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friday 07 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord 7-10
bar
9 p.m.
free admission

La Mal Coiffée (Carcassonne)
(www.sirventes.com)



Six women from Les Corbières, in Languedoc, form the vocal group that opens LEM 2005. Based on tradicional chants of Aude valley, La Mal Coiffée (Myriam Boisserie, Dalèle Muller, Marie Coumes, Hélène Pages, Isabelle Francois and Camille Simeray) offer a contemporary reading of magic musics that still sleep the mythical dream of cathar lands. La Mal Coiffée (the badly combed) take us on a path of dreamed polyphonies towards a sound region of Mediterranean scent, of vivacious, catching musics, which seemed to live in a common memory barely deciphered. With La Mal Coiffée begins also for the future memory of the festival a new central headquarters, the Lluïsos de Gràcia. They greet us at the bar, open the door of the festival; six voices that sound / dream for the first time in Barcelona.


friday 07 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord 7-10
teatre
10 p.m.
3 euros

Damo Suzuki & Nou Bodies (Köln - Barcelona)
(www.damosuzuki.com)



Four essential albums of one of the most decisive bands in the last century’s popular music, and probably this one too, feature the voice of this Japanese settled in Köln, the band is Can, and Damo Suzuki is the voice. His unique vocal talent, his stage presence and his long experience in instant composition come alive in the project Damo Suzuki’s Network, an endless tour that has already visited thirty countries. In each city, Damo picks the musicians depending on their communicative potential and provokes a stream that also involves the audience. Each concert is a unique event where a collective space-time is created. So, the music is not a landscape we witness, but one through which we travel, wishing the next stop not to be on the map… Nou Bodies are Jorge Porter (guitar), Io Casino (modified voice), Jens Neumaier (sax), Xavi Tort (trumpet), Jaume Pantaleón (guitar), Blue (turntables), Kim Masdeu (drums), Roger Fortea (bass) y Christian Dergarabedian (keyboards).

saturday 08 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri
carrer del Sol 8
9 p.m.
free admission

Mr. Hubba y el Mono Inventor (Barcelona)
(www.mrhubba.com)



It seems like sci-fi that a local project of two young musicians had played in less than a year at the Noisefest in Sacramento, and the Tate Britain of London, in the framework of a tour that has also visited Ireland, Germany and Japan, before been even known in Barcelona. But that’s exactly what happened with Mr. Hubba y el Mono Inventor. The problem was settled in this year’s Sonar festival and we could witness an impeccable performance for a musical approach as ambitious as well-solved. With the use of musical toys and the mighty synthesizer or the prepared guitar, they invite us to a journey that becomes a hypnotic trip, a flight with no return, emotional crescendo of powerful craft, of which they retrieve us sporadically with reality flashes not exempt of a sense of humour. Their approach is unusual in the city and it has the strenght of well done jobs, of conscious exploration of the instrumental possibilities of the duet. A pleasure.


saturday 08 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri
carrer del Sol 8
10 p.m.
free admission

Saverio Evangelista & Federico Spini (Roma)
(www.experimentaclub.com/data/most_significant_beat/)



Saverio Evangelista has been already for fifteen years half percent of an inexcusable monument of industrial music as Esplendor Geométrico, a project he has always worked on simultaneously with his other, better known project: MSB (Most Significant Beat), alongside Maurizio Martinucci. On both cases, Evangelista walks the post-industrial sky as a reference figure in two reference projects. His solo work is less known, usually featuring Federico Spini, musician and interface creator. They’ll present for the first time in Barcelona the Sound Waves project aims at creating music conceived from the sounds generated by drawing (in real time during the performance) a number of wave forms with an optic pen or a mouse, so that the audience can experience at the same time the movement of the musician, the representation of sound and the sound itself. In order to do this, Evangelista uses a software which is normally employed (among other functions) to reduce noise in digital music, reversing then its purpose so as to create rather than erase. Essential.


saturday 08 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri
carrer del Sol 8
11 p.m.
free admission

Electrified Ether (Sardenya)
(www.kirliancamera.com)



There's a group that has been in the talk of eighties post-industrial movement aficionadoes, until it became a legend: TAC (Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata). A very revered pioneer group, it has suffered many line-up changes in the last two decades, it has released 13 albums, the latter in 2004, always revolving around Simon Balestrazzi, also an alma mater of equally mythic formations: Kino Glaz (1 mythic LP in ADN label), Kirlian Camera (11 albums)… You can find him also collaborating with Thelema, Elio Martusciello, Z’EV... What he'll be presenting in Barcelona is the outcome of his collaboration with guitarist Sara Aresu, and it has the same amount of elegant darkness, mystery and forcefulness as his other works, a personal trademark that distinguishes the work of this long range creator, who also writes music for theatre, cinema and dance. A long path that, however, never took him before to our country.

thursday 13 october
La Pedrera
passeig de Gràcia 92
9 p.m.
Free concert with bookings at 902 400 973 from October 1st. Limited capacity.

Anne-James Chaton – Andy Moor (Montpellier - Amsterdam)
(www.annejameschaton.org)(www.unsounds.com)



This night, curated by propost.org, travels (and fractures) the dividing line between music and poetry with names especially meaningful in the European panorama. It begins with the collaboration between two highly interesting creators: Anne-James Chaton, sound poet, an editor whose activity since the year 2000 can only be labelled as tireless. Two discographic productions and more than one hundred shows basicaly in France but also in other parts of Europe, including collaborations with Catherine Jauniaux, Carole Rieussec and the very Andy Moor, a member of the Dutch group The Ex, his work covers the post-punk energy of his early works and the revision of traditional Klezmer, Russian and Greek music, and also the improvisation or electronic creation alongside John Butcher and Thomas Lehn with the trio Thermal and his collaborations with Kaffe Matthews, Yannis Kyriakides or Colin Mclean.


thursday 13 october
La Pedrera
passeig de Gràcia 92
9:30 p.m.
Free concert with bookings at 902 400 973 from October 1st. Limited capacity.

David Moss (Berlin)
(www.davidmossmusic.com)



It’s a luxury to count on the presence of one of the most provocative and essential figures of the vocal music of today. Moss sings, speaks, screams and plays with his registers. As a percussionist he is different class. When he combines both things, the result is mind-blowing. A long solo and in collaboration career (Phil Minton, Heiner Goebbels and Catherine Jauniaux among others). He combines in his work the best and most resolute expressions of creative freedom. Contemporary as few are; unique in almost everything else. The Village Voice said that a David Moss’s concert is like "Alien love-songs meet Bo Diddley, John Coltrane and Maria Callas”… Founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice (ILV), he teaches workshops all over the world, sings and writes operas, plays, and participates in many ensembles... Working solo, Moss liberates drums, brasses, woodwinds and electronic sequences out of their instrumental confinement, to relate to his absolutely free voice.

friday 14 october
La Pedrera
passeig de Gràcia 92
8 p.m.
Free concert with bookings at 902 400 973 from October 1st. Limited capacity.

Alessandro Olla & Paolo Sanna (Sardegna)
(www.aleolla.it)
(freeweb.supereva.com/paolo11205/index.html?p)



The list of instruments these two musicians use in their concerts is beyond the space limit of this page. Their starting points are very different: Olla comes from academic piano education to eventually getting involved from the nineties in the investigation of the relations between music, theatre and dance. His musical creation for theatre has led him to collaborate with Dario Fò and Marco Parodi, among others. From his interest in collaboration with fellow musicians comes his duet work with Paolo Sanna, unclassifiable percussionist, a specialist in Mediterranean music, Brazilian percussion, the Persian and Kurdan musical forms, free improvisation, and building new instruments. Between both of them they produce a work of remarkable improvisational content and multiple sound layers, exciting and astonishing, that seeks a very specific inspiration: silence as spiritual work field, and the interaction between popular music and experimentation.


friday 14 october
La Pedrera
passeig de Gràcia 92
9 p.m.
Free concert with bookings at 902 400 973 from October 1st. Limited capacity.

Trio Impromptu (Sardegna)
(www.silviacorda.it)
(www.jazzitalia.net/artisti/adrianoorru.asp)



Silvia Corda, piano, Adele Madau, violin, and Adriano Orrù, double bass, proceed from complementary musical fields. They have worked on contemporary creation, jazz and improvisation. Madau is also a choreographer and alongside Corda they collaborate permanently with Giancarlo Schiaffini. Orrù is an advanced disciple of Stefano Scodanibbio. The three of them have developed an important part of their work in the interaction with theatre. The trio’s field of exploration goes from chamber music to radical improvisation, giving a special relevancy to gestuality. Music in tension with the aim of communicating feelings and emotions and which owes as much to Charles Mingus as it does to Alberto Ginastera; in a collective vocation, searching for a result which would surpass the individual attitude of each artist, the trio uses the “preparation” or modification of the instruments, searching in the sound alteration and estrangement the inflection point for successive formal findings.


friday 14 october
La Pedrera
passeig de Gràcia 92
10 p.m.
Free concert with bookings at 902 400 973 from October 1st. Limited capacity.

Difondo / Martucci (Sardegna)



Difondo is the outcome of the collaboration between Giampaolo Campus and Sergio Camedda. Since the beginning of the project, in 1998, their goal is the investigation of sampling techniques, the manipulation of sound in real time, the improvisation as a compositive practice, and the use of spatialization techniques to display their music. In 2004 they became a trio with the arrival of Tiziana Martucci, an actress progressively interested in the relations of her drama work and other artistic fields. That same year they are commissioned to write music for Gianni Marilotti’s novel La XIV Commensale (Calvino award 2003), in a way that the resulting piece became a show that began to be performed live in June 2004. Turned into a meeting between text and music surpassing that format greatly, this piece becomes a sound reading filled of spaces where we can “read” auditorily another universe.

saturday 15 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord 7-10
bar
9 p.m.
free admission

Bar Iacions Nietzsche (Barcelona)
(www.ed-critica.es)



Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher. But, also, musician and composer. David Picó asks himself whether it is possible to listen to some of Nietzsche's lieder from a new outlook. And so, five pieces written by the philosopher for voice and piano become the Bar Iacions Nietzsche, which open this festival night devoted to philosophy. For this, Picó summons Dolors Boatella, contralto, whose background is medieval, renaissance and baroque music, Lucas Quejido, ultravoice, who comes from another disappeared formation, Ivo Naïf, and currently works with La Lidia and Agustí Martínez, sax player and composer of contemporary and jazz music, who was a member of Le Diablo Mariachi. David Picó has just published the book Listening philosophy. The concept of music in Friedrich Nietzsche's thinking, on Crítica publishers. Following Nietzsche, to avoid "music becoming a ghostly performance presented by ghosts", have given a new body to this music beyond its original romanticism.


saturday 15 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord 7-10
teatre
10 p.m.
3 euros

Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra avec des ex - Ivo Naïf et Antuan (Barcelona)
(www.experimentaclub.com/data/oscar_sedcontra/)



Popular music or contemporary philosophy? Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra Avec Des Ex -Ivo Naïf et Antuan is the penultimate sensation of the chanson. From parameters close to French popular music of the 20th century they journey to the deeps of this country’s contemporary philosophy. The result are pop songs where there are comfortably, in an uncanny natural way, texts by Jacques Derrida, François Lyotard, Emmanuel Lévinas, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Klossovsky. The performing line-up is shaped in a “supergroup” joining the names of the original formations: Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra, a duet which in the nineties did their peculiar journey from after-punk towards noise, passing by literatura and performance. Ivo Naïf, a forgotten gem of Barcelona’s nineties, a literary and musical unity. As they say, they created songs available to the biggest illiterate. That’s because, as everybody knows, in France, even the biggest illiterate can speak French.

tuesday 18 october
MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona)
plaça dels Àngels 1
8 p.m.
3 euros

Gabriele Hasler (Gummersbach)
(vwww.gabrielehasler.de)



The intervention on popular contemporary musical languages by means of experimental and sound poetry tactics has lead German singer and composer Gabriele Hasler to build a musical universe as vast as it is suggesting, through which, by using the voice, its electronic manipulation and other sound objects, she proposes a journey hard to resist. A sound immersion that has its highest peak in her recent work, Flow, which will be the subject of this concert. Flow is an exciting and rich vocal music piece, that Hasler builds using both traditional vocal techniques and electronic manipulation of the voice in real time. We are in the presence of a creator of a long career, who has worked alongside Lindsay Cooper, Jaap Blonk, Gunter Hampel and Louis Sclavis, among others, and has developed a personal language as powerful as it is emotional.


tuesday 18 october
C3-BAR (bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
10 p.m.
free admission

Monigotics Musics (Barcelona)
(www.stevenforster.co.uk)



In Veivi Gisus Urkestra (a splendid action-music project with Lucho Hermosilla back in the nineties), as in his solo career, under the name of Slasher Tompkins, Steven Forster gathers together sense of humour, mystery, bricolage and ready-made starting from his impossible sculpting, composing and performing background. Self-built instruments, unexpected sceneries… Forster is a part of the collective Drap Art, and has created sound installations (Festival de Músiques Contemporànies de Barcelona, Inn Motion...). His main activity is giving motion and light to his sculpture works, video work, drawing and painting (he just illustrated Xavier Thero’s Inconvenient Dictionary), but all this coexists with an intermittent feature as extraterrestrial songwriter where both sound and visual worlds of a singular artistic personality meet. It’s not easy to find him performing all these tasks simultaneously, this is one of these occasions we’d better not miss.

thursday 20 october
Maguroya
carrer Ramón y Cajal 32
8 p.m.
free admission

Kukan (Barcelona)



Kukan means space in Japanese, and it's the name of this multi-sensorial co-experiment, where takes part the recently created collective Ewerk (Boris Dulón, Thor Bufalá, Pepe Garí) by means of the visual projection in real time, and the Japanese artists Kai Takeda and Takuyo, who also perform instant painting and sculptures. Blue will be the responsible for the creation of the sound ambience (currently combining his turntable work with playing drums in Bukkake, probably the only sludge-doom group in town), and two other senses are at play with Bibibi's sushi. New technologies and traditional procedures are combined to offer a sight, touch, sound, scent and taste experience. Kukan is a project produced by Maguroya.

friday 21 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord 7-10
teatre
9 p.m.
3 euros both concerts

Altaba - Samsó - Urós (Barcelona)



Tonight, the festival is completely devoted to introduce us a series of creators which have a good deal of responsibility, unfairly forgotten sometimes, of a unique sound and creative freedom in the Catalan scene, far more acclaimed abroad than here. First, Eduard Altaba (electric bass) and Quicu Samsó (drums) gather in their careers some of the most meaningful names in this brilliant scene: Blay Tritono, Tropopausa, Triomòbil, Koniec, Moisés Moisés, Obmuz... In his current trio project, they pick a guest for each occasion. This time, José Manuel Urós (guitar) brings another piece of the city’s musical history: MCW, New Buildings, Stock de Coque… he’s the instrumentalist that joins the powerful and subtle rhythm base. Energetic music that starts from improvisation, detailed and evolutive.


friday 21 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord 7-10
10 p.m.
3 euros both concerts

Les Anciens (Barcelona - La Selva)



Enric Cervera, Eduard Altaba, Joan Saura and Oriol Perucho complete tonight the space devoted by LEM to the scene sometimes called post-laietana; again, mythic names we find in this supergroup surface: Blay Tritono, Perucho’s, Tropopausa, Koniec… Les Anciens: the conjunction of two double basses different pulsations (Altaba – Cervera), a talking drumset (Perucho) and a sampler as organic as Saura’s, promise a music that Max Ernst would put in a collage, Miles Davis would use for a solo, and Pau Riba or Jaume Sisa would maybe sing. The dimmed lights of certain Barcelona cafés, winters of tramuntana at La Selva de Mar, music as an inner trip, free jazz, psicodelia, naïf, instrumental music for boletaires’ discovery… with video images produced by Enric Cervera, this music created under necessity’s urgency and timelessness’ pleasure also provides data about a timeless necessity and a pleasure urgency for this city’s music.


Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia
Torrent de l’Olla 104
11 p.m..
concert OFF - free admission

Tüsüri (Renteria)
(www.tusuri.tk)



In very little time, Oier Iruretagoiena has produced four CDs, has worked live with Jason Kahn, Arnold Dreyblatt or Dj Amsia and has appealed the attention of festivals such as Ertz or Elektronikaldia. This shouldn’t surprise us in an artist coming from the most industrial zone in the east coast of Guipúzcoa. But even though his music can develop in dark, industrial ambient, visits the exploration of silence, the small percussions, the field recordings… He’s probably the youngest musician ever to perform in this festival. And he’s one of the points of interest for new music in the hands of new artists happening right now. This is a concert that may help us discover the future a bit.

saturday 22 october
Experimentem amb l’Art
carrer Torrijos 68
6 p.m.
concert OFF - free admission


Juan Cantizzani (Lucena)



A clarinet player since the age of sixteen, tenacious promoter of sound events in his Cordobese city, a student of José Manuel Berenguer, Benet Casablancas, Eduardo Polonio and Salvatore Sciarrino, and at the same time Cristian Vogel and Evru, in the work of this artist converge concepts of pop and discreet music or ambient next to the quest for a language of his own, using sometimes electroacoustic tools, introspective and gifted with an expressiveness very unusual. In 2004 he was granted a scholarship by the Cordoba’s County Council to expand his musical knowledge in GME laboratory in Cuenca with composer Julio Sanz Vázquez. This year he’s one of the three artists chosen for the off section of the LEM a new glimpse into the future.


saturday 22 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri
carrer del Sol 8
9 p.m.

DO (Bera)
(www.ccapitalia.net/reso/zonasonora/index.htm?frame=http%3A//www.ccapitalia.net/reso/zonasonora/do/do.htm)



A laconic name for Joseba Irazoki’s sound project, a Basque musician who has just released his recent cd Tokian Tokiko in Lucky Kitchen label. A self production and various participations in compilations under both names are left behind. Irazoki uses guitar, harp and other small instruments that, once processed electronically, are used to develop a warm, landscape-like, enlightened music. Like emotional images of dreamy moods, his music is fixed in records, that become improvisations of evolutive development when played live, cyclic music in constant change, atmospheric, with the sensuality of string instruments, and a delicious, crystalline and water-like shade. We’re probably talking about pop, electronic, improvised music…


saturday 22 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri
carrer del Sol 8
10 p.m.
free admission

Reche - Courtis (Quilmes - Buenos Aires)
(www.pabloreche.com.ar)
(www.geocities.com/a_courtis)



Two heavy weights of sound experimentalism of the last years, begin at the LEM the tour that takes them for the first time to Europe. Reche, involved in his already long solo career, and Courtis, from his work in the mythical Reynols, group he co-founded in 1993, are the armed wing of a sound resistance that has its epicentre in Buenos Aires and create with no concessions in the frontiers of noise and improvisation. The important international projection of both musicians throw an impressing list of collaborations, both have worked with musicians like Zbigniew Karkowski, Francisco López, Pauline Oliveros, Lee Ranaldo, Damo Suzuki, Lasse Marhaug, Toshimaru Nakamura... undetermined sound sources, ambient recordings and uncanny musical instruments, are processed live, always keeping the tension between silence and the energetic discharge configuring the sound substance which is trademark on both artists’ individual careers.

tuesday 25 october
MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona)
plaça dels Àngels 1
8 p.m.
3 euros

Larry Karush (Los Angeles)
(www.LarryKarush.com)



The American Larry Karush creates a “visionary synthesis” of jazz rhythmic and improvisational nature, scales and ornamentation of north of India’s classical music, Afro-Caribbean rhythmic and Western contemporary music. His improvisation-compositions conform a sound journey able to make us walk naturally and imperceptibly from one musical field another, with a unique logic, of his own and obtained after a long career where we find him alongside John Abercrombie, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Glen Moore or Glen Velez, over which Erik Satie, Bud Powell, baroque, raga and blues are floating. Karush works on the energy like an architect deciding the ending of the building when it claims for it, his music grows spiralling and reaches its total sense in the arms of its quest, at the border of the precipice, in a point of no return to the listener and we share the discovery. Two pieces will take over this concert: India and The Wheel.


tuesday 25 october
C3-BAR (bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
10 p.m.
free admission

Mil Pesetas (Barcelona)



A new nominal metamorphosis for Hara Kraan, Roger Fortea and Miquel Cabal’s project. Like Les Sordines, they dared to deal with Strawinsky, Coltrane, Elvis Presley, Can and The Residents, by means of an instrumentation which centers the percussion on claque, adding, like a clockwork mechanism, programmed rhythms and electric bass. This “musical box” sensation empowers even more melodies as naïf as evoking. Small percussions, whistles, mouth harp, are other tiny sound elements completing a delicate music, impregnated with a subtle sense of humour, which Mil Pesetas complete with a slightly surreal staging, discreetly minimal, subtly unrefined… this year’s revelation. This time featuring the collaboration of Òscar Pellicer in clarinet, sax and melodica.

friday 28 october
Pati de la Seu del Districte de Gràcia
plaça de Rius I Taulet 2
7 p.m.
concert OFF - free admission

Fanfán (Santiago de Compostela)



Fanfán is Luis Rivas. Warm atmospheres and textures, improvisation and space trips, are parts of his sound project. A music full of shades, intimistic and provocative at the same time, made of “dirty” samples and rhythms as convincing as subtly integrated in minimal melodies. A music of multiple sound layers, of sounds that dialogue and events that crash together. Behind it we find an electronic physicist who doesn’t use physics to compose and has just seen two of his compositions released in Skam Records’ Skam Cats compilation, a record label created by Autechre. The references to this group and others close to it appear in his artistic biography. The step towards a more electroacoustic conception of sound is, however, what distinguishes him.


friday 28 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
9 p.m.
3 euros both concerts

El Corsal Desastre – L’projectioniste (Málaga-Beirut)
(www.ailimitada.com)



Seventeen years ago, 713avo Amor appeared in Malaga against the stream of what was going on in the Spanish rock scene. An unusual combination of rock, experimentalism, Andalusian tradition and deep texts were the letter of introduction of Carlos Desastre’s (guitar and vocals) first project, to which extent he moved to Berlin provisionally to end up settling down in the Bask country. There, after creating with Emilio Salvatierra the project Después de Nunca, El Corsal Desastre is born, within the factory Compañía de Sueños Limitada, the book-record Radio Ensueño and the concept of Ruido Lírico e Imágenes, his collaboration with Stephane Abboud, also known as L’projectioniste. Abboud projects images and light, creates visual loops, reuses found material while news, poems, stories and songs happen, to create between both artists a beautiful narration of sound, words and images; an invitation to live “the inner story of our small lives that build all together beautiful dreams.”


friday 28 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
10 p.m.
3 euros both concerts

Monno (Berlin)
(www.soundimplant.com)
(www.conspiracyrecords.com)



Antoine Chessex, electric sax, Gilles Aubry, singing laptop, Derek Shirley, electric bass and Marc Fantini, drums; three Swiss and a Canadian form this quartet based in Berlin. After their first album, Candlelight technology, released in 2004, Monno hasn’t practically stopped touring Europe, offering a live show highly energetic, controlling chaos with abstract sonorities, wrinkled rhythms and noise improvisations. Behind the “singing” laptop there is a specialist in real time improvisation with computers. The electrified and distorted sax fires bursts which many guitars should envy. Bass and drums build solid rhythm structures which are suddenly dilute to leave room for disturbing sound regions which evolve until they become new and powerful rhythmic moments. That’s exactly Monno, a powerful improvisation group reaching hardcore by the path of electronica from a remote and mythic jazz. They present at the LEM their second album, released this month.

saturday 29 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
bar
9 p.m.
free admission

Zazalie Z. (Montreal)
(www.zazaliez.org)



Zazalie Z. presents Zig Zag Z. Zazalie Z. is Nathalie Dion, and she’s been sporting in cultural life for twenty years now. She explores vocal art, texts and sound experimentation, she hammers electronic pedals and presents her sound poetry all over the world. You can find her collaborating with Martin Tétreault, Pierre Bastien or the collective Metamkine. She travels three continents, she writes, reads in public, does cabaret with a rhythm box as partenaire, installations, photography, performance… in the way she participates in a seminal group in Québec (Pois Z’ont Rouges), she writes music for films, video, radio, she improvises with orchestras, collaborates with artists from the countries she visits… from that constant traffic of ideas, situations and states, the zuniverse arises, which will be presented in Barcelona featuring Elvira Jiménez in cello..


saturday 29 october
Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
teatre
10 p.m.
3 euros


Michael Rother & Dieter Moebius (Hamburg -Berlin)
(www.michaelrother.de)



If we drew a line connecting the names of Kraftwerk, Kluster, Cluster, Neu! and Harmonia, not only would we have narrowed one of the most suggesting maps in 20th century’s German music, but we would be also explaining part of the personal historic paths of two musicians as influent in the popular electronic scene as Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius. We might also add that in their list of collaborations there are names like Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Klaus Dinger, Mani Neumaier, Jaki Liebezeit, Conny Plank, Brian Eno... both had worked together back in the seventies within Harmonia, a fusion between Cluster and Neu! They are back together, this time as a duet, in 2000, for a tour around Germany and England ending in the festival Music for the Third Millennium, in London. Since then, the duet is still active live while Neu!’s and Harmonia’s albums are object of new and celebrated reissues. So far a good handful of reasons not to miss this concert.

thursday 03 november
autobús al Centre Cívic del Coll
sortida Jardinets de Gràcia
enfront de l’obelisc
7 p.m.
free admission - limited capacity

Rafael Metlikovez (Canovelles)
(www.experimentaclub.com/data/accidents_polipoetics)



Rafael Metlikovez was born in 1964 for their relatives' rejoyce, and all of the sudden he gets a psichology degree and works as a family therapist. After devoting himself to the street selling of sausages and serigraphy, he discovers his poetic vocation practicing performance and other disciplines of doubtful reputation. Among them we can remark, doubtlessly, the one alongside Xavier Theros, called Accidents Polipoètics, has embarked him in a life of endless tours by all kinds of bars, theatres, public squares, neighbour associations and neighbourhood celebrations. A completely personal way of reading the texts, of staging the humour and throwing concepts like bricks. His work has been published in CD and the books Más triste es robar, Todos tenemos la razón. After Franco ha muerto o cómo idiotizar a un pollo, a long piece the duet has presented at Beckett theatre, Metlikovec, who is still single, takes up again one of his solo specialities: the conference considered as one of the fine arts.


thursday 03 november
Centre Cívic del Coll
carrer Aldea 15
8 p.m.
free admission


Joan-Elies Adell (Vinarós)
(www.uoc.edu/in3/hermeneia/CV/jadellp_cv/jadellp_cv.htm)



The technologic innovation in the literary field, which probably owes as much to the historical avant-gardes as it does to “pure” findings, and is silently paralleled to the progress which sound creation and science make together, experiences in that new common ground a current birth. On one hand, combinatory, random and other “random operations”, as John Cage would call them, take more possible spaces by counting on such a potential. On the other hand, if the press fixed the spoken word, the magnetic tape, by doing this, left a record beyond the word and the computer, and in this moment allows, also, transformations. Sound takes part in the same adventure, starting from the possibilities offered by digital environments. These are the paths Joan-Elies Adell will explore in his conference Sound potential of digital literature. An essay writer (his book Music and simulation in digital age appeared in 1997), poet (five published books) and a member of the Hermeneia research team on Literary Studies and Digital Technologies.


thursday 03 november
Centre Cívic del Coll
carrer Aldea 15
9 p.m.
free admission

Pere Sousa (Barcelona)
(www.merzmail.net/)



Pere Sousa / Merz Mail has compilated the poetic production of the historic avant-gardes, chiefly Dadáa and Merz. A cultural activist, editor, mail artist, broadcaster, he’s also a phonetic poet, perhaps the most versatile and with the most registers in Catalonia. His repertoire is quite ample, although he’s specialized in Kurt Schwitters’ work, whose poem Anna Blume he has performed versions in many languages, although it’s probably the famous piece Ursonate by the same author the phonetic poem Sousa has performed in the most occasions, and the one he will be presenting at the LEM. Schwitters was a key name in the Dadáa movement, of which he has parted artistically and vitally in numerous occasions. A pioneer of the collage and postal art, sculptor and poet, he created the term Merz to apply to all of his activities, ending with his fantastic Merzbau structures, built along the years. Ursonate is considered the most important piece in phonetic poetry’s history.


thursday 03 november
Centre Cívic del Coll
carrer Aldea 15
9:30 p.m.
free admission

Martí Sales (Barcelona)



In June 79, his mother broke waters while she was at the Book Fare. Becoming a writer was only one step ahead. His knees are peeled from exploring the jungle of great cities, and a sore voice from screaming with punk group The Surfin’ Sirlas. He can be often seen around the darkness of backstages, last time at the Mercat de les Flors, codirecting with Eduard Escoffet, Gerard Altaió and Josep Pedrals the show Wamba va!, a research on scenic languages starting from four dysfunctional brains. He’s academically signed as a graduate in Compared Literature, and Huckleberry Finn (Balenguera, Ed.Moll ’05) will be his first adventure novel. He recreated in an electric key the poem Fear, by Raymond Carver, at the 2004 Mapa Poètic, and he presents it at the LEM with a distorted view of a year’s meditation since he got this commission. Guitarist Oriol Caballero will be his spiritual counsellor in the poem’s journey.


thursday 03 november
Centre Cívic del Coll
carrer Aldea 15
10 p.m.
free admission

Baseline (Bilbao)
(www.baselinenoise.com)



Born in Gijón, although established in Bilbao, Pilar Baizán puts her visual work aside to create Baseline, an electronic sound project of deep textures, contrasts, loop manipulations starting from the minutious treatment of small sound fragments and a long emotional reach. Indeed, her music is closer to the Eraserhead soundtrack rather than the current noise trends. Maybe because of the influence of the artist’s visual side, the sense of sound tale is superimposed to the purely ambiental: starting from simple structures, by means of juxtaposition techniques, Baizán restores us the hope of an “iberic” noise having La Otra de Un Jardín, Esplendor Geométrico, Neo Zelanda or Comando Bruno as influences, she has always excelled in not concealing the compositive gesture, beyond ambient or minimalist concepts, and leaving the door to intuition open. Her performance at MEM festival proved so. It’s her first performance in Barcelona.

friday 04 november
Caixafòrum - Auditori
avda. Marquès de Comillas 6-8
9 p.m.
free admission

Banda Municipal de Barcelona, directed by Òscar Vidal,
Pianocòctel with Raül Fernandez (Barcelona).
Videoart by Maite Ninou (Barcelona)
(www.lamatrona.com)
(www.tacticaltourism.org/maite)



The already traditional annual appointment of the Banda Municipal de Barcelona with LEM Festival, takes this year a new format by gathering composers and video artists in a thematic way. In this first case, presenting a Pianocktail of songs by Boris Vian. The barman will be Raül Fernandez, who has chosen and prepared this selection for the band; best known as Refree, for his brilliant career since the release of his three solo albums full of songs of a mixture between Mediterranean tradition, jazz and downtown music, for which he has invited Françoiz Breut, Aroah and Jaume Sisa. Maite Ninou is in charge of the videographic creation accompanying the concert, whose production begins in 1985 and covers two decades of the video creation in Barcelona as an essential name, to the point of producing almost one hundred titles as close to literature as performance or music, with a downtown and conceptually radical poetic.


friday 04 november
Caixafòrum - Auditori
avda. Marquès de Comillas 6-8
9:30 p.m.
free admission

Banda Municipal de Barcelona, directed by Òscar Vidal.
Locus Solus, d’Òscar Vidal (Aielo de Malferit).
Videoart by Toni Serra (Barcelona - Duar Msuar)
(www.desorg.org)



Locus Solus is probably the most emblematic work of French writer Raymond Roussel, precursor of the historical avant-gardes and an unclassifiable writer in whose work each fragment was a hypertext where the key was at the same time the form. Almost at the end of the piece, the score of the popular melody The small bells of Scotland is printed in the book. To get to it, Òscar Vidal, composer, co-worker of Llorenç Barber in many experimental adventures for Mediterranean band, extracts four of the seven rooms conforming the book and describes them musically; he seeks in Satie, and his A Mammal’s Notebook inspires him for the mood indicators. The image will be the work of Toni Serra, video author, writer, creator of interactive and other submediae. A member of the OVNI archives (Observatori de Video No Identificat), his work transmit subliminal sensations, extracts poetry from the everyday life, investigates in reality’s fiction, like Roussel, almost painlessly…


friday 04 november
Caixafòrum - Auditori
avda. Marquès de Comillas 6-8
10 p.m.
free admission

Banda Municipal de Barcelona, directed by Òscar Vidal.
Tibi by Paolo Angeli (Sardegna).
Videoart by Elisabetta Saiu (Sardegna)
(www.paoloangeli.com)
(web.tiscali.it/ringalia/personal.html)



Paolo Angeli is especially known for having introduced modifications in the Sardinian guitar enough to locate it in the 22nd century, and also because of his international collaboration with musicians like Elliot Sharp, Otomo Yoshide, Fred Frith and Jon Rose. His musical career is the outcome, in part, of that constant journey to Northern Sardinia’s traditional music and its return to sound experimentation. Of each cycle, Angeli comes back enriched to do that magnificent timeless synthesis that is his work. Author of many orchestrations, he re-created the music of the Sardinian Holy Week for the Banda Municipal. Elisabetta Saiu will be in charge of the video image. She’s since 1992 author of many musical films, a stage designer, video installation and video sculptures creator, and live video and video dance creator. She has produced video labs in Europe and Japan, and she has travelled to south of the Mediterranean to work with artists of these countries.

saturday 05 november
Festa de cloenda
Zoo de Barcelona
Parc de la Ciutadella s/n
Noon
Free concert presenting the coupon that appears in the festival’s program.

La Orquesta de la Muerte (Barcelona)



And so, this year LEM ends in daytime. The festival’s closing party goes to the Zoo of Barcelona. It’s a good occasion to meet this singular place in a different way and to bring those who miss the nightly activities of the festival. Three alt saxes (Jens Neumaier, Olga Ábalos and Rafa Romero), two trumpets (Cristian Pallejà and Xavi Tort), two double basses (Alejandro Mazzoni and Javier García) and percussionist Pablo Díaz-Reixa, form the Orquesta de la Muerte, a name that refers us to the band music of New Orleans for a music more inspired in large jazzy line-ups with a free vocation, where the tributes to Sun Ra Arkestra, Mingus heritage and downtown spirit coexist with the participation of their members in city bands like Nisei, Cactus, Linn Youki Project, Dead Man On Campus, Handsome Knot Chet, La Lidia or 12Twelve. At the entrance of the Zoo’s palm trees, next to the birds house… Welcome to the party!


saturday 05 november
Festa de cloenda
Zoo de Barcelona
Parc de la Ciutadella s/n
1 p.m.
Free concert presenting the coupon that appears in the festival’s program.

Don Simón & Telefunken (Tarragona)
(www.slowcoloured.com/)



They’ve been around this planet for 250 million years and now they are an endangered species. It’s the turtles. Don Simón & Telefunken reassure us that their music will stimulate the mating moods of these animals. They also claim to be a part of the big band that entertained the Big Bang, although according to their label, responsible for the release of their only album so far, Música de vanguardería, the group formed four years ago. They took their music more or less at the same time than their instruments around all of Catalonia, and their live show includes impossible atrezzos and speed light stages that seem to arise from a dream to lead us into another one, made of tiny songs, simple messages for complex civilisations, sensitivity, humour… Their stage will be next to the sculpture of the Umbrella Lady, across the dolphin’s pavilion.

saturday 05 november
Festa de cloenda
Zoo de Barcelona
Parc de la Ciutadella s/n
2 p.m.
Free concert presenting the coupon that appears in the festival’s program.

Douglas Ferguson (Austin)
(www.distilleryrecords.com/)
(http://www.dugdesign.com/)



Douglas Ferguson’s music is surrounding, luminous, electronic but not digital. His drones have the heat of the prepared guitar and the self-built electronic gadgets, which the composer processes in real time. A very active musician in the experimental scene of the Texan city, he works as much in solitary as conducting the 12 Guitar Orchestra (the name is very descriptive) and a very singular line up: The Austin Theremonic Orchestra, composed by six theremin players. He creates sound installations (litophones) and has performed John Cage’s Imaginary Landscapes. The outcome of Ferguson’s solo work is a music that seeks to generate states (he’s a regular guest in the psychedelic scene of his city), which he achieves through the generation of meditative and abstract atmospheres, of slow developments and an always organic fluctuation. His sound environment next to the lady gazelles will be the climax of 2005 LEM Festival.

See you next year!