Sinotronics presents: Beijing Electronic Music Encounter (BEME) 4
40 RMB
3 days, 3 venues, 20+ artists
Day 2: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 @ fRUITYSHOP
BEME 4 pivots on Friday night, hosting an intimate evening of contemplative, abstract electronic experimentation at the fRUITYSHOP vinyl store in Dongsi Tou Tiao. Guest of honor Bob Ostertag presents one of his best known works, Sooner or Later. The entire piece is composed from a recording of a young boy burying his father in El Salvador that Bob made in the 1980s. Renowned German newspaper Die Zeit describes it as “a musical reality, in which sampling technology is used in a significant way for the first time. The music encircles reality, decomposes it into music and recomposes it until reality is no longer able to escape. It is this clarity that makes Sooner or Later great music, a music that has something to do with life again.”
Ostertag’s Sooner or Later is complemented by live sets from Bwave label founder Hong Qile + VJ Mao Wengweng and from Liquid Palace, an electronic noise band including experimental musician and filmmaker Silvernuz and synthesizer builder Meng Qi (both professors at CAFA, China’s most prestigious art university).
Doors: 8pm
Ticket: 40rmb
Lineup:
Bob Ostertag: Sooner or Later
Liquid Palace
Hong Qile + VJ Mao Wengweng
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Night 1 @ Dada: https://www.facebook.com/
Night 3 @ Modernsky Lab: https://www.facebook.com/
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about BEME:
Beijing-based record label Sinotronics presents the fourth annual Beijing Electronic Music Encounter (BEME), China’s most progressive annual showcase of electronic sounds. BEME 4 hosts more than 20 individual artists over three nights, in three venues, with three distinct modes of experience.
BEME 4 is a unique, curated cross-section of producers, DJs, and avant-garde electronic music composers and improvisers. The theme of BEME 4 is CROSS FADES: jump cuts, bold transitions, dynamic pivots, fresh moves from old hands. Cross out the known, fade in the new.
As with previous editions, BEME 4 is a statement for the radical rethinking of what can be defined as “electronic music” in 2015 Beijing, spotlighting convergences and creating collisions at the fringes of what has become a highly evolved, rapidly monetized, repeatedly contested creative space.
BEME 4 coincides with the latest release from Sinotronics: a debut EP for post-’90s Beijing producer MENGHAN. It also showcases new material from old hands on the Beijing scene:
EARSNAIL, the new 4/4 live electronic duo of White+/Gar drummer Wang Xu and Da Bang guitarist Yan Shuai (THU 10.22 @ Dada)
ART’S DIFFICULT, the new live performance project from old-school techno stalwart and Acupuncture co-founder Elvis.T (SAT 10.24 @ Modernsky Lab)
FM3V, aka Beijing progressive electronic music veteran and Buddha Machine co-creator Christiaan Virant, who will present his latest live solo set and fresh collaborative improvisations (SAT 10.24 @ Modernsky Lab)
The international guest of honor at BEME 4 is BOB OSTERTAG, an early pioneer of American avant-garde electronic music with a career spanning 40 years. Electronic instruments of Bob’s design are at the cutting edge of both music and video performance technology. His radically diverse collaborators include the Kronos Quartet, John Zorn, alt-metal icon Mike Patton, jazz great Anthony Braxton, and many more.
Bob’s currently on a one-year sabbatical from his position as Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California, Davis, taking this time off to tour the world. For BEME 4, he’ll give two distinct performances: a solo show in the intimate environment of the fRUITYSHOP vinyl store (FRI 10.23), and a collaborative improvised performance with Soviet Pop and Vavabond at Modernsky Lab (SAT 10.23).
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