Founded in 2004 by German electronic pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius (co-founder in the 70s of Cluster, Harmonia, collaborator of Brian Eno) and organized by the members of the Roedelius family, More Ohr Less is an annual meeting place for musicians and those interested in art, culture and science for artistic exchanges in a friendly, relaxed and natural atmosphere.
More Ohr Less is an opportunity for its guests from different backgrounds to experiment with ideas and visions through various musical performances and scientific contributions, combining musical creation with the performing and visual arts.
The festival is aimed at a curious audience with an international program that also takes care to integrate local popular culture projects.
Among the guests of this special edition which will celebrate the 90th birthday of its initiator Roedelius, still very active on the international scene, the composer Christophe James Chaplin (GB) who will present, in addition to a concert with the participation of the photographer Carmen Alt Chaplin, a video made by Rosa Roedelius for which he made the soundtrack, the electro pop singer/musician Morgan King (GB) here in collaboration with the keyboardist Arnold Kasar (Turmzimmer-DE), the Corsican polyphony group Caramusa (FR), the electronic composer Tim Story (USA) in DJ format for the presentation of a new publication by Roedelius, who will offer a sound walk in his town of Baden, an exhibition of pictorial portraits by Frédéric Delapaillonne (FR), the multi-instrumentalist (from the Jew’s harp to the bagpipes, including the reconstruction of the oldest musical instrument in the world found from a vulture bone and his “wobblephone” that he himself created) and vocalist Albin Paulus (AT) A listening session by and with writer/musician Alfred Goubran (AT). Transcultures and its label Transonic are invited to present vocalist/multidisciplinary artist Maja Jantar (NL/PL) in duo with sonic creator Paradise Now (BE/FR) and sound designer Tommy Lawson (FR).
Maja Jantar (Pl/Nl/Fi)
Maja Jantar is a multilingual, multidisciplinary and polysonic vocal artist whose work spans the fields of performance, musical theater, poetry and visual arts (ceramics, painting, video). Co-founder of the group Krikri, she has given solo and collaborative performances throughout Europe. She has been working on poetic sound works since 1995.
From 2001 to the present, Maja has conducted around ten operas, including Claudio Monteverdi's classic Incoronatione di Poppea and Salvatore Sciarrino's contemporary Infinito Nero. His poetry has been published in various publications (including Zieteratuur – concrete envisuale poëzie and EOROPOE – an anthology of European poets), and his visual work has been shown in several international exhibitions. She also took part in the group exhibition La Voix Libération at the Palais de Tokyo (Fr). Finally, she continues to collaborate with Belgian poets (including – regularly – Vincent Tholomé) and foreign poets (Angela Rawlings, Steven J. Fowler…) and sound and interdisciplinary artists (including Paradise Now).
Paradise Now (Fr/Be)
Intermedia producer and creator based in Belgium, Philippe Franck has developed since the 90s the Paradise Now project which favors an actively transversal and collaborative approach. He favors a sensitive and cinematic approach that embraces different influences and fields (electronics, sound art, post-rock, post-pop, improvised music …).
He has worked closely with various videographers (Régis Cotentin, Hanzel & Gretzel), poets (Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Catrine Godin, Biba Sheikh, Werner Moron in Les ours bipolaires, Eric Therer for the project & Stuff), choreographers (Nadine Ganase , Manon Oligny, Karine Ledoyen), digital artists (Philippe Boisnard, Franck Soudan, Jacques Urbanska, Thomas Israël) and other adventurous audio creators (recently Christophe Bailleau within the duo Pastoral, Gauthier Keyaerts in Supernova, Stephan Dunkelman, Maurice Charles JJ, A Limb).
Since 2005, he has also collaborated with holistic performer / masseuse Isa Belle for a series of installations and “sound” performances shown in numerous festivals, cultural centers and international events. He has also produced and participated in several records on various independent labels (Sub Rosa, Optical Sound, Transonic…). In 2022, he began a doctoral thesis in Information and Communication Sciences (Cognition, language, interaction) at the University of Paris 8 (CiTu Paragrahe), under the dual supervision of Khaldoun Zreik (Paris8) and Marc Veyrat (University of Savoie Mont Blanc).
Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr)
Sound artist, sound designer, digital art performer, Tommy is also a producer and curator of events for the promotion of electronic music. He develops projects combining electronic and electroacoustic music. Deeply attached to the idea of transversality between the arts, he produces numerous music/sound pieces and soundtracks interacting with visual/video arts and contemporary dance.
He develops in collaboration with Armand Lesecq tools for digital audio creations and computer lutherie in the field of sound spatialization. He regularly carries out geolocated sound walks towards the public in order to allow them to live an augmented sound experience in connection with the intangible heritage of a territory. He is at the initiative of the first video mapping carried out in Corsica with the Tunisian collective Design Lab on the occasion of the reopening of the Bastia museum in 2009 of a series of video mapping as part of the European Heritage Days.
In 2008, he created Zone Libre, a structure dedicated to creation, production and distribution through which he has organized the eponymous Festival of Sound Arts since 2019, between art, science and new technologies. This event of support for creation emphasizes the development of transdisciplinary and hypermedia experiences in the field of sound and visual arts.
In 2022, he released his first album Bega [Sonic Scapes], on the Transonic label.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius – More Ohr Less (De)
This self-taught artist began creating music in 1968 using coffee percolators, feedback, and a flute he carved from bamboo.
Today, he is internationally regarded as a legend of krautrock and a pioneer of electronic music. He is best known as the founder of the iconic German groups Cluster (formed in 1971 with Dieter Moebius) and Harmonia (Cluster was joined in 1973 by Michael Rother from the post-rock band Neu!), as well as through his work with the ambient jazz trio Aquarello.
He has collaborated with artists such as Brian Eno (notably on the album *After the Heat* in 1978), Holger Czukay (Can), Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot), and more recently with Christophe Chaplin and Tim Story.
In his rich solo career (with an extensive discography), Roedelius has continued to this day (at 90 years old) to improvise with other musicians and experiment, blending melodic piano parts with cinematic electronic textures.
Together with his wife, Christine-Martha Roedelius, he launched the annual More Ohr Less art festival in 2004 in Baden, Austria, where he resides.
Infos
- 25.10.2024 – 19:00
- Theater am Steg
- Johannesgasse 14, 2500 Baden, Autriche
- More Ohr Less Festival
- tickets pass festival 60/35€ – day 25/18€ – Concert 25.10 15/10€
- more-ohr-less.com
Production
- More Ohr Less Festival
- Transonic Label is supported by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation
