miguel_myriad
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Hamburg's purveyor of dadatronic experimentalist pop music last seen headlining Ireland at the inaugural mor festival in 2003 asking people whether they wanted a Fuck Bollywood song or an internet sadist song? Five years on and his back with his deranged psychoscifipopperia.
SONICDIPITY presents….
FELIX KUBIN
LIVE IN CRAWDADDY
FRIDAY MARCH 14th
Tickets €15. Doors 11.30pm
www.felixkubin.com
"Refreshingly perverse" (THE WIRE)
MEET FELIX KUBIN AND SOME OF HIS JOBS:
Experimental and futuristic pop music, electroacoustic music, owner of label Gagarin Records, animated cartoon films/experimental short films, radio programmes, radio plays, film and theatre music, articles and publications in books and magazines
Kubin's sample-heavy electropop is often racked under 'plunderphonic music', along with artists like Negativland and People Like Us. "My music is not plunderphonic music," he protests. "When I use samples it's mostly samples of my own music and sounds, or of something that I refer to in my musical history." But he does share plunderphonic artists' interest in politics. "The plunderphonic movement tried to be political simply by taking voices of others and not commenting themselves," argues Kubin.
"Their comment was the context. Since politics have totally left the realm of visions by becoming a management of economics, culture has to replace politics by taking its visionary spirit. That's why art is so important today. Artists have to take the responsibility to change unified minds and to give them back a visionary feeling of politics in the original sense: the matter of the singular citizen in correspondence to society's interest. Culture is not luxury, culture is the new politics in opposition to pure economics."
Kubin's interest in surreal dream logic, poetry, broken narrative and noise coalesces in his experimental radio plays. "My first radio play in 2001 was called Syndicate Of Counter-Noise, produced for Deutschlandradio Berlin," he says. "It explored a syndicate of noise musicians and theorists who organised in a sabotage ring worldwide. A mixture of documentary, travelling report, pseudo-science, sound collage, manifesto platform. It got quite a lot of airing, which encouraged me to go on."
Recently he premiered a play with Polish artist Wojtek Kucharczyk. "It deals with the German-Polish relationship and takes the piss out of each other's prejudices and pathos," he concludes. "I like to combine fiction and reality/documentation because I think that nowadays the truth lies - a great double-meaning of the word in this context - in between facts and poetry."
SONICDIPITY presents….
FELIX KUBIN
LIVE IN CRAWDADDY
FRIDAY MARCH 14th
Tickets €15. Doors 11.30pm
www.felixkubin.com
"Refreshingly perverse" (THE WIRE)
MEET FELIX KUBIN AND SOME OF HIS JOBS:
Experimental and futuristic pop music, electroacoustic music, owner of label Gagarin Records, animated cartoon films/experimental short films, radio programmes, radio plays, film and theatre music, articles and publications in books and magazines
Kubin's sample-heavy electropop is often racked under 'plunderphonic music', along with artists like Negativland and People Like Us. "My music is not plunderphonic music," he protests. "When I use samples it's mostly samples of my own music and sounds, or of something that I refer to in my musical history." But he does share plunderphonic artists' interest in politics. "The plunderphonic movement tried to be political simply by taking voices of others and not commenting themselves," argues Kubin.
"Their comment was the context. Since politics have totally left the realm of visions by becoming a management of economics, culture has to replace politics by taking its visionary spirit. That's why art is so important today. Artists have to take the responsibility to change unified minds and to give them back a visionary feeling of politics in the original sense: the matter of the singular citizen in correspondence to society's interest. Culture is not luxury, culture is the new politics in opposition to pure economics."
Kubin's interest in surreal dream logic, poetry, broken narrative and noise coalesces in his experimental radio plays. "My first radio play in 2001 was called Syndicate Of Counter-Noise, produced for Deutschlandradio Berlin," he says. "It explored a syndicate of noise musicians and theorists who organised in a sabotage ring worldwide. A mixture of documentary, travelling report, pseudo-science, sound collage, manifesto platform. It got quite a lot of airing, which encouraged me to go on."
Recently he premiered a play with Polish artist Wojtek Kucharczyk. "It deals with the German-Polish relationship and takes the piss out of each other's prejudices and pathos," he concludes. "I like to combine fiction and reality/documentation because I think that nowadays the truth lies - a great double-meaning of the word in this context - in between facts and poetry."
