Jonathan Carter (1987/Germany), originally from North Carolina, is a composer and pianist whose works range from traditional acoustic music, electronic music, sound-art installation, and electro-acoustic music. Having completed a Bachelors and Masters degree from Appalachian State University and the University of Louisville (respectively), he is now concluding a year of research under the Fulbright program at the Kunst Universität in Graz, Austria. Upon completion of said program, Jonathan intends on pursuing a second Masters degree at the KUG.
Nick Acorne (1987/Ukraine, born in Ukraine as Mykyta Prykhodchenko), is a Composer, Sound Designer, and Pianist. He has studied traditional Composition at the University of Art in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Now, Nick is completing a Masters in Composition and Computer Music at the Kunst Universität in Graz, Austria. He is currently involved in several performances and installations in addition to being a founding member of Alarm Pressure – an indie/experimental sound band. With his performances Nick presents his own social, political, non-political, and esthetic tastes to the audience.
Takuto Fukuda (1984/Japan), is a composer of electroacoustic and mixed music. He is currently researching an organic relationship between instruments and electronics in live electronic music at Kunstuniversität Graz in Austria. His pieces have been awarded the FUTURA prize at "CCMC 2011" (Japan), an honorary mention at "Musica Nova 2010" (Czech) and selected at numerous festivals and conferences such as ICMC 2012 (Slovenia), SICMF 2011 (Korea), Sonic Rain Concert (USA) and Ai-maako 2007 (Chile).
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Shakespeare - is our first piece, dedicated to Shakespeare.
Watch Video: Shakespeare - Live @ Sci-Fiction Festival (Munich, Germany) / |
Duration: ~5’
Evolution is an improvisatory composition for three self-made sensor instrumental players composed at
the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in Austria in 2015. This piece was inspired by evolutionary theory by Charles Darwin, and explores a possible relationship between players’ physical gesture and electroacoustic sounds. Both elements complementary reinforce to conjure up a meaningful dramaturgy in the piece. There are three actors in this piece: God and two creatures. Structurally, this piece consists of repetitive alternations between a robotized state, in which God is dominant, and a wild state, in which two creatures behave as if animals. Watch Video: Evolution - Live @ Sound Conference (Forum Stadrpark, Graz) / |
Duration: ~6’
Caesium 137 is a new composition about Chernobyl Nuclear Factory, composed by Jonathan Carter for three new DIY instruments, made by Elektrichka.
Watch Video: Caesium 137 - Live @ Sound Conference (Forum Stadrpark, Graz) / |
Duration: ~5’
Choral is a new piece, composed by Nick Acorne for three new DIY instruments, made by Elektrichka. Choral piece is a mixture of chor, bells, organ, athmo sounds and Speech, processed live.
Watch Video: Choral - Live @ Sound Conference (Forum Stadrpark, Graz) / |
Recorded during session at CUBE, IEM
Music by Elektrichka. Performed live by: Jonathan Carter, Takuto Fukuda and Nick Acorne. |
Duration: ~20’
The ancient greeks believed that human nature consisted of four fundamental moods which exist in a state of balance in a properly functioning human. Elektrichka presents two of these temperaments, Phlegmatic and Choleric, in a video series that attempts to convey the essence of these ancient beliefs. The video are fixed while the sound consists of fixed as well as improvised elements. Watch Video: Part I / Part II |
Recorded during session at CUBE, IEM
Music by Elektrichka. Performed live by: Jonathan Carter, Takuto Fukuda and Nick Acorne. |
Live @ CUBE, IEM - 7.04.2014
Music and Video by Elektrichka. Takuto Fukuda - Video Processing; Nick Acorne and Jonathan Carter - Flutes, Percussion, Toys, Live Electronic. Watch Video: Part II / Part III |
Duration: ~15’
Perception, a collaborative audio-visual composition, confronts the problem associated with electronic/laptop music’s inability at times to connect with an audience. This is often due to the fact that laptops do not visually reinforce what is happening aurally. Interaction with a fixed video medium is intended to fill this gestural gap. Ideally, the audience would be able to glean a connection between what is happening on screen and what is being generated live, on-stage. Furthering this interaction, on-stage performers will "step into" the video (by moving behind the projected surface) whereupon the pre-recorded video will feature said performer. Therefore, there will always be at least two performers on-stage at any given time with all three having a role at some point in the film. The video is a semi-programmatic series of events based upon the famous "Three Wise Monkeys." (hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil) Aurally, the sound material used (created and manipulated in real time) plays upon the notion of expectation. The correlation between what is visually presented does not line up with what years of natural indoctrination have given us, allowing the listener to derive abstract meaning. Who is creating what and how may not be immediately clear however, it is this uncertainty that lends a certain element of interest to the piece. Watch Video: Trailer |
Recorded during session at CUBE, IEM
Music by Elektrichka. Performed live by: Jonathan Carter, Takuto Fukuda and Nick Acorne. |
Recorded during session at CUBE, IEM
Music by Elektrichka. Performed live by: Jonathan Carter, Takuto Fukuda and Nick Acorne. |
Live @ CUBE, IEM - 7.04.2014
Music and Video by Elektrichka. Takuto Fukuda - Video Processing; Nick Acorne and Jonathan Carter - Flutes, Percussion, Toys, Live Electronic. Watch Video: Part II / Part III |
Live @ Rostfest Together with Marie Gamillscheg Start: 21:00 Gewerkschaftshaus OG Eisenerz, Austria More info |
Live @ NIME Conference Start: 22:30 Blacksburg, VA, USA |
Live @ Design Monat Some Designers' Open Atelier Start: 19:00 Griesgasse 40, Graz, Austria Event on facebook |
Live @ Ermilov Center Opening of Sex Dialogues Exhibition Start: 21:00 Kharkiv, Ukraine Event on facebook |
Live @ Sutra Bar Kamalayа Start: 19:00 Kharkiv, Ukraine Event on facebook |
Live @ Cafe Prostoru_ Start: 18:30 Technicka Prague, Czech Republic Homepage |
Live @ Music Lab Start: 20:00 Opletalova 1 Brno, Czech Republic Homepage |
Live @ Make it Vienna Start: 19:00 selberMACHEREI Schönbrunner Straße 125 Vienna, Austria Homepage Facebook Event |
Live @ Lange Nacht der Forschung Start: 20:00 Mumuth Graz, Austria Homepage Facebook Event |
Live @ kvartier Start: 20:00 Salzburg, Austria |
Live @ Münchner Science & Fiction Festival Start: 23:00 Einstein Munich, Germany Festival |
Live @ Make Munich 2016 Start: 16:30 Zenith - Die Kulturhalle Munich, Germany Facebook Event |
Live @ disposed Start: 19:00 disposed Salzburg, Austria |
Live @ Soundscapes and Sonic Cultures in America Start: 18:30 Stadtpark Forum Graz, Austria |
Live @ Elektro Gönner Start: 22:00 Mariahilferstr. 101 Vienna, Austria |
Live @ KHG Start: 14:00 Langegasse 2 Graz, Austria |
Live @ Ars Electronica Start: 18:00 Post city Linz, Austria |
Live @ HDA Lendwirbel Festival Start: 20:00 Mariahilferstraße 2 Graz, Austria Facebook Event: LINK |
Live @ ESC LABOR Start: 19:00 Bürgergasse 5 Graz, Austria Facebook Event: LINK |
Live @ CUBE, IEM, Kunstuni Start: 19:45 Infeldgasse 10 Graz, Austria Facebook Event: LINK |
Live @ ZKM, Next Generation 5 Lorenzstraße 19 Karlsruhe, Germany |