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December 22 – January 8 (2009)
Pär Thörn is a writer and artist who works mainly with text, sound and performance. He recently released the record Schöneberg/Stammheim/Gärdet/Rågsved on Malmö-based Treffpunkt and in January his new book Tidsstudiemannen will be released on Modernista. At KRETS, Thörn will construct a mind map reflecting on the murder of Olof Palme, with both well-known and unknown theories about this national trauma. -
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Time: 12-18The sound art collective LAIKA will end their exhibition with a live tape performance.
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Time: 18-21 (with the artists present)
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Saturday November 29 is the opening date for the exhibition För mänsklighetens bästa i tio år by LAIKA (read more under exhibitions). Two weeks in advance, they will pre-start the exhibition with a local radio transmission that contains all Viktigt meddelande! podcasts ever recorded. Information about the frequency will be shown in KRETS’ window. Also keep your eyes and ears open on December 1 (15.00), when LAIKA will pass on the responsibility of the signal Viktigt meddelande! to the public. -
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 19.00
Free admissionTime for another film screening at KRETS! This time we will show the two fantastic documentaries The Mindscape of Alan Moore and The Atomic Café. Each film runs for ca. 80 minutes.
The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a portrait of one of the world’s most influential comic book writers (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc.). A completely unique portrait in which we get to follow Moore from early childhood to the present, in a story personally told by himself. A glimpse into a world where magic, science, art and politics are joint together.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_PdB37FbZ4
The Atomic Cafe is a collage film that, with black humor and clips from archive material from the 1940-60s, tells a story about the Cold War.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Time: 19.00
Entrance: 20 SEKSIC ALPS
”This duo may act as a substitute for the canceled gig with Mouthus. Both circulate within the American indie-noise-rock scene and both consist of drums and guitar – but Sic Alps also add vocals. I get some clear swamp rock vibes (Stooges etc.), but with hints to 60s garage music, plus one foot in the indie rock of the 90s. Will be rad! The band has released three full-length records and a bunch of singles and cassettes.” – Rickard Daun (SINGSANG)CJH
”Jonas Höglund’s solo project. Jonas has spoilt us with good music for over 10 years; from the rattling cassettes with the garage band The Daunbeats, via ”fast tracker”-synth/electro pieces, to his monotonous heavy-noise-drone-rock. Hard to put a finger on exactly how his music sounds, but whether he uses guitar, synth, ds, computer or electric violin, it nevertheless sounds damn much like Jonas in the end. With the two previous CD-r releases on rev/vega rec., I have worked myself through only 10 % of this treasure of tunes, so I’ll release a new one this very day!” – Rickard Daun (SINGSANG)Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Saturday, October 10, 2008
Time: 13-15 (with the artist present)
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
DJ: Rok-Y
Time: 19.30-23
Entrance: 20 SEKDaniel Skoglund is a sound artist who works with installation, sound and music performances, as well as pure sound compositions. For his performances, he designs and builds new electronical and mechanical devices, controlled by choice and chance. Until 2003, he was a member of the duo 8TUNNEL2, acclaimed for their concerts with electrified vegetables. Since then, he has collaborated with artists such as Hans Appelqvist, Lasse Marhaug and DJ Olive, but he primarily performs solo.
”Sketches and Routines. Material and movement. Sound and Rhythm. By using self-designed mechanical and electrical devices, I once again lean on my faithful partner; chance.” – Daniel Skoglund
Jasmina Maschina makes pop music at its most beautiful and hypnotic. Folk-inspired simple melodies meet dark drones and suggestive soundscapes performed on guitar, piano, melodica and electronics. Released her debut album The Demolition Series (Staubgold/Armed Orphan) earlier this year and is also one half of the experimental duo Minit.
”Jasmina Maschina’s folk soundscapes transport you into her unique world of song. She melds the most simple and innocent chord progressions of time-honoured folk music with a noisenik’s attraction to repetition, drone and inventiveness to create the sensation of paresthesia, tingling on both the skin and mind. ”
Golden Diskó Ship is a solo project by Theresa Stroetges from Berlin. Under this alias she makes music with fragile layers of guitar drones, toy instruments, found objects, glockenspiel, computer-composed beats and dreamy vocals. Live, the music is accompanied by self-made video projections.
” Golden Diskó Ship is a one-girl-band. A mix of an original and personable guitar style, found objects, toy instruments, computer beats and sounds, and layered vocals with self-made video projections, drawing you into a unique, beautiful and immersive world of music and song.”
More information:
www.full-pull.orgThanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Time: 19.30 (performance 20.00)
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Time: 18-21 (with the artist present)
Live: Martin Månsson Sjöstrand
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Time: 21.00
Free admissionKRETS follows up the previous screenings of Vinyl and I, Curmudgeon with Lovable, the final film in Alan Zweig’s trilogy. The screening starts exactly 21:00, but you are welcome from 20.00, when we will start with a selection of short films that you didn’t know you wanted to see.
”At some point, everyone has asked the question, why is it so hard to find love? In this final installment of the autobiographical trilogy that includes Vinyl and I, Curmudgeon, Alan Zweig reflects with disarming candour on why, if he longs for a partner and children, he is still single at mid-life. Through intimate, heartfelt and often hilarious interviews with a series of diverse, smart and attractive single women, Zweig explores yearnings for the romantic myths of our culture and the difficulty of finding and sustaining relationships. Some women have come to accept and prefer being alone, but many still dream of a future they can share. Rather than remaining the objective observer, Zweig approaches his female subjects as kindred spirits, sharing their vulnerability and openness. A perfect mixed tape of love songs provides the backdrop for this courageously candid look at love and longing.”
”It’s a documentary, not a drama.”
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: 19.30-22.30
Free admissionBRONNT INDUSTRIES KAPITAL
“Neu! meets Giorgio Moroder in a Philip K. Dick novel.”Bronnt is in Sweden to perform their famous soundtrack to the Swedish 1920’s film Häxan, during Fantastisk Filmfestival’s horror weekend. At KRETS we get to meet another aspect of their peculiar soundscape. We will hear songs from their upcoming record Hard for justice (Static Caravan), which on top of the melancholy synths found on the soundtrack adds influences from krautrock and Italo disco.
HENRIK KIHLBERG
Henrik presents his audio performance Var snäll stäng inte av mobiltelefonen, in which he uses a set of hellophones (the very first speakerphone model) to pick up electromagnetic fields from the audience’s cell phones in order to build a sound sculpture in real time. Kihlberg has previously played improvised music with Mittelsfär, post-minimalism with Nova Express, punk/hardcore with Bruce Banner and noise with Prakt.GALLOWS TUMOR
Space rock similar to Flying Saucer Attack’s boys’ room psychedelia of the 90s.DJ: CAFÉ KNASTER
Plays for example The Homosexuals favorites and funny soundtrack mixes.Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Time: 19.00
Free admissionAmerican writers and sound artists Brandon LaBelle and Ken Ehrlich are invited to make this year’s site-specific installation in Scaniaparken (Malmö). The duo will visit Malmö in order to do research and at the same time hold a presentation about their work within site-specific sound art. As a part of this, they want to open up for a discussion about Scaniaparken, based on your experiences of the site. Their work will be presented in Scaniaparken’s sound hill (a hill with speakers built into it) from August 23.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Time: 19.30-22.30
Free admissionJON ERIKSEN
One of Motvikt’s absolute favorites within the Swedish noise music scene is leaving the country in August, to head for the United States. Thus, it is with a mixture of sadness and pleasure that they present a final concert with Eriksen – this is most likely the last Nordic gig for a long time to come. Not many manage to produce the kind of acoustic saturation that is channeled through Jon’s overflowing arsenal, in this precise manner. Dynamics and focus in concentrated and intense doses. In other words, this is a necessary event that should not be missed!MARTIN NORDBECK
Computer- and microphone-based experiments from Martin, who in different projects has explored musical possibilities since 1996. Aside from working with atmospheric sound paintings, Martin is also a DJ in Malmö-based Million Vibes Sound.MIRRORS ARE BLACK
Moth-grey oscillations. Extended air.Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Time: 20.00
Free admissionTwo Tuesdays in a row, KRETS will screen documentaries by Alan Zweig from Canada. Tuesday, June 24, we begin with Vinyl (2000), which portrays a number of fanatical record collectors. Zweig, who himself belongs to this group, has established deep connections within the fandom and thereby found the collectors you never thought, or wished, existed.
Tuesday, July 1, we follow up with I, Curmudgeon (2004). Just like Vinyl, this film is based on a very simple storytelling concept. A number of eccentric personalities straightforwardly tell their stories, interspersed with scenes where Zweig shares his own introspective. In this film, the focus has been changed from record collectors to people with a radically cynical view of life, existence, everything. A collection of curmudgeons who without remorse complain over all the fucking shit this shit life has to offer. May seem a bit gloomy, perhaps. Not at all! In some strange way, there is an incredible charm in this pessimism, and some parts of the film even reach political dimensions. Hard to explain, but a must to see. The films start at 20:00, but feel free to come earlier since we will start with some odd short movies and art films at 19:00.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Time: 20.00
Free admissionTwo Tuesdays in a row, KRETS will screen documentaries by Alan Zweig from Canada. Tuesday, June 24, we begin with Vinyl (2000), which portrays a number of fanatical record collectors. Zweig, who himself belongs to this group, has established deep connections within the fandom and thereby found the collectors you never thought, or wished, existed.
Tuesday, July 1, we follow up with I, Curmudgeon (2004). Just like Vinyl, this film is based on a very simple storytelling concept. A number of eccentric personalities straightforwardly tell their stories, interspersed with scenes where Zweig shares his own introspective. In this film, the focus has been changed from record collectors to people with a radically cynical view of life, existence, everything. A collection of curmudgeons who without remorse complain over all the fucking shit this shit life has to offer. May seem a bit gloomy, perhaps. Not at all! In some strange way, there is an incredible charm in this pessimism, and some parts of the film even reach political dimensions. Hard to explain, but a must to see. The films start at 20:00, but feel free to come earlier since we will start with some odd short movies and art films at 19:00.
Clip from Vinyl: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9NWHvv8fc
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Time: 19-22
Free admissionKRETS is visited by EATS TAPES from the American West Coast. Their digital disco has been played on rooftops in Brooklyn and in murky basements in Berlin. Here is your chance to see them and to take part of their dancy tunes.
Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
DJs: Gnu & Do the Math
Time: 19-22
Free admissionThis Sunday KRETS closes for the summer, but we will still present some live music. First up is RENE SG from the Netherlands, who play insanely short and intense songs. They present themselves like this:
”A mix of Mondrian and Ramones. Fuck You, Fucking Hell, To Hell With You and Go Fuck Yourself. Titles of one-liner short songs to be played loud in space and close to the audience. Pogo-party, intellectual design. Rene Kaptyn, singer/songwriter for RENE SG, studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and after his graduation, specialized in his own unique mix of conceptual art and high-energy rock’n’roll. The band has played over 150 shows in Holland, Belgium and Germany, not only at rock venues but also at galleries and museums, like the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.”
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 19.30-22
Free admissionMARLIN JOHANSSON & TOBIAS ÅSTRÖM
A collaboration between Marlin Johansson (Blue Utopia) and Tobias Åström (Militant Fields, Sekvens). Harp, guitar, bass, loops, feedback and song. Retreat/Attack/Melancholy!GAERRA
”…is sometimes Ganesha Ernstad Rajadaun, but always Rickard Daun. Wasted ideas, found sounds and borrows from others are interwoven and recycled into new compositions. The ambition is to make simple music, and therefore I made up three rules: 1) Only three audio sources . 2) A sampling, often from folk music or b-movies. 3) My own voice. So far I haven’t succeeded a single time… The inspiration is violence, blood, death and the coming doom.”Rickard runs the record label rev/vega rec. and plays in band such as Fria Konstellationen, R.W.F, Flowers Must Die, DAUN and New Archivists.
Audio visuals: DAVID GÜLICH
David shows films and mixes sounds from his project Utom Alla. Musically, we are offered multifaceted ambients and concrete sounds with a large amount of reverberation.Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Time: 15-18
Free admissionTwo bands will play!
Iron Bitchface
According to many, the worst black metal band in the world. According to others, the best. From a suburb of Toronto, they have traveled worldwide, without giving a single thought to their lack of talent. Very inspiring!Cyclopean Masonry
Ancient creeping slime.A video will be screened!
Move the tube – 18 instant paintings for your TV (1990) by Jaap Drupsteen. A masterpiece of computer graphics by this Dutch artist, who also designed his country’s passport. Borrowed from a private collection.
Martha Hviid from Copenhagen will choose music for the breaks. Recently back from a lecture tour with Goodiepal! In addition to this, the very first chance to read two new papers: Äcklig natur (rap ark#3) and Mystiska stenformationer (Push the Button #22) . Plus cookies of different kinds!
Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Time: 13-17 (with the artist present)
Live: Mount Eerie (US)
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Time: 12-15
Free admissionMonica Tormell holds a workshop in which she will show how to invert records to decrypt their hidden messages. Bring your records and meet us for a Sunday coffee and a modification workshop!
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Time: 18-21 (with the artist present)
Live: Luva
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time: 19-22.30
Free admissionMOTVIKT and KRETS invite you to an evening of electronic, experimental and improvised music.
Live:
VALUTAN
Synth pop and electronica from the dark heart of Wall Street.
JERKER BRASK
Obscure sound fragments and increasing walls of sound.JAMES BREWSTER (UK) / PETER HENNING / JERKER BRASK
Electro-acoustic improvised music.Field recordnings and pre-recorded material:
STAKET, BROAR OCH KONTAKTMIKROFONER
Environments recorded through metal- and concrete structures.ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
A selection of their collaborations with piano and electronics.Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
FRIA KONSTELLATIONEN
Time: 12-15
Free admissionFria Konstellationen started as a freely improvising noise orchestra in Linköping in the summer of 2003. Nowadays, most of the members of the loosely held constellation are based in Malmö. The band’s chaotic live performances are usually described as an uncompromising mix of noise, drone and krautrock. Fria Konstellationen has performed gigs in Germany and Denmark as well as in numerous Swedish cities. After four CD-Rs and a cassette release, the band now commits their full-length debut with the album musik om FRIA KONSTELLATIONEN, which will be released on February 29 on rev/vega rec. At KRETS they will play live and show film projections.
Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Time: 19.00
Free admissionThe Devil and Daniel Johnston (ca. 90 min.)
A fantastic documentary about the peculiar musician Daniel Johnston. A very intimate portrait of all rock artist’s favorite artist.Audionom – The Road to Stalingrad (ca. 30 min.)
A severely dysfunctional rock band on the verge of breaking up embark on an angst-ridden odyssey, with their sight set on Amsterdam. Bad idea! -
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Time: 18-21
DJ: Rupert Burton (UK) et al.The curators Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell will be present on the opening reception, together with several of the artists. They will also bring a special selection of art publications and printed matter from Glasgow. Read more under exhibitions.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Time: 18-21
Live: Night Crotch & Mind Control Hands
Free admissionSaturday, February 16, is the second last day of the exhibition Jordens Undergång at KRETS. Come and look one last time before it is taken down. Do not miss the chance to see magnificent prints, drawings, photographs and a purple tent, while listening to the tunes of mysterious Night Crotch and Mind Control Hands.
NIGHT CROTCH
The fog obscures the snow-capped mountaintop. Somewhere up there, Vietnam-veteran John Rambo is hiding. Suddenly you hear a piercing gurgling cry, as if coming from one hundred saliva-filled trumpets. A gigantic eagle, arguably at least ten feet between the tips of its wings, swoops down and destroys a gas station, a secondary school and a Taco Bell restaurant at the foot of the mountain. The eagle disappears into the fog. The silence settles again. -
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Time: 18-21 (with the artist present)
Live: Beatles (DK) & Mok Nok (DK)This year’s first exhibition at KRETS is Jordens Undergång by Push the Button (Rasmus Svensson). The exhibition is the first ever for the artist and includes drawings, photographs, silkscreened prints and a site-specific installation. Beatles and Mok Nok will perform at the opening. Read more under exhibitions.
