Party: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS – 3 comments
Parking Lot Party
We love STEIM 2
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6
Jun
2008
21:00 Mediamatic Post CS Oosterdokskade 5 Amsterdam www.mediamatic.net (view on map)
The Parking Lot Party was a music marathon with performances by Byungjun Kwon, Nanko, JS Lach, Keir Neuringer / Rafal Mazur, the band Sightings ("Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose") and DNK-Friday DJ Unit.
This second STEIM support party was organized by Mediamatic, DNK-Amsterdam and <>TAG-The Hague. Electronic Lab STEIM was in danger for losing their structural funding.
@ Parking Lot Party, at Mediamatic
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With Byungjun Kwon (KR/NL), Nanko (NL), JS Lach and Mazur/Neuringer (PL), Sightings and the DNK-Friday DJ Unit!
- Byungjun Kwon started his musical career in early 90's as a singer/songwriter and has since released 7 albums ranging from alternative rock to minimal house. He creates music for records, sound tracks, fashion collections, contemporary dance, theatre plays and interdisciplinary events.
- Nanko (Nanko Huisman) plays guitar, laptop and pedals. He is a composer/musician who combines funk, techno and classical music in a natural way.
Byungjun Kwon@ Parking Lot Party at Mediamatic
- Juan Sebastián Lach Lau (1970, Mexico City) has played in many different improvisation and experimental jazz ensembles. He has also written pieces for theatre, film, video and radio.
- Mazur/Neuringer (PL) met in October 1999 at a drummerless jam session in one of Kraków's cellar jazz clubs and have been performing together in various formations ever since. Mazur and Neuringer produce an extraordinary range of sonorities considering the limited physical sound sources they use (acoustic bass guitar, occassionally bowed, and unamplified saxophone).
Nanko @ Parking Lot Party.@ Parking Lot Party at Mediamatic
- DNK-Friday DJ Unit will consist of Mr Fooo (van den Dorpel), The Snail (Andre Avelas) and The Real Masterfader (Koen Nutters)
- Sightings make splendid noise with Richard Hoffman on bass, Jonathan Lockie on drums and Mark Morgan on guitar & vocals. About their latest album: Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic twine envisioned in future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose.
Outside the venue of STEIM 2 at MediamaticPhoto byPablo Sanz Almoguera , taken from his Flickr
The Garage BOX bar was open.
Location: Mediamatic, Post CS Gebouw, ground floor, Amsterdam
JS Lach -
@ Parking Lot Party at Mediamatic
@ Parking Lot Party at Mediamatic
@ Parking Lot Party at Mediamatic
3 comments
About time...
But where do I and other 'educated' music lovers go now to hear interesting music?
steim lost their funding, was about time
that's too bad, but i'm gonna stick my neck out and say it was about time. Fold their research into a place like mediamatic and move on. The netherlands is full of stichting's with groups of well meaning people lost in archaic processes not worth tax payers money. If only they had gotten past their 1980s squatter culture attitudes maybe things wouldda moved on. They had good ideas and iterated at the speed of snails, so fold their precious research and cultural history into some parking spot, ensure their wikipedia'd and let's move on.