Mopcut
The working trio Mopcut made up of an international conglomerate of musicians from the US, Austria, and France make their US debut at Elastic Arts.
8:30 PM : MOPCUT
Audrey Chen - voice,electronics
Julian Desprez - electric guitar
Lukas Koenig - drums,synthesizer
TWO SETS
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
MOPCUT is a medium-length noise-style that covers the head and ears with a vertical bang and a horizontal wave. It's a popular style for all ages, genders and generations.The soundscape should be trimmed evenly all around the circumference so that the noise at the front reaches the inner eye while the waves on the sides cover (or almost fully cover) the ears. The beats at the back maintain the same length as the samples at the front and sides. Once the overall sound is achieved, trimming is used to achieve minimalism or maximalism, depending. Improvisation, noise and electronic beats work well as backgrounds for the MOPCUT. Electronic appliances and devices may be used to give the MOPCUT a bit more volume, but effects may lead to standing up instead of hanging low.
Their objective is a construct of noise and sounds that completely envelopes the listeners and has an equally as intensive impact on the ears as on the inner eye – that’s how the trio describes the project MOPCUT, which celebrated its premiere at donaufestival Krems (AUT) in 2018. Their improvisation abilities transcend all genre borders. It’s a trio that uses voice, guitar,drums+synthesizers.
Audrey Chen (USA) - VOICE, ANALOG ELECTRONICS
Recent projects, aside from performing solo, include her long running voices duo with London based artist, Phil Minton, and duos with NYC abstract turntablist, Maria Chavez, French guitarist, Jean-Yves Evrard, BEAM SPLITTER, with Norwegian trombonist, Henrik Munkeby N rsteb , the “romantic noise duo” AFTERBURNER with Doron Sadja (electronics/light projections), with modular synth player, Richard Scott, with American percussionist, Flandrew Fleisenberg and a collaborative project with German conceptual artist, John Bock.
Julian Desprez (FRANCE) - ELECTRIC GUITAR
Evolving between sound art, performance and contemporary improvisational music, his work today is centered around all the questions that exist within a stage space, through body, space, sight and light, but where the sound remains the central pillar.He played with Charlie Haden, Mats Gustafson, Jeanne Added, Edward Perraud, Thomas Depourquery, Fran ois Jeanneau, Louis Sclavis, Stephane Payen, Guillaume Orti, Benoit Delbecq, Tortoise, Han Bennink, Hubert Dupont, Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Frank Vaillant, Gilles Coronado, Marc Duckte and many more.
Lukas Koenig (AUSTRIA) - DRUMS, SYNTHESIZER
Born in St.P lten, Kornberg played with a variety of international artists such as Reggie Washington, Briggan Krauss, Malcolm Braff, Jorge S nchez-Chiong, David Murray, Wolfgang Mitterer, Klangforum Wien, Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Maja Osojnik, Wolfgang Puschnig, Shahzad Ismaily and many more. Aside performing with bands like Kompost3, 5K HD and other projects based in Vienna, he has developed a soloconcept, KORNBERG, which combines live-drums, synthesizers and a rapping-voice simultaneously played and creates a live-performance between Hiphop and Noise.