QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #06 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 16.08.2013
UTE WASSERMANN | birdcall whistles/resonant objects

Ute Wassermann is a composer/performer and interpreter of contemporary music. “Ute Wassermann has developed many special multivoiced vocal techniques, catalogued by register, timbre and articulative sequences which may be deconstructed and/or superimposed and used to explore spatial resonance phenomena. (Freedom of the City)” Since 1984 she developed many special multivoiced vocal techniques.
She has collaborated frequently with composers who have created works especially for her voice, including Henning Christiansen, Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Sven Åke Johansson, Ana Maria Rodriguez and has performed with many ensembles and orchestras including ASKO, KNM Berlin, ELISION, and Münchener Kammerorchester.

QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #05 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 12.07.2013
ALEXANDRA CARDENAS | Guitar solo Supercollider Programming

Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1976. Studied Composition at Los Andes University. Her work has been played in several concert halls in Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, United States, Europe, China and India and have also been played by many different soloists and chamber ensembles as Tambuco. Her work “Palíndromos” got an honorific mention at the Third Latin-American Harp Encounter in Venezuela. In 2003 she was granted an Artistic Residence at the Multimedia Center in the National Center for the Arts, in Mexico City, where she lived since 2001.
Resident artist at Tokyo Wonder Site in 2012. Since 2008 she works with SuperCollider, programming and improvising music. She is constantly creating projects at the Multimedia Center in Cenart Mexico, with the support of Robotics and Audio Workshops. Her work focuses on experimentation using live electronics, improvisation, creation of controllers and interfaces and livecoding. Currently studies at Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK).

QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #05 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 12.07.2013
ROBERTA WJM | mix, cd, md, mic, electronics

Roberta WJM Andreucci is a percussionist, an experimental producer and DJ, and on air personality. She has more than twenty year of experience organizing and promoting alternative music events. She practices plagiarism and the cutting and mixing of musical and ambiental aural sources. Early in her career she started focusing on the use of voices and on vocal metalinguism, focalizing on her personal practice of “cuttingandslicing” and on rhythm patterns obtained through an improper use of her tools of the trade (cdjs, cd player, md, me mixer). Through the years her percussion set morphed into a hybrid encompassing a dj booth, a radio dj one, a microphone station for electroacustic experiments, and a mnemonic butcher’s slab. She is a founding member of performing music units such as Jealousy Party, Semerssuaq, and Sistemi Audiofobici Burp. She is the director of the music label Burp Publications.
Through the years her percussion set morphed into a hybrid encompassing a dj booth, a radio dj one, a microphone station for electroacustic experiments, and a mnemonic butcher’s slab. She is a founding member of performing music units such as Jealousy Party, Semerssuaq, and Sistemi Audiofobici Buro. She is the director of the music label Burp Publications.

QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #06 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 16.08.2013
ELS VANDEWEYER | Trash Guitar/Percussion/Voice
NOTE: This concert was the first solo with guitar of Vandeweyer.

Els Vandeweyer is a Belgian vibraphonist, percussionist and composer currently living in Berlin, where she explores the middle ground between classical, jazz, and free improvised music. After studying classical percussion at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp and jazz at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and Musikhogskule in Oslo, Vandeweyer traveled to Portugal, where she co-founded the IMI Kollektief (whose critically acclaimed debut album, “Snug as a Gun”, was released on Clean Feed in 2006), as well as Chicago, where she played with Ken Vandermark. In Berlin, Vandeweyer remains heavily involved in the improvised music community. Current projects are “Quat” with Fred Van Hove, Paul Lovens and Martin Blume, (“Quat-Live at Hasselt”, was released on NoBusinessrecords, Vilnius 2013) and Pascal Niggenkemper’s “Vision 7″ (“Lucky Prime”, Clean Feed, 2013)

QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #04 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 21.06.2013
VERONICA MOTA aka CUBOP | Analogue Electronics, Tapes & objects

"Verónica Mota Galindo (CUBOP/ESPECTRA NEGRA)is musically active in five sonic projects: The Sublime, The Abject, The Devil and Miss Jones, Materia Negra and Espectra Negra. Based in Berlin since 2002, as sound artist she has many collaborations with artists such as Miriam Wuttke, Jon Evans, Annie Stubbs, Alain Ledezma & Miro Mastropasqua, among others. Her works as soloist have been presented in Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Italy. As CUBOP, Verónica have released her works in tape, mini-CD, CD, CDR and on-line. The most significant releases are: Sacredly Silver and Equally Gold - A Sidereal Tribute to COIL (ElseProducts-2013), 36 Aus 430 Von 30 (Edizioni Passarotto, 2013), CASTRATION Compilation (SP- Records, 2012) Fetus Frolics (Urban Arts Berlin, 2012) and Avantgarde Master Pieces (Liebe Records, 2011)."

QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #05 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 12.07.2013
ANAIS TUERLINCKX | Broken Piano II

“I believe in Noise as a richer musical source than tones. I want to reveal the physicality of the piano as a dirty monster. I expect the audience to shiver with me thanks to the vibes from inside the piano. Music as a channel for the exchange of fluids and energies in the most direct way possible. The piano is not an instrument but a partner that helps me express the unspeakable.
I feel I want to get absorbed by and take the audience into the noise (as I feel when I listen to some concerts by others) and a wall of sound where you cannot really distinguish the sources of the sound, where everything is melting into an impossible cry, when you feel like many voices are screaming but there are no voices, when you come into trance and you begin to get sonic hallucinations, when your body shakes from the extreme loudness and power of the basses, when music is liberating destruction. Of course these words are strong and it is probably an utopia to get there but I want to believe in it and work harder to slowly move in this direction.”

QUOTA;UNQUOTA EPISODES #06 - SALON BRUIT BERLIN - 16.08.2013
FELICITY MANGAN | cd players, voice
+ duo featuring
UTE WASSERMANN | birdcall whistles/resonant objects
NOTE: We don't have this interview yet.

Felicity Mangan is from Australia, living and working in Berlin, Germany since 2008. In different situations being solo performance, with other players or installation Felicity plays back sound samples from an Australian native animal CD, either through a stereophonic system or often via hand-made speakers made from re-cycled and displaced objects. Felicity has played in US, Japan, Australia and Europe in different formations.