Headphone Concerts
Lounge
Fri, 23.10. – Sat, 24.10.2009, free admission
Space is available here for experiments as well as for amusing, stimulating, weird or simply charming musical interventions. As the name suggests, music reaches the ear here directly, via headphones rather than loudspeakers.
Friday, 23.10.2009
Presented by Luca Bruno (IndieNet, Radio X Mainstream)
www.indienet.ch
http://mainstream.radiox.ch
With out of this world post-rock, Basel band Sonolar keeps its fans spellbound. The Golden, also from Basel, sings sad, evocative songs – also about birds and about blue tits in particular. Volta Vital, who sometimes feels as if he had been “born and raised in Arlesheim”, counters the everydayness of life with lo-fi pop and a generous portion of self-irony. As different as the acts may sound on paper, on stage all three of them speak the language of pop. The genre is enchanting and so infinitely multifaceted that it ultimately throws up no end of surprises.
Volta Vital (CH)
Live
22.00 h
The Golden (CH)
Live
23.00 h
www.myspace.com/thegoldenandsnow
Sonolar (CH)
Live
00.00 h
Saturday, 24.10.2009
Presented by Stu (drop da bomb)
Founded in Basel in 1997, the drop da bomb sound-nerd and DJ collective now functions as an internationally networked booking agency. At the Shift Festival, drop da bomb godfather and 8-bit legend Stu brings together the labels Bleepstreet (Berlin) and g6pd (Israel), along with a special guest, live on stage at only sweet sixteen, Foxxy Dekay (Chipdipdrops Records). Amid the equipment park, where modified home computers rub shoulders with analogue synthesizers, multi-talented Raquel Meyers (Berlin, ex-Entter VJs) takes care of the visuals while Stuchka Vkarmanye and Stu Digital steer the sound as a magician steers the elements.
Raquel Meyers (D)
Visuals
www.raquelmeyers.com
www.myspace.com/raquel_meyers
Foxxy Dekay (CH)
Live
22.00 h
http://chipdipdrops.webs.com,
www.myspace.com/foxxydekay
Stu Digital (D/CH)
Live / DJ-Set
22.30 h
http://stu.dropdabomb.org
www.myspace.com/studigital
Stuchka Vkarmanye (ISR)
Live
00.00 h
www.g6pdrecords.com
www.myspace.com/crippletoe
