Performers 2011 - 2012
DJ Ripley
Talk about how copyright law is being embedded in globally networked technology and how that risks not just “limiting freedom” in a general sense, but specifically how that reinforces existing social inequalities, along colonial lines. What’s cool about that idea is I can talk about Jo’s own experience making a mixtape of Turkish music and getting it pulled from Soundcloud because another Western artist who sampled the Turkish music was identified as the copyright owner.
So there’s a Turkish guitarist, a Belgian DJ, a European tech company, US copyright law, and lots of interesting issues going on underneath..
Lê Quan Ninh
As an improvisor, he participates at numerous meetings in Europe and in North America and plays regularly in ensembles in forms that mix improvised acoustic & electroacoustic music, ‘performance art’, dance, poetry, experimental cinema, photography and video…
Serge Verstockt
Serge Verstockt studied music theory, clarinet and electronic music at the Antwerp Conservatory. In 1983 he studied at the ‘Instituut voor Sonologie’ in Utrecht with Godfired Michael Koenig where he concentrated on formal compositional methods and developed the programme ‘Trans’.
In 1988 he founded the ensemble Champ d’Action which would devote particular attention to new technological developments: live electronics, interactive computerised works, etc.
Stuart Lynch
Stuart Lynch is educated within design, sculpture and painting. He started his dance carrier with kickboxing and aerobics. Later he integrated the Japanese Butoh-dance. His performances are hybrid forms.
Tetsu Saitoh
Double bass player, composer, and arranger
Tetsu Saitoh was born October 27, 1955 in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing the bass when he was 22. He taught himself initially, but soon began studying with bassists Keizo Mizoiri (his former high school classmate) and Nobuyoshi Ino (to whom Mizoiri had introduced him).