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Alejandra Salinas (Spanish, resident Barcelona) and Aeron
Bergman (American, resident
Barcelona) have been working on sound for 10 years. They have been working
in between the
lines of documentation, storytelling, traditional and urban folklore, electronic
music and music
composition. They have released over 15 solo full-length recordings on labels
such as Tomlab,
Fatcat, Bottrop Boy, Orthlorng Musork, Softl Music, and their own Lucky Kitchen
imprint. They
have presented concerts and sound presentations around the world including
places such as
Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, de Appel Institute
of
Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, the Lampo foundation in Chicago and ExTeresa
Museum of
Contemporary Art in Mexico City.
Recently, the duo have been focusing on sound installations using ideas such
as folklore and
local decorative arts to make sculptural, designed environments. Their installation
work has
been shown recently at the ICC in Tokyo, Centre D'art Contemporain in Geneva,
OK Center
for Contemporary Art in Linz, Basis vor Aktuel Kunst in Utrecht and the Serralves
Museum in
Porto.
More Info : http://www.ausland-berlin.de/offen/viewEventEntry.do?blog:blogid=2375
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Lost Cat - scene 4 - Vibrö 2
(track 03)
The harbour, a rainy day. Kurt whistles, says 'Come Noboru' and stands
up straight and
unmoving.
Charlotte: 'Don't worry. He must be doing something important. He will be back
when he is
finished.'
They stand for a while and listen to ropes ring against the masts of the sailboats
tied up in the
harbour.
Lost Cat is a form of audio drama on a mini CD featuring real-life recordings
from
Krabbesholm, Denmark. It is a joint release with the Krabbesholm Højskole,
a Danish art
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Lucky Kitchen's Statement (From
Lucky kitchen's website)
Form and narrative:
We have reached the idea that although quality formal techniques
are essential to present a body of work, the final work must be a fine blend
of form and
idea. We like to work with sound in which our views, tales and observations
on the world around us are included not as baggage to display our technical
virtuosity, but as essentials.
Telling tales, offering opinions, pondering
death, sketching portraits, and documenting ways of living: these are job descriptions
usually attached
to writers, but we feel they could apply to sound as well. Narrative in art
is old and our ideas may be old fashioned, but what, abstraction and formalism
are so new? Perhaps the notion of old and new has outlived its usefulness:
it seems more accurate to speak about history in overlapping circles and
spirals rather than a straight cause and effect timeline like we see in the
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Technically speaking:
Our work obviously has its roots in the electroacoustic schools, John Cage, and
less in improvisation, but we refuse to adhere to the rules set by them. We
do not collect sounds for purely timbral purposes, and we are not excited by
chance events. Furthermore, we do not believe in the purity of the studio and
split second progression, nor do we believe in the rehearsed anarchy of improvised
musics. Although we do not dismiss the past, we also do not worship it. In
our work we deal with documentation and narrative in a poetic way. Because
we don't believe in the objectivity of documentation nor in the complete fantasy
of narrative. So-called documentary work is never objective because it always
uses the voice of the author with its cultural baggage fully intact. We also
do not believe in straight narrative because of its voyeuristic and passive
escapist tendencies. We are trying to deal within these poles
Alejandra & Aeron , Barcelona
source : http://www.luckykitchen.com
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Lucky Kitchen's Productions
LK began in New York City with Daniel Raffel, Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman
December, 1996. Together they produced, designed, compiled and distributed LK001
through LK006 in small, handcrafted CD and vinyl additions.
LK007 saw Alejandra and Aeron handling most label chores from London, UK, and
finally by LK008 Alejandra and Aeron operated the label alone from La Rioja,
Spain late 2000. Press for the label was quite extensive by the time the Children's
Record was released having had spotlights in the New York Times, San Francisco
Bay Guardian, the Wire and hundreds of small zines, ezines, columns and playlists.
Also, the three core members performed irregularly in NYC, London, Paris, Glasgow,
North Carolina, and other one-off invitations. For current LK activity see the
rest of these LK pages.
LK001 Suetsu and Underwood. "Find and Use the Hits" CDR handpackaged
baby jammies. 1997 Sold Out
LK002.5 Aeron Bergman "Bostonpopsonreverbformydeadgrandpa" cassette.
1998 Sold Out
LK003 Blip, Bleep (Soundtracks to Imaginary Video Games). Featuring Daniel Beattie,
V/VM, Jake Mandell, Blitter Vs. Hrvatski, Marumari, Flexible Products, Aerospace
Soundwise, Stupid Lepton, Wheaton Research, Suetsu and Underwood, and more CD
handsewn cover. 1998 Sold Out
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LK004 Alejandra and Underwood "The Childrens
Record" CD, handpackaged.
1999 Sold Out
LK005 Family Audio: Featuring V/VM, Daniel Raffel, Todd Carter, Alejandra Salinas,
Aeron Bergman, Drew Daniel, Kim Jun Park, and Michael Hartman. 8" lathe
cut vinyl 1999 Sold Out
LK006 Tourist Record: Featuring Tom Steinle, Jansky Noise, Alejandra and Aeron,
Suetsu, and Aerospace Soundwise. 7" red vinyl 1999 Sold Out
LK007 Alejandra Salinas "Home Tapes" 10" white vinyl. 2000 Sold
Out
LK008 Find More Hits Featuring Matmos, Alejandra and Aeron, Suetsu, Pimmon, Sachiko
M., To Rococo Rot, Suetsu, Goodiepal and Tordis, Electric Sheep, I-Sound, Nick
Birmingham, Jeswa, Hrvatski, Semi-conductor, Jansky Noise, Steven Marcus Taylor,
Leo (From Rio), and Pena Ruido. CD 2000 Few Left. |
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