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01.11.2013 Phonophon - http://www.phonographie.org
Institut für neue Medien (INM),Schmickstraße 18, 60314 Frankfurt
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If, Bwana(US)
If, Bwana was born on New Year's Eve 1984, making music that has swung between fairly
spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. A recent
review of Margolis's work says: "Let it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some
sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a
context, because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically
altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in
compact determination." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes).
Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through
his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was
co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run.
Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly
spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition.
He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique
Buzzarté, Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane
Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, and Dave Prescott, among others.
If, Bwana Info
Timon Jansen (D)
Timon Jansen, geb.1990, gestaltet verschiedene szenische und installative Formate mit
einem klanglichen Schwerpunkt. Als Musiker spielt er in Formationen experimenteller
und improvisierter Musik. Seit 2011 studiert er in Gießen Angewandte
Theaterwissenschaft.
Das derzeitige Programm setzt sich mit dem Verhältnis frei improvisierter Musik und
deren elektronische Bearbeitung auseinander. Dabei wird die elektronische
Klangbearbeitung weniger als extended technique verstanden, vielmehr geht es um die
Eigenständigkeit beider Elemente und deren Zusammenspiel.