Concert | Sonic Arts Lounge / North & Berlin
Hommage à Erkki Kurenniemi
In cooperation with the 3rd berlin biennial, the two-part programme The Dawn of Dimi, dedicated to the work of Erkki Kurenniemi, the legendary pioneer of electronic art in Finland, will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on 27 March. In the 52-minute documentary film The Future Is Not What It Used To Be by Finnish artist Mika Taanila, the techno visionary Kurenniemi first has his say with his fascinating predictions for the future, and numerous documents from the life of this unorthodox composer, inventor of electronic instruments, experimental filmmaker, computer graphic artist, nuclear researcher, robot specialist and obsessive documentarian of his own life are shown.
Together with Pan Sonic and Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kurenniemi then plays on the electronic instruments he developed in the late sixties and early seventies: DIMI-S, DIMI-O, DIMI-A, Dico and Electric Quartett. The stage action is filmed from various angles and can be followed on a large screen, mixed live by Taanila.
Following the great success of this programme at the Avanto Helsinki Media Festival in autumn 2002 and at the Venice Biennale in summer 2003, Berlin is the third stop for this rare encounter with pioneering experiments in electronic art.
Future Is Not What It Used To Be (2002)
Film über den finnischen Elektronik- Pionier Erkki Kurenniemi
Mika Taanila, Regie
Pan sonic plays Kurenniemi
A live tribute with unique restored instruments designed by Kurenniemi 1965 – 1972
Pan sonic
Mika Vainio, Ilpo Väisänen
special guests: Erkki Kurenniemi, Carl Michael von Hausswolff
A co-operation of MaerzMusik I Berliner Festspiele / Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof / 3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art