03 February 2010
09 November 2009
01 June 2009
01 March 2009
Rokolectiv ‘09

ROKOLECTIV ‘09
FESTIVAL FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS
The fourth edition of Rokolectiv - festival for electronic music and related arts - kicks off between 10th and 12th of April 2009. Over 20 artists will participate with concerts, installations, and special events.
The first two days of the festival are hosted by a new spectacular venue - Bucharest’s creative commodities exchange The Ark, a neonesque industrial building reconverted into space for contemporary culture. As usual, MNAC supports the last day of the festival.
Rokolectiv presents outstanding live acts of the moment, most of them a Bucharest premiere, starting with the rare appearance of the Norwegian dizzying disco magician Lindstrom, followed by Canadian house experimentalist Frivolous and Berlin’s biggest deepologist Prosumer, in an obsessively dancing Saturday night.
On top of everything, to spice up the magic during the night program - some floral and animal interactivity, and a bit of playfulness with Lego sounds…
Friday is a dubstep goes techno night with special appearances from Shackleton, 2562 and Deadbeat, under the close supervision of the Romanian producer of the moment TRG with a mind-blowing DJ set.
Fennesz brings on Sunday some of the Black Sea’s waves to MNAC, following the recent release of his new album. An eclectic night completed by a display of Optical Machines, a grand finale combustion by the noisiest neo-metal funksters MoHa, and a spacecraft managed by half of Zombie Zombie - Etienne Jaumet - and the Romanian duo Minus si Ion, in a quest for a deeper sound.
Friday 10.04 / The Ark / 22h002562 (NL)
Larytta (CH)
Shackleton (UK)
Deadbeat (CA)
TRG (RO)
Saturday 11.04 / The Ark / 22h00
Legoloop(CH)
Bogdan (RO)
Lindstrom (NO)
Frivolous (CA)
Prosumer (DE)
SKVJ (RO)
Videocote (RO)
Sunday 12.04 / MNAC / 19h30
Optical Machines (NL)
Fennesz presents ‘Black Sea'(AT)
Etienne Jaumet (FR)
Minus si Ion (RO)
MoHa (NL)
SKVJ (RO)
Videocote (RO)
15 January 2009
The Whitest Boy Alive's 'Rules'

The Whitest Boy Alive's upcoming album 'Rules' will be released March 3rd on Bubbles Records. The new song 'Islands' is already uploaded on their Myspace.
04 June 2008
02 June 2008
Minus & Vali Chincisan @ AVion 10

Minus & Vali Chincisan @ AVion 10
CASTOFON performance live
4 Jun / 20:00 @ Orange Concept Store
Minus: “I’ve been making tracks for a few years, trying to focus on the emotional aspect of music rather than its technical side. The style ranges from 8-bit and oldschool-electro to dub, downtempo and ambiental music with vague references to maths, fuzzy childhood memories and old video games."
25 March 2008
The Emotion Organ by Amanda Steggell


Synaesthesia is the name of a rare clinical anomaly where people experience unusual and very real sensations, such as the taste of shapes, or the colour of sound.
'The Emotion Organ is a synaesthetic simulacrum machine where players can explore the sensational interplay of feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling and motion. It is also a time machine - a re-engineered pump organ from 1895 that combines both old and emerging technology and builds upon a trajectory of several centuries-worth of ideas about synaesthetic phenomena.
Without electricity it can be played as a conventional musical instrument, but when plugged in the organ produces varying combinations and intensities of sound, light, colour, scent, vibration and movement. When played it stimulates a highly subjective, cause-and-effect sensory immersion. When experienced as a spectator, the subjective affect of the player is modulated through the hypnotic visual effects of a propeller-screen, processed organ sounds and emitted scents.'
10 March 2008
Rokolectiv 2008 | Playground

11 apr / Session / 22h00
An on Bast [PL]
Pantha du Prince [DE]
Dat Politics [FR]
Underground Resistance [US]
The Model [RO]
[After] Dandy Jack & Sonja Moonear [CH/ CL]
Vali Chincisan / SKVJS [RO] / Suso33 [ES]
12 apr / Session / 22h00
Tom Wilson [RO]
Kalabrese pres. The Rumpelorchestra [CH]
Mungolian Jet Set [NO]
Elektrofant [NO]
Bjorn Torske [NO]
Dreamrec [RO]
[After] Magda [PL] [Sunrise event / not included]
13 apr / MNAC / 18h30
Mira Calix [UK]
Sillyconductor [RO]
Planningtorock [UK]
Khan of Finland [DE]
Daedelus [US]
Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam [FR]
Absolut Machines | Absolut Quartet

The Absolut Quartet is a multi-instrumental music-making installation combining art and technology to create the equivalent of a classic human quartet. It is an 'automated multi-instrumental orchestral machine, a large-scale electromechanical sculpture consisting of three instruments and thousands of parts, working together to create one piece of music. The main timbre is a marimba played by balls shot from a robotic cannon. Other components include a series of wineglasses played by little robotic fingers and an array of robotic percussive instruments'.
Prepare to be amazed > check the video!
The musical installation is on display at New York and you can get the chance to interact with the machine by logging in to absolutmachines.com. You will enter a 4-8 second theme, and the machine will generate, in real-time, a unique musical piece based on the input melody you have provided. (via)
01 March 2008
11 December 2007
Scanner @ Avion07

Scanner (UK) - AV projects + screening + Q&A
AVmotional @ Orange Concept Store / 12 dec / 19:00
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Steve McQueen, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
26 November 2007
Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader

Official video for Big Face's 'I Wanna Be A Style Crusader' single, released through Kitsuné Records - a 9 days video shoot involving 700 boxes, with majority of the imagery being hand animated by two people. Watch more cool videos on videoclectic!
13 November 2007
04 November 2007
24 October 2007
Lolly Jane Blue - Worms

'Worms' - directed by Sil van der Woerd - is an experimental underground music video and shows Lolly Jane Blue, the singer, on her way down to earth layers, a journey leading to a climactic underwater ballet.
Watch the video: Quicktime | Youtube
08 October 2007
05 October 2007
David E. Sugar - Chelsea Girls | directed by peepshow collective

'Chelsea Girls' video: youtube / quicktime
David E. Sugar embodies the Brikabrak ethos of pushing artistic freedom. His experiments in the world of micro music have put awards on the shelf and taken him around the world. David joins the label for a collaboration with MC Ears which was composed using just three gameboys.
Peepshow are not so much safety in numbers as was their initial intention when they first set out, as strength of 10 brains, 20 eyes, and 100 fingers whose eclectic approach offers new ideas which draw on the experience and individual skills of all involved. They are responsible in no small way for shaping and informing the rapidly-changing climate of visual culture today.
04 October 2007
makunouchi bento - avebel | arhiva7.ro netlabel new release

Avebell
Dark copper bells, giant stone trees.
Sad birds looking in the lake to peck their distorted images.
Hairy grey grass growing fast on the inside.
And every senior ghost has its own bell.
There is not night or day - just fog from swamps.
There are no clouds, just slimy paper made zeppelins.
Thoughts and dreams are slashing each other to death.
Romans and greeks are the only citizens left.
And two venetian old fools.
They all look translucent like projected by
a huge Merkur portable projector (35mm - 1922).
Soldiers with led boots marching indefinitely,
Do not reach the battlefield ! There is Avebell.
Makunouchi Bento are:
Felix Petrescu (waka x)
Valentin Toma (qewza)
http://myspace.com/makunouchibento
download here: http://arhiva7.ro/netlabel
(free/mp3/netlabels/dark/cinematic/electronica)








