Press release 14.10.2015
Musical Material #01
EVOL & Rosa Menkman
Sunday October 25, 4 pm
Venue: West, Groenewegje 136 The Hague.
Fee: Pay What You Want
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This fall we are starting a new collaboration with Rewire named Musical Material. Musical Material
is a series of meetings on Sunday afternoons, during which national and international guests
present their work and enter into dialogue. Specialists in the fields of music, art and/or reflection,
test and discuss the details of their profession in an intimate setting. During which the borders of
traditional disciplines are insignificant and expertise will be interchanged. A discussion leader will
provide a flexible platform to producers, where, besides personal, experimental and unexpected
presentations, the dialogue forms centre stage.
EVOL – ‘Like a surface waiting for holes’ (talk + performance)
For Musical Material, EVOL’s Roc Jiménez de Cisneros gives a talk on holes where he addresses the
problematic definition of a hole — in everyday language and life as well as from a metaphysical point of
view. Giving a compact overview of the diverse approaches to the ontology of holes in recent philosophy,
he draws from authors such as Achille Varzi, Roberto Casati, Roy Sorensen, Henry Moore, Barbara
Hepworth, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson and others. In a performance following his talk, De Cisneros
explores holes in sound, and playfully suggests the idea of a musical taxonomy based on holes and
levels of perforation. His will performance samples Detroit techno to stadium rock or scratch techniques,
among others.
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is an artist from Barcelona. music producer and founder of the computer music
group EVOL. More info: http://vivapunani.org
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Rosa Menkman – ‘Beyond Resolution’ (performative lecture)
For Musical Material, in a performance lecture, Rosa Menkman navigates the world of the encrypted
messages and JPEG compression. The legibility of an encrypted message is not only dependent on the
complexity of an algorithm, but also on the placement of the message data. The mathematical technique
Discrete Cosine Transform, converts signals into elementary components, known as compression. In the
case of the JPEG compression, a DCT is used to describe a finite set of patterns, called macroblocks,
which could be described as the 64 characters making up the JPEG image, adding lumo and chroma
values as ‘intonation’. In her lecture, Menkman explores what is hidden on the surface of an image, which
is only legible to the ones in the know.
Rosa Menkman is an Amsterdam based artist and theorist who focuses on visual noise artefacts.
rosa-menkman.blogspot.com
For press photos and more info, you can contact: Marie-José Sondeijker: marie-jose@westdenhaag.nl
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West Groenewegje 136, 2515 LR Den Haag, The Netherlands, +31(0)70.3925359, www.westdenhaag.nl