martin Craft (Jarvis Cocker Band),
Nackt (Warren Suicide), Kevin Mooney (Adam & The Ants) etc.
The second single, “Lady Pheres” came out as a duet with Monica Pokorna in May 2012.
It has been quoted as "the most beautiful melody of 2012" and compared with duets like
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the wild roses grow; Blixa Bargeld & Meret Becker -
Stella Maris; and Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin .
For Autumn 2012, a dance orientated 12” single is on schedule, “Floating over the abyss
of an unknown wasteland / Get it up” featuring vocals from Monica Pokorná and Valerie
Renay.
DJ Steve Morell is focussing more on Nu-Disco & Electro mixed up with New Wave.
While on tour in Germany he visited Berlin for the first time; later, he decided to relocate
there. Living in Berlin and later in New York City inspired a new approach to music, and
he experimented with styles like hip hop, trip hop, and more recently Disco. Barox doesn’t
consider himself a computer kid and you can easily hear this in his set.
His old punk influences are reflected in the music he plays.
He made a name for himself as DJ, producer and promoter, organising a variety of music
events.
DJ Baroxmix has appeared internationally at a variety of clubs, such as Gargoyle
Mechanique and Sunday Club Knitting Factory in New York City, and Garage in San
Francisco; as well as clubs in Tokyo, Singapore, Capetown and in numerous European
cities.
Releases: DNS 2000 - live at Maria, Electric Royalty compilation on Duplikat Records.
CD(001) Tutti Felici maxi single - Baroxmix feat. Krozome131, vinyl on Duplikat records.
Piatto forte vol.2 is a new project that will include a double cd compilation featuring bands
from Barcelona and Berlin, to be released in 2013.
A variety of influences assimilated are reflected in the eclectic DJ sets, which include
disco, downtempo, lounge music funky electro beats, re edits and Italian disco. Together
with Marek Barath he started DUPLIKAT RECORDS (2003).
A year later he opened a record store named Piatto Forte, which became a sort of
melting pot for local musicians and newcomers in Berlin offering live performances inside
the shop, creating a platform for different artists and extending the network with the aim to
promote and improve underground and experimental music. It wasn't by chance that years
later he became involved with a theatre from Barcelona called Antic Teatre and since 2007
he's been organising a Festival linking the 2 Cities better known as B2B.
The core of my session is Techno, always combined with a good dose of Electro. I work with the power and force of Techno and add the play inherent in Electro.
I started mixing music in 1999, at first at the rave organised by Tasmaniac and other
groups from other countries. In 2000 we set up VICTIMS OF TEKNO and were constantly
putting on raves, either on our own or with other groups that were beginning to shape the
Catalan and national rave scenes. Those years I mixed at raves, squats or alternative
venues such as Bananas Factory.
From 2003 onwards, in addition to this, I got involved in the afters circuit both in Barcelona
and the Basque country.
In 2010 I took part in the SZIGET festival, the biggest in Europe.
In my creative process, I started getting interested on the hands. Then, I discovered that one of their functions was to generate shapes and I decided to develop this facet until its limits, capturing and cataloguing more than one thousand postures that I organized in family's. This could be considered like an alphabet in which the letters would be the hand figures. Then, to continue developing the work, I designed and developed a multimedia system that allowed me to conjugate this letters to create words or sentences. This system, also allowed me to paint using this shapes, and many other things. As you can see, as my work evolved, it began to seem like a language. Right now, I'm in the point where i start to use this language in different ways, and in this performance I intend to continue developing it but this time with the body.
After having presented this manual sculpture-like development, I now use a multimedia system with projections which allows me to show how I structure the work, add images and modify parameters of space so that my hands get multiplied, generating more complex structures. This system is interactive; it is controlled by voice and can also be synchronized with music and pre-recorded image projections
Performer and Multimedia Artist. His pieces combine elements and ideas which belong to the fields of performance, plastic, multimedia or visual arts. He has a solid experience as an actor. He belonged to the companies General Eléctrica, Carnicería Teatro (Rodrigo García). He has also collaborated with Marcelí Antúnez, Ojos de Brujo, Federic Amat, Joan Baixas o Sonia Gómez amongst others. He has toured on his own with a show that his mother created wich whas interpreted only with his hands. As well as working as an actor in cinema, he has also worked as a Scriptwriter and an editor in New York and Barcelona.
Real-time creation and experimentation with images taken from found footage and self-made material, previously edited using digital and photochemical processes, re-mixed live following various artistic styles. The result is a visual derivé of atmospheric, suggestive landscapes, abstract and concrete images which are full of colour, dirt and irony. Snippets of everyday life randomly sequenced, juxtaposition of planes and repetitions create a frantic, experimental, extremely Vertovian montage. The original meanings of the images are distorted by a détournement to create a new, ecstatic, cathartic universe, delivering the viewer to an artificial state where his neurosphere will be constantly challenged by a continuous, self-renovating Moebius strip of meaning. I would define my mise-en-scene as an audio-visual performance that plays with the laws of entropy and randomness, generating a plastic discourse that reinterprets the world that surrounds us and, like a system of rhizomes, diversifies chaos, opening the doors of poetic irrationality.
Mademoiselle Oui Oui is the pseudonym of multidisciplinary artist, philosopher, actress and visual artist from Barcelona, Carolina Cabrerizo. Her work is a voyage during which she carves out emotions using images. She has worked making videos for various artists such as Zink Tank collective or singer Miss Q to whose live performances she brings her visual creations. Her works have been exhibited at festivals such as Minimadelia Design Circus (Madrid) and El Globo de Juan (Braga, Portugal). She collaborates with theatre company La Viuda creating and presenting videos. She has performed at venues such as Antic Teatre, BeGood, Discos Paradiso, Niu, Miscelanea, Karriere Bar (Copenhagen) and Madame Claude (Berlin).
She is currently developing her own project "el Ser y el Otro" produced by Producciones Instantáneas.
Barcelona-based artist TrashMixer retrieves technological and cultural leftovers, using analogical technology, VHS tapes found in the trash, pornography, spam, coding errors, media relics and internet.
Independent artist, streamer, blogger and switcher, she regularly produces collaborative works that deal with the global perception of popular culture, feminism, trash and low-fi technology. Additionally, she works in collaboration with minipimer.tv.
Her artwork and videos have been shown at various galleries, museums, festivals and urban areas in Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Finland, Norway, Croatia and Germany.
“Paradise”
[…] Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. "There is one favour that I should like to ask," said he.
"Name it."
"Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws."
"What, wretch! you his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul, you ask for the right to make his laws?"
"Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself."
It was so ordered.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Quim Tarrida (Barcelona 1967) is a multi-disciplinary creator whose artistic production, in addition to music and performance, includes photography, video, painting and sculpture, in which he establishes links to the universe of lost childhood. An irretrievable childhood in opposition to the adult world, where dreams no longer have a relevant role, and in which the dominant game is played according to economic and political interests that lead to power struggles. In short, a world in which play is far removed from the sweetened image which normally surrounds childhood. In this way, the artist emphasizes the closeness to be found between play and violence, between reality and fiction. Tarrida works at the limit between the ludic component of the toy version and the military artefact, revealing the thin line that separates one reality from the other.
