Amsterdam Jam

TAKE (aka Sweatson Klank) is on Pooh Bah records hails from the LA beat scene. He released his debut album a couple of years ago and has put out numerous singles and 12′ over the years. Recently he has done remix work for artists such as Flying Lotus. He played in the Bimhuis last summer as part of the Viral Radio festival. This is your chance to catch him playing a live set.

Full Tour dates.
13 Jun 2009 Live set @ Back to the Wood, LONDON w/ Architeq & Mike Slott London
18 Jun 2009 Live @ STEIM , Amsterdam
27 Jun 2009 Live @ Glitch, Augsburg, Germany
03 Jul 2000 Live set @ Heads High Live w/ Architeq and Headshigh Soundsystem, London, UK
04 Jul 2009 Stall 6, Zurich
16 Jul 2009 Live in Paris w/ Onra
18 Jul 2009 Live @ Loud Minority, Vienna, Austria

This gig is part of the STEIM summer party. This is the full line up and the text is courtesy of STEIM.

Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 18.00 hrs. (performances will start at 20:00 hrs.)
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: [email protected] or 020-6228690

PERFORMANCES:
Take aka Sweatson Klank (US)
Folia - Yannis Kyriakides (NL) & Andy Moor (NL)
Yota Morimoto (JP/NL)
Kassen (NL)
Byungjun Kwon (KR/NL)
DJ by dj sniff

Watch performer videos here:
http://www.steim.org/STEIMBLOG/?p=711

INSTALLATIONS:
PulseFF by Jan Bas Bollen (NL)
New Mobile Touch Installation
The Michel Waisvisz Room

Yannis Kyriakides
Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969 and as a result of the military occupation in 1974 emigrated with his family to Britain. After travelling for a year with his violin in the near east, learning traditional music, he returned to England to study musicology at York University, later being drawn by the music of Louis Andriessen to move to The Netherlands, with whom he studied at the Hague Conservatory. At that time he also had the inspiring opportunity to collaborate as composer on three projects with the maverick conceptual sound artist Dick Raaijmaakers and the director Paul Koek. He currently lives in Amsterdam, with his wife and son.

As a composer he strives to create new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and exploring spatial and temporal experience. He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media. The sensory space where music happens is a particular preoccupation, and for this end a way of bypassing the conventional structures of how music is presented is sought. The question as to what music is actually communicating is also a recurring theme in his work and he is often drawn to the relation between emotion and language and how that defines our experience of music. Read more here: http://www.kyriakides.com/

Andy Moor
Born in London England 1962 Andy began his musical life in Edinburgh, Scotland, playing guitar with the band Dog Faced Hermans, a multi faceted eclectic group that mixed energetic post punk energy with traditional tunes and improvisations….
In 1990 he moved to the Netherlands after an invitation to join Dutch band The Ex and continues to be a full time member of this band….the openess and versatility of the musicians in this group has brought them into contact with many musicians from different scenes and backgrounds; including Tom Cora (cello), Han Bennink (drums), Wolter Wierbos (trombone), Djibril Diabate (kora), John Butcher (sax) and Anne James Chaton (sound poet).

In 1995 he performed his first series of completely improvised concerts as a duet with Terrie Ex, and later released a video of the best performances. In 1996 he began another group with Tony Buck (Necks), Joe Williamson and Leonid Soybelman (Ne Zhdali) called Kletka Red…fusing traditional Klezmer, Greek and Russian songs with their own frantic styles of playing….
In more recent years Andy has involved himself more with the Amsterdam improvisation scene and has worked alongside electronic musicians as well as composing soundtracks for films and he performing regularily with dancers such as Magpie music and Dance Company with Katie Duck. Read more here: http://www.unsounds.com/artistbio/andy.html

Yota Morimoto
Yota Morimoto (1981) is a Japanese composer born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, currently undertaking a research at The Institute of Sonology in The Netherlands. His work explores unconventional approaches to generating and transmitting sound, implementing models of noise, turbulence and abstract machines. As a force multiplier of Ibitsu, a multimedia collective, he has performed in festivals and conferences such as NWEAMO, Transmediale and ICMC. And beside those activities, he has collaborated with musicians such as Frances-Marie Uitti, Tatiana Koleva, Masato Suzuki, Akane Takada and Luc Döbereiner. http://yota.tehis.net

Kassen
Kassen Oud is a musician and producer who has been working and playing with ChucK for years now, in fact his main instruments are the ones he developed himself. Ge Wang bestowed him with the title of ‘Sherpa’ of the ChucK scene because of his extensive involvement with it. His music is chiefly released on the Dutch Creme Organization label. Kassen lives in The Hague.
http://www.toplap.org/index.php/Kassen

Byungjun Kwon
Byungjun Kwon (1971 South Korea) started his musical career in early 90`s as a singer/songwriter and has released 7 albums ranging from alternative rock to minimal house. He creates music for records, soundtracks, fashion collections, contemporary dance, theatre plays and interdisciplinary events developing his own musical instruments and performance tools. Now he lives and works in Amsterdam. http://byungjun.pe.kr/xe/

Jan-Bas Bollen
Jan-Bas Bollen is a composer, sound designer, performance artist and violinist. In the past several years he has worked increasingly with video. He studied violin with Jan Bor and Herman Krebbers, composition with Joep Straesser, Theo Loevendie, Gilius van Bergeijk and Klaas de Vries. He has written music for various soloists, ensembles and theatre productions, including the HEX Ensemble (of which he is a founding member), the Volharding, Steamboat Switzerland and the Scapino Ballet. In many of his works he uses electronics to broaden his sound palette, but he also composes pieces on the computer. He often works with dancers and choreographers, such as Ross Cooper (UK), Daniel Belton (NZ) and Gonnie Heggen (NL). He and Alison Isadora work as the multimedia performance duo SYNC, and he regularly performs with percussionist Steve Heather.

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