electroaltar last chance

foto by lisbeth kovacic

dear friends!

here a special invitation to the last chance you have of seeing my electro altar!

electroaltar

a peephole through which one can look at the intimacy of a worshiper, pictures and sounds coming from unknown sources appear to an observer in an atmosphere of confusion: surrealist religion, praise of consumerism, mourning for the garbage, dances with lights made in china ...

a garbage-installation/-performance

radios, cassettes, cables, records, computer, record player, old, destroyed, functional, waste, manure, evolution, progress, china, sound, catharsis. santisima electricidad!

(i’m sharing the evening with ensemble phace|contemporary music and the ensemble of students from konrad rennert und katharina wurglits (check the link below)



march 1st

20:00

odeon musik, taborstraße 10, 1020 wien, http://www.odeonmusik.at

greetings and all the best from here!

angélica

next dates:

fri. mar. 09 innsbruck/austria *zimt* (castelló/romen/schneider/stangl)

fri. mar. 16 2012 echoraum wien/austria “bestiario series i” (castello/filip/vicente)

thu. mar. 22 2012 alte schmiede wien/austria “anja utler & low frequency orchestra”

if you want to know more about next dates and events please check http://klingt.org or suscribe to the klingt.org newsletter

andromeda 2007

http://vimeo.com/36191096

a little documentary

of a very nice project wich happened on april 16th 2011 :))

Canto

Latin American Songs of Hope, Love and Revolution

http://vimeo.com/35737946

"bésame" by Juan José Molina.

BAGUALAS
Atahualpa Yupanqui – Tradicional
Excerpt of CANTO (arranged by the musicians named below)
Sound poems based on the Canto General by Pablo Neruda

Lucia Pulido (Voice, Cuatro)

Angélica Castelló (Paetzold-flute, voice, electronics, idea, concept)

Christian Fennesz (Guitar, electronics)

Miguel Angel Gaspar (Physical Theater);

Martin Siewert (Lap- & Pedal Steel, guitar, electronics)

Burkhard Stangl (Guitar, electronics, concept)

Reading musical movements from the universe of Pablo Neruda’s poems, striking up the great song “CANTO GENERAL”, as the opus magnum of the Chilenian poet is called: with “Canto”, singer and electronic musician Angélica Castelló from Neruda’s country of exile Mexico, guitarists and electronic musicians Burkhard Stangl, Martin Siewert and Christian Fennesz from Austria, and the Colombian singer and cuatro player Lucia Pulido create a sound poem of broad electro-acoustic tracks and intimate sound passages. The group got together at the recording of two “cantos” for Gustav Deutsch’s recent work “FILM IST. a girl & a gun” and now draws back on the songs of love and lamentation of various Latin American musicians like Violeta Parra, Silvio Rodriguez, and Victor Jara, unfolds them to a transnational language of music which gathers political and poetic messages of the both cosmopolitan and home-loving writer Neruda. Again and again, movements emerging out of nowhere are reshaping the sounds. For Angélica Castelló, dance in “Canto” is “the soul of hope” expressing what can’t be said with either words or music. The musicians sing of the acts of creation, of natural wonders, myths, cruelties, and glimmers of hope from the verses by the Nobel Prize laureate and undaunted fighter against fascism. Love, revolution and the magic, which is ever-present in Latin America, define the flow of sound and word poems.
Canto is a “poème éléctronique for the Revolution.

BAGUALAS
Atahualpa Yupanqui – Tradicional

Unos ojos estoy viendo
Por esos ojos me muero
Soy libre, soy bueno y puedo querer

Me han dicho que tienen dueño
Por esos ojos me muero,
Soy libre, soy bueno y puedo querer

Quisiera cruzar el rio
Sin que me sienta la arena
Soy libre, soy bueno y puedo querer

Al Diablo ponerle grillos
Y al amor unas cadenas
Soy libre, soy bueno y puedo querer

Yo de ventana en ventana
Me voy durmiendo
Y, ay! Cuando llegue a la tuya
Se me va el sueño vidita
Agua y arena
Agua y arena 

january dates

©lisbeth kovacic

tue. jan. 17 2012 radiokulturhauswien/Austria art's birthday 50 years of fluxus

kunstradio - art's birthday 50 years of fluxus

kunstradio is celebrating in the funkhaus vienna together with ben patterson, future fluxus (andreas leo findeisen and markus zimmermann,

angelica castello, god's entertainment, marko košnik, ffid, billy roisz, burkhard stangl, dieb13, gunter schneider, bernhard loibner,

volkmar klien, and many more...

http://www.artsbirthday.net/  

 http://www.kunstradio.at/

wed. jan. 18 2012 rhiz wien/Austria der blöde dritte mittwoch performance: lisbeth kovacic & katka csanyiova *entsprechend*

live concert: kazuhisa uchihashi - guitars & katharina ernst - drums, intervention: angelica castello *elektroaltar* djs the artists ---- ak 5.-

 http://rhiz.org/

sun. jan. 22 2012 filmcasino  "häxan" (1922) live music: angelica castello benjamin christensen –

Häxan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Häxan (English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through The Ages) is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror films.

With Christensen's meticulous recreation of medieval scenes and the lengthy production period, the film was the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made, costing nearly two million Swedish kronor.[1] Although it won acclaim in Denmark and Sweden, the film was banned in the United States and heavily censored in other countries for what were considered at that time graphic depictions of torture, nudity, and sexual perversion.

live-music: angelica castello

(elektronics, recorders, paetzolds, ukulele, tapes, toys)

http://foundation.generali.at/index.php?id=1005

new video: pequeño relato de bestias y lamentos

 http://vimeo.com/34664141

the music is a solo I did last summer in schrattenberg, hotel pupik http://www.hotelpupik.org/
the atmosphere and many souds are from or related to my last cd "bestiario"
the video is a result of my first trys in this field!
more news soon about what's next and maybe some fotos about the cilantro-tour in the south :))  

here overview of (some) of my autumn activities, lots of things and action, september full of students and some concerts, october bit less students and more concerts, november is a "cilantro" month (castello/roisz) with a tour to the far south - chile, argentina and colombia!!

if you want to receive more punctual informations about my concerts and those of the colorful and spicy klingt.org crowd please suscribe here: http://klingt.org/gro.tgnilk/subscribe.html (you'll get a nice news letter every wednesday on 00:13 local time :))))

so I wish you a great time this autumn!

many greetings from vienna!

angélica

concerts

25.9.

20:00

neue musik in st ruprecht

Dos à Dos

the band "Dos à Dos" (robert corazza/clarinets and thomas list/recorders) will premiere my new work "Flor y Cronopio" for recorders, clarinets and some other objects... in that concert we will have as well the premieres of works of katharina klement and maja osojnik.

www.neue-musik.at

http://www.dosados.at/

Do 06/10

19.30

Dom im Berg (Graz)

subshrubs/cinechamber/musikprotokoll

subshrubs (castello/klement/osojnik/roisz) present their work "journey into the mind of p.p."

composed for the musikprotokoll and THE RML CINECHAMBER, subshrubs shares the evenings with beauties as and musics from:

Jade (A), Pita (A/GB), Werner Dafeldecker (A), Lawrence English (AUS), Christian Fennesz (A), Lillevan (D), Monolake (D/NL), Tarik Barri (NL), Signal (D), Ryoichi Kurokawa (J), Biosphere (N/D), Egbert Mittelstädt (D), Maryanne Amacher (USA), Naut Humon (USA), Edwin van der Heide (NL) u.a.

http://www.myspace.com/subshrubs

http://rml-cinechamber.org/

http://musikprotokoll.orf.at/en/mp2011/Program

7.10.

zimt plays DUCHAMP DEFAULT (concept gunter schneider)

barbara romen - prepared dulcimer

gunter schneider -guitars

burkhard stangl -guitars

castello - paetzolds & co

http://www.alte-schmiede.at

16.10.

20:00

neue musik in st ruprecht

Sainct Laurens + friends

Pierre-Yves Martel: Vièle à archet + feedback

Philippe Lauzier: clarinette

Matija Schellander: contrabass

Angélica Castelló: Paetzold + electronics

www.neue-musik.at

http://www.myspace.com/sainctlaurens

18.10.

postgarage (graz)

chmafu nocords

Low frequency Orchestra + Sainct Laurens

Pierre-Yves Martel: Vièle à archet + feedback

Philippe Lauzier: clarinette

Maja Osojnik: Recorders, voice, electronics

Matija Schellander: contrabass

Angélica Castelló: Paetzold + electronics

Thomas Grill Electronics

http://www.myspace.com/sainctlaurens

http://www.lfo.at/

http://nocords.net/

21.10.

hörgeREDE (graz)

Anja Utler + Low Frequency Orchestra

Anja Utler: text/reading

Maja Osojnik: Recorders, voice, electronics

Matija Schellander: contrabass

Angélica Castelló: Paetzold + electronics

Thomas Grill Electronics

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anja_Utler

http://www.lfo.at/

http://www.hoergerede.at/programm/

sat. oct. 22 2011

grünspan - plattform für kunst und kultur im drautal

http://www.gruenspan.org/

mühlboden/feffernitz/Austria

subshrubs: 3/4 tag

angelica castello

katharina klement

maja osojnik

billy roisz

http://www.myspace.com/subshrubs

mon. oct. 24 2011

metro kinowien/Austria cilantro / live-filmvertonung part of viennale 2011 - curated by karl
wratschko/filmarchiv austria
sound by angelica castello & billy roisz (cilantro)

tue. nov. 01 2011

rhiz

cilantro + guests: dia de los muertos

cilantro:

angelica castello: recorders, electronix

billy roisz: audible video devices, electronix

guests:

dieb13 &

susanna gartmayer &

raumschiff englmayer &

peter kutin

screenings & live performance

rhiz.at

listen?

http://jokebux.klingt.org/gro.tgnilk/jokebux.html?search=castello&submit=submit&&advanced_search=true

buy?

“Bestiario” http://www.mosz.org/

“mole” (LFO/MITTERER) http://nocords.net/LFO/mole.html

“das spiel vom kommen und gehen” (DVD) http://grrrr.org/arts/projects/kommen_und_gehen/

“homage a moi” (burkhard stangl)

http://www.echoraum.at/edition/neuersch.htm

or here:

http://www.substance-store.com/

musical activities and highlights of the last months and the months to come

--on my side one of the best things of the year was the release, last march, of my first solo album “bestiario” with the beautiful label mosz, it was a great cooperation and i got some very positive critics till now. the cd presentation was in the museum of natural history of vienna, sourounded by a beautiful and strange world of dead animals of the past.

http://www.mosz.org/

http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at

--i composed the piece “adela-aurita” for the austrian radio, commissioned together with the ignm for the long night of new music in radio ö1

http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/271784

--the film of billy roisz “chiles en nogada” for wich my self and my colleagues dieb13 and burkhard stangl did a part of the music got the diagonale prize for innovative cinema 

 http://www.diagonale.at/fetcharticle.php?puzzle&page=10563&fid=4352

--i had the chance to work in a big project with great colleagues for the project “canto”: lucia pulido, martin seiwert, christian fennesz, burkhard stangl and miguel ángel gaspar and we played it in the beautiful festival “imago dei” in krems

http://www.klangraum.at/programm/imago-dei/galerie/2009

coming soon-this summer:

11.6.2011

playing solo at “ausland” sharing the evening with lucio capese in the nice series of mario de vega “11”

http://www.ausland-berlin.de/11june

15.6.2011
18:00  
Low Frequency Orchestra plays Robert Lettner: “Das Spiel vom Kommen und Gehen”, Musikschule Villach,

The “International Center for Contemporary Music” (IZZM) in Carinthia/Austria hosts the Low Frequency Orchestra with “Das Spiel vom Kommen und Gehen” (“The Coming and Going Show”) at the Musikschule Villach.

Musikschule, Widmanngasse 12, 9050 Villach/Austria
Robert Lettner – color scores
Thomas Grill – concept and electronics
Angélica Castelló – recorders and devices
Maja Osojnik – recorders and voice
Herwig Neugebauer – double bass
Matija Schellander – double bass
Bernhard Breuer – drums
Alfred Reiter – sound
Martin Pichlmair – video

25.6.2011

an intimate trio evening to celebrate the visit of fantastic singer lucia pulido in vienna in the great café korb

lucia pulido (col): voice, cuatro
angelica castello (mex/a): voice, paetzold, electronics
burkhard stangl (a): voice, guitars

http://www.cafekorb.at

10-17.7.2011

spiel festival

playing duo with “chesterfield” (castello/stangl) performing the piece “first floor” and later on working and performing my new piece “la lenteur” for 3 female voices and 2 celli

http://www.spielfestival.at/

12-14.8.2011

hotel pupik-artist in residence

working on and presenting the solo performance “lamento”

http://www.hotelpupik.org/

20.8.20

reheat festival

presenting my “electroaltar”

http://reheat.klingt.org/

29.and 30.8.2011

Balli suavi et amorosi – Italienische Musik zwischen Schlössern und Marktplätzen

Ensemble FIORI MUSICALI

Constanze Hölzl – Soprano

Angélica Castelló – Recorders

Jorge Daniel Valencia – Viola da Gamba

Marinka Brecelj – Harpsichord

works by A. Vivaldi, B. Strozzi, D. Gabriell a.o.
http://www.alte-musik.co.at/

as well:

preparing/composing the projects:

“flor y cronopio”

composicion for the duo “dos a dos” (clarinets and recorders)

the bömische bibel project is about to be finished

release (5 books and cassette) this autum

http://www.wieser-verlag.com/buch/boehmische-bibel-unheilige-schrift-fuer-puppen-band-1-fiona

http://www.tinternational.net/web-site/werk.html

...and some new releases coming soon as well …