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[size=0px]John Cale im Oktober live in Wien[/size]

11. September 2013, 18:18

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Der Mitbegründer von The Velvet Underground gastiert am 15. Oktober anlässlich der Ausstellung "Warhol-Basquiat" im Palais Ferstel

Eine Werkschau mit Arbeiten von Andy Warhol und Jean-Michel Basquiat im Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien ist Anlass für einen Exklusivauftritt von John Cale in Wien. Wie Lou Reed war Cale Mitbegründer der Band The Velvet Underground, die vorübergehend nicht nur von Warhol gemanagt wurde, sondern auch als dessen Haus-Band fungierte. Am 15. Oktober gastiert der walisische Musiker und Produzent, der dafür ein eigenes Programm zusammenstellen wird, im Palais Ferstel. Der Kartenverkauf startet am Freitag, 13. September.

In Mesen wird John Cale bisher noch nicht herausgebrachte Kompositionen uraufführen, die sich auf die Erinnerung an den Ersten Weltkrieg und den Weihnachtsfrieden beziehen, und sie um eigene Werke ergänzen.

[size=0px]BARBICAN AND THE SPACE ANNOUNCE WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF LOOP >>60Hz: TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE DRONE ORCHESTRA

A BRAND NEW AUDIO-VISUAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN JOHN CALE AND LIAM YOUNG [/size]


BARBICAN AND THE SPACE ANNOUNCE WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF LOOP >>60Hz: TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE DRONE ORCHESTRA

A BRAND NEW AUDIO-VISUAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN JOHN CALE AND LIAM YOUNG


John Cale & Liam Young
LOOP>>60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra
Friday 12 & Saturday 13 September 2014, Barbican Theatre, 8pm
Tickets: £20-25

The Barbican Theatre is transformed by a brand new audio-visual collaboration between fearless innovators John Cale and Liam Young.

Musical pioneer John Cale believes so strongly in the power of sound that he once thought it was possible to alter the weather with musical frequencies. Now, for this world premiere performance, he joins forces with speculative architect and technology storyteller Liam Young to re-imagine another, increasingly pervasive, industrial innovation.

LOOP>>60 Hz offers an unprecedented experience as John Cale and his band perform music from across his catalogue, expressly adapted to durational forms, unusual tunings and unorthodox audio delivery. And Liam Young’s collection of drones escape their associations with surveillance and the military, becoming instead choreographed, disembodied instruments which take flight in the auditorium to create a profoundly immersive live music performance.

LOOP>>60 Hz is produced by the Barbican, co-commissioned with The Space and forms part of Digital Revolution.

Accompanying the live performances of LOOP>>60hz is an interactive digital environment, which will be part of the Barbican’s Digital Revolution exhibition and will also be hosted on The Space. Developed by John Cale, Liam Young and digital artists FIELD, this interactive environment is entitled: LOOP>>60Hz: City of Drones and charts the story of a lost drone drifting through an abstract cityscape, and players are invited to pilot a virtual craft and remotely explore this imaginary world. Painting the sky with aerial contrails and buzzing between the buildings the audio visual choreography echoes throughout the online landscape. LOOP>>60Hz: City of Drones is co-commissioned with The Space. Live from Friday 4 July at:
www.cityofdrones.io

Ruth Mackenzie, Launch Director, The Space said:
“This great project promises a digital revolution on The Space and at the Barbican, one of several co-commissions as we try together to change the history of digital art for audiences and artists.”

In 1982, John Cale released his solo album Music For a New Society. On January 22, he'll release M:FANS, a rework of that album, via Double Six/Domino. It's accompanied by a fully remastered version of the original album that comes with three unreleased bonus tracks. Watch the Abby Portner-directed video for "Close Watch", which features Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, below.

The albums will be available as a 2xCD package and individually on vinyl.

In a statement, Cale talked about the process of making the new version of the album, and how Lou Reed's 2013 death informed it:

Making any form of art is always personal to my mind. During the making of M:FANS, I found myself loathing each and every character written about in those original recording sessions of Music For... Unearthing those tapes reopened those wounds. It was time to decimate the despair from 1981 and breathe new energy, re-write the story. Then, the unthinkable happened. What had informed so much over lost and twisted relationships in 1981 had now come full circle. Losing Lou [too painful to understand] forced me to upend the entire recording process and begin again...a different perspective - a new sense of urgency to tell a story from a completely opposite point of view - what was once sorrow, was now a form of rage.  A fertile ground for exorcism of things gone wrong and the realization they are unchangeable. From sadness came the strength of fire!!!”

Ein Glück, dass wenigstens Herr Cale noch da ist...