PAN-ACT FESTIVAL (DAY ONE) // R/S (Peter Rehberg/Marcus Schmickler), John Wiese, Eli Kezler

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A festival celebrating PAN's incredible roster of artists. Five performances across two days. Keszler's semi-sculptural performance installations and rapid-fire percussive attack, John Wiese at the mixing desk and the extreme computer music of R/S on day one followed by Tricoli's command of 'classical' tape music techniques opening day two ahead of the first ever London concert of CC Hennix's spiritual minimalism - performed as a trio together with Tricoli and Werner Durand.

"We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: PAN is one of the most consistently rewarding and praiseworthy experimental music labels in Europe. Operated out of Berlin by Bill Kouligas, who also co-designs all the sleeves, PAN’s previous output includes forward thinking electronic, noise, concréte and outsider music. You really never know what you’re going to get next, which is more than can be said for many of its contemporaries." FACT Magazine

DAY ONE - FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2012

R/S (Peter Rehberg / Marcus Schmickler)

The duo of acclaimed German master of electronic music Marcus Schmickler alongside his Austrian counterpart Peter Rehberg (aka PITA, and label director for Editions Mego). This will be the duo's debut UK (and EU) performance.

JOHN WIESE

With the mixing desk as his instrument, American composer John Weise employs strategies and techniques of musique concrète and electroacoustic music as part of an increasingly unqiue approach to editing and the stereo spectrum.

ELI KESZLER

Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. A drummer of rare intuition and improvisational imagination, Keszler's work for PAN on the other hand, is both a composition and stand alone installation - 14 strings ranging in length from 25 to 3 feet are strung across a 15 x 40 curved wall, with motors attacking the strings, connected by micro-controllers, pick-ups and rca cables.