Boorii + Kollektiv/Rauschen + Eric Fan

BOORII
Guitar, drums, keys, voice, fx and a lot of sequencing. Ambient spheres dissolving in extra-terrestrial noise scapes. Repetitive drum patterns interleaving hypnotic melody-structures, drifting apart, on the brink of tranquillity.

Both members have been active both in the improvising orchestra known as Soft Power Ensemble of Vienna, the experimental rock band Neonstream as well engaged in improvisational solo concerts and collaborations.

‚BOORII played a loud and intense set of ambient drone soundscapes like they were taken from the outro of SONIC YOUTH’s „New York City Ghosts and Flowers“, just without the „song“ counterweight. Lots of effect pedals meant lots of layered sounds with all frequencies covered that challenged the attending people – in my opinion – in the best possible way.‘
– Pavlov’s Dogs Web Magazine

KOLLEKTIV/RAUSCHEN
is an artist group whose four members have their origins in various disciplines of fine arts and music. Kollektiv/Rauschen is working on experimental soundstructures/environments using methods of subtractive and additive soundsynthesis with analogue electronics, electro-acoustic instruments and hybrid self made devices.

These sound sources are distributed with a specially designed spatializiation software for multi-channel speaker configurations (up to discrete 8-channels).

In the live-audio_performances and sound-exhibitions,they create a form of music that uses curious timbres, expressive noises and kinetic structures to explore suspended time, genre fiction, the communication of ensemble energies, and the tension between the familiar and the strange, the beat and his negation.

The multichannel setup is a way to communicate with the architectual space where a live_set takes place. It´s a way to activate the space and to play with its physical borders.

Their work includes also compositions for film, theatre and several experimental/interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with other artist like Bilwa Costa, Emily Sweeney, Gerald Moser, Raul Maia, Steffen Höld, Florian Türke, Rosa Isaldur.
http://www.kollektivrauschen.com/

ERIC ARN

American guitarist Eric Arn and his Primordial Undermind have mined the farthest regions of avant-rock, free improv, drone and psychedelia for over two decades.

Eric continues with the Undermind as well as solo, and as a member of Outer Vertex, the Soft Power Ensemble of Vienna and the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra. He released his first solo album, ‚Points of Fissure‘, on Feathered Coyote Records in 2013. In 2014 he has released ‘Alchemy in the West Country’, a collaborative album by Primordial Undermind and Thought Forms, as well as the premiere of Outer Vertex, an out-guitar duo.
‚Wonderful… a wiggly workout recalling the slurred phrasing of late period John Fahey with gracefully ugly experimental gestures. Great stuff.‘ – Byron Coley, The Wire