Ars Electronica Archive
Prix
Prix Map
Pictures
Videos
Publications
Special Projects
Women in Media Art
Prix
The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Matki Wandalki
Felix Kubin
Original: Matki Wandalki - Audio CD Track 13 | 0:04:04 | 41.2 MB
Original: Matki Wandalki - Audio CD Track 5 | 0:06:09 | 62.2 MB
Original: Matki Wandalki - Audio CD Track 10 | 0:01:17 | 13.0 MB
Original: Matki Wandalki - Vicki Bennett, Felix Kubin | 628 * 892px | 296.9 KB
Original: Matki Wandalki - MOLARADIO | 1024 * 768px | 565.9 KB
In this solo work I combine several influences from styles ranging between entertainment music forms (swing, exotica, disco and techno pop) and more experimental forms (noise, science fiction and electroacoustic music). Throughout my life, I have been made aware of radioactivity, and as a result, the feeling I associate with x-rays leaks through to affect my preferences for certain sounds. I often feel like I am working in a chemical laboratory.
Some sounds and compositional approaches will be familiar in the basic structure of the piece. But on the whole I am interested in broken song characteristics and open forms with more disruptive breaks and harmonies. The live presentation of my music is very important to me. I play a lot of melodies and noises live with synthesizers and keyboards, while rhythms and sequences back up my spine from MD. The live gig is more comparable to an active punk concert than to a more passive listening experience.
My background is in experimental music, animation film and art. I work on the borders of pop and abstract music, and also implement experimental radio plays and collage techniques. The most important component for me is the element of surprise.
Some sounds and compositional approaches will be familiar in the basic structure of the piece. But on the whole I am interested in broken song characteristics and open forms with more disruptive breaks and harmonies. The live presentation of my music is very important to me. I play a lot of melodies and noises live with synthesizers and keyboards, while rhythms and sequences back up my spine from MD. The live gig is more comparable to an active punk concert than to a more passive listening experience.
My background is in experimental music, animation film and art. I work on the borders of pop and abstract music, and also implement experimental radio plays and collage techniques. The most important component for me is the element of surprise.
Felix Kubin (D), born 1969, studied drawing, sound installation, video, and animated film at Hamburg University’s Department of Design. A leading member of the socialist Dada party KED (Communist Unity Party of Germany) and head of the singing group Liedertafel Margot Honecker, Kubin has also appeared as a solo performer at international festivals in Europe, Japan and Canada. A member of the group of experts of the German-Polish cultural fund, the German Cultural Foundation, Felix Kubin lives and works against gravity with sci-fi pop/noise/animation/films/radio plays/experimental broadcasting. He founded his own label, Gagarin Records, in 1998, and rules the “syndicate of counter-noise” since 9/9/1999.