"The situation is therefore essentially non-dualistic;
a multiplicity of centers in a state of
non-obstruction and interpenetration."


Interpenetration Festival '07
Durian
Sept. 21, Nov. 23 and Dec. 18 - 23

September 21
Chris Worden
Code Inconnu
dj: mention
9:00 pm
Forum Stadtpark
Entrance fee: € 5

November 23
automassage
Reflector LP presentation
dj: mention
9:00 pm
Forum Stadtpark
Entrance fee: € 5

December 18 - 20
"open work days"
Forum Stadtpark

December 19
Slobodan Kajkut
piece for voice and light installation with
Goran Trajkoski
8:00 pm
St. Andrä Kirche
Free entrance!

December 20
Bruit Label Night
dj: she-ra, v93r, nachtstrom
8:00 pm
Forum Stadtpark
Free entrance!

December 21
7:00 pm: "Versprechen lohnt sich" pt.1
Cookin' with Irina Karamarković
Memories On Silent Walls (Erdem Helvacioglu)
9:00 pm: live concerts, djs
Timmi der Hund
Cilantro (Angélica Castelló & Billy Roisz)
massaccesi
dj: every kid on speed
Postgarage
Free entrance!

December 22
7:00 pm: "Versprechen lohnt sich" pt.2
Cookin' with Irina Karamarković
Ich vergesse (maru)
9:00 pm: live concerts, djs
The Striggles (play Cage)
Eric Arn
Spires That In The Sunset Rise
dj: W/
Postgarage
Free entrance!

December 23
7:00 pm: "Versprechen lohnt sich" pt.3
Cookin' with Irina Karamarković
Surprise
9:00 pm: live concerts, djs
chmafu allstars
every kid on speed
dj: Slobodan Milošević
Postgarage
Free entrance!

Forum Stadtpark Stadtpark 1 8010 Graz

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Postgarage Dreihackeng. 42 8020 Graz

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St. Andrä Kirche Kernstockg. 9 8020 Graz

What does Durian mean?

"Durian" is the theme of the festival this year.
The durian is the fruit of trees of the genus Durio belonging to the Malvaceae, a large family which includes hibiscus, okra, cotton, mallows and linden trees. Widely known and revered in Southeast Asia as the "King of Fruits," the fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and a formidable thorn-covered husk. Its name comes from the Malay word duri (thorn) together with Malay suffix that is -an (for building a noun in Malay), meaning "thorny fruit.
Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk green to brown and its flesh pale-yellow to red, depending on species. The hard outer husk is covered with sharp, prickly thorns, while the edible custard-like flesh within emits the strong, distinctive odour, which is regarded as either fragrant or overpowering and offensive. The taste of the flesh has been described as nutty and sweet.
(from Wikipedia)
"Durian" was chosen as this year's theme because sometimes it can be necessary to dig through "thorns" and "bad smell" in order to enjoy the sweet taste of experimental (or any kind of) music. Those that go all the way on this journey may learn to understand the true beauty even of thorns and the interesting nature even of bad smells. And that is one of the main thoughts behind the Interpenetration festival - by presenting a wide range of styles and artistic approaches we hope to open holes through which one can slip to discover new areas. That which once was alien to us, is now our friend.
Sweet and nutty!



Chris Worden

September 21, 9:00pm, Forum Keller
improvisation with voice and various instruments, primarily guitar, no-input mixer, and percussion.
Born January 18th, 1984, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
+ Living and working in Toronto, Canada and Berlin, Germany.
+ Ongoing collaborations with Mike Hansen (Toronto), Tomasz Krakowiak (Toronto / Poland), Pau Torres (Barcelona), Jesse Stewart (Guelph, Canada) and photographer / textile artist Sabine Schlunk (Berlin / Eigenrieden, Germany), among many others. See projects page for more details.
+ Member of several duos, trios, and ensembles, including SAUNA (Toronto), and KNURL + Worden.
+ Co-owner and artistic coordinator of C3R Records, Canadian label specializing in new and experimental music and sound art.
+ Co-founder and assistant director of Electric Eclectics music festival in Meaford, Ontario, Canada (with Gordon Monahan and Laura Kikauka). The festival features new / experimental music, media art, and sound art.
http://c3r.ca/worden/
http://myspace.com/chriswordenmusic


Code Inconnu

September 21, 9:00pm, Forum Keller
Austrian group Code Inconnu operate on the cusp of post-rock and electronica, favouring the latter on Spoil, Microbe, a hall of mirrors in which the instrumentalists and their sampled and treated doppelgangers do battle. Occasionally the complexity of the music, with its odd meters and shifting harmonies, leads to a suffocating density. The best moments here see them picking up the technological gauntlet thrown down by Tortoise's "Djed", something most post-rockers haven't thought even to try. "Sleepless Music" is one of the best things I've heard this year. Guitars billow like slowly advancing clouds of mustard gas over a slippery, cut-up 9/4 beat, before subsiding into a passage of beautiful eerie arpeggios, then erupting into a free noise coda complete with digital groans and splutters. In fact noise codas seem to be a speciality. "Fu" climaxes with a monstrous rising guitar figure strafed by Hecker-like squawks and squeals, and the final section of the superb "Seeds" lapses into a moody landscape of dark electronic harmonies and percussive blips and thuds. Spoil, Microbe is a bit too cluttered, as if the group are trying to cram all their tricks into each track, but that's an understandable lapse, when the tricks are as good as these. Code Inconnu just need to let it all breathe a little, and they could be world beaters.
(The Wire)
http://www.code-inconnu.org/


automassage

November 23, 9:00pm, Forum Keller
Die Begegnung mit diesem innovativ angelegten elektroakustichen Projekt wirkt – vor allem in Anbetracht der, mit Klonen überschwemmten slowenischen Peripherie - fast schon wie eine Begegnung der dritten Art. Die Musik der Band Automassage klingt erstaunlich zeitgenössisch, mutig und verbunden mit dem aktuellen Geschehen der globalen Musikszene. Diese ist inzwischen fast schon erstickt worden von elektroakustischen „Indietronic - Projekten“, während derartige Versuche in Slowenien noch im embryonalen Zustand sind. Automassage sind unter diesen Versuchen die Überzeugendsten und Folgerichtigsten von allen. Ihr Schaffen kennzeichnet eine einfallsreiche Kombination live gespielter instrumentaler Linien mit konkreten ambientalen Geräuschen und Texturen, manipuliert durch souveräne Studioeingriffe, die ein ausgezeichnetes Gespür für Detailreichtum zeigen. Mutig, entschlossen, und subtil zugleich wechseln Automassage die Soundstimmungen, bringen die Kontinuität des Grooves dem Hinabsteigen in unvorhersehbare ambientelle Wirbel zum Opfer, in denen es ihnen stets gelingt die Ausdifferenziertheit der Klangidee zu erhalten.
(Radio Student Ljubljana 2006, Übersetzung: Tomaž Verdev)
http://www.myspace.com/automassage


Reflector

November 23, 9:00pm, Forum Keller
Nothing much must be said about Reflector. In a city rich of great musicians like Graz, they are right at the top and one of the best bands in all of central Europe.
This time they will present the re-recorded re-release of "Flugangst" which was first released by Tonto in 2001. There will be only this one track "Flugangst" on the one side of a transparent vinyl record and a printing of the band logo on the other side. Released by "Rock is Hell". The title flugangst was inspired by the spanish/argentinian movie "El lado oscuro del corazón" by Eliseo Subiela.
http://crew8020.mur.at/reflector
http://crew8020.mur.at/music
www.rockishell.com


"open work days"

December 18-20, 2:00-6:00pm, Forum Stadtpark, "Saloon"
Meet the musicians for some chit-chat, have a cup of coffee (or a glass of beer) with them or simply lurk and listen at what's going on when they rehearse a piece or have some chit-chat, a cup of coffee....
This is your chance to interpenetrate with many of the composers and musicians that you will hear at the festival.


Slobodan Kajkut
Goran Trajkoski

December 19, 8:00pm, St. Andrä Kirche
Goran Trajkoski was born in 1963 in Veles, Macedonia. Since 1980 he was a member of many different groups like Saraceni, Padot na Vizantija, Aporea, Mizar und Anastasia. With Anastasia he made the soundtrack for the movie „Before The Rain“ (by Milcho Manchevski) which was a world-wide success with the audience and the media alike. After this he made two more records with Anastasia and then worked with the Macedonian band Mizar with which he released another record. He toured all of Europe with those two bands.
Throughout his life Trajkoski composed theater music for performances in Macedonia and Athens (Greece).
At the Interpenetration Festival he will perform a piece for voice and light installation by Slobodan Kajkut.

Stück für solo-stimme und lichtinstallation von Slobodan Kajkut mit dem mazedonischen sänger Goran Trajkoski. Im mittelpunkt dieser komposition steht die schönheit der alt- und kirchenslawischen sprachen. Die fünf abschnitte kreisen um ein phonetisches zentrum, das aus den vokalen a-e-i-o-u besteht. Inspiriert wurde Slobodan Kajkut dabei von Goran Trajkoskis arbeit mit Anastasia und Mizar, aber vor allem durch dessen langjährige beschäftigung mit byzantinischem gesang, dessen tonleitern und atmosphären hier verarbeitet wurden.
http://www.myspace.com/slobodankajkut


Bruit Label Night


December 20, 9:00pm, Forum Keller
bruit: french for: Roar, ClinkClang, Noise, Sound, Bluster, ChitChat, Buzz
Founded 2006 under the impression of the wonderful and creative atmosphere of maru's Interpenetration Festival in Graz, Austria.
bruit is a Netlabel that presents extraordinary releases by international electronic- experimental artists for Free download.
All releases have been produced exclusively for bruit and contain a special idea or concept.
The Music we present is Free, but not gratis.
We respect Music as a living informational entity that cannot be owned as such.

On our first bruit showcase we show a short movie about our label and our ideas, we feature live performances from label artists Photophob, Kabelton and Tomoroh Hidari and there will also be special dj-sets by bruit founders Gert Brantner and Dr. Nachtstrom, and after the live gigs a set by Überklang-Djane She-Ra. But most important of all this night should be a meeting point and party between old & new friends!
http://bruit.at/


"Versprechen lohnt sich"

December 21 - 23, 7:00pm, Postgarage
Sprachexperimente, leseorchester, vorträge, präsentationen, lesungen und alles mögliche was in die freiräume zwischen musik und sprache fällt. Dazu gibt es was zum beissen...

Erdem HELVACIOGLU: Memories On Silent Walls
December 21, 8:00pm
What is the sound of a building? What does it consist of? Is it the timbre of an unmanned space or the sounds of various activities that have taken place there? All of the sonic memories that have taken place around the walls of a building and the unheard thoughts of people who have experienced these memories do make up the real sound of a building.  Ataturk Cultural Center is a historical building and a figure in the minds of Istanbul’s citizens. It is a phenomenon that represents modernism, utopia, and contemporary thought.  It is a lonely and melancholic symbol watching the history of Istanbul and Turkey.
“Memories on Silent Walls” consists of the processed and unprocessed recordings of the productions that have taken place at Ataturk Cultural Center, the sound of the empty building itself and its surroundings and the interviews done with various people about the center. This work not only tries to describe the past, the present and the future of the building itself, but also urges us to ask this question to ourselves. Should Ataturk Cultural Center stay or be replaced?
This work is 58 minutes long in 5 movements and will be introduced by an audio lecture by the composer.

maru: Ich vergesse
December 22, 8:00pm
Everybody knows the close connection between smells and memories. But what about sound? Can sound trigger memories as well as smell can? How important is sound in our memories? Is it easy for us to remember sound? What about music? Which do we recall more easily? And why do we have bad feelings about some sounds and why do we love others?
None of these questions will probably be answered in maru's piece for voices and audiomulch called "Ich vergesse". But he tried. He interviewed people about sound memories and based his composition on the tellings of those memories. He rebuilt some of the sounds and let them collide with the stories or with music, or with both. Sometimes a memory meets the sound it's about and sometimes two memories collide or a sound hides somewhere in the music waiting for the memory to pass by.
With memories by: Anahita Abbasi, Andi Heller, Chris Worden, Christopher Lepenik, David Reumüller, Edda Strobl, Elke Murlasits, Gaia, Genia Vyskocil, Georg Lassacher, Gerhard F. Roth, Hannes Schauer, Helmut Kaplan, Hue, Irene, Irina Karamarković, Jürgen Plank, kauders, Maex, Manfred Holawe, Marek, Martin Hörl, Max Wegscheidler, Michael Laab, Michael Mang, Peter Plessas, Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, Robert Lepenik, Susi, Slobodan Kajkut, Tanja Ghetta, Vesna Petković, Wolfgang Almer, Wouter Jaspers
You can now download the piece (192kbps mp3, about 82mb) here:
Ich vergesse

Irina Karamarković: Cookin'
December 21 - 23, 7:00pm
Will she or will she not? And will she wear a hat?
Yes she will. Not sure about the hat but she will cook for us.
The menu:
Friday - Truck Soup
Saturday - Vegetarian Chili
Sunday - Surprise


Cilantro

December 21, 9:00pm, Postgarage
Angelica Castello und Billy Roisz erschaffen durch das Zusammenspiel von historischen Instrumenten und zeitgenössischen Technologien eine nostalgisch-futuristische Poesie. Mittels Feedbackschleifen zwischen Fernsehbildschirm und Videokamera generiert Billy Roisz Sounds und Bilder. Sie kontrolliert mit Video- und Audiomischpult die Wege und Stärken der Signale: Das flackernde Wechselspiel zwischen Schwarz und Weiss auf der Bildebene erzeugt rhythmisierte Drones auf der Tonebene, welche ihrerseits die Bildfrequenzen beeinflussen. Der akustische und visuelle Output wird wieder zum Input und beginnt im Bild/Ton-Feedback zu kreisen und zu kreisen… Die in Wien lebende Angelica Castello arbeitet mit aussergewöhnlich grossen Blockflöten, in die sie ein- und aus-atmet, um eine spezifische Klangbewegung zu erzeugen, welche sie umspielt und ausschmückt – mit allen Arten von “electronic gadgets” und Flohmarkt-Souvenirs.
http://castello.klingt.org/
http://gnu.klingt.org/


Timmi der Hund

December 21, 9:00pm, Postgarage
timmi der hund - ein musikalisches duo mit dem fokus pop und experiment, bestehend aus alfred lenz und hannes schauer.
jeder der beiden spieler hat pro stück lediglich ein instrument zur verfügung. schauer verwendet ausschliesslich stimme und lenz eine am computer live interpretierte simulation eines von stück zu stück anderen instruments. das repertoire besteht aus 5 stücken die unabhängig voneinander aufgeführt werden. dies geschieht so, daß beide musiker nicht hören was das gegenüber gerade
spielt und jeweils lediglich zur musik im kopfhörer improvisieren, sodass die musikalische kommunikation der performance auf den gemeinsamen startpunkt und die länge der stücke reduziert ist. die beiden agierenden sind somit die einzigen im konzert, die das ergebnis dieser improvisation nicht hören. das ergebnis bleibt für publikum und interpreten also gewissermaßen
unvorhersehbar, was eine reproduktion der zur schau gebotenen musik unmöglich macht.


massaccesi

December 21, 9:00pm, Postgarage
If you experienced urkuma's crazy live show during Interpenetration Festival '05 and liked it, you must come and see massaccesi play this year. He is the ultimate political-noise-clown-activist or something like that. And the opposite of it. Massaccesi lives somewhere in the US with John Bear, Chicken and Monkey. He runs a gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, called ellO, he makes chaotic videos and websites and when in Graz he loves shopping at Humana... and he collects trash. "All of my work centers around recycling. From physical pieces made with fabric or paper to composing experimental musical pieces and performing, I am constantly re-using and recycling. I actually dislike using new or custom-made materials for things. I'm obsessed with how we as humans generally use and abuse but usually don't re-use (or try to maximise the use of) what we're consuming. We are currently consuming far more than we are re-using and the main goal I hope to achieve is that people can be inspired by this idea to try to view any object as re-usable in some way."
With no doubt one of the highlights of this year's Interpenetration Festival!
http://www.massaccesi.com/
http://www.ellogallery.com/


The Striggles

December 22, 9:00pm, Postgarage
Have you heard (of) The Striggles yet? No? Then it is time to free yourself of the ear-wax of mainstream guitar music. This band doesn't fulfill any of your rock or indie expectations or whatever genre it may be. The music of The Striggles is more of a creative stream than a final product. There are a few constants though. The years of experience of the musicians for example. Or the musical influences that range from bands like Can, Sonic Youth and Captain Beefheart, to Snakefinger, Shellac and John Lee Hooker.
Now who are these guys? There is Gottfried Krienzer on guitar who also plays in the noise-rock-electro band Code Inconnu whose second release “Spoil, Microbe” was frenetically celebrated as one of the best releases of 2006 in Wire magazine. Then there is Robert Lepenik, also on guitar, who many know for his great work as composer and musician in projects and bands like Melville or Fetish 69 and the Grazer art group tonto. Bassist and singer Martin Plass sang in musicals and also played in experimental projects like Pol-Ton, Die Sekte and Nectarius Soft. And last but not least there is Slobodan Kajkut on drums. A member of countless bands he also composes contemporary - and controversal - music (after having studied with Georg Friedrich Haas and Clemens Gadenstaetter).
Sounds like an explosive mixture, doesn't it? It does. And it is. The diversity of musical pasts and the sometimes even contradictory approaches create a new and surprising sound. No wonder they were the hottest topic among the audience of the Interpenetration Festival 2006 in Graz (where they premiered).
The first demo recordings promise more hysteria and gossip for the time their first cd will be out.
http://robert.lepenik.at/the_striggles/
http://www.myspace.com/thestriggles


Eric Arn

December 22, 9:00pm, Postgarage
Eric Arn, as leader of  Primordial Undermind, has been tirelessly mining the further regions of avant psych-rock for the past 15 years, resulting in a sonically fertile body of work.  Arn cut his teeth in the legendary Crystallized Movements throughout the 1980's, the Twisted Village flagship band which, in its wake, also spawned Magic Hour and Major Stars (Wayne Rogers & Kate Village). Arn has guided the Undermind through a steady progression from distorted, psychedelic Nuggets-esque overload to full blown free instrumental rock  and everything in between. After relocating from Austin, Texas to Vienna, Austria in 2005, Arn has been furthrer developing his skills as a solo free improvisor and finger-picking raga guitarist. Expect the unexpected.
http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind


Spires That In The Sunset Rise

December 22, 9:00pm, Postgarage
Spires That in the Sunset Rise is the musical collaboration of Kathleen Baird, Taralie Peterson and Georgia Vallas. Steeped in primal experimentalism and world eclecticism, the music is a repellant and magnetizing swarm of harps, guitars, cello, drums, harmonium, banjo, mbira, spike fiddle, bells, and vocals. Now based in Chicago, Illinois, the four musicians have been playing music in different formations for over 10 years. Through these relationships, the music has evolved into a synthesis of various influence, with an arduous search of the unexamined (albeit darker sides) of folk music.

"Spires That in the Sunset Rise emit such inspired gusts of collective fire that they resemble a witches' coven almost as much as a band, their shadow-draped music seeming to issue forth organically from the soil like a sulfurous hot spring.... unbounded, ageless music one might expect to hear  emanating from the deepest forest, as mysterious black-cloaked figures dance around the fire-ring." (Pitchfork Media)

"intoxicating and intense!" (The Wire)

"The Spires' third album is a masterpiece in their already mind-boggling and totally unique musical ouvre. With 'This is Fire' (Secret Eye), the all femme group takes another step away from the scattered pagan howls and freakouts of their incredible self-titled debut (The Slits plays Comus?) towards the realm of pure psychedelic mysticism." (Foxy Digitalis)
http://www.spiresthatinthesunsetrise.com
http://www.myspace.com/spiresthatinthesunsetrise
http://secreteye.org


every kid on speed

December 23, 9pm, Postgarage
every kid on speed - sound artist, street artist, dj, designer… based in skopje, macedonia. when at home and not traveling he is doing various projects, but music obviously being the main focus of his hectic lifestyle. at the moment officially studying philosophy but he has many other projects that keeps him busy: from running his label acid fake recordings, the sublabel discofake and webzine fakezine, presenting his works and sound as dj and through live acts, organizing various dj and live events/exhibitions and setting up his own installations/design works, hosting radio programs dedicated to new music and radio art, doing design with the design division 'acid fake design'… he works sound design under name sound_00 and every kid on speed that seems to be more live active moniker with which produces glitch, minimal, cut up electronics and dj minimal electronics and techno. under these names he has released many full lengths, eps and has countless compilation and remix appearances on various labels around the world and has shared the stage with names like pita, andrey kiritchenko, massaccesi, urkuma, ran slavin, solar x, t.rumschmiere, jason forest, the bug, phon.o, modelesector, ellen alien, miss kittin… on festivals like club transmediale - berlin, progress festival - ljubljana, absurd festival - skopje, ctrl_alt_del sound-art festival - istanbul, interpenetration festival - graz, tiny noise festival - skopje/sofia/oklahoma city, radia lx 2006 - lisboa, media space society - vienna…
http://www.everykidonspeed.tk/


chmafu allstars

December 23, 9pm, Postgarage
The chmafu allstars will present compositions for fans. This year's allstars are:

		2 1 4 3
Anita Hofer,	Antonio Dimitrov,	Dead Strobl,	kauders,	lepenik,	Maex,	maru,	muzungu,	Peter Plessas

Compositions by
Peter Plessas (Carmen)
und
muzungu (Bomb)




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Forum Stadtpark
KIM/SoA
KIG


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