Zesde Kolonne Label Night

Max Frimout – Mavais Paquet – ZKR 108 The Max Frimout edition has been on the shelf for a while and was waiting for the right moment. Our agendas come together on Wednesday 15 June. Max Frimout's interest is in creating networks of simple analog electronic circuits (in the form of synthesizer modules) coupled with digital signal processors for composing generative music. This prompted him to build a system where he could choose between many different digital and analog components. Conceptually, he is drawn to creating semi-self-composing systems. By establishing dynamic systems with some elements in the discrete domain (DDS) and some in the continuous domain, creating chaotic and stochastic movements. The right control creates arrangements that can differ both rhythmically and in timbre. On Mauvais Paquet we hear a number of (7) variations on this system. Each arrangement has its own specific timbre and rhythm, a layering in sound, space and rhythm and a pleasant fickleness. The cassette release contains 7 compositions, varying in length from 4 to 7 minutes.

Listen digitally via https://zesdekolonne.bandcamp.com/album/mauvais-paquet

Jan D'Hooghe

For the live presentation of the Splitt edition of Muziekvereniging De Clingse Bossen (ZKR 101), on the previous episode of the Label Night, Jan had to cancel. With the promise to give acte-de-presence at a next edition; hereby! After his Jazz education, Jan D'Hooghe (1971) started working as a drummer and composer in numerous alternative bands. In 2022 you can see and hear him at Implant and Music Association De Clingse Bossen.

In 2015 his first solo cassette is released on the Ghent Wool-e-tapes, Orka/Water Lily, two imaginary journeys over the water, performed on the Doepfer A-100 modular synthesizer. From this period he also devoted himself intensively to fundamental painting. The Macula Kuru vinyl recently appeared on the American Feeding Tube Records, a psych jam with Belgian and Japanese old hands, but especially for this Sixth Kolonne Label Night he selects a solo program with conceptual and abstract electronic work in the vein of Alvin Lucier. Douglas Leedy and James Tenney.