Concepción Huerta & Fe Sexta // Julian Sartorius: „Locked Grooves”
CTM Festival 2024: Concerts
Concert
Julian Sartorius © Mehdi Benkler
© Concepción Huerta & Fe Sexta
Ticket Prices
20 Euro, reduced 15 Euro
Tickets are sold via the CTM Festival ticketing platform:
www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/tickets
Duration aprox. 180 minutes
The project “MAPS: Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico“ by Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta aims to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s. Using archival materials and other sources, recordings and compositions will be blended with a documentary and fictional narrative approach to contextualise the listening experience. The innovative legacy of these early composers is integrated into Huerta and Sexta’s own work, as they map relationships between personal and collective memory.
A fixture in the international improv scene, Julian Sartorius has become known for a drumming style that plays with suspending time and testing infinity. Presenting the album “Locked Grooves“ at CTM, he interrogates the idea of a static groove by unfurling a percussive suite gradating over tonal nuances, micro expressions, and shifting time signatures. The resulting 112 grooves – or one-minute loops as heard on the digital album – unveil an abundance of rhythmic forms, some vigorous, some frail, others impulsive, alluring, and adrift. The artist explains: “I hope listeners will experience these compositions like they would explore a painting at a museum – letting the work unfold in depth, revealing layer after layer.“
Further informations: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Concepción Huerta
Fe Sexta
Julian Sartorius
Biographien
With a sharp instinct for compelling audiovisual collaborations and perpetual activity within noisy fields, the Mexican photographer, composer, and video artist Concepción Huerta conjures continuously intriguing sound narratives. Years spent documenting the country’s experimental scene has given her eyes and ears a unique outlook-and-listen.
Fusing fragile moments with caustic chaos, a turbulent sonic ecosystem is born within a fluctuating series of performances and installations. Fe Sexta bring their visions to life through a variety of mediums is a natural form for the Ecuadorian transdisciplinary artist. Their work emerges as an ever-mutating narrative within ever-shifting formats; whether expressed through DJ sets, concerts of live electronics, or experimental audiovisual installations.
Exceptionally inventive avant-percussion crafts hypnotism in repetition. Jazz-trained in Berne and Lucerne, the Swiss artist Julian Sartorius has a highly skilled ear for sound. Building magnificent and dizzying percussive compositions in often bizarre time signatures, Sartorius surpasses genres to evoke all manner of flavours, from hyper-future industrial techno to lurching-hip-hop instrumentals and full-on brainfux.
Programme
From 26 January – 4 February 2024, CTM Festival will celebrate a silver 25 year anniversary at Radialsystem, Berghain, silent green, and other Berlin venues.
CTM 2024 is titled "Sustain" – a weird and fascinating word that touches opposite polarities of the contemporary experience as it speaks of the empathy and determination through which we survive, as well as of our anxieties, losses, and pains. In the word "sustain" we sense both what we are going through while hearing what needs to be done. It is as much a description as it is an imperative as it is a vocation towards more interdependent ways of life. With its 2024 edition CTM Festival asks what if "sustain" were a sound? What would it be like? Music is not only a refuge, but also a constant reminder of our desire to get closer to the brighter end of the spectrum. Looking at musical life and music ecosystems under the perspective of "sustain", what ideals, ethics, and practices can we identify and discuss to make music a means to work towards something more sane, just, and sustainable?
→ To the complete programme of CTM Festival 2024 at Radialsystem
Credits
Concepción Huerta & Fe Sexta are commissioned by the CTM Radio Lab which is a project by Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and CTM Festival in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, and Ö1 Kunstradio. This year it takes place within the framework of the sound art initiative tekhnē, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Julian Sartorius is supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.
Media partners: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, FACT, Full Moon, RBB radioeins, Refuge Worldwide, Siegessäule, The Wire & tip Berlin.
The project “MAPS: Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico“ by Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta aims to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s. Using archival materials and other sources, recordings and compositions will be blended with a documentary and fictional narrative approach to contextualise the listening experience. The innovative legacy of these early composers is integrated into Huerta and Sexta’s own work, as they map relationships between personal and collective memory.
A fixture in the international improv scene, Julian Sartorius has become known for a drumming style that plays with suspending time and testing infinity. Presenting the album “Locked Grooves“ at CTM, he interrogates the idea of a static groove by unfurling a percussive suite gradating over tonal nuances, micro expressions, and shifting time signatures. The resulting 112 grooves – or one-minute loops as heard on the digital album – unveil an abundance of rhythmic forms, some vigorous, some frail, others impulsive, alluring, and adrift. The artist explains: “I hope listeners will experience these compositions like they would explore a painting at a museum – letting the work unfold in depth, revealing layer after layer.“
Further informations: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Concepción Huerta
Fe Sexta
Julian Sartorius
Biographies
With a sharp instinct for compelling audiovisual collaborations and perpetual activity within noisy fields, the Mexican photographer, composer, and video artist Concepción Huerta conjures continuously intriguing sound narratives. Years spent documenting the country’s experimental scene has given her eyes and ears a unique outlook-and-listen.
Fusing fragile moments with caustic chaos, a turbulent sonic ecosystem is born within a fluctuating series of performances and installations. Fe Sexta bring their visions to life through a variety of mediums is a natural form for the Ecuadorian transdisciplinary artist. Their work emerges as an ever-mutating narrative within ever-shifting formats; whether expressed through DJ sets, concerts of live electronics, or experimental audiovisual installations.
Exceptionally inventive avant-percussion crafts hypnotism in repetition. Jazz-trained in Berne and Lucerne, the Swiss artist Julian Sartorius has a highly skilled ear for sound. Building magnificent and dizzying percussive compositions in often bizarre time signatures, Sartorius surpasses genres to evoke all manner of flavours, from hyper-future industrial techno to lurching-hip-hop instrumentals and full-on brainfux.
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