steirischer herbst
Double Feature
Series of current electronic music concerts
11% Performance
85% Music
4% Noise


Every musical performance pursues its own strategy - the series of concerts "Double Feature" challenges key figures in the current electronic, experimental music scene in a confrontation with a range of such strategies: in joint performances, the aim is to negotiate aesthetics in a live setting - without losing the closeness to one's own assertion, with the performers providing each other with, expropriating, blending and perhaps sometimes messing up material.
But precisely this risk gives rise to new things thanks to the mutual provision of structures and material - and the listener always wins. For "all impure states, including collage, benefit the viewer" (Brian O'Doherty).

The series opens with Terminalbeach, a label under which Pure and Erich Berger have been collaborating for a few years. Next, Tokyo-based Xenakis and Messiaen student Zbigniew Karkowski with his noise attacks meets digital freestyler Helmut Schäfer. The third evening features the Swedish composer, artist and curator Carl Michael von Hausswolff and the Finnish musician Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) with partly self-made sound equipment. Finally, the usually conceptual US artist Joe Colley is confronted himself with the multi-channel, computer-assisted compositions of Marcus Schmickler.

musikprotokoll 2006


A series by steirischer herbst & musikprotokoll 2006

Tue 26/09, 20.30
Terminalbeach (Pure (A) / Erich Berger (A/FIN))
Festival centre

Tue 03/10, 20.30
Zbigniew Karkowski (P/NIP) / Helmut Schäfer (A)
Festival centre

Fri 06/10, 22.30
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S) / Mika Vainio (D/FIN)
Dom im Berg

Tue 10/10, 20.30
Joe Colley (USA) / Marcus Schmickler (D)
Festival centre

Curated by
Heike Schleper (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)

Erich Berger (Terminalbeach) / randomseed.org

Marcus Schmickler / www.piethopraxis.org

Tue 26/09, 20.30
Terminalbeach (Pure (A) / Erich Berger (A/FIN))
Festival centre

Tue 03/10, 20.30
Zbigniew Karkowski (P/NIP) / Helmut Schäfer (A)
Festival centre

Fri 06/10, 22.30
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S) / Mika Vainio (D/FIN)
Dom im Berg

Tue 10/10, 20.30
Joe Colley (USA) / Marcus Schmickler (D)
Festival centre



Curated by
Heike Schleper (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)

Erich Berger (Terminalbeach) / randomseed.org

Marcus Schmickler / www.piethopraxis.org










Double Feature
Series of current electronic music concerts
11% Performance
85% Music
4% Noise


Every musical performance pursues its own strategy - the series of concerts "Double Feature" challenges key figures in the current electronic, experimental music scene in a confrontation with a range of such strategies: in joint performances, the aim is to negotiate aesthetics in a live setting - without losing the closeness to one's own assertion, with the performers providing each other with, expropriating, blending and perhaps sometimes messing up material.
But precisely this risk gives rise to new things thanks to the mutual provision of structures and material - and the listener always wins. For "all impure states, including collage, benefit the viewer" (Brian O'Doherty).

The series opens with Terminalbeach, a label under which Pure and Erich Berger have been collaborating for a few years. Next, Tokyo-based Xenakis and Messiaen student Zbigniew Karkowski with his noise attacks meets digital freestyler Helmut Schäfer. The third evening features the Swedish composer, artist and curator Carl Michael von Hausswolff and the Finnish musician Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) with partly self-made sound equipment. Finally, the usually conceptual US artist Joe Colley is confronted himself with the multi-channel, computer-assisted compositions of Marcus Schmickler.

musikprotokoll 2006


A series by steirischer herbst & musikprotokoll 2006

Tue 26/09, 20.30
Terminalbeach (Pure (A) / Erich Berger (A/FIN))
Festival centre

Tue 03/10, 20.30
Zbigniew Karkowski (P/NIP) / Helmut Schäfer (A)
Festival centre

Fri 06/10, 22.30
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S) / Mika Vainio (D/FIN)
Dom im Berg

Tue 10/10, 20.30
Joe Colley (USA) / Marcus Schmickler (D)
Festival centre

Curated by
Heike Schleper (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)

Erich Berger (Terminalbeach) / randomseed.org

Marcus Schmickler / www.piethopraxis.org

Tue 26/09, 20.30
Terminalbeach (Pure (A) / Erich Berger (A/FIN))
Festival centre

Tue 03/10, 20.30
Zbigniew Karkowski (P/NIP) / Helmut Schäfer (A)
Festival centre

Fri 06/10, 22.30
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S) / Mika Vainio (D/FIN)
Dom im Berg

Tue 10/10, 20.30
Joe Colley (USA) / Marcus Schmickler (D)
Festival centre



Curated by
Heike Schleper (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)

Erich Berger (Terminalbeach) / randomseed.org

Marcus Schmickler / www.piethopraxis.org