Pfup

@pfup.fest

Sound and performance festival @ Extended Library 17th, 18th, and 19th of January 2025
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Bunte Luft Trio (@kokoropham , @jana.detroyer , @herbsthauch ) will be the closing act of the day and of the whole festival. Bunte Luft Trio is an improvisation group from Hamburg that focuses on the sonic interactions of Đàn Bầu, baritone saxophone and modular synthesizer. All three instruments are rooted in completely different genres. The musicians use this peculiarity as a springboard to create their characteristic sound. Tam Thi Pham (VN), Jana De Troyer (BE) and Jan Wegmann (DE) bring their own artistic backgrounds to the table, moving through different atmospheres that take the audience into interplanetary deserts and microscopic forests. Their first album “Apiaceae” was released on Bandcamp in June 2024.
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76% & Visuals_Ru (@iiillliiiillllliiii , @visuals_ru ) will perform second on January 19th. Their act is an exploration of experimental electronic synthesisers and live visuals, they are not a duo and only represent a collaborative project of individuals together. Ru aka Visuals_Ru’s Video-feeds, found objects, and naturally occurring reactions form the foundation of his work as a multimedia visual artist. Merging live-feed video projections and light-emitting installations, his practice explores organic interactions through real-time improvisation with physical materials. Jiawei Chong aka 76% is a live electronic music performer, music producer, and sound programmer, he explores the boundaries of sonic possibilities through intricate textures and evolving rhythms. Across a palette of plunderphonic layers, bubbling synths, and mutant beats. His music is an immersive journey that bridges raw experimentalism with atmospheric depth.
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Mokital’s (@djmokital ) multichannel performance will be the opening act on January 19th. Mokital is an experimental electronic turntablist and hyperorganist with a background in ethnomusicology. From an early age, his sonic influences have come from his immediate electromagnetic surroundings, including a fascination with breaking electrical devices apart, 60s and 70s sci-fi and found sound, through to ambient, jazz, dub and trip-hop. He uses turntables, electronic instruments, unconventional electronic devices and, more recently, electronically interfaced organ pipes. His turntable work includes test vinyl, spoken word and a love of re-inventing old and overlooked electronic instruments.
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Rara Blue (@Rarabluewav ) will be the closing act of the evening on January 18th. Rara Blue is a live electronic music act originating from Estonia and based in London. Her work is defined by a dynamic interplay between reality and surrealism, exploring human connection to the sound generation through site-specific electronic music production. Her performances emphasize physical immediacy, using tactile control interfaces to create immersive sonic experiences. Similarly to the sound the imagery represents a play between reality and generated distortions. Rara Blue draws inspiration from real life with field-recorded samples, merging the past and present into innovative soundscapes. Her music is a distinctive blend of ambient, synthesized textures, bass-heavy rhythms, and experimental vocal arrangements. Layered with lyrical melodies and samples, her compositions delve into societal themes and the intricacies of human nature. Through her unique approach, Rara Blue invites audiences into reflective and transform
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Elena Khurgina (@elena_khurgina ) will perform third on January 18th. ‘Colored Silence’ is an audiovisual performance based on free improvisation and its correlation with the absence of drafting in music, drawing, and life itself. It is inspired by the poems of T.S. Eliot and the sounds of nature and the city, and the quietest keyboard instrument — clavichord. 🤍 Elena Khurgina is a harpsichordist and performer based in Hamburg, working in the fields of early and contemporary music and free improvisation. As an artist, she is interested in experimental multidisciplinary projects that explore the polarities and possibilities of early music instruments in a contemporary context.
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Wired2 (@sophiologin , @polymorphic.engine )’s remote live coding performance is the 2nd act on January 18th. The Wired is just a medium for communication and the transfer of information. You mustn’t confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I’m warning you about? You’re wrong. The border between the two isn’t all that clear. I’ll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I’ll translate myself into it.” — Serial Experiments Lain, created by Yasuyuki Ueda, 1998
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Yuri Akbalkan’s (@yuriakbalkan ) piece will be the opening act on January 18th. 5.1.1:40 for tone generators is a new 40-minute version of a composition originally created for the Pythian Games Composers’ Competition in St Petersburg a decade ago. Additional versions lasting 23 and 70 minutes, with and without video, also exist. 5.1.1 represents a signal-type structure comprising five analogue signals and a stereo pair of digital signals. Yuri Akbalkan is a Russian-born composer making work in the field of multimedia art with a focus on human perception and sensory modalities. Currently, he resides in Hamburg, where he is pursuing Artistic Research (Dr. sc. mus.) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
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Junya Fujita’s (@junyfuia ) multichannel performance will draw January 17th to a close. Junya works with sound using a variety of approaches: improvising, recording, and listening. His instruments include a Serge modular, a no-input mixer, as well as various recording devices. When utilising them live, he focuses on feedback and implements phase distortion, clipping, and unexpected sound cut-offs. In addition, subtly modified and processed field recordings dating between 2023 and 2024 are used in the performance. They are in constant dialogue with electronic sounds created by attempting to control chaotic electronic systems, which results in a sonic environment exhibiting a range of subtle timbres and textures.
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Alexander Iliashenko’s (@pateph0n ) multichannel performance will be the third act on January 17th. Alexander synthesises music in a live setting using self-programmed digital interfaces. Focusing on rhythm, melody and timbre he creates playful, complex polyphonic sequences. At Pfup, he will present his new material developed over the course of the last year, in which just intonation tunes and heavily syncopated quick polyrhythms meet impactful, bass driven sounds echoing a diverse range of club musics.
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