Every year on the 14th of July, we have the opportunity to question the state of affairs between the commons, the private, and the public, or rather the commons, the market and the state. Every year, on Netlabel Day, we have the opportunity to look again in the eyes of our fellow musicians, producers, publishers on the music scene, and to make it clear that there is an alternative to collective organisations and the principles of enacted copyright law. Indeed, some artists want to be closer to their audiences and do not want to accept the market and the consumer imperative. That is the creative commons.
On this day, Kamizdat is also releasing a collection of sounds in the Access Frame series, which this year is entitled Authority. The release-related concert event Kamizdat Rentgen: Access Frame: Authority & Netlabel Day has a strong international component and this year, as a novelty, it is preparing a small international hybrid discursive program with a round table on the topic “Online publishing day and the creative community in 2024”. You can attend it at 7 p.m., we will continue with the live concert, which will also be available to the global public and community via webcast at live.pretok.tv.
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Round table: Netlabel Day and the Creative Commons in 2024 (Luka Prinčič, Konrad Behr, Set Hallström)Lifecutter
Oka
Karmen Ponikvar
Kikiriki & Luka Prinčič
Lifecutter
Slovenian producer and multi-instrumentalist Domen Učakar aka Lifecutter, a passionate representative of extreme electronic music, has been exploring the border sonic areas between techno, industrial, noise, drone and metal, as well as ambient music since his debut album Kamizdat in 2015. Lifecutter has shaped the Slovenian scene with its “power electronics meets blackened techno” approach and occupies a special position between the worlds of techno and experimental music. He has played in various bands, including the cult noise duo Ontervjabbit. Since 2021, he has also been a member of the industrial techno duo Warhorse with Slovenian techno wizard Shekuza. Slovenian critics describe Lifecutter as “noisetehnsorcerer” (Radio Študent), “one of the most consistent and stylistically developed musicians of rhythmic electronic noise” (Mladina) and “one of the main protagonists of the darkest and noisiest shades of domestic techno expressiveness” (Odzven). He has collaborated with video and visual artist Iztok Klančar and the contemporary art duo P L A T E AU R E S I DU E. In 2018, he was also a member of the European platform for innovative music and audiovisual art SHAPE.
OKA
Oka (Eva Mulej) is a vocalist, producer, performer and sound artist. Her work moves between electro-acoustic, ambient and experimental music with a focus on the poetics of the voice. She explores the tonal qualities of melodies, words and sounds, using a variety of acoustic instruments, field recordings and objects to create an intimate sound world. Together with Karmen Ponikvar, she also works in the duo Lip Rouge.
KARMEN PONIKVAR
Karmen Ponikvar is a Slovenian sound artist, performer, and researcher in the field of electronic and electroacoustic music. Inspired by the gift of hearing and the practice of listening, she approaches sound with searching and curious ears. Her sonic terrain, portraying the transmutation of one material into another, blends molten fragments of synthesized electronic sounds and modulated field recordings. She is currently studying sound at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, the Netherlands.
KIKIRIKI
Nina Farič aka KIKIRIKI has been working as a solo noise artist for more than a decade. She focuses on experimenting with live produced sound, mostly analog synthesizers and DIY electronic circuits. She is considered a true regional noise comrade, a connoisseur of many underground artisans and communities who enjoy creating outside the conventional sound spectrum. She is known for her numerous collaborations with sound artists (e.g. RadioCona, Osmo/za, Radart and Cirkulacije²) and for her constant performances at home and in the wider region (Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Croatia, etc.).
LUKA PRINČIČ
Luka Prinčič is a musician, sound designer and media artist. He has been creating music and sound art, performing and manipulating new media in various ways since the mid-1990s. He specialises in computer music, elaborate funk rhythms, immersive soundscapes, music for stage and video, and experiments in digital media.
Round table: Netlabel day and the creative commons in 2024 (Luka Prinčič, Konrad Behr, Set Hallström)
Before the concerts, we are introducing a new feature of Kamizdat’s Netlabel Day, a modest discursive programme in the form of a hybrid roundtable entitled “Netlabel Day and the Creative Commons in 2024”, featuring Konrad Behr, Set Hallström and Luka Prinčič. The discussion will revolve around the question of what role and importance Creative Commons licenses have today, more than twenty years later, for independent music publishing and the wider scene.
KONRAD BEHR
Konrad Behr is a media artist since 1999, musician, VJ, DJ and radio artist in various clubs and art spaces in Germany and Austria. For more than 20 years he has been running the online label “Phonocake” and the curated platform for the promotion of independent online releases “clongclongmoo.org”.
SET HALLSTRÖM
Set Hallström is the initiator and main administrator of the “off-planet syndicate” Basspistol, which offers other online tools and self-hosted platforms for independent musicians, in addition to the possibility to publish music releases.
▂ KAMIZDAT RENTGEN ▂
”Kamizdat Rentgen” is a glance under the surface of the skin, a look into the fleshy entwinement of bones, muscles and nerves that shape the heterogeneity of the sound bodies. It is a series of music events organized by Kamizdat to increase the visibility of adventurous music makers who dare to venture into the territories where no one had been before. The events are often closely connected with the label’s new releases.
Support
Produced by Emanat
Co-organisation: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS, City of Ljubljana
