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Agenda
BofUS
The Bureau of Unclassified Souds (or simply BofUS) explores what it says: unheard analog and electronic created and field recorded sounds, composed and improvised as sound-cologic, synthetic enchanting weardness, transforming resonant drones to poly-a-rhythmic experimental musical (often 3D Ambisonics) performances.
The Con | Fusion of Time
Con | Fusion of Time is a surprisingly fresh sonic act by Bertram (acoustics, sampler and voice) and Druez (synths, tape, electronics and mechatronics). By intersecting electronics and acoustic sounds in an intuitive yet surprising way, it embalms the listener like a perfume, triggering memories and fantasies. The use of (their own) field recorded sounds as samples create an organic feel that matches the electronic sounds that are meticulously created and beyond anything recognisable. By listening you enter an unheard evolving composition with soothing and severing timbres and rhythms. This musical performance is behaving like an iridescent gem, where transistions are the colours of the sounds produced and time is incessantly distorted as if looking trough a plastic lens, or from beneath the surface of a lake on Mars.
People
Heide Bertram (DE – M.Mus – Master of Music at Musikhochschüle, Music University Münster) is a classical trained soprano exploring voice as a sound nomad. She plays several acoustic instruments, theremin and looper and composes musical performances.
Philippe Druez (BE – PhD.c – 3D sound-art, dept. Systematic Musicology, IPEM, University Ghent &Royal Art School / Conservatory Ghent, MA Sound-Art Luca SOA, KU Leuven) Composes and writes scenarios for musical / sound-art pieces, stage and film. He builds electronics, writes and codes microprocessors, plays with neural networks and his mechatronical creations and wiggles modular synthesiser knobs.
Things
Some of the stuff: Buchla, Serge, Moog, Make Noise, Mutable Instruments, Instruo, DIY electronics, Nagra & Braun tape, Tascam & Revox cassette, Jillo (due corda cello/electric guitar), pedals, Trombone, Soprano, Røde NT-SF1 & Zoom F8n + F3, IRCAM instruments, Theremini, Ciat-Lonbarde, Strymon, Yeasu HAM transceivers and HF/DX antennas, laboratory stuff, spaghetti & banana cabling.
LISTEN:
21.07.2024 — Rehearsal before the Concert (live recording, uncut).
Play on a real stereo chain or quality headphones, not your laptop or BT speaker (ask a friend if necessary).
Other work:
Ethereal Threads
Tinnitudes
Etude pour une Voie Feminine
Choral Flow
PLEASE DO NOT
COPY, PLAGIATE, DISTRIBUTE and/or PLAY with ALEXA or SIRI,
SHAZAM or whatever AI listening device switched on.
DO WELL
and SUPPORT us and not BIG TECH: BUY our cassette albums (C48).
Belgium — International: Philippe Druez
Germany: Heide Bertram