EDGE OF WRONG 2013

22. February - 2. March in Cape Town

The 11th cross-continental festival of exploratory arts and music hits Cape Town with a diverse lineup. From harsh noise to burlesque dance through freejazz and borderline pop. In association with Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council will be offering workshops, talks and concerts. Among them are the Swiss laptop vocalist Joana Aderi, Norwegian noise guru Lasse Marhaug and South-Africas own multi instrumentalists Mark Fransman and Dizu Plaatjies.

EDGE OF WRONG is premised on the productive opportunities vested in chance, in uncertainty, in the pursuit of the unknown. It welcomes mistakes and challenge, diversity and collaboration.

As such, the festival brings together a community of like-minded musicians and artists from South Africa and Europe to share skills and visions with each other and the SA audience. Artsits are invited based on their commitment to experimentation; to find, test and exceed the limits of their creative potential.

The venues:
The Mahogany Room – 79 Buitenkant Street
iBuyambo – 40 Washington Street, Langa
The Intimate Theatre – 37 Orange Street, Hidding Campus UCT)

Ticets will be sold at the door.

Darkroom Collective (SA)

Darkroom Collective will be performing a live improvised soundtrack to a series of video sequences. The group is lead by bassist Shane Cooper and photographer/filmmaker Sara Gouveia. Different scenes have been filmed from around Cape Town and will be projected onto a screen, giving the inspiration for the musicians to spontaneously compose a live soundtrack.
The band consists of: Shane Cooper – bass, Lee Thomson – trumpet, Jonno Sweetman – drums. The visual team consists of Sara Gouveia and Kofi Zwana.

Keenan Ahrends Quartet (SA)

Keenan Ahrends is a Cape Town based Jazz guitarist who started playing at the age of fifteen. After completing his jazz performance studies at the University of Cape Town and the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2009, Ahrends has been actively involved in teaching, performing and composing. Together with his Quartet fellows Brydon Bolton, Mandla Mlangeni and Claude Cozens they will play original music that is associated with freejazz and jazz played the South African way.

http://kblues.blogspot.no/

Lasse Marhaug (NO)

Lasse Marhaug (b. 1974) has since the early 90ies been one of the most active artists in the so-called Norwegian noise scene. As a performer and composer he has contributed to well over 200 CD, vinyl and cassette releases over the years, as well as extensive touring and performing live in Europe, Asia and America. In addition to his solo work, Marhaug plays regularly in projects Jazkamer, Nash Kontroll, DEL and Testicle Hazard. Past projects and bands include Origami Replika and Lasse Marhaug Band. He has collaborated with several artists in the fields of noise, experimental, improv, jazz, rock and extreme metal, as well as working with music and sound for theatre, dance, installations and video. He works with different kinds of instrumentation; from guitar-pedals and homemade electronics to computers and modified guitars, but conciders the mixing-board his main instrument. Marhaug was born in the northern regions above the Arctic Circle of Norway, but currently lives and works in Oslo.

“Marhaug has an impressive range at his fingertips, veering wildly from shock-tactic maximal noise, to near-silent contemplative drones. Much of the time loud and noisy, but also playful and even quiet, wintry and respectful of space and silence” (Ed Pinset, The Sound Projector)

“It basically sounds like your speakers are damaged, or are going to be damaged soon if you don’t take the fucking cd out of the player” (uncredited online review)

Vertex (NO)

Vertex is a norwegian duo consisting of Petter Vågan and Tor Andreas Haugerud that spontaneously compose electroacoustic music that is both immediate and enticing to listen to. From lowercase drones through beautiful melodic passages to assaulting industrial walls of sound, Vertex creates a plausible yet otherwordly soundscape with it’s own set of natural laws. A universe that focuses in on form and interaction.

http://snd.sc/KKAjuf

EIKO (Joana Aderi) (CH)

Twisted hip hop, melancholy northern melodies, electro pop, noisy dilettante beats. Or just a fully improvised set that explores the human voice with a laptop. You never know how EIKO will approach you. This solo project is as moody as the woman behind it, Joana Aderi. The Swiss singer with some roots in Kenya has spent the last decade between Norway, India, Australia and her homecountry. Borders is a construct that Joana Aderi often ignores. Especially within music. She says: “genres are for people who maintain libraries, to me as a composer they have no meaning.” She is known for a fresh, playful approach to music and she keeps her ears open, always hoping to find the unusual.

http://www.myspace.com/eikoish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZsewDufbjo

Makeson Browne & Petter Vågan (SA & NO)

Makeson Browne (Mark Fransman) and Petter Vågan met and played in Norway last year. We are excited to hear what they come up with this time in Cape Town.
Petter Vågan is a guitarplayer with a huge sound pallette varying from harsh industrial noise to minimalist clicks and bursts, as well as hints of beauty and lyricism. The combination of his strong sense of storytelling with sounds and being a seldom attentive listener is nothing short of explosive.
Mark has established himself as a musician and producer of many different styles. So diverse that audiences get confused not knowing what to expect. His experimental endeavours therefore goes under the name Makeson Browne. As the other strong voice in this duo you are likely to be surprised at what comes out of the speakers.

http://pettervagan.com/

http://www.markfransman.com/Main/Welcome.html

Dizu Plaatjies (ZA)

Dizu Plaatjies is the founder and former leader of the South African group, Amampondo. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town School of Music and now lectures there in African Music. Since leaving Amampondo he has started a new ensemble called Ibuyambo. Dizu and the new group have presented numerous shows in a number of European countries, and perform regularly in South Africa.

Plaatjies is the son of an African traditional healer and late lady teacher Ntombiza, has himself been initiated in the Xhosa/Pondo tribal tradition. His interest in African percussion music has taken him to numerous countries on the continent with the result that he now owns a substantial collection of handmade musical instruments from sub-Saharan Africa. His latest recordings made for the label Mountain Records, entitled, Ibuyambo (2005) and African Kings (2008), illustrate this knowledge and interest.

http://www.ibuyambo.co.za/

Golden Delishas (SA)

Appearing in South Africa’s burlesque scene early 2012, Golden Delishas has been described as a vintage venus vixen that has risen out of nowhere. Burlesque had presented itself, after having studied and performed other dance forms for over 10 years ,which gradually included the love for big feather wings and most importantly, the art of strip-tease.
Her unique presence and power endlessly fascinates and is appreciated by spectators locally and abroad. A truly delectable vision of undraped loveliness, known for her feminine fearlessness, her raw allure of passion and nostalgia and her unashamed honesty in seduction. She captivates audiences near and far while challenging the boundaries between performance art, dance and burlesque.
Greatly inspired by feminine beauty and the timeless elegance from the 1920’s through to the 50’s, her love for the authentic essence of classic burlesque can be witnessed with her exquisite and ethereal feather fan dancing acts.
Besides having travelled the world performing for kings and sheikhs, Golden Delishas regularly graces Cape Town stages – as well as being a staple at The Rouge Revue and Salon de L’amour shows.
Catch this genuine and magical seductress dazzle and excite her audiences with heart, joy and true showmanship.

Brendon Bussy (SA)

Normal Noise (Workshop Performance) Brendon Bussy and Artists from the Dominican School for the Deaf (SA). A silent, and not very silent performance, the result of a series of workshops with deaf artists. Listening is not always Hearing. Workshop facilitator Brendon Bussy lives in Cape Town where he runs workshops showing people how to listen more carefully to their rich sonic environment. And how to use that listening in their creative work.

http://brendonbussy.wordpress.com/

Alex Bozas & Paol Opie (SA)

Paul Opie (bass/electronics ) and Alex Bozas (guitar/synth/electronics) have been sharing stages in Cape Town and South Africa for over a decade. Perhaps better known in their respective projects: (Black Milk, Moranga) and (Benguela), this 2013 EOW festival year sees a collaboration between the two seasoned artists.

Using standard instruments combined with a plethora of electronic devices, the duo improvise over skeletal modal structures fleshing out ambient and angular sound-scapes and subsequently mutating and dissecting these ad-lib.

Odd time signatures, fuzz-bass accompanied by rampant echoes over staccato guitar lines and layers of on the spot loops sees their alternative free jazz leanings meet head on with electronic post rock.

Fieldband Academy & Morten Minothi Kristiansen (SA & NO)

Field Band Academy (SA) & Morten Minothi Kristiansen (NO) The Field Band Academy band of 2012 consists of 38 young music and dance tutors from the Field Band Foundation, coming from all over the country. The Field Band Academy band of 2012 has performed at the FBF National Championships and with Lloyd Cele at the World Toilet Summit, amongst many other local performances in KZN. During the first week of March they will also perform at Edge of Wrong in Cape Town, and for local field band projects in Plettenberg Bay (WC), Macassar (WC) and East London/Mdantsane (EC).

The Field Band Academy (FBA) was opened in 2010, with the current venue outside of Verulam in KZN. The FBA is a training and resource centre for the exiting youth development organization the Field Band Foundation, an organization focusing on developing life skills for the youth of South Africa through the medium of music and dance. FBF currently has 21 projects in all nine provinces, with approximately 4500 members. Three new projects will open in 2013.
Morten, the festival founder, will do a workshop with the Field Band Academy in advance and present the outcome on EOW!
For more information visit www.fieldband.org.za or the Field Band Academy page on facebook.

Righard Kapp & Gareth Dawson (SA)

Gareth plays synths and Righard plays guitar. Their previous collaborations have tended towards noxious noise fumes seeping through cracks of drone, but since becoming a father and a cat-owner respectively they may or may not have mellowed considerably.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LCTUFyoLfEU