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Lukas König @ Zwei Tage Strom - Festival für elektronische Musik /2024/
ZWEI TAGE STROM:
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Auch in seiner sechsten Ausgabe widmet sich Zwei Tage Strom den turbulenten Strömen aktueller elektronischer Musik. In Konzerten, Filmscreenings und einer Videoinstallation versammelt das Festival künstlerische Positionen aus den unscharfen Bereichen zwischen geläufigen Genres, Stilen und Szenen. Zwei Tage Strom interessiert sich dabei weniger für sicher abgesteckte und klar voneinander separierte Terrains als für vielfältig sich durchkreuzende und gegenseitig befruchtende Dynamiken. Improvisation oder Komposition, Objekt oder Instrument? Die Unterscheidungskategorien sind nicht zu haben, ohne dass etwas auf der Strecke bleibt.
ENG
Even in its sixth edition, Zwei Tage Strom is dedicated to the turbulent currents of contemporary electronic music. In concerts, film screenings, and a video installation, the festival brings together artistic positions from the blurred areas between common genres, styles, and scenes. Zwei Tage Strom is less interested in clearly defined and separated terrains than in the diverse, intersecting, and mutually enriching dynamics. Improvisation or composition, object or instrument? The distinction categories are not available without something being left behind.
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LUKAS KÖNIG
Austrian musician Lukas Koenig is primarily a drummer. But there’s a lot more than percussion happening on his latest solo album, Buffering Synapsis (opal tapes), from sputtering noise to fractured circuit breaking to creepy horror-soundtrack ambience. Using electronics and pedals along with his cymbal, Koening lets his imagination fly, leading to fascinating juxtapositions between tracks and sometimes even inside them. Despite the stylistic whiplash, Koening manages to instill his music with a sense of purpose, never blasting forward blindingly or tripping over himself to find a new sound. As a result, static churn, whirring spasms and terrifying echoes are like branches of the same highly-engaging musical tree.In recent years Koenig’s solo work has repositioned itself toward a stuttering, data moshed version of the solo drummer. The imagery of brain tissues micro and macro being loaded, reloaded and exploded with data, time stamping and pure kinesis as conjured by the title of this album could not be more apt. With this recording an almost cartoon like level of intensity is sometimes reached through movement and movement alone. This is a music re-animating the "solo" drummers album while re-collecting its history of new-complexity, lowercase, Bertoia-esque metal manipulations and all out free jazz fire music. Never drab or stuffy its cybernetic, hyper technical but above all; only accomplishable at the speed of thought. It's intrinsically human music. Deploying double kick drum played in stroboscopic clusters, hyper-tactile cymbal work, table top electronics and FX pedals to mute, melt and mutilate his flailing limbs and ocean like tam tam bathing. Buffering Synapsis is a tiny view into the creative world of an incredibly exciting and unique musician. (Texts by Opal Tapes + Marc Masters)
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