Manfred Miersch & Kalma : New Subharmonic Sounds and Visions

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Live electronics by Manfred Miersch
Visuals by Kalma

Future Soundscapes Festival 2019
at silent green Kulturquartier Berlin
October 11th, 2019

Video recording:
thanks to
- silent green’s team members
- Guido Englich
- Pablo Geso

Special thanks to Hajo Wiechers for the "var-Q-lator".

The attempt to discover soundscapes of the future has always been linked to new and innovative technologies. At the Future Soundscapes Festival 2018, Manfred Miersch presented the subharchord and the theremin - both instruments that have been connected with artistic utopias in the past century. This year, he carried the utopian moment into the future with a new subharmonic instrument based on the sound generation of the subharchord and the mixturtrautonium. He also presented a theremin that makes whole sound archives available and playable without touch.

A live laboratory was created in direct dialogue with a realtime video projection by visual artist Kalma. She imagined a landscape inspired in visual representation of audio frequencies, cymatics, nature and the intrinsic relation between light and sound.

A native of West Berlin, Manfred Miersch studied art history and the fine arts. After playing guitar in punk bands and sound performances, he learned to play the theremin from Andre Smirnov and Lydia Kavina. He founded atelierTheremin, worked as an instructor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and has composed music for RBB, among others. He is a founder and employee of the BBK media workshop, gives presentations and worksops, and works as a journalist for trade magazines and encyclopedias. Manfred Miersch has been honored internationally as the re-discoverer and promoter of the subharchord instrument. He has independently developed and organized events (including for the legendary Zodiak Club of Berlin), is a member of "initiative neue musik berlin e.V.", and exhibits his work in Germany and abroad.

Kalma is a visual performer that used real time processes to create light installations, interactive sculptures, mappings and vj sets with unique atmospheres and unrepeatable experiences and new adventures from one moment to the next. Kalma has performed since a decade at art festivals and played in clubs and events around Europe including Contemporary Performing Arts of Glastonbury (UK), BSeite Festival (Germany), TOA Festival (Berlin), Lummix Light Festival (Bulgaria), Laptoprus (Madrid), Transmediale Vorspiel, Perspective Festival, Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Weekend, Suicide Circus, Ohm, Urban Spree,Arena (Berlin), Fabrik, Mondo, Goa electronic parties (Madrid) a.o.