On Sunday 29 March audioMER. organizes a series of concerts in the LODGERspace on the top floor of the M HKA, from 2pm onwards.
In 2007 the Anthology Archives New York presented a film by Aki Onda (JP/US) with live music composed by Loren Mazzacane Connors (US) and Alan Licht (US), known from previous collaborations with a.o. Sonic Youth). Curator Niels Van Tomme (US) wrote a text about this happening, resulting in a publication of audioMER., which will be presented on this very Sunday.
Expect performances and concerts of a.o. Aki Onda, Mauro Antonio Pawlowski & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Jack Allett.
Aki Onda is a New York based musician, composer and visual artist. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances.
Mauro Antonio Pawlowski & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson;
a first ever performance by Belgium's most busy, most unpredictable musician and Iceland based visual artist and electronic musician Sigmarrsson. Pawloski's solo effort 'Untertanz' came out on audioMER in 2008, Sigmarsson is currently residing in M HKA at the request of MER.
London based musician Jack Allett started out as an avant-folk guitar fingerpicker but has since evolved into including tape manipulation, electronics and synth kraut sounds into his work, creating a kind of music that sounds like an unholy mix of folk, dub and noise.
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven studied graphic design at the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp and has been prolific in her output of drawings and other works on paper and synthetic material, as well as short videos, since the early eighties. A straightforward female tone pervades in all her works, in which the erotic meets machine-fetishism. Interior, if not domestic spaces often serve as settings for her drawings and collages, from which dream-like futuristic enactments between human and machine-like forms unfold. In the nineties, hand-made paper works gave way to computer graphics, while text has always featured alongside images, underlining the message of Van Kerckhoven’s proud, sometimes exhibitionist female figures like song-lyrics. Music plays an important role in Van Kerchkoven’s creative production in parallel to her visual output, and she and Danny Devos have stood as a key pair of the Antwerp experimental music scene under the band name Club Moral (1981–now).
