Can we understand electronic music? What concepts for approaching this sphere are still valid now that music has long since broken away from traditional contexts, criteria and listening habits? How do we get our bearings given that electronic music has not yet been able to establish any generally valid concepts of musical understanding, but rather that theoretical approaches from a range of very different disciplines of music but also art rank as equals? And yet we still draw on criteria of understanding music – even if they cannot as yet be named explicitly. “Out of Tune” explores these questions as to a comprehending approach to music – and thus of its contents – with the aid of various supposedly traditional starting points and different forms of presentation and interpretations. The series kicks off with Pateras’ solo for customised piano is followed by the Pateras/Fox duo with an intuitively laid out electro-acoustic battle-field consisting of hyperactive sounds in a multi-channel live presentation, and finally the “Robin Fox Laser Show”. With “Virginals”, Stephan Mathieu for the first time performs interpretations of pioneering composers that have been arranged for a unique electro-acoustic line-up of instruments: mechanical-acoustic gramophones, an octave spinet, and a historical 6-channel loudspeaker system. Live acoustic material, some sampled directly from the concert hall, forms the basis for the complex soundscapes of Kaffe Matthews. Her compositions come into being at the moment of their performance and range from expansive beauty to structured noise. BJ Nilsen works with field recordings, processed with analogue and digital means, condensed into hypnotic compositions, with the emphasis on natural sounds and their effects on the human being. Nilsen improvises to an antarctic film by John Aitchison.

29/09 -21.30 |Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox (AUS)
06/10 -21.30 | Stephan Mathieu (D)
11/10 -21.30 | Kaffe Matthews (GB)
13/10 -21.30 | BJ Nilsen (S)