Dear visitor, through a focus on performativity, otherness and transgression, attempt to overturn, disrupt We would like to welcome you at Spider, or abject both these very forms of control Spit and Broken Bells (SSBB) – Traces of the as well as the normative conception of self Sacred – 2017/2018 at WORM Rotterdam they uphold. Detaching from the mainstream and V2_, Lab for the unstable media. view of the Sacred as both magic surface and conceptual authority, we come to ask: can a Haperende Mens festival 2017/18 explores the form of ‘Sacred community’ still occur? Could notion of the Sacred through an interdisci- we come to re-define ourselves and our rela- plinary programme. Looking beyond everyday tions to both virtual and physical mediation? thrills and kicks we suggest an exploration of this theme through both physical and dig- During this weekend we present a broad ital realms mediated by music, art, film and spectrum of bands: pioneers from the old days theory. By asking ourselves, our audience as well as the young avant-garde in genres and artists about their relation to the Sacred, like techno, industrial, psychedelia and ritual we want to search for spaces where a deep- ambient. We are excited to present the Indo- er understanding and inner meaning beyond nesian group Senyawa, known for their blend our overregulated and digitally controlled of neo-tribal folkloristic music from Java and society lies. We present you experiences that, experimental music with punk attitude. They 1 2 will be playing a special show with Brussels Together with screenings of the award based female choir Patshiva Cie that we nominated feature film ‘Busters Mal Heart’, Music Programme present in collaboration with Europalia and Imagine Film Festival artistic director Chris Pantropical. The mythical occult noise-rock Oosterom will present the mesmerizing Music brings us in touch with inner meaning and band Skullflower from England will give a art-film ‘Leviathan’ by Véréna Paravel and self-understanding, on the other hand it can also rare appearance and we are proud to present Lucien Castaing-Taylor and an exciting overwhelm, ravish or initiate a sense of bliss or the promising Chinese artist Pan Daijing selection of shorts. beauty. Through its non-physical form it touches the known for her gripping performative live-shows senses and creates a bodily experience. Traditional in which industrial sounds are combined Last but not least a Symposium and discur- instruments and traditional music communicates in with ritualistic field-recordings. On top of that sive programme will take place in the form forms of ritual messages that speak to a community. we will have UK improvisation duo Tomaga of ‘The Academy of the Sacred’, exploring During the festival many acts manifest in between playing a newly created live soundtrack to different approaches and manifestations of these realms and explore these themes in conjunction Kenneth Anger’s classic occult film Lucifer this theme in current debates and theories. with the audience. For Spider, Spit and Broken Bells Rising from 1972. Furthermore there is a Amongst them, browser-based artist Jan we present you a wide range of musical acts from all night-program to dance to with the likes of Robert Leegte will present a lecture on the electronic music-pioneer JK Flesh (Godflesh, work of Eva and Franco Mattes, shedding over the world, presenting older and newer traces of Jesu, Techno Animal) and Mannequin Records new insights into the work of the two artists the musical Sacred. founder DJ Alessandro Adriani from Rome. exhibiting at V2_, while Nicola Masciandaro, These artists are but a small part of a much professor of English at Brooklyn College friday 12: 20:15 – 03:00, saturday 13: 19:30 – 03:00 larger and extensive music programme. (NY), will present the lecture ‘Inner life / inner death: On The Sonic Threshold of The Sacred’, WORM MAIN HALL During SSBB a special exhibition around especially prepared for this occasion. Follow- the work of net-art pioneers Eva and Franco ing the Symposium, there will be an Artist day ticket 15—, 2 days passe-partout 25— Mattes will take place at V2_, including an Talk panel discussion with a selected group exceptional digital live performance titled of performing musicians, where we will explore ‘For Internet Use Only’; Turning the audience the theme of the Sacred through aspects and into voyeurs of the everyday, this performance motivations behind their practice. of ‘digital Intimacy’ comes to unsettle the con- tradictory logic of hyper-mediated spaces. In We appreciate your participation at Spider, Bear Bones, Lay Low (BE/VE) David Edren/DSR lines (BE) WORM gallery more artists will show their Spit and Broken Bells; You as a visitor are Electronic, Krautrock Kosmische, Electronic work, focusing on the more explicitly ‘embod- for us as important as the active participants Friday 12, 00:00 Friday 12, 22:30 ied’ side ofthe Sacred. Amongst them, Karin in this collective effort exploring the Sacred Bear Bones, Lay Low is the musical project David Edren has been creating electronic Arink, proposing bodily forms on the edge – and its potential for community – during this of the Brussels based Venezuelan musician sounds as DSR Lines for almost two decades, of identification, and Krisztina Czika, whose inspiring weekend in Rotterdam. Ernesto Gonzalez. For the last ten years laying out liquefying modular synth stunners work challenges the organic essence of tech- Gonzales has been making diverse music as audible acupuncture sessions. Edren nologies. Also, performances as result of a Haperende Mens in which experiment, unexpected layers, keeps his sounds tactly understated and fully unique workshop by Belgian artist Danny ecstasy and ritual come together. Through improvising explores his scientific aesthetics Devos will be taking place throughout both the combination of electronic and acoustic with delicacy and restrain. days. Furthermore, light will be shed on the sounds an unknown world of dystropical musical project Muslimgauze, created by nature unfolds. Repetitive kosmische and JK Flesh (UK) Bryn Jones (17 June 1961 – 14 January 1999). experimental sounds build up to trance-like Electronic, Industrial, Techno Different DJ’s will be asked to explore the heights. Saturday 13, 23:45 vast discography and musical influences of JK FLESH is the pseudonym employed by this mysterious and remarkable musician. Simon Crab (UK) Justin K Broadrick (a.o. Zonal, Jesu) for his Industrial, Electronics, Ritual solo work within the realm of heavy/brutal An extensive Film programme will take place Friday 12, 20:45 electronica/techno – informed by industrial, throughout the Festival, proposing a wide Simon Crab is probably most well known as dub, power electronics and the extreme range of genres and formats. Amongst them, the founder and main-man of the power- excesses of electronic music driven by beats we are very proud to present a Dutch pre- electronics/Industrial, post-rock, neo-no-wave, and bass. Justin initially used this pseudonym miere of the documentary ‘Bight of the Twin’, electro-acoustic, gabber-techno, dub-ethno- in the legendary Techno-Animal with co- starring Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and inves- jazz-funk band – Bourbonese Qualk. conspirator Kevin Martin (of The Bug / King tigating Voudoun rites against the backdrop Midas Sound, etc). of Western secular art and performance. 3 4 Lumisokea (BE/IT) Pan Daijing (CN/DE) Tomaga (UK) Alessandro Adriani (IT/DE) – DJ set Experimental, Electronic, Industrial, Soundtrack, Improvisation, Electronics – Mannequin Records Electro-Acoustic Rhythm Field Recordings, Saturday 13, 19:30 Industrial, Techno, Synth-Wave Saturday 13, 20:45 Saturday 13, 22:00 The London based improvisation duo Tomaga Saturday 13, 00:45 Lumisokea is a Belgian-Italian duo, formed Chinese artist Pan Daijing lives in Berlin and consisting of Percussionist Valentina Magaletti Alessandro Adriani is the brain behind Man- by Koenraad Ecker and Andrea Taeggi. For is known for her incisive ritualistic experiments and bass player/electronicist Tom Relleen nequin Records, an outlet that since 2008 their new project ‘Dervish’ the duo has formed in music. Her live acts consist of theatrical has established itself amongst Europe’s most has unearthed obscure synth wave and in- a four-piece band with percussionists Onno performances with sounds inspired by the interesting experimental acts of the last years. dustrial music from all over the world. Aside Govaert (NL) and Luca Marini (IT/DE). After tribal industrial music of the 80’s, Tibetan Their latest project focuses on a new live from his work in releasing forgotten gems of a year-long preparation, Lumisokea is now music and field recordings of temples. Pan soundtrack for Kenneth Anger’s movie Lucifer a.o. Nocturnal Emissions, Bourbonese Qualk proud to invite the audience for an extended Daijing makes her audience go through a Rising from 1972, a cult classic in the genre and up to the minute synth incantations like session of snaking rhythms, spectral shim- gripping catharsis of ecstasy and claustro- of occult film, with numerous magical sym- group A and Giant Swan, Adriani has been mers, growling synths and clanking copper phobia. bols and allegories, ranging from ancient Egypt quietly issuing out his own music and remixes plates. to Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. as well. Alessandro is the resident DJ and Pharoah Chromium (DE/PAL) organizer of a bi-monthly night at Berghain. Nocturnal Emissions (UK) Psychedelic Electronics, Ritualistic Chris Baas (NL) – DJ set He will be closing the festival on Saturday Electronic, Ritualistic Friday 12, 20:15 Pantropical, Eclectic, Rituals the 13th with a special DJ set ’til late! Industrial, Ambient Pharoah Chromium is a project by German- Friday 12, 01:00 Saturday 13, 20:00 Palestinian musician and performer Ghazi This Rotterdam based Pantropical DJ has Nocturnal Emissions is a sound art project Barakat and was named after a song of played at more places than you can imagine.