raster. 30 years anniversary - Frank Bretschneider, Gábor Lázár, Amelie Duchow, Xuri & John Clewort
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20-01, on stage 20:30
280/230:-
18+
raster 30. Years anniversary.
Three decades of precision, reduction and electronic music refusing to stand still.
With: Frank Bretschneider · Gábor Lázár · Amelie Duchow · Xuri & John Cleworth
Founded by Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider as rastermusic in 1996, raster has spent three decades exploring the borderlands of electronic music, art and science. In 1999, it merged with Carsten Nicolai’s NOTON to form raster-noton, before becoming independent again as raster in 2017. Across some 200 releases — alongside books, installations and live presentations — the label has brought together visual artists, club musicians, noise pioneers, composers and instrumentalists, connected less by genre than by a shared appetite for experimentation.
Thirty years after its first release, raster comes to Inkonst for an anniversary night celebrating a catalogue — and an artistic network — that continues to ask what electronic music can be.
Co-founder Frank Bretschneider has spent decades locating strange amounts of movement inside minimal structures. A musician, composer and video artist, his work is built from precise sound placement, interwoven rhythms and an unusually fluid sense of reduction, with visuals operating as an extension of the music rather than decoration. From experiments with tapes and synthesizers in East Germany to AG Geige, rastermusic and more than 30 albums, Bretschneider has developed a language where microscopic detail can produce very physical results.
Hungarian producer Gábor Lázár pushes that logic into a more volatile digital present. His hyper-detailed compositions dismantle club music into repetition, texture and micro-modulation, then assemble it again according to their own peculiar physics. His raster debut Reflex moves gradually from unpredictable abstraction towards lean, playful forms of techno — music that seems to negotiate, in real time, between cerebral concentration and bodily impulse.
German audiovisual artist Amelie Duchow works between sound, space, image and form. Subtle layers collide with intensive electronic structures, while visual perception becomes an active part of listening. Her practice extends from solo work to SCHNITT, the audiovisual project founded with Marco Monfardini, and a wider body of installations and performances exploring the unstable border between what we hear and what we see.
Completing the night are Xuri & John Cleworth, bringing together Xuri’s evocative, colour-like approach to sonic landscapes with Cleworth’s intricate rhythms, synthesis and spatial sound design. Their audiovisual performance draws equally on graphic design and classical training, asking a deceptively simple question: what happens to a sound when an image changes how we perceive it — and vice versa?
Thirty years in, raster remains less a monument to electronic music history than an argument for continuing to interrogate it: reduce the material, sharpen the senses, find another frequency.
At Inkonst, we celebrate accordingly.
Concert included in the AW26 season pass!
https://inkonst.com/en/p/season-pass
https://raster-media.net
https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/rastermedia
280/230:-
18+
raster 30. Years anniversary.
Three decades of precision, reduction and electronic music refusing to stand still.
With: Frank Bretschneider · Gábor Lázár · Amelie Duchow · Xuri & John Cleworth
Founded by Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider as rastermusic in 1996, raster has spent three decades exploring the borderlands of electronic music, art and science. In 1999, it merged with Carsten Nicolai’s NOTON to form raster-noton, before becoming independent again as raster in 2017. Across some 200 releases — alongside books, installations and live presentations — the label has brought together visual artists, club musicians, noise pioneers, composers and instrumentalists, connected less by genre than by a shared appetite for experimentation.
Thirty years after its first release, raster comes to Inkonst for an anniversary night celebrating a catalogue — and an artistic network — that continues to ask what electronic music can be.
Co-founder Frank Bretschneider has spent decades locating strange amounts of movement inside minimal structures. A musician, composer and video artist, his work is built from precise sound placement, interwoven rhythms and an unusually fluid sense of reduction, with visuals operating as an extension of the music rather than decoration. From experiments with tapes and synthesizers in East Germany to AG Geige, rastermusic and more than 30 albums, Bretschneider has developed a language where microscopic detail can produce very physical results.
Hungarian producer Gábor Lázár pushes that logic into a more volatile digital present. His hyper-detailed compositions dismantle club music into repetition, texture and micro-modulation, then assemble it again according to their own peculiar physics. His raster debut Reflex moves gradually from unpredictable abstraction towards lean, playful forms of techno — music that seems to negotiate, in real time, between cerebral concentration and bodily impulse.
German audiovisual artist Amelie Duchow works between sound, space, image and form. Subtle layers collide with intensive electronic structures, while visual perception becomes an active part of listening. Her practice extends from solo work to SCHNITT, the audiovisual project founded with Marco Monfardini, and a wider body of installations and performances exploring the unstable border between what we hear and what we see.
Completing the night are Xuri & John Cleworth, bringing together Xuri’s evocative, colour-like approach to sonic landscapes with Cleworth’s intricate rhythms, synthesis and spatial sound design. Their audiovisual performance draws equally on graphic design and classical training, asking a deceptively simple question: what happens to a sound when an image changes how we perceive it — and vice versa?
Thirty years in, raster remains less a monument to electronic music history than an argument for continuing to interrogate it: reduce the material, sharpen the senses, find another frequency.
At Inkonst, we celebrate accordingly.
Concert included in the AW26 season pass!
https://inkonst.com/en/p/season-pass
https://raster-media.net
https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/rastermedia
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