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Thursday 29th January
Svarte Greiner
Soft as Snow
Jasmine Guffond (DJ set)
Bar Neun
Pücklerstr. 34, 10997 Berlin
Doors: 8 pm
tickets at the door €10-15
SVARTE GREINER
Svarte Greiner ("Black Branches") is the nom de scène of Erik K. Skodvin, founder of the Miasmah label, who also records as half of Deaf Center.
He is a prominent figure in experimental and dark ambient music, best known for his debut album “Knive” which started the "acoustic doom” sub-genre back in 2006. Drawing inspiration from nature and spirituality, Svarte Greiner blends surrealism, darkness, and beauty too create genre-defying sound collages, characterized by a blend of time-stopping ambient and drone improvisations with electro-acoustic influences. He typically uses a bowed guitar, effect pedals, cello, and electronics to create cinematic, haunting soundscapes.
He has performed extensively across Europe at both intimate small venues and large festivals, notably touring as the opening act for Fever Ray's debut European tour in 2009, adding to a list of collaborations with artists like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jenny Hval, and Jasmine Guffond amongst many others. Erik currently works with music for film along work on his record label, collaborations and other projects.
SOFT AS SNOW
Unbound by place or genre, mercurial duo Soft as Snow find freedom to intuitively reflect the disarray of human connection with their intricate, shape-shifting pop production. Their music is marked by a forward-thinking modernity; elements of ASMR and rough sampling, slippery rhythms and noisy textures. They have collaborated with CURL co-founder Brother May, fashion designer AGF Hydra and 3D artist Guynoid.
Their catalogue includes full-length releases on notable labels such as fabric’s imprint Houndstooth, Beacon Sound and Infinite Machine. Alongside their albums their output involves a series of noise-driven impro based work on progressive tape labels.
Soft as Snow have toured extensively performing in clubs, festivals and art galleries across Europe and the USA, including Robot Festival (IT), L.E.V. Festival (ES), Lunchmeat Festival (CZ), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), Roter Salon, Volksbühne (DE), Berghain (DE), Coaxial Arts (USA), Soy Capitán Gallery (DE) and Disconnect <code> (IT).
JASMINE GUFFOND
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential of sound to engage with contemporary political questions and engages listening as a situated knowledge practice.
Interested in providing an audible presence for phenomena that lies beyond human perception, via the sonification of facial recognition algorithms, global networks, or Internet tracking cookies she questions what it means for our personal habits to be traceable, and for our identities, choices and personalities to be reduced to streams of data.
Jasmine has performed live internationally at electronic music and art festivals including opening for CTM festival in 2020 and a commissioned work for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) Acousmonium, premiered in Paris at Présences Électronique in 2022. Intuitively exploring abstract sounds as well as referencing traditional musical structures, she has released solo records to critical acclaim with the Sonic Pieces (2015, 2017), Karl Records (2018) and Editions Mego (2020) labels.
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