Kurt Liedwart is a sound and visual artist, music critic and journalist, curator and promoter based in Moscow. The core musical interest is improvisation of all kinds: acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic. He plays solo as well as in various combinations with Alexei Borisov, Alexei "Prokhor" Mostiev, Sergei Letov, Gosplan Trio and other musicians.
Claire Lumiere is a glitch and noise side project.
Dental Meat is an electroacoustic improvisation duo with Serge Kolosov.
Kurt Liedwart is a member of Moscow Laptop Cyber Orchestra (Cyb0rk).
Instruments: laptop, electronics, percussion, amplified textures, tabletop guitar, cracked everyday electronics, electroacoustic devices.
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NEWS
OUT NOW ON MIKROTON RECORDINGS:
mikroton cd 1 GÃœNTER MÃœLLER Cym_Bowl
Edition: 500
mikroton cd 2 ALAN COURTIS/JAIME GENOVART/
CHRISTOF KURZMANN/PABLO RECHE Palmar Zähler
Edition: 500
SOON ON MIKROTON RECORDINGS:
mikroton cd 3 JASON KAHN/ASHER Planes
Editon: 500
mikroton cd 4 ALEXEI BORISOV/THOMAS BUCKNER/
KURT LIEDWART/EDYTA FIL
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NEW ON MIKROTON DIGITAL: .AT/ON When Satellite Signals Violate Into Night Dreams
MD 6
Released: February 6, 2009
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MIKROTON DIGITAL: PHIL RAYMOND Absence
MD 4
Released: September 24, 2008
"We carry our homes
within us
which enables us to fly".
JOHN CAGE
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MIKROTON DIGITAL: MOSCOW LAPTOP CYBER ORCHESTRA Live At NCCA
MD 3
Released: February 10, 2009
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MIKROTON DIGITAL: KENNETH KIRSCHNER March 20, 2007 et al
MD 2
Released: September 24, 2008
"If you look at just about any period in my work, you'll find pieces that are totally focused on piano, or that are all about piano-type thinking, and then you'll find pieces right next to them that have nothing to do with piano at all, that are all about escape from the piano, escaping from that mode of thought, into a world of insects, or particles, or strange forces or other planets. This is one of those long-term themes that runs through my work, this constant push and pull, back and forth, to and from the piano. And it's certainly true of my recent work as well. So while I wouldn't say that I'm moving away from using piano as a source, I would certainly agree that this tension is one of those key dynamics that animates what I'm doing".
KENNETH KIRSCHNER
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MIKROTON DIGITAL: SOUND CANVAS | PART 1
MD 1
Released: September 24, 2008
A compilation of sound art, minimal and improvised music.
Artists: Knut Aufermann, Alva Noto, Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkilä, Frank Bretschneider, Lawrence English, Freiband, Heribert Friedl & Sascha Neudeck, Kenneth Kirschner, Kurt Liedwart, Machinefabriek, Sawako, Wouter van Veldhoven, Zenial.
"Comparing, let's say, to classical music or jazz or even traditional kind of improv music, our kind of music is less going from start until the end, from A to Z. I understand music much more as a field, as a canvas or even as a space. And I can move forward, can go back again, can change the directions. For me it's like shifting around the space, the canvas. Putting texture there, colour there, a line in this place, repeat this line in another angle, in another corner of the canvas. That's how I understand this music".
GÃœNTER MÃœLLER
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SOME OF MY NEW WRITINGS
Electronic Music Magazine. 03. 2009.
Interview with TAYLOR DEUPREE
Interview with RICHARD CHARTIER
Electronic Music Magazine. 02. 2009.
Interview with GÃœNTER MÃœLLER
Interview with JASON KAHN
Electronic Music Magazine. 01. 2009.
Translation with my comments
of JASON KAHN's story about NORBERT MÖSLANG
Electronic Music Magazine. 06. 2008.
Interview with TIM HECKER
Interview with MACHINEFABRIEK
Electronic Music Magazine. 05. 2008.
Interview with FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
Electronic Music Magazine. 04. 2008.
Story about CARSTEN NICOLAI
based on interview and talks with CARSTEN and RYOJI
All issues can be purchased at http://em.tgizd.ru or http://www.mikroton.net/shop/
