Sudden Infant + Family Battle Snake at Black Sun, Cork -June 22nd (1 Viewer)

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Black Sun, Cork presents:

Sudden Infant
Family Battle Snake
+ more tbc

The Pavillion, Cork, Ireland.
June 22nd
Experimental film programme curated by Max Le Cain
Vegan Cakes

more info soon.

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SUDDEN INFANT / JOKE LANZ

Born in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz is a prolific artist working with sound and performance since 1986. His activities in various solo and collective guises (for music groups, radio projects, theater and dance endeavors) have included Sudden Infant, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, WAL, Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather, Jaywalker, Opposite Opponents, MK Selection, Psychic Rally, The Eye of Arghhh, Tell and countless others. He has also toured the world over with various acolytes and has released his works on some of the most prominent record labels in the noise underground (Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Entr'acte, Artware, SSSM, Klanggalerie, Some Bizarre, iDeal Rec and many more).

Sudden Infant is Lanz' longest-running and most enduring project. Its inception in 1989 was borne out of Lanz' urgent drive to combine sound art and performance into one visceral whole -- by doing so, his performances frequently bring forth elements and influences from Dada, actionism, Fluxus, noise, and punk, as well as some of industrial music's most trenchant performers.

A Sudden Infant performance will typically be anchored by two main characteristics: the use of minimal electronic equipment on one side, on the other a strong focus on the human body, its reduced essence, and the sound-worlds it contains and spews forth. Sudden Infant is a vehicle for Lanz to run acoustic and psychic elements to their end by focusing on their bare essentials. Thus doing, he establishes an extremely tense aesthetic of performance, and tears down any preconceived barriers between noise, performance, improvisation, and electronic music.

http://www.suddeninfant.com/
http://www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise

Family Battle Snake

Family Battle Snake is Bill Kouligas, Greek born, currently residing in Berlin. Recently he took part of SIXX: SUDDEN INFANT's 20th anniversary celebration at Ausland/Berlin. Bill runs his own Label (pan-act.com) with releases so far by Mark Durgan, Andy Ortman, Astro, Joke Lanz & Rudolf Eber. From May 2009 Family Battle Snake is sharing stage with Alan Licht, Aki Onda, Cluster, Merzbow, William Bennett, Ex-Cocaine, Usurper and many more. A hardcore trip into analogue synth research, no bullshit. -Hair Entertainment
http://www.myspace.com/familybattlesnake

 

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Updated bio!


Bill Kouligas is a Berlin based artist who runs the label Pan and also Family Battle Snake, his long running solo experimetal music project. He has collaborated with the likes of Sudden Infant, Christian Weber, Mark Durgan, Chris Corsano, Ashtray Navigations, Stellar OM Source, To Live And Shave In L.A., Anla Courtis, MV Carbon to name but a few.
Family Battle Snake floats on a plane ebbing and flowing between early psychedelia, tape music, and gluey entropicalia. Lava shifts of analogue synth warm cold industrial. Definitely more in the "noises" than "noise" camp.
Family Battle Snake is like a cloak of whispers, ominous.


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Black Sun Film Programme for June 22nd and 23rd dates
Curated by Maximilian Le Cain.

Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 2008)

Maverick British filmmaker Ben Rivers made a name for himself with a series of films documenting the lives of contemporary hermits, existing ideologically and geographically apart from today’s society, stubbornly forging their own ways of life in remote rural landscapes. Yet his films are not documentaries so much as impressionistic portraits strongly characterised by his distinctive, rough-hewn aesthetic. Rivers shoots on a wind-up 16mm Bolex, which allows a maximum shot length of just thirty seconds. He processes his own films in his kitchen sink, welcoming the beautiful blemishes this produces. Widely considered his masterpiece, Ah, Liberty! focuses not on a single character but on a family living in the remote Scottish highlands. This almost wordless, black-and-white vision of a life of complete freedom in a harsh, near-sublime landscape celebrates ‘liberty’ without sentimentalising it, at times attaining the quality of a feverish nightmare…

Concern For One’s Fellow Man (Ivan & Igor Buharov, 2000) & Hotel Tubu (Ivan & Igor Buharov, 2002)

It is with great excitement that Black Sun brings the work of one of contemporary European cinema’s best-kept secrets to Ireland. Ivan & Igor Buharov were born in the early ‘70s and became brothers in 1993. Since then, in addition to separate careers as artists and musicians, they have co-created Super-8 features and numerous shorts. Today, ‘originality’ might be a much-abused, almost meaningless term. But when confronted with films as utterly extra-terrestrial as the Buharovs’, that tired word proves perhaps the only recourse… Homemade and oneiric, these darkly playful 8mm hallucinations come with the aura of having been discovered in someone’s attic, precisely revealing a world perhaps subconsciously suspected but hitherto un-describable…

Artwar 3: Irresistible Attack (Jeff Keen, 1995)

Jeff Keen, the British master of underground cinema whose career stretches back to the ‘50s, has recently been receiving a measure of much-deserved international attention at last. His head-on collision of diary film, pulp meltdown, war-inspired iconography and live-wire fast cutting results in work that resembles an odd but also somehow necessary (and very heterosexual) hybrid of Jack Smith and William Burroughs. The extraordinary energy and spontanaeity of Keen’s visually dense films tap into the mad joy of penetrating and subverting the magic of moviegoing with the material reality of daily life. Artwar 3: Irresistible Attack belongs to the most formally aggressive phase of his career, an all-out declaration of faith in his marvelous slogan: ‘Deep War Hurts. Art War Makes Strong’

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http://www.corkmidsummer.com/2010/events/sudden-infant-family-battle-snake-experimental-films

 

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Evening echo article

A Black Sun shines on Cork’s music scene By Aoife Barry IT’S not called the Rebel County for nothing – when it comes to music, Cork is a hotbed for people who are not afraid to go out on a limb and inject some new energy into the city. One such person who is putting Cork on the map by bringing new and unusual performers here is Vicky Langan, a musician and music promoter who along with UCC lecturer and musician Paul Hegarty and filmmaker Max Le Cain, organises the Black Sun events. Black Sun celebrates its first anniversary of bringing unusual and ‘weirdo’ artists to Cork this month, as well as its second gig at the Pavilion venue, this time as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival As with all Black Sun gigs, the audience can expect ear-bending and eye-opening sounds, this time from Sudden Infant, Family Battle Snake and Black Sun DJs, preceded by an experimental film programme featuring Jeff Keen, Buharov Brothers and Ben Rivers. Black Sun, explains Vicky, “aims to present exciting performers to an Irish audience and give local weirdos an opportunity to play in a really cool setting”. Alongside the music, there are record distros and labels selling records, tapes and zines, and a vegan cake stand run by Paula Larkin. The film programme is curated by Max le Cain , who says: “Having attended and greatly appreciated several Black Sun events, it struck me that they attracted precisely the sort of adventurous, open-minded viewers that many of the weird and wonderful films I would like to see screened in Cork deserved. So, when Vicky invited me to put together a film programme for the last Black Sun, I couldn't have been more delighted.” Vicky, who moved to Cork from Galway in 2003, decided to launch Black Sun after attending experimental music festivals in the UK, such as Colour Out of Space in Brighton and Instal in Glasgow. Back home, she would talk to Paul about how inspiring these were – so Paul suggested that they approach the artistic director of the Granary Theatre ,Tony McCleane Fay, and propose an idea of a monthly experimental music event. Vicky, who was previously a technical assistant in the Granary, was happy to approach Tony, who was immediately on board. The first Black Sun took place in June 2009. “I was blown away by the level of interest in the first Black Sun,” remembers Vicky. “We’re a year on and it’s really come into its own now, where it’s an established community of very open-minded people and people who are curious and hungry for new sounds.” After 12 months, the focus is on continuing the event’s natural evolution. “Black Sun is an event that is constantly growing and over the course of the year more and more people who are finding out about it for the first time, are blown away with what they’ve seen and are coming back for more. It has taken off like I hoped and dreamed it would.” Indeed, Black Sun has hit a chord with local music fans of every ilk. “The coolest thing has been the audience response,” enthuses Vicky, adding that many people have told her they’ve “never heard anything like that in their lives before”. Black Sun is a unique event and Vicky is proud that Cork is its home. “I really do feel it’s a unique event on a national level. That’s why it’s really nice to get emails and messages from people from different counties who have heard about it and would like to travel to a show.” Vicky’s favourite Black Sun moment so far came at the third event. “One of the most amazing moments of my life was just as Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate had finished playing; the roar of the auditorium sent shivers up my spine. It was a Cork audience of 140 people and I would safely guess five people had heard them in their lives coming into the show. That roar sent shivers up my spine. I was so delighted that everybody loved it so much. It just seemed to touch everyone in the audience.” In one way, there is an element of risk to Black Sun – but Cork audiences are enjoying the gamble. “Most people are coming into this blind. That is what the night is about. This is just as much about opening out for people who have no background in listening to experimental music, for those who don’t know what to expect to see or hear,” explains Vicky. “It shows that experimental music doesn’t have to be this dry thing, it’s just as much about punk and humour; the absurd and irreverent; spontaneity and joy, absolute joy. Audience wise it’s always so mixed. There’s such an amazing mix of people.” The future of Black Sun is bright - there is the possibility of workshops as well as more live performances and DJ sets. This dark sun is shining a light on a new era for music in Cork city, and you can see more for yourself on Tuesday 22 June at The Pavilion http://www.pavilioncork.com/. Tickets cost €10 and are available on the door only from 8pm.