| Christian Graupner the Berlin-based artist is exploring in his latest work the practices and myths around pop and contemporary music and combines multi channel video &sound with partly machine- partly user-controlled 'humatic' interfaces and mechanisms. His recent sculptural / media work includes gambling machines and asian mojo figures, feedback guitars and beatbox-like vocal- & dance performances. In processing visual and audio material, he not only uses and adapts available computer programs but also uses the developments coded by his project collaborators.
CG is composer, artist and the creator and developer of real-time media playback systems. His wide ranging earlier works were made up of drawings, paintings and experimental electronic music, mostly published on records, CDs as well as in movies and radio plays under the pseudonym VOOV (Violation of Ordinary Values). With his works such as '2Lives Left' and newest projects 'MindBox' and 'Don't Dance', he is keeping alive his conceptual platform 'Automatic Clubbing'. In 2000 he formed the independent artist group and production company Humatic Ltd. together with Nils Peters who develops software tools for artists working in a variety of media forms. CG has been guest at ZKM Karlsruhe . His work has been shown and performed worldwide
CV: http://www.humatic.de/cv/cg.html
Mieko Suzuki was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She has a Fashion Diploma from Bunka University Tokyo and worked in fashion- design and business freelancing for companies as PUMA. Mieko Suzuki has a long years experience as a piano player. Since 1998 she performed as DJ & sound artist all over the globe with a focus on Japan, Australia and Europe. She won several awards and took part in artists residence programs. MS was performing at several international art and fashion events as Momentum Sydney 2010, Kunsthalle M3 Berlin, Calvin Klein Tokyo Collection, Julius, Paris etc. She was writing for international Magazines as Marie Claire, Loud Music Magazine, Style Neid, De:bug and many others. In her DJ performances she is surprising the audience with her uncommon headstrong sound as well mixing contemporary electro acoustic music with deep underground tracks. She created radio shows in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Tokyo. Since 2007 Mieko Suzuki is based in Berlin.
Statement MS: 'Our experience of sound & music is being one of the most direct and immersive. My work responds to my physical and emotional environment, generating a real-time conversation between the audience and the sound. Assembling a narrative from a broad language of music, I think it is useless to classifiy and segregate music by genre. I do not seek to control my audience, but I am lead by their response, which creates the space of performance. Working with a synaesthetic color theory in sound perception this space is my canvas and in live performance I translate my perceived color scapes into sound scapes. In filling this particular space, music works asa glue binding together our experience of visuals & sound'.
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