CTM Festival 2023: Asleep to the World
Tashi Wada & Julia Holter
Concert Festival
© Dicky Bahto
Ticket Prices
21 Euro, discount 15 Euro
Tickets are sold via the CTM Festival ticketing platform.
Duration approx. 60 minutes
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The works of Tashi Wada explore resonance and dissonance through alternate tunings and extended harmony, using simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. He will appear together with core collaborator Julia Holter to create a transportive portal of sonic textures and mysteries on CTM 2023's closing day.
For years, Wada has performed with his father Yoshi Wada – artist, composer, and early member of the Fluxus movement. Rarely appearing together in studio settings, in 2018 they were finally brought together on Tashi Wada's most recent album Nue (RVNG Intl), along with an eclectic group of close friends and extended family. The album drew on aspects of Tashi’s musical background for his widest vision to date, and intertwined many people and ideas in his life, as a means of growing, of looking inward to move outward, and of looking back to move forward. Among this constellation is core collaborator Julia Holter, best known for graceful, baroque pop records that, during the past decade, have made her one of the most distinctive voices in independent music. Ecstatic drones, unconventional tunings, and a spirit of infinity remain alive in Wada and Holter’s concerts.
More information: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Tashi Wada
Julia Holter
Biographien
The Los Angeles-based composer and performer Tashi Wada explores resonance and dissonance through alternate tunings and extended harmony, using simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. The acclaimed, Los Angeles-based composer, performer, and recording artist Julia Holter’s music is multi-layered and texturally rich. Wada studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years performed alongside his father, composer and artist Yoshi Wada. He has presented his music internationally and collaborated with a range of artists including Charles Curtis, Simone Forti, and Julia Holter. Wada founded and runs the label Saltern. His most recent album Nue was released by RVNG Intl. In Spring 2023, Wada will be the Deutsche Bank Fellow in Music Composition at the American Academy in Berlin.
Julia Holter is known for exploring melody within free song structures, atmosphere, and the impulses of the voice. Her interest in sonic mysteries has led her to record in various settings as well as to perform live, often with a focus on the voice and the space between language and babble.
Sound and music open portals to other realities and to the experiences of others. As such they transport us to real, speculative, and imaginary worlds, which in turn always point back to the realities of their creators. These wormholes allow us to engage with utopian longings, the complex stories of social and artistic movements, alternative histories, collective identities, or deeply personal experiences. Yet in thinking about music as portals and practices of worldbuilding, one must inevitably also deal with questions of access and exclusion. CTM 2023 uses the metaphor of Portals as curatorial shapes through which the festival attempts to make contact with specific modes of experience, histories, communities, and speculative futures, as well as to reflect on the fundamental functions, preconditions, thresholds, and ethics of sound and music as gateways to other realities.
Credits
The „CTM x transmediale Finale“ is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Amnesia Scanner's „Strobe.rip“ performance is supported by „dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions“ of the German Federal Cultural Foundation with funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the „Neustart Kultur“ programme.
Media partners: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, ExBerliner and Rausgegangen.
The works of Tashi Wada explore resonance and dissonance through alternate tunings and extended harmony, using simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. He will appear together with core collaborator Julia Holter to create a transportive portal of sonic textures and mysteries on CTM 2023's closing day.
For years, Wada has performed with his father Yoshi Wada – artist, composer, and early member of the Fluxus movement. Rarely appearing together in studio settings, in 2018 they were finally brought together on Tashi Wada's most recent album Nue (RVNG Intl), along with an eclectic group of close friends and extended family. The album drew on aspects of Tashi’s musical background for his widest vision to date, and intertwined many people and ideas in his life, as a means of growing, of looking inward to move outward, and of looking back to move forward. Among this constellation is core collaborator Julia Holter, best known for graceful, baroque pop records that, during the past decade, have made her one of the most distinctive voices in independent music. Ecstatic drones, unconventional tunings, and a spirit of infinity remain alive in Wada and Holter’s concerts.
More information: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Tashi Wada
Julia Holter
Biographies
The Los Angeles-based composer and performer Tashi Wada explores resonance and dissonance through alternate tunings and extended harmony, using simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. The acclaimed, Los Angeles-based composer, performer, and recording artist Julia Holter’s music is multi-layered and texturally rich. Wada studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years performed alongside his father, composer and artist Yoshi Wada. He has presented his music internationally and collaborated with a range of artists including Charles Curtis, Simone Forti, and Julia Holter. Wada founded and runs the label Saltern. His most recent album Nue was released by RVNG Intl. In Spring 2023, Wada will be the Deutsche Bank Fellow in Music Composition at the American Academy in Berlin.
Julia Holter is known for exploring melody within free song structures, atmosphere, and the impulses of the voice. Her interest in sonic mysteries has led her to record in various settings as well as to perform live, often with a focus on the voice and the space between language and babble.
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