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BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA
conducted by Oscar Vidal (Aielo de Malferit)

thursday 9th september 9 pm
Parc de la Creueta del Coll
Passeig de la Mare de Deu del Coll, 89 (cantonada Castelltersol)
free entry

premiere:
"Cartografía" by AGUSTÍ MARTINEZ (Barcelona)



The boundaries of music genres, as well as the geographical ones, are marked out by idle ignorant people. It´s free-minded individuals who demolish them as an act of freedom. And freedom is precisely the word, so often used and so hardly taken to practise, which best defines the career of saxophonist and clarinettist Agustin Martinez. Since 1982, he´s been with Hospitalet´s Cambra Orchestra, has supported improvised music projects (Quodlibet, Silence, Estamos Pescando), played in pop & rock bands (Kamembert, Le Diablo Mariachi and Travellin’ Band), jazz bands (All Quartet, We, Lotti Lewis…) and experimental collectives (Die Audio Gruppe). He also composes music for cinema and theatre plays. At LEM, he will be presenting Cartografía, a piece specially written for the event.

premiere:
"The Gift" by JANE RIGLER (New York)



A graduate from Chicago´s University and a PhD in Interpretation and Investigation at University of California, Jane Rigler is not only a composer and a contemporary music singer – (her repertoire features the work of artists cush as Cage, Vinko Globokar and Bruno Maderna) – but also a musically gifted teacher and a contributor to artists such as Wade Matthews, Koji Asano and Liba Villavecchia. Rigler also digs into the possibilities of the ancestral flute, a fact that has lead her to create Flute Vocalization, an interesting treatise on the interaction between flute and voice, which has taken her to participate in the National Flute Association annual conference. At LEM, Jane will be performing The Gift, one of her latest compositions. She´s currently working on a new piece which features flute and interactive electronic music. www.janerigler.com

premiere:
"L´afilador" by JOAN ANTON MAS (Cardedeu)



Being on acting service since the mid 70s, Joan Antón formed Furnal in 1985, a team dedicated to explore new music and technologies, also to be used for audiovisual purposes. Having been responsible of over a hundred soundtracks used in advertising campaigns and cinema, he has also crossed the line by blending music and image for his second project, Gringos, which lead to the production of 3 ‘must-have´albums: Gringos (1990); Histories Del Carib (1993) and Banzim Banzam, (1994). Since 1998, he´s been combining his musician job for people such as Marina Rossell, Marc Parrot and El Chaval De La Peca, with his other job as a composer of multimedia and theatre spectacles. Mas, a very prolific musician as well as a restless creator, seduced/fascinated by the duality sound/image, will be presenting his play "Láfilador".

premiere:
“Miraquebé” by MARIONA SAGARRA (Barcelona)



Dies Diferents is the title of actress and singer Mariona Sagarra´s latest artwork, an album which far from sheding her usual light, takes a different route towards a new adventure, dedicated to Banda Municipal. Over the last few years her wide academic training has lead into new music territories in which she investigates the possibilities of the voice, somewhere in between contemporary creation and poetry´s recreation. Her music career is tinged with a very personal style which artists Carles Santos, Walter Thompson, Josep María Balanyà and Gabriel Brncic have been able to watch closely. Even though her origins took off from perfoming, she is these days very fluent in music composition. Such is the case that LEM has comissioned her to create ¨Mirabeque¨, a piece for the simphonic orchestra which will reveal the less known side of an artist who has often been underestimated in this country. www.marionasagarra.com

Lucas Abela’s work combine physical-efforts and inter-action with the audience. However, the Australian artist escapes the label of ‘performer’ and defines himself as a mere entertainer and improviser. The set of tools he uses –which range from modified turntables to industrial machinery, not to mention his amplified sheet glass- generate noise. Loads. Noise in capitals. Head of Dual Plover record label, Abela leads short but highly intense spectacles often featuring blood, pressure and glass splinters. Also known as DJ Smallcock and Peeled Hearts Paste, he will be presenting Justice Yeldham And The Dynamic Ribbon Device, an outbreak of free noise and action of which we have…amazing reports.
www.dualplover.com/justice.htm



PEOPLE LIKE US  (London)
friday 10th september 9:30 pm
Caixafòrum - Avinguda Marqués de Comillas, 6-8
free entry

Due to health issues, Vicky Bennet did not make it last year at LEM. She is, without doubt, not only one of the biggest names of music appropiation, but also a threat to the Intelectual Property Rights Organization and a bête noire to those who claim to safeguard other people’s ideas… Over the last decade, People Like Us have been saking/looting pop culture, digging into consumer music and rescueing pieces to be cut-and-pasted on to Vicky´s highly imaginative creations. The visual component is a key point in Bennet’s work,-who has also worked alongside John Oswald, Tape-Beatles and Negativland, to mention a few- hence the music and the videoart happily hold hands at this combative performance which shouldn’t be missed. This is an specially recommended gig, even for those copyright defensors who might still be up for a bit of humour. www.peoplelikeus.org

Phill Niblock claims both Mark Rothko and Sol Lewitt’s paintings and Carl Andre and Donald Judd’s sculptures to be his main source of inspiration. His abstract, ambient music blends the emotional and the theory, the intuitive and the rational, thus creating a very favorable atmosphere for an ‘unreal’ and imaginative world in which errors are not so and the cause and effect relationship loses all credibility. The ‘real’ world does have its presence in his concerts as he uses his own photographic and documentary films, -featuring chance meetings and human interaction-, as his own visual support. Phill Niblock’s gigs provide a full-on sensory experience in which to lose oneself. We recommend that you leave your most sensible side behind when attending this concert. This time joined by the prolific guitar player Ferran Fages from Catalonia.
www.experimentalintermedia.be

SVMN_KA + VLEVERTH (Barcelona)
presenting “Sonic breakfasts, decontextualisation, coffee, oranges and beats, digital, soundscape”.
saturday 11th september 8 pm
Experimentem amb l'Art - Torrijos, 68
free entry

Powerbooks, mixers and MIDI controllers are frequently used in electronic music; microwaves and juicers, not so much so. These two young artists from Barcelona, Svmn-ka and Vleverth, use them all to create their work Sonic breakfasts, Decontextualisations, Coffee, Oranges and Beats. Svmn-ka is the artistic name for Sergi Valverde, follower of Terre Thaelmitz’s ideas. Vleverth, his musical partner, trained at the University of Barcelona (Audiovisual Communication), has worked in the fields of video-art –he’s the author of Apaga la Llum, TN Spot, and La Deconstrucció de Kieslowski-, among others- and cinema –he worked as sound assistant in the short film Uniformes, by Marc Crehuet-, as well as being a DJ specialised in “not-for-dancing dance music”.



A CUNT ON FMOL  (Barcelona)
saturday 11th september 9 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

The full name of this project is A Cunt On FMOL, Two Pricks On Guitar And Some Biriba Sounds, but this needs no further explanation…What it does need a brief explanation is the music that Barcelona based artists Cristina Casanova (software FMOL), Òscar Celma (guitar), Marc Viaplana (guitar) and Cristian Sotomayor (berimbau, drums) invoke in their particular electro-witch- coven- like performances. In their own words, the band was created with the aim to “cut, mix and overlap the sounds of acoustic and electronic music”. A self-produced CD pays tribute to this process which has so brilliantly blended such different disciplines into a seamless one. Frank Zappa once said that “To talk about music is like fishing about architecture”. Feel free to position this band in your very own music axis... Josep M. Jordana (video projections)
www.arrakis.es/~ccs/hazardrecords/artists/acuntonfmol.htm

PAD´s web is made of some of the most interesting and eminent names of Barcelona´s music experimental scene of the last two decades. Boris (sax, percussions), Lali (guitar, MS20, xilophone), Panotxa (guitar, programming), Enric (drums, guitar, programmins) and Chilean Christian Vogel, occasionally contributing to the group. The number of projects in which these artists have been involved in as well as the actual value of their work is rather incalculable. PAD stands for Projecte Achmed Digital, a work team got togeher three years ago under a common starting premise: music in the service of any artistic discipline, whether serving poetry or moving image, which includes having played live Lluis Garcia´s Nigromat and signed the music background for some of Norman McLaren´s films.



CAJA NEGRA (Barcelona)
saturday 11th september 11h30 pm
Bar Elèctric - Travessera de Gràcia, 233
free entry

The so-called Black Boxes contain a tape which records all that takes place inside an aircrarft, thus acting as a witness in the case of a crash. But this is a different story. Caja Negra (Black Box) doesnt refer to tapes but to two musicians: Ignacio Lois and Guillermo Madrigal. The first one was trained in guitar and composition and has participated in several jazz, progresive rock and experimental music bands. Madrigal, originally from Valencia, is responsible for having founded the art collective Babel Ágata, composed the music for two animation short films and worked alongside big names such as Goran Bregovic, Pascal Comelade and La Fura Dels Baus. This project was born in Barcelona very recently as an ‘non-opinionated’ duette/duel featuring a DJ and a guitar player. At LEM, they will be performing their “Are you John Wayne or is it me?”. And as they say, John Wayne is all of us…

AFTER LEM RELAX TIME - DJ FELIPE
saturday 11th september 00h30 am
Mi Bar - Guilleries, 6
free entry

This is the very first session of (what it will be) a series of “after LEM” sets, the perfect excuse for both the artists and the audience to lay back and indulge themselves into the so underestimated art of “chatting” , thus practising the cosmopolitan style ‘a la Barcelonese’ which, believe it or not, it wont take you long to identify.

Dj Noi is also the director of La Fábrica Electrónica -a radio programe that has been running for 5 years now (also available on the net)- broadcasting a variety of genres which includes ambient noise, electroacoustic, industrial and jazz music. His interest in music creation is quite recent and uses equipment which includes laptops, guitars, sequencers and recordplayers, all in the service of “very lineal music which either leads to very dense and dark –very subtle- atmospheres, and at other times very noisy ones” (sic). Noi´s ‘fieldwork’ creations feature enviromentally generated sounds and those created my human action (machines, cars, instruments…). His aim is to reproduce a sensation, a mood, a picture…

Picture this: A bunch of submarine aliens drinking wine shoulder to shoulder during a/on ‘Happy Hour’ at a pub at the bottom of the sea. The soundtrack of this situation is precisely how Roberto Domeniconi (piano), Thomas Tavano (bass), Christof Zurbuchen (clarinet) y Niki Neecke (electronics), actually describe their own music. In reality, they are four instrumentalists whose tentacles embrace free-jazz, hardcore, trip-hop, funk and minimal music, all under the name of Octopus’ Call. This Swiss band was formed in the Autum of 2001 and since then, they have succesfully established, due to their good relationships and the excitement of such unusual project. The band’s identity plays around with the concept of developing themes and phrases through free improvisation and sound manipulation in real time. The result is an ongoing project featuring music in constant movement which reinvents itself, thus creating new patterns and ‘colours’.



LUIGI ARCHETTI (Zürich)
thursday 16th september 10 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

Luigi Archetti is a composer, an improviser, a guitarist and a dedicated investigator of the most intimate nature of sound. Founder of a series of projects which play around the concept of music experimentation, real time sound creation and visual arts, Archetti has been responsible for composing the soundtrack of several films, performances and installations, working alongside the likes of Guru Guru, Erbsline y Alienstalk. His music is like a thick magma in which guitar reverberation forms a whole with the infinite possibilities of today’s electronic music. It has been said that his work dwells on the edge of a new polluted ambient. It is indeed a difficult task to put his music into accurate words as it can be convulsive and dissonant or remote and soft but always a very stimulating experience. www.luigiarchetti.com



OOR (Barcelona)
thursday 16th september 11h30 pm
Oniria - Mila i Fontanals, 35
free entry

The OFF section continues its pilgrimage, introducing and promoting local new talent. Barcelona´s Christian Perez´s one year old project, Oor, is one of the proposals which gives evidence of OFF´s devotion towards new music. Hecker, Authechre, Plaid and Squarepusher are some of Christian´s major/main influences. Although he still has not had the opportunity to play live, Christian´s DJ skills have already gained him a good reputation within local bars and even at Sonar´s music fair in which. Oor uses a laptop, Juno and Korg synthetizers and effects which together bring very personal, abstract and rough music.

Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff, whether working in the duet with partner and pianist Irène Schweizer -with whom she produced Twin Lines-, or as the conductor of her own urban jazz sextet -which echoes Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor’s fire music-, feeds her music with northafrican folklore, 70’s avant-garde jazz and the free spirit of contemporary music. The result, a intergeneric hybrid which rests on her own saxo’s input. Streiff has been involved in different experiences in the past such as Circus Theatre Federlos, Kadash and Vienna Art Orchestra, and is currently a well respected artist within the jazz scene. Her performance at this year’s LEM will reveal the directions this discipline will be taking over the next few years.



PAUL GIGER (Gontenschwil)
friday 17th september 10 pm
Claustre del Convent de Sant Felip Neri - Sol, 8
free entry

It´s not instruments that become obsolet, it´s ideas that do. Paul Giger not only bursts with these but also with a load of resources. In a time when technology seemed no longer to be the trip but the destination itself, Giger´s knack to make an old classic violin sound like something completely different should be considered not only innovative but revealing. Composer, improviser, Giger´s name should not be missed by Hilliard Ensemble´s followers. His music features folk, jazz, baroque, contemporary sounds and his late investigations within microtones. He belongs to that wave of artists whose creations challenge all posible ways to categorize music. www.paul-giger.ch



AUTISTIK (La Plata)
friday 17th september 11h30 pm
Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia - Torrent de l´Olla, 104
free entry

Under the moniker of Deejay Lemon Pie, Argentinian Crapo carried out 15 live perfomances in his home town, released an album and left his fingertip on a couple of compilations. Having dropped his former name, Crapo is now based in Barcelona focused on the study of multimedia applications which has lead into the creation of Autistik. This project embraces three fields: graphic design, multimedia and experimental music. His influences drink in the raw electronic music of the 60s, the first moogs, jamaican dub ,minimal sounds, the unappealable logic of random combinations, repetitive loops, obsolet computer software…Autistik, who has already played in the city, is working on his -soon to be released- new album.
www.autistik.net

There´s not many things that Swiss percussionist would not get his hands dirty with. Having been awarded with the Silver Medal at Zurich´s Jazz Festival in 1970, this Huelva based artist has put his skills in the service of rock, jazz, blues bands, and composers like Eduardo Polonio (and also Unit, Síntesis and Gagugger) . He´s also worked for Radio and TV, has studied electrnic music with Gustav Neuwirth and developed an interesting teaching project aimed at the young, fittingly named “The drums and its evolution within modern music”.Gerhard is also the autor of From Illinoise With Love, album published in 2002 which is a celebration of the percusión as an ancestral way of transcendental communication.
www.illisoft.net



KOCH/ SCHÜTZ/ STUDER (Luzern / Biel)
saturday 18th september 9 pm
Claustre del Convent de Sant Felip Neri - Sol, 8
free entry

In 1995, John Zorn thanked Koch-Schutz-Studer Trio for ‘creating such exciting music’. It is indeed exciting, new and free of preconceptions. In 1990, saxophonist and clarinetist Hans Koch founded the band along with cellist Martin Schutz and drummer Fredy Studer with the aim to create highly contrasting music which would blend the warmth and organic feeling of acoustic intruments and the electronic live experience. Koch-Schutz-Studer Trio like extravagant harmonies and non-conventional structures but, funnily enough, their music lives on an irrefutable inner logic. To decipher its meaning will be at your own risk, but we can guarantee that it will be very enjoyable as opposed to not. They will show their particular vision on what hardcore chamber music is, but here’s a hint: it’s pretty hectic. www.koch-schuetz-studer.ch



GÜNTER MÜLLER (Itingen)
saturday 18th september 10 pm
Convent de Sant Felip Neri - Sol, 8
free entry

Best known for being one of the most heterodox percussionists of the international experimental scene, Gunter Muller, German-born, Swiss-based since 1996, has created an electronically modified drum kit with which he rips out very unusual sounds, whether tapping in the traditional way or using this magnetic pad with which he modulates the drums vibrations as much and until his heart´s content. The combination of all the music he stores in either a minidisc or an iPod and his own manipulated sound brings together very hallucinatory music, dense and abstract. Hoewever, far from turning into incomprehensible stuff, it sounds very attractive thanks to its warmth and closeness. Muller has a good list of albums under his belt, both on solo and in conjuction with people like Oren Ambarchi, Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay and Butch Morris. He will be landing at our festival to prove that in avant garde music there´s a still lot of pages to be written… home.datacomm.ch/g.mueller/mueller.htm/ - www.for4ears.com



FERNANDO LAGRECA (Barcelona)
saturday 18th september 11h30 pm
Cafè del Sol - Plaça del Sol, 16
free entry

Member of Innova, a collective of digital artists, Fernando Lagreca has a penchant for the latest electronic music tendencies such as clicks & cuts, microhouse, techno,etc. His prolific career includes a good number of record references on both CD and 12” format, spread about in labels such as Autoplate, Original dance Music and Climax Recrdings, and live perfomances shared out with Mouse On Mars, Jorge Haro and Gustavo Lamas. Running parallel to his record production, Lagreca also produces sound ambience for exhibitions and music for video-commercials. Far form neglecting on melodies – a basic ingredient of his dance music career-Lagreca is particularly interested in ambient music which he mixes up with glitchs and oscilations. www.freewebs.com/greknoise/

AFTER LEM RELAX TIME - DJ JESÚS BROTONS (Barcelona)
saturday 18th september 00h30 am
Mi Bar - Guilleries, 6
free entry

Here's a new chance for you to strecth out your night out. The music is on journalist, musician and médium Jesús Brotons.

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ solo
"kollt" - 30 min

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI solo
(con SCOTT ARFORD, video) - 30 min

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ & ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI duo
"untitled" - 40 min

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ & SCOTT ARFORD duo
"solid state sex / fluid state sex" - 40 min

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ
Over the last 12 years, a lot has been said about this artist; and it’s all good. Specially since he launched Azoic Zone´s publication. What else could it be said in this modest space? Well, that his music is not too suitable to become your mobile phone ring tone, and that his presence at this year´s LEM (his third) will bring together his multicoloured music ( concrete, absolute, essential, intense, catharsis wise…) and Költ, a DVD production made in conjuction with film maker Jorge Simonet for Asphodel: “An unstoppable flow, as energetic as intense. Visual and music action in abundance. For speedcore and nature lovers”. It´s the kind of spectacle you´d never come across on a saturday night TV show. Suitable for everyone but their´s one requisite to meet: to have a broadband mind. www.franciscolopez.net

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI
To artist Karkowski, music traditional definitions are of no interest. His opinion on music theories and the whole music system is that they should be demolished. Is he an anarquist or rather a neo-futurist? All norms and all systems become very restrictive when it comes to creativity. However, Polish ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI educated by the kwnoledges of Xenakis, Boulez, Aphergis and Messiaen, is very reluctant to put any limits to his way of thinking. His aim is not to master music. Rather, he defends that the true creativity only arises while in exile (let it be geographical or social) and that´s what really counts, whatever the music – acoustic/electroacoustic, industrial, opera or Orchestral pieces –specially written for Gotherborg´s Orchestra. And after all the aforementioned, everything else about him would be secondary.
www.fylkingen.se/f_karkowski.html
www.eternalnetwork.org/erratum/karkowski.html
www.discogs.com/artist/Zbigniew_Karkowski

SCOTT ARFORD
Scott Arford stands out as one of the most interesting musicians and videoartists of San Francisco’s advanced music scene and, by extension, of the USA. Founder of 7HZ, a platform for support of live electronic music which has featured Kit Clayton, The Haters and John Duncan, among others, Arford constructs music based on blocks of static radiophonic, ´white noise’ captured from TV and electric and magnetic influences; sounds from the real world and media, that acquires new significance in his hands . He dives in the dense, restless sounding ocean of the so hipercomputerised world of today and does it with great intensity and subtelty with machine-like passion. Sexual sound? Why not. A flirtatious sound between the listener and its surroundings, with Arford as a mediator. www.7hz.org

Who the hell is Ayankoko!!!!? What´s the mistery behind such peculiar name? Well, Ayankoko!!! is the artistic name of Laos- born, French- adopted David Vilayleck, a young musician with a very personal style offering a multicolured solo project which embraces jazz, rock, electro-pop and experimental music, Blues, traditional sound forms, techno (in its least obliging sense), audio and video montages and all other artistic forms that happen to estimulate this artist´s grey matter…David only uses a guitar, a bass and a laptop to create an hallucinatory curtain of sounds in which Aphex Twin’s obscure ambient meets Schaeffer and Pierre Henry’s musique concrete.



ALEJANDRA & AERON (Barcelona)
saturday 25th september 9 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

Founders of Lucky Kitchen record label, Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman are totally exposed to new aural experiences. Free-thinkers of contemporary music, they believe that technology is not a goal but the medium with which to show the world their technique: a modern ouija board used to communicate with the muses. Under their sound landscapes -still lives showing crashing sounds which actually refer to their surreal essence-there is a very organic side full of acoustic ornaments and tinged with pop, bringing altogether heartbreaking and extremely humanly music. In a time when technology has taken over creativity, robots have invaded all grounds of life and there is a distinct lack of love, Alejandra & Aero go against the tide with the passion of those who believe that time will prove this wrong. www.luckykitchen.com



YOSHI WADA (New York)
saturday 25th september 10 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

It is indeed a hard task to try to resume Wada’s career in a few lines. He has been running for the last 4 decades and has hoarded a wealth of developments since thanks to his continous research work. Let’s just be happy by saying that he is a multitalented artist. Japan born, although New York adopted and currently living in San Francisco, Yoshi Wada got his degree in Arts. He then joined Fluxus in 1968 having coming across artist George Maciunas, a music composition student at the time, mentored by peopla like Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath, among others. He´s an investigator of the limits of resonance, timbre and harmonies, a designer of interactive sound scenes, a composer of a work as extensive as rich in suggestions and meaning. His performance will be one of the biggest prides of the festival. The sound of art. The art of sound.



VIOLETA GÓMEZ (Barcelona)
saturday 25th september 11h30 pm
Cafè del Sol - Plaça del Sol, 16
free entry

She is a photographer, a writer and a composer but, over all, Violeta Gomez is the creator of a universe parallel to hers, which she generously shares with us without us even realising it. In the “Violet Universe” there are a series of rules worth a mention.”The creation Principle”, which points out that “the creation of an artistic act is a positive act of love an beauty”. Born in Barcelona in 1972, she was part of the 80´s scene and played in pop bands such as Kremlyn and El Ejército De Salvación. In the late 90s Violeta was awarded with two prizes for her novels Carmila and Evangelio. She is also a regular contributor to music magazines (Cairo and Rockdelux). In 2003, her band La Caja de Pandora edited Canciones Fatales, a live album which referts to her particular poetry and intimacy. A rebellious artist? She is indeed!
www.portalatino.com/violetagomez


AFTER LEM RELAX TIME - DJ FELIPE (Barcelona)
saturday 25th september 00h30 am
Mi Bar - Guilleries, 6
free entry

Take a break and indulge yourself in to a bit of socialising at Gracia´s most laid back bar.

Wal’s radical proposal is a fountain of noise, vocals, drones, and a wild record sound manipulation which brings together a highly corrosive live act which will hit you as much at it will work you up. All to the detriment of all types of traditionally composed music in terms of harmony and structure, which they openly admit to neglect on purpose. Wal make the most out of this chaos claiming that art is either convulsive or it is not art. These Swiss guys rise convulsion to an state of Beau Art, thus using their scracthing techniques as their very own weapon. Joke Lanz (decks, electronics), Bruno Amstad (voice, electronics) and Christian Weber (bass, effects) form up this band which sound like a crash between Naked City and Christian Marclay, with Boredoms and Masami Akita sitting perplexed in the back seat. Law & Disorder is the name of their monumental cornucopia that will hit your brain and will put your body in tension.
www.suddeninfant.com - www.brunoamstad.ch - www.christianweber.ch.vu



GLOBAL GUARANTY ORCHESTRA (Helsingør)
thursday 30th september 10 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

In 1997 Danish Pere O. Jorgens and Henning Firman participated in LEM festival as separate artists. Seven years on, they are back with a common project under the name of Global Guaranty Orchestra. Jorgens is a well-known composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist and producer with a soft spot for tapping elements and has been creating music for films, performances, dance and theatre, sharing studio with a good list of artists of the international improvisation scene, founding a couple of legendary bands such as Cockpit Music and Dog God. On his side, Frimann, was musically trained in countries such as India and Turkey, then became a proffessor and has even created several sound sculptures. Free electronic music meets electroacoustic improvisation and polyrhythmic plays. This is a truly (global) guaranty of outrageous and unprecedented sounds which constantly feature the surprise factor. www.ninthworldmusic.com



DURÁN VÁZQUEZ (Vigo)
jueves 30 de septiembre 23h30
Heliogàbal - Ramón y Cajal, 80
free entry

Durán Vázquez, a self-taught musician, began his career at the end of the 90s, starting from a sound context close to electronic chaos and eventually landing closer to ambient and techno. A compromised man, he does not hesitate to affirm that his aim is to “create a language intended to distance itself from social convention even if that means using all kinds of tricks, including imitation or noise insolence, which are no more than categorising taboos yet to be demolished”. His recorded work is comprised in Product 01, a cd shared with Sumugan Simavesan from Australia. Durán Vázquez had previously performed at Revoltallo de Valadares and Castroconcertos de Vigo festivals, and this cd has brought him the chance to perform live (with Jorge Haro) at the Vigo Contemporary Art Museum and at the Sonar 2004 Barcelona festival.
www.cronicaelectronica.org

PAULO RAPOSO

Despite his film and philosophy background, Paulo Raposo decided to take up electronic music and sound installations at the beginning of the 90s, becoming an specialist in computer generated sound and real-time sound manipulation. Either on his own or as a contributor to audioartist Jeremy Bestein, Raposo’s work has already paid a visit to France, Germany, Norway, Italy, Portugal and the USA. Among the long list of artists whom he has worked alongside are a few names worth mentioning: Carlse Santos (with whom he did Insula Dulcamara), Marc Behrens (Further Consequences Of Reinterpretation), Koji Asano, Kaffe Mathews and Carlos Zíngaro. Raposo, whose Rizomas was awarded at Phil Niblock’s Experimental Media Foundation (whatxxxx), will be performing his work, Dust.
www.sirr-ecords.com - www.granular.fm/--/a/pauloraposo.php




CARLOS ZINGARO / JOAN SAURA (Lisboa / Barcelona)
friday 1st october 9 pm
La Pedrera (Auditori) - Passeig de Gràcia, 92
free entry

Zíngaro is one of the heavy weights of the international improvisation music scene. Having been trained as a classical vionilist, he evolved into experimental music and has participated in several festivals of the kind. He has also created soundtracks for a selection of dance, film and theatre spectacles. His work comprises nearly 40 albums. Joan Saura comes from Barcelona´s 70’s alternative scene and, being an expert on the keyboards and sampler, he’s been an active member of several local bands over the last 30 years. Think Koniec, Rambla, Rambliolia and Blay Tritono. Out of his extensive recorded work his first solo lp, Álbum, is definetely worth a mention. The two artists have joined forces to produce a wealth of unheard-of sonorities, a body in constant mutation we might as well capture in time before it’s too late…

www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/mzingaro.html
www.granular.fm

HEIDRUN SCHRAMM (Hamburg)
saturday 2nd october 8 pm
La Pedrera (Auditori) - Passeig de Gràcia, 92
free entry

A G4 Mac, a broken accordeon, a cello and a few field -recording objects is all German artist Heidrun Schramm needs. She is a collector of sound and noise with which she creates the core of her music. She also runs a small venue in Hamburg and takes care of the music programme at Hoerbar, a local club dedicated to experimental music. She has shared stage with big names such as Asmus Tietchens and Tom Fleischhauer. Currently immersed in a European tour which will take her to France, Germany and Holland before landing in Barcelona, Hiedrum’s performance at LEM will give evidence of her ability to extrapolate and join beats, rythm and beautiful sound landscapes out of the samples she takes of almost anything, anywhere. www.digitalkranky.de/



SILK-GATE (Hamburg)
saturday 2nd october 8:45 pm
La Pedrera (Auditori) - Passeig de Gràcia, 92
free entry

Like an inkling/sign of beyond amidst etheral mist, a the sweet dream-like state that brings up a memory which suddenly vanishes before you´ve savoured it…The music of Silke-Gate is something like that, a ‘deja-vu’, a fascinating auditive ghost that grabs anyone and anything and seduces like the promise of a kiss… German Silk-Gate is a singer, an actress and a painter with a penchant for hindu raga which takes centre stage in the solo adventure she leads since 1988, a project based on recitals over very subdued electronic music. All possible comparisons to Laurie Anderson are only that, comparisons. Silk-Gate lives in an intimate and personal world in which she ocassionally lets people in, these becoming close friends. Ambient electronic music with bits and pieces of trip-hop…Magic made sound.
www.silk-gate.de



MAJA RATJKE (Trondheim)
saturday 2nd october 9:30 pm
La Pedrera (Auditori) - Passeig de Gràcia, 92
free entry

None of the human sounds that actually orginate at our throat can be reproduced by any instrument. However, electronic recording equipments- from a dictaphone to a hard disk, through the sampler and minidisk- are the essential tools to use when it comes to build abrupt collages of whispers, screams, talks, scats and other vocal exercises, as shown on Voice, a revealing album created by violinist, theremin interpreter and singer Maja Ratjke. As a member of Spunk and Fe-Mail, she has 3 albums under her belt. This is her solo debut in which, neglecting all intrumentation, she tight-rope walks over her own vocal cords. A perfect balance between calm and hysteria, primary scream and the sophistication of coherent speech.
www.ratkje.com

MASTER CLASS
friday 8th october 5 pm
Auditori de l'Estació de França, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Passeig de la Circumval.lació, 8
free entry

David Shea fills the gap between museum and street, West and East, high and popular culture with a wide range of interests flowing from Berio, Feldman y Xenakis’ contemporary electronic music to Morricone, Delerue and Herrmann’s scores, a journey from taoism to the Old World tradition. Being a regular contributor to John Zom, Shea has participated in a few of his albums. However he has got a few of his own, shared among a few labels such as Avant, Tzadik and Sub Rosa. Shock Corridor, Hsi-Yu-Chi, Satyricon o Tryptich give evidence of Shea’s skills with samplers, sequencer and turntables which, in his hands, create beautifully disturbing landscapes, unusual textures and unpredictable and revealing harmonic collages of anti-aesthetical conceived elements. The band will play the orchestral version of Alpha, a recreational piece of Jean Luc Godard’s cult film Alphaville. www.dshea.net/

Belgium born Barcelona based Alain Wergifosse is the autor of Deep Gray Organics, one of the best free electronic music compilations of the last few years. Despite his limited record production, the number of musicians whom with this master of electronic music in real time has worked with is overwhelming: Cluster, Macromassa, Albert Giménez, Nad Spiro, Marcel-lí Antúnez, Enric Cervera and DJ Zero, to mention a few. As one of the three members of wild improvisation band Obmuz, he represents that awkard type of musician who enjoy themselves spending hours in their labs as much as they do when playing for an audience. Chance and Distorsion are the two basic elements of this talented artist´s ‘modus operandi’ with brilliant sense of humor. www.experimentaclub.com/data/alain_wergifosse/



URU / EQUIPO ELEVADOR (Madrid)
friday 8th october 10 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

Uru stands for a multidisciplinary colective who, just like the way volatile gas reacts, spreads out (towards diverse creative grounds) and inflames (imagination). Their aim is to to make good use of the infinite posibilites of electronic music, both musically and visually, to take the meaning of everyday elements (such as shoes, floor…) a bit further, taking them out of context, thus transforming them into highly symbolic items. Uru have released two albums and are involved in an ongoing artistic on-line project. At LEM, they will present a 60 minute five piece spectacle. El Equipo Elevador (a division of Uru) will be in charge of the visuals, introducing new instruments such as the Electro Tapping Module and the SV-1, a audiovisual synthetiser which they have created themselves. This is Modern Art. www.numen.tv/uru



MONTEVIDEO 10 (Bordeaux/Bilbao)
friday 8th october 11h30 pm
Bar Elèctric - Travessera de Gràcia, 233
free entry

Like a small brushstroke of humour, Montevideo 10 stands for the actual postal address of Lorenzo Gabrielli, one of the members of this homonymous project, a DJ who’s been spinning venues and theatres and has put music to some performances and dance acts. The other two members of the band are Julien Duzer, sound engineer, member of Canada´s UMC collective and Son AR from France, and a very experienced musician specialised in the interaction between classical and electronic instrumentation and Christophe Lalanne-Claux, author of compositions for short films and music and video instalations and also member of Son AR. The aim of Montevideo 10 is the creation of musical landscapes which reflect different states of mind and mood swings. On his subdued mini audio mini samples atmospheric jazz meets electro-acoustic sounds, repetitiviness and ambient moods (as seen by Brian Eno).

Young creator Xavier Maculet also known as MTC is behind BH Project, whose original aim was to promote and share electronic music through the internet. He has contributed to a series of installations and artworks and has produced a wealth of sound material for CD-ROMs and web sites. His music can be found in several CDs such as Cáñamo, Break & Beat Sessions, Músicas Del Amanecer and Diez Mares, and in other selfproduced CDs such as Lesson 5, Gala and Pakistaní. BH Project produce electronic music for multimedia, architecture (as seen on Melnikov Series) and ciberculture. At LEM they will be presenting Time Stretching, a play based on the process of the sound stretching of different sources, some of which come from electro-pop music. www.bhproject.org



THE LINN YOUKI PROJECT (Barcelona)
saturday 9th october 9 pm
Centre Artesà Tradicionarius (CAT) - Travessia de Sant Antoni, 6-8
Price: 9 euros / Amigos del C.A.T.: 6 euros

Two basses, two drums and one only concept. The Linn Youki Project got together in 2002 as an extension of the cultural interests of Italian Marco Morgione, former bass player of Glisando and Fluzo and guitarist for La Ferita Di Elora and Vinile Viola. Fascinated by a cartoon character, Morgione took on this proyect, undertaking the commitment to “creating an avant-garde sountrack and lo-fi for minimal cartoons, using samples of drums and film dialogues, a deliberately out of tune bass and a wealth of effects”. In 2003 the experiment becomes a band including Xavi Caparrós (bass), Javi Martí (drums) and Xavi Tort (trumpet). Having a single album out, The Linn Youki Project have played at MACBA and in several festivals. His concert is scheduled to take place on the night LEM dedicates to “the other rock”.

www.thelinnyoukiproject.com



SIGHTINGS (New York City)
saturday 9th october 11 pm
Centre Artesà Tradicionarius (CAT) - Travessia de Sant Antoni, 6-8
Price: 9 euros / Amigos del C.A.T.: 6 euros

Rock´s not dead. No matter what some fake prophets and ‘smoke’ sellers may say… It’s in very good form as opposed to not. The most hybrid music ever, the new millenium´s rock forks into thousands of directions, turned into new alternative and formidable species. Think Borge´s imaginative beasts. This is Sightings, a New York- based free-rock trio who, taking Einstürzende Neubauten and Mainliner´s deconstructive premises as they starting point they turn these into a noise simphony (both live and on album- ‘Absolutes’ gives evidence of this) in honour of the chaos which will surely open the eyes of a good number of well-off music critics, glasses on. Guitar, Bass and Drums will never become obsolote if they get utilised by the right hands.

AFTER LEM RELAX TIME - DJ FELIPE (Barcelona)
saturday 9th october 00h30 am
Mi Bar - Guilleries, 6
free entry

This is the fourth and last night to get a chance to relax before the closing party. Strengthen your relationships and enjoy...

The price reduction of electronic equiments, -paraphrasing Robert Fripp- “can make small stand-alone intelligent cells express themselves at a lower price, thus boosting/ fostering creativity.” Just as the pocket-sized keyboards and samplers served music in the 80s and 90s, respectively, laptops have allowed a lot of small format but far reaching projects to develop. Incite, an electronic duo created in 2002, is one of them. Kera Ángel and Andre Asplemerier make use of two laptops and a MIDI controlling system to, in their own words “ investigate repetitive patterns and minimal percussions”. Incite, who have shared stage with people like Fibla, DAT Politics and Geoff Matters, will be landing at LEM after having scrolled their broken beats and abstract sound landscapes throughout Europe and the States. www.incite.gradcom.org



COEVAL (Madrid)
thursday 14th october 10 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

Throughout their short but intense career which includes concerts, sound design projects and installations, Coeval have compiled a rich volume of experiences, but contemporary sinthetic sounds have always been their cup of tea. Having got initiated in chilled music, they evolved to a much more angular sound by mixing digital material and field investigation recordings, thus developing a very disturbing and obscure style. Coeval have strolled their icy creations through a number of festivals including Benicàssim, Espárrago Rock, Observatori (Valencia), Elektronikaldia (Donosti) and Ausklangfestival (Hamburgo). At LEM, they willl be launching their new album, Drop + Drop. www.coeval.org


TENDRUMS (Celrà)
thursday 14th october 11h30 pm
Cafè del Sol - Plaça del Sol, 16
free entry

Behind is Lluís Sala, DJ, Music producer, electronic activist and organiser of art related events, (think culture meets synthetic sound). His project list is long winded and includes having been a member of industrial music SCM, his contribution to theatre group GRIP and his restless task as a DJ dedicated to the sound of electro, click ’n cuts and breakcore, mainly. He has supported dub guru Mad Professor, and has participated in several festivals such as No Limits (Celra), Llado´s Electronic Music and Nicolaus Experimental Music Series in Girona. At LEM, he will take the oppportunity to show his new artwork, compiled under the name of Especialitats Comarcals, a ironic outlook on Girona´s typical lifestyle values.

Cuisine should be considered a decisive art. In it, taste, smell, touch and sight, meet. Thanks to Sevilla born María Durán, hearing will also get seduced by food.Having got a Degree in Arts (in the specialty of design and print illustration) and a Masters degree in Digital Art obtained at Barcelona´s Pompeu Fabra University, María is responsible of a very original project called ‘cuisine concrete’ in which the sounds produced by the making of various dishes make a very unusual noise simphony. In her own words: ‘the number of posible sound compositions equals the numbers of known recipes, and within these, the variations are infinite’. Think Fluxus put through the blender. Bon Apetite!



SEBASTIAN ESCOFET (Buenos Aires)
friday 15th october 9 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

Despite his short record production,composer and guitarist Sebastián Escofet ( 2 albums out: the clasicist Meditaciones and the more ambient called Ahora,- not to mention his occasional contribution toa few albums of, for example, Jorge Drexler, Kronos Quartet y Futura Bold), his music career not only has extended its wings into the field of production and remixing but has also got into other disciplines such as film, theatre and advertising. Escofet, an academic trained artist seems not to find anything out of his reach. His work with samplers and recordings endorse a very experimental vocation which, in conjuction with a marked taste for advanced pop, brings a sound which is intellectual and sophisticated but affordable and pleasant at the same time. His music breaks the barriers between intellectual and popular art, blurring their frontiers, thus creating a free space where all music has a place. asterisco.org/



SAMI ABADI (Buenos Aires)
friday 15th october 10 pm
Saló d´actes de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia - Plaça de Rius i Taulet, 2
free entry

In the course of LEM’s life, we have featured a good list of artists specialised in the use of toys, wheter it was as a primary source of building the pillars of music, or as a modest complement of the latter. Despite the humbleness of such materials, these artists have proved their ability to contribute to a form which artist John Cage made so popular, giving free rain to their imagination and their sense of houmor. Composer, vionist, artist and an expert in music pedagogy Sami Amadi, uses electronic music and toys to create pieces which surf ambient music as well as the so called musique concrète. In his own words, these are dreamlike volatile fragments which can be framed within neopsychedelic music.

www.samiabadi.com.ar/
www.musicaexperimental.com.ar



FERNANDO JOBKE (Buenos Aires) acompañado de EL GRAN NELSON
presenta "D Fernando Jobke Fantastic Low Tech Ensamble"
friday 15th october 11h30 pm
Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia - Torrent de l´Olla, 104
free entry

Jobke’s extensive cultural background gives evidence of the way that this artist has managed to bridge the gap between the academic world and contemporary music, including sound installations. To start off with, it’s worth highlighting that some of his work (Bocinódromo En Documento , available on CD, is probably the most outstanding) have been showcased in different festivals, organized by Uruguay’s Universities of Quilmes and Stanford. Secondly, it’s also worth driving one’s attention towards his work as the creator of the music for Sitearte (www.sitearte.com) Jobke also co-ordinated Composición En Acto (Live Composition) seminar headed by Óscar Edelstein which also took place in Quilmes. Founder of Clark Nova’s ensemble of non academic contemporary music, he is currently working as an intrumentalist in several bands and as an independent composer.
www.flatusvocis.com/voces/fernando_jopke/Fernando.htm#

RANMA 1/2 <artista resident 2004> (Sant Feliu de Codines)
saturday 16th october 9 pm
Garatge LUXOR - Neptú, 10
free entry

Their name pays tribute to a popular cartoon heroine but their music is far from childish. While Aleix Ruiz, formely known as Jacques Le Guitarriste (a name which he has performed under in different venues in cities such as Barcelona, Tarragona y Mollet), takes charge of bass, vocals and samplers, Oriol López, old band mate of his, plays the drums. They both form Bushido Code, and are currently working on material for a soon to be released new EP. They admit to liking bands such as Godflesh, Isis, Ministry, Melt Banana and Black Dice, but their strongest influence dates back to the first wave of industrial sound. Also among their favourites are Ronaldo & The Loaf, The Residents’ playful sound-collages and IDM artists such as B12, Aphex Twin and Mu-ziq. www.hartodevino.es.kz



MIRA CALIX (London)
saturday 16th october 9 pm
Garatge LUXOR - Neptú, 10
free entry

SouthAfrican Chantal Passamonte, aka Mira Calix, moved to the UK in 1991. She then got a job at Warp (also home to Autechre, Aphex Twin and Plaid, to mention a few), was inspired by the innovative way of understanding the creative process in the eyes of the aforementioned artists and decided to make her own music. Her first album was released in 1996, a 10” named Ilang through which she found her real vocation and decided to drop her place at Warp. Not only she has been responsible for a series of deliciously composed albums such as One On One, but she has also some interesting projects under her belt including contributions to CD compilations (Extreme Music From Women, We Are Reasonable People), other adventourous works such as the remixes of other people’s work, like Seefeel’s, and has supported live bands such as Radiohead (Kid A tour). It is a real honor to have her at this year’s LEM. www.miracalix.com/



LE PETIT RAMÓN & LES FILLES DEL DOLOR (Barcelona / Illa de Guam )
saturday 16th october 10 pm
Garatge LUXOR - Neptú, 10
free entry

If we see Johnny Rotten and Beck as singer-songwriters on the same scale as Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg, it will not be a effort to see Ramón Faura as one too. Having been the lead singer of Azucarillo Kings (irreverent combo that would play to the extreme of the absurd the likes of The Prodigy, REM and Cecilia), he is now the body and soul of Le Petit Ramon & Terrorista, a group who use irony and cinism as their tools to survive in today’s chaotic world. Le Petit Ramon & Terrorista’s cultural (¿) framework hosts names such as Rauschemberg, Clint Eastwood, The Count Five, Gogol, Ovidi Montllor and Billy Wilder. There is nothing more gratifying than trying to spot them in this disconcerting artist’s recently edited first album.



CRISTIAN VOGEL (Barcelona)
saturday 16th october 11 pm
Garatge LUXOR - Neptú, 10
free entry

Dance music is the ideal fertile ground for creativity to arise, specially is in the hands of such sparkling mind, who is committed to make the most out of it. Chilean- born-Barcelona-based -British Cristian Vogel is the autor of highly innovative albums, unbeatable on the dancefloor, such as Specific Momentific, edited by Mille Plateaux, and the outstanding All Music Has Come To An End, Busca Invisibles and Dungeon Maste, edited by Tresor. Vogel has flirted with synthetic funk –on Supercollider, alongside DJ and producer Jaime Lidell, and with latin music in the album Rescate 137 (Novamute, 2000). The presence of this imaginative electronic alquimist is one of the most stimulating and refreshing that will be performing at LEM. An unmissable date. It goes without saying. www.no-future.com



DJ FISH´N´FISH (Luzern)
sunday 17th october 1 am
Garatge LUXOR - Neptú, 10
free entry

It is widely believed that the DJ phenomenum is a very recent invention but the truth is that it is not that new. Over the last few years, DJs have been relishing/savouring a ‘divine’ status granted by having become indispensable characters of the night, but the fact is that DJS have always been there, transforming nights into either a practical hobby or a reveling experience whatever their music selection. What is it that makes a DJ into a music tótem, into someone who can set up and manipulate trends and likes? Their rupture mentality and technical skills. Dj Fish & Fish has them both. His intrusion into music started off in early 80s London, while being immersed in the post punk whirl. Over the 90’s decade he organized a series of events and performances which provided his music style with sounds which range from punk and industrial to experimental music.

www.colectivo.ch
www.darkentries.ch



DAS GUMMI (Luzern)
sunday 17th october 2 am
Garatge LUXOR - Neptú, 10
free entry

Swiss Urs Rueg´s CV includes having worked as a hospital nurse and as a lighting assistant at Zurich Opera House. But what seems even more relevant to us is that about three years ago he became a DJ with a soft spot for ambient, experimental and noise music. Coil, Die Form, Lustmord, Massive Attack, Somatic Responses are some of his big music influences but he´s also very interested in film making, specially that of Herzog, Polanski, Lynch and Pasolini’s. Rueg is a member of Luzern based collective Kranke Musik Für kranke Leute / Sick Musick for Sick People and has supported big names such as Young Gods, Winterkalte, Nena, Skalpell and Synapscape, after their respective gigs. But there´ll be a lot of things to be said about him.

VJ TEAM: ROTOK
www.rotok.com