vovne series: Zone Null: Tony Elieh & Burkhard Beins / Antez

vovne series: duo & solo

Zone Null:
Tony Elieh – bass guitar, live-electronics
Burkhard Beins – bass guitar, live-electronics

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Entrance in the courtyard, Aufgang II, 1 OG
Doors 20-00

Kindly supported by Neustart Kulture, Initiative Musik.
vovne series, concert series of improvised and new music. the series is rooted in distant Siberia and also periodically takes place in several cities of Russia. at the moment, one of the longest series of concerts at PAS. “vovne” means “to be outside / to go outside / something that is outside”. to listen or to play, or to understand, or to feel, or to see – it means to go “outside” to be “vovne”.

info:
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The basic of this sound action is to play the sympathies of the room’s resonant structure, shaped by its architectural singularity, and whose narrative path remains permeable to the present moment. This is achieved by using exclusively acoustic means of sound production generated by the body’s movements.

My first inspiration to produce a continuous sound with a percussive instrument evolved through an investigative process of the acoustic qualities of the performance space. I picking out various objects and implements over travels tours, and in working residency I have adapted this piece to be played on a large drum, which is used as a acoustic amplifier.
I develop an intimate affinity with the materials in vibration. I have to evaluate these vibrations in my body at different levels, to be able to coordinate my postures and movements, but also like the archer with Kyudo, tuned the mind to it. For give life to these vibrations I have used, since 2008, an dextrocentrique circumambulation. These sounds are often compared to certain sounds
produced by synthesizers but also to the magnitude that an orchestra can. However, these sounds depends of the reflective quality of surrounding surfaces, and on the volume of the performance space itself.

These sounds have unusual sonic textures, they escape traditional percussion registers. They test the limits of our perception, from infra to ultrasonic, by playing phase shifts. They insert themselves into the intimacy of matter, through micro vibration, and we are presented with an audio saturation by noise density. The flow of these evokes both restraint and excess, immersion and timelessness.

ZONE NULL
The Berlin-based duo ZONE NULL unites Tony Elieh and Burkhard Beins for an unusal encounter of two bass guitars and a variety of analog and digital live-electronics. While for Elieh the bass guitar has always been a main focus of his musical activities, as an improviser and namely with the Lebanese indie rock band Scrambled Eggs, Beins only recently expanded his already wide range of extended percussion, experimental electronics and sound art by co-founding the Krautrock-Noise band Slurge as their bass player. The sonic fiction of ZONE NULL evolves and florishes on the broad musical horizon these two gentlemen have in common, ranging from musique concréte and contemporary composition via improvised and experimental music to electronic, post-punk and avantgarde rock.