MADEIRADiG International Music Festival

4. bis 7. Dezember 2015 The Art Center Casa Das Mudas, Madeira, Portugal

Tina Frank (Leitung Visuelle Kommunikation) + Florian Hecker live at MADEIRADiG Fesitival.

The MADEIRADiG Festival is a unique adventure in extraordinary music. Each December the Portuguese island – celebrated as a ‘paradise island’ and ‘floating garden’ – is transformed into a hotbed of digital art and culture. This is an avant garde journey through the world of serious music.

Tina Frank, the Vienna-based pioneer in the realm of graphic design has already worked for some time with the German sound-artist Florian Hecker, who composes insistent pieces by discussing in detail unusual audio-compilations in the field of the crossover of Serious Music and Electronica.

Florian Hecker works with synthetic sound in performance, installation and artist publications dealing with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electroacoustic music, and non-musical disciplines. Since 1996, Hecker has given a multitude of performances, audio presentations and concerts internationally, both in major concert halls and festivals for contemporary electronic music. His most recent collaboration with philosopher Reza Negarestani, A Script for Machine Synthesis (2015) was premiered at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Formulation (FLV Project) (2014) and was presented as part of the inaugural exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. Recent exhibitions and performances include Formulations, Culturgest, Porto; A Script for Machine Synthesis, Maison de la Radio, Paris; and those at Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria, and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2015); Sadie Coles HQ, London; MD72, Berlin; Articulação, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; documenta 13, Kassel; and Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (all 2012). Hecker has an extensive discography with over 25 releases, including: Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera (Pan, Berlin, 2015); Articulação (Editions Mego, Vienna, 2014); Chimerization (Editions Mego, Vienna, 2012); Speculative Solution (Editions Mego, Vienna, 2011); and Acid in the Style of David Tudor (Editions Mego, Vienna, 2009). In 2015 Hecker was nominated for Berlin’s Preis der Nationalgalerie.

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