Performance by Scotch Rolex with Shin Hyo Jin and Lord Spikeheart
Crossing Borders is an exclusive performance by the Japanese producer Scotch Rolex (alias DJ Scotch EGG), the Korean-German percussionist Shin Hyo Jin and the Uganda-based Grind Core singer Lord Spikeheart.
This one-off performance, developed especially for SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS is structured in two parts according to the two collaborations.
In the first part Scotch Rolex and classically trained instrumentalist Shin Hyo Jin are mixing experimental electronic music with traditional ceremonial Korean percussion, crossing over the boundaries of past and present. Whilst the performance is an approach of Korean and Japanese relation, it's also a mystical and spiritual rites. The concept of the aesthetics of betweenness are mirrored in the costume designs of Korean designer Sojin Park (Assembled Half).
The second part of the performance is a result of Scotch Rolex´s residency in Uganda in 2019, where he began mixing Japanese ceremonial Shinto music with African polyrhythm. Together with Uganda based producer and performer Lord Spikeheart he developed a new style of music by combining roaring and distorted grind core vocals with experimental electronic beats, crossing existing genre boundaries. (While Hyo Jin is playing live with Scotch Rolex, Lord Spikeheart will be virtually present by a remote video layer)
SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS has been developed under the artistic direction and curation of Nik Nowak within the context of the exhibition Schizo Sonics at Kesselhaus, KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art.
SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS
is an interactive program developed under the artistic direction and curation of Nik Nowak within the context of his exhibition Schizo Sonics at Berlin’s KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art (13.9.2020 - 15.5.2021).
The bonus concept consists of the one-day symposium "The Cold War Continuum" and three live performances during 20.03.2021 - 24.04.21.
SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS examines the history of the Cold War via the so-called ‘Lautsprecherkrieg’ (loudspeaker war) and the ‘Studio am Stacheldraht’ (Studio at the Barbed Wire) in Berlin. The program focuses on the surprising political entanglements of Jamaican and Korean sound systems in the global struggle between the great powers fighting for ideological influence; the controversial use of acoustic weapons in Cuba as well as the politicization of subcultural movements. A critical analysis of the ideological demands made on sound systems separate to the Cold War, examining the global transformations of sound system cultures.
What factors might account for both how, and why, sound system culture, (in its varied, widereaching global forms), and the medium of sound itself, have become gravitational spheres to which the military, covert government agencies, cultural producers, and theorists alike have been increasingly drawn since the onset of the (first) Cold War? At which point did sound politics become an increasingly important weapon in the cultural-political armory for factions of the fine arts, philosophy, scientific research, sound research, feminist and queer discourse and practice, as well as for clubs and subculture?
SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS is a free program that interrogates the political and sonic resonances of physical and virtual boundaries. During the Cold War there were fortified borders, especially along the Iron Curtain.
Since the 1990s, there has been increasing investment in border installations to ‘protect’ against immigrants from the global south. Thousands of people escaping all forms of war, persecution and seeking asylum, die in their attempts to flee these unlivable conditions every year. Organizations like Sea-Watch are continuously fighting the deadly consequences and indifference of the increasing isolationism of Europe.
If you have liked our symposium and program of musical events please help us in our support of Sea-Watch and donate via bank transfer to:
IBAN: DE77 1002 0500 0002 0222 88
BIC: BFSWDE33BER
Bank: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Berlin
Name of account holder: Sea-Watch e.V.
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