air+electricity tour cdr

Robert Curgenven
air+electricity
German tour CDr
Recorded Fields  |  RF006
Release: August 2008
25mins

Follows "air+electricity" touring projection and sound performance with Katrin Bethge

 

A live performance project (between 2008-2012) where overhead-projection artist Katrin Bethge and sound artist Robert Curgenven explored the relation between the physical and immersive nature of light and sound - mediated only by the air and electricity which amplify their movement. The performance space is transformed into shifting constellations of physical vibration.

air+electricity has been performed at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk), Nachtstrom (Basel), Mikro_Makro festival (Slupsk), Radial System V (Berlin), Die Remise Sommercamp (Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin), White Rabbit (Berlin) Kuehlhaus (Flensburg), Skam Gallery and Kultwerk (Hamburg), Lothringer (Munich), Kultiviert Anders (Leipzig), Meantime Gallery (Cheltenham), Eastside Gallery (Birmingham), Frakture (Liverpool), Seeing Sound II Symposium, Bath Spa University (Bath) and AudioKino at Apiary Gallery (London)

Katrin Bethge (1970) is a freelance illustrator and projection artist, working since 1999 with the staging virtual spaces of light and projection. Her overhead projections have accompanied projects in the fields of dance, theatre, music, photo exhibitions and actions in urban space. She has worked internationally including with dance performances at Kunsthaus and Kampnagel in Hamburg as well as on the HafenSafari in the port of Hamburg and produced audiovisual concerts with music by electro-acoustics and classical instrumentation


Mixed and mastered in Milan, 18-21 August 2008.
Composed from three unedited recordings of guitar/amp feedback at Brunswick, Melbourne (November 2007) and Stralau 68, Berlin (May 2008) plus field recordings in Melbourne (tree-removal), Winton, Queensland (musical fence), Kakadu National Park (grass fire), Poloniec, Poland (fire), Sydney (piano, bamboo), Tanami desert (wind), Katherine (shed), Coober Pedy (dust storm), Alice Springs (claypans, gorge).
Thanks: Michael Collins, Gilles Aubry, Sumugan Sivanesan.

Folded paper cover (printed on one side) in clear plastic wallet.
Limited edition of 40 copies, hand-numbered on cover and disc.

Remixed in Connemara (Ireland) 2020 and released on Ar Ais Arís (Rare, remixed & unreleased works – 2005-2020) via Fort Evil Fruit  |  FEF_102 | Edition of 75 (Cassette + digital download)