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exhibitions, performances, concerts, tours, cd-releases etc.

latest update june 08

THANK YOU
world premier of a new video work by Luigi Archetti / Bo Wiget at Video-Ex in Zurich,

thursday, 29.5. 23:30, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich.
http://www.videoex.ch/subprog.php?subprog_id=266&prog_id=76

CD-Release (Mai 2008)

The Netherlandisch Proverbs
a concept album with 126 short compositions
by: Luigi Archetti & Michael Heisch

Luigi Archetti und Michael Heisch spent over two years experimenting
in the studio. The result is the album the "Netherlandish Proverbs" – a musical
approach to the painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 – 1569).
Conceived by a process of random selection, the album presents the listener
with freshly perceptible, kaleidoscopic-like audio experiences.
"The Netherlandish Proverbs" is one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's best known
paintings. It contains over 100 sayings and idioms illustrating human weaknesses
in a lively and frequently witty way. Luigi Archetti and Michael Heisch used the
profusion of ideas of this visual world in order to approach the decentralised
organisation of the painting with instruments such as the mandolin, the e-guitar,
double bass and e-bass, as well as with electronic sounds.

Complex forms of approach
The stimulus generated by the painting takes its effect musically on several levels:
firstly, the number of the miniature compositions corresponds precisely with the
number of the proverbs portrayed in the painting; thus there is agreement on
the formal level. Secondly, the stylistic variety of Bruegel's painting. in which
allegorical portrayals and folkloristic elements go hand in hand, is reflected in
the variety of the material used by Archetti and Heisch. The apparent orientation
towards folkloristic sound belongs to the same level as the subtly differentiated
treatment of the noise-sounds of different kinds.
Unconventional sound cosmos in the random selection process
Thirdly, Luigi Archetti and Michael Heisch follow the decentralised construction
of the painting, and thus also of Bruegel's visual conception. Their CD is put
together from tiny fragments, whose order is not conclusively determined.
In keeping with the technical limitations of the CD player, the 126 pieces are
divided into 99 tracks. The listener is encouraged to play the tracks in the random
selection mode of his CD player. From the apparently coincidental sequence
emerges an unconventional cosmos of different sounds and sound sequences.
This broken perception, the non-logical sequence of splinters of sound
corresponds most closely with the idea developed by Bruegel in his visual
composition. The musical conversion is not an illustration of the painted scenes
but an independent work of art. In fact, this procedure is triggered by a reaction
to our contemporary present: our perceptive skills, then as now, are faced with
the task of meaningfully networking the profusion of the stimuli of different origin
and constitution with which we are daily bombarded. And it is precisely this act
of perception that is the subject of Archetti and Heisch's artistic elaboration.

Luigi Archetti: mandolin, e-guitar, electronics.
Michael Heisch: double bass, e-bass, electronics.
Compositions: Luigi Archetti and Michael Heisch
Production and mixing: Luigi Archetti and Michael Heisch
Duration: 56’15“
Produced in: 2005/07
www.luigiarchetti.com
www.neuemusik.ch/michaelheisch

M ore information:
Label and distribution:
www.creativeworks.ch
www.neuemusik.ch/michaelheisch

54. Internationalen Kurzfilm-Tagen Oberhausen 2008

MuVi-Preis 2008 / 2. Preis
"Bestes Deutsches Musikvideo"

by Archetti / Wiget

The music short movie "Bestes Deutsches Musikvideo" by Archetti/Wiget
has won the 2nd Prize at MuVi Avard for the Best German Music Video at
54th International Short Film Days Oberhausen.

Jury Statements:
"It’s ironic, trippy, pretentious, obviously arty, though the music and video
were going really well together. It plays with the conventions of music videos,
it’s an anti choreography, anti video, simple and elegant. It made us debate
and since it became number two, it’s not the “bestes deutsches musikvideo”."

Jury:
Libby Durdy, Warp Films, Sheffield
Jan Jelinek, Musiker, Berlin
Roel Wouters, Regisseur, Amsterdam

CD-Release

Fragments on Speed, Slowless and Tedium

now online! Free download!

Source material for the nineteen Fragments are recorded improvisations
with the electric guitar. In a process of cutting, re-arranging and transforming,
on which he has worked for several years, Archetti explores the possibilities
and limitations of reduction and the states of transformation of recorded
musical material. Archetti describes his work in Fragments as a process of
crystallisation. In chemistry, this process is described as a liquid-solid
separation technique: Acoustic states transform until they reach their
solid state.

A CD version will follow in mai 2008.

More informations: domizil, Zürich

HAPPY SYSTEM presents:

I AM MY OWN DOG
Theatrical dance/music performance about babylonian language confusion and the
difference between humans and animals...

with:

Luigi Archetti
Kurt Grünenfelder
Andreas Albert Müller
Bo Wiget

At: Tanzhaus Zürich
On: tuesday, 27. May 2008 premiere, 29, 30, 31 May 2008 and 1 June 2008

Informations: www.archettiwiget.net

HULU-Project
ON-Line release:

INEMURI
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CUBIC YELLOW
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http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=206168351&s=143443
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TRANCESIBIRIA
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http://www.ccnc.de/media/en/TRANCE_SIBERIA.html

Luigi Archetti, Covers, Ink-Jet, laminated on aluminium
Edition of 30 pieces
Publisher: VfO, Zürich © 2007

Verein für Originalgrafik, Zürich

new editions by
Luigi Archetti, Daniele Buetti, Uwe Esser, Klaus Lutz, Boris Rebetez

Open:
wednsday 15 - 20 Uhr
saturday 14 - 17 Uhr
Or according to agreement

Verein für Originalgrafik / VfO
Verena Conzett-Strasse 7
8004 Zürich
Tel: 044-241.53.00
For more informations: www.vfo.ch

Go to: http://www.likeyou.com/artistsbios/index.html

or: http://www.myspace.com/luigiarchetti

http://www.youtube.com/archettiwiget Have a look!!

Have a look to the new site of Archetti / Wiget: www.archettiwiget.net