Felicity Mangan is performing with 'Plants and Animalis' for EAVESDROP Festival, 2018.
https://felicitymangan.org/

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Jasmine Guffond is producing a sound installation for EAVESDROP Festival.

'Dear Voyeur, meet Flâneur… Sincerely, Social Media' by Jasmine Guffond, sonifies the meta-data from the twitter accounts of well-known public entities: Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, YouTube, CNN, the BBC. By translating twitter meta-data into sound in real time, the work questions what it means, via the logic of data extraction, to be reduced to streams of data. How within online monitoring networks, human bodies are abstracted into data flows, that are then reassembled to create profiles of the subjects of such surveillance - our data doubles. Considering the extent to which we watch each other via social media platforms, online surveillance cultures depend upon permanent connectivity that rewards the disclosure of personal information in exchange for online social and cultural capital.

This track, 'Post Human' is from Jasmine Guffond's recent album 'TRACED', released via the Sonic Pieces label, July 2017.

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JD ZAZIE is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist and sound artist based in Berlin. Coming from a DJ and radio phonic background, JD Zazie has explored over the years different approaches to the real-time manipulation of recorded sound. In her work she redefines DJ and electroacoustic activities. As a solo performer, in small groups or large ensembles she moves in an area which is constantly stretching the borders of DJ mixing, free improvisation and composed music. She is the art director of "MuseRuole - women in experimental music” festival and is a member of the Italian label Burp Enterprise.

DJ JD ZAZIE BERLIN ATONAL 2017 (excerpt)

Jessica Ekomane’s practice unfolds around music and sound art. Her compositions seek a physical and cathartic effect alternating between noise and melody, and playing with our perception of rhythmic structures. Her latest project consists of a quadraphonic performance exploring the way our perception of rhythms is affected by the surrounding space, thereby introducing elements of psychoacoustics and gestalt theory. She was one of the Berlin Community Radio [INCUBATOR] residents for their 2017 edition. She’s been performing in various institutions across Japan, Australia and Europe such as CTM festival, KW (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), Dommune (Tokyo) or MUMA (Melbourne).
http://jessicaekomane.com/
 https://soundcloud.com/jessica-ekomane

Jessica Ekomane

Biblo (or Pinar Üzeltüzenci) is an electronic music producer based in İstanbul. Since 2007, she has published self-released albums and EPs, and on labels such as Quetzi Recordings (2010), Terranian Recordings (2012), EICV7” (2012), Aentitainment (2013), Tektosag Records and C sides Records (2014). 
Biblo will be performing at EAVESDROP Festival 17th November, 2017
https://biblo.bandcamp.com/

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BIBLO_Kindly Terminal

PareiDolia is a Marta Zapparoli and Liz Allbee, two Berlin based experimental musicians. Together they consider the inaudible pollution that surrounds us. A sonic web of signals and noises that propogate through space and traverse our bodies. Marta gives voice to these otherwise imperceptible waves using selfbuilt
antennas and world-wide band receivers, drawing awareness to the potentially harmful biological and environmental side effects. In
response Liz moves outwards from the inner, highly subjective world of a remarkable trumpet player with her custom-designed quadraphonic trumpet and sine wave spatializations. Together
the two perform immersive multi-channel compositions of haunting intensity. They investigate the extremes of presence and absence by
reconfiguring the embodiment of instrument and performer in space, and transmitting and receiving spectral voices.
Photo by Uta Neumann

Pareidolia PsychalConcretism3 - LiveAtAusland

Hacklander \ Hatam is the percussion and electronic music duo of Colin Hacklander and Farahnaz Hatam. Interested in rhythmic stability
and its absence, sound as sculptural material, sound as a medium in which ideas are communicated, digital sound synthesis using Super-
Collider, drums, and percussion. The duo create live concerts, theatre music, fixed media works and is involved in many collaborations.
Photo by Ian Liddle

Hacklander-Hatam - passionate servitude

PLANTS and ANIMALIA (Christina Ertl Shirley & Felicity Mangan) Christina Ertl-Shirley and Felicity Mangan combine each artist’s personal investigation into the sound phenomena produced by plants and animals. Through the combination of Ertl Shirley’s sonification of plant biochemistry and self-built synthesizers, they capture and sonify the chemical composition of plants. Mangan explores the timbre and forms of found and self-recorded animal voices while
mimicking biophonic patterns to create minimal quasi-bioacoustic environments. Together they create electroacoustic compositions grafting field recordings, live and pre-recorded drones and pulses produced by the remnants of plant biochemistry, and modified animal voices.
Photo by Gabriela Zigova

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EVOL
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp work together under the moniker EVOL. Together they dissect and deform techno artifacts,
stretching them to their very breaking point, where mental dissociation meets fun. EVOL works have been published by record labels such as Editions Mego, Diagonal, Entr’acte, Presto!? and ALKU, which he co directs since 1997.

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EVOL_Deep Orko(excerpt)

Caterina Barbieri is a Berlin-based Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object oriented perception in sound through a focus on minimalism. She explores
the psycho-physical effects of repetition and pattern-based operations in music, by investigating the polyphonic and polyrhythmic potential of sequencers to draw severe, complex
geometries in time and space. Her last solo LP Patterns of Consciousness (Important Records, 2017) has received critical acclaim and been named in several ‘Best of 2017’ music roundups
(Fact Mag, The Wire, Boomkat). Her work has been presented in festivals such as The Long Now, MaerzMusik and Atonal (DE), Mutek
(ES, CA), Barbican Centre (UK), Philharmonie de Paris (FR), CTM (DE), Ableton Loop (DE), Moogfest (US), Biennale di Venezia 2017 (IT), Boiler Room (UK). Her current sonic research investigates
the creative use of computation and complex sequencing techniques to explore the artefacts of human perception and ultimately
induce a sense of ecstasy and contemplation.

Caterina Barbieri_Scratches On The Readable Surface

eavesdrop festival, 6 - 7 Nov, 2024
Betonhalle, silent green, Berlin
The two day festival eavesdrop presents contemporary electronic music and sound art from more than a dozen outstanding Berlin-based and international artists. Taking place at silent green’s Betonhalle, the festival’s 3rd edition uniquely brings together a group of adventurous composer/performers and installation artists that share a common practice in electronic sound composition whilst spanning a diversity of inter-related contemporary tendencies. Whether it’s multi-award winning Mariam Razaei’s exceptional turntablism, Ilpo Väisänen’s legendary DIY analogue electronics, Jasmine Guffond’s generative sound installation, Nina Garcia’s extraordinary electric guitar manipulations, Lottie Sebes’ AI voice synthesis or Oren Ambarchi, crys cole & Jessica Ekomane’s carefully curated music selections,  eavesdrop invites listeners to consider, from multiple perspectives, new social and technical developments in international music and sound cultures.

„To eavesdrop“ is a mode of listening intently and eavesdrop invites listeners to deeply engage with live performances from: Nima Aghiani (IR/FR), Rashad Becker (DE), Audrey Chen (US/DE) & Hugo Esquinca (MX), Nina Garcia (FR), Mat Pogo (IT/DE), Mariam Rezaei (UK), Ilpo Väisänen (FI). DJs: Oren Ambarchi (AU/DE) & crys cole (CA/DE) and Jessica Ekomane (FR/DE). Installations throughout the festival by Louis Cameron (US/DE), Jasmine Guffond (AU/DE) & ilan katin (US/DE) and Lottie Sebes (AU/DE). 

Abstract, critical, exciting and experimental - EAVESDROP explores how electronic cultures have fundamentally altered how we experience both music and the world. 

Curated by Jasmine Guffond
Funded by Musikfonds & Bezirksamt Mitte

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