6 September - 9 November 2003
EMA - ELECTRONIC MUSIC ARCHIVE
A Project by Norbert Möslang

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Installation view
Together with music there has always been a creation of visual impact.
Music can be expressed or even stored with pictures, be it as full
forms, lyrics, covers, photographs, videos or animation. The Electronic
Music Archive (EMA) focuses on the question of „what does electronic
music really looks like?“ The exhibition gathers visuals of electronic
music as a possible artifact of our time. Creating and manipulating
electronic sounds together with pictures has been of great value within
contemporary art for quite some time. The actual realm between art and
music brings upon the context of EMA.

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Erik M
EMA is also a very subjective memory. The archive collects different
artistic statements and stores them as cultural achievement in the
shape of an exhibition. In our time with still growing electronic
memory capacity and yet everyday data being lost for ever this is the
attempt to freeze the moment and hold it still as an exhibition. It is
a cultural and emotional archive that wants to compare our time with
the past time and questions terms like „quality“ or „innovation“. How
can electronic culture be stored? Can memory be evened out as storage
space? Why does electronic memory grow so much faster than cultural
remembering? Is there a future for archives as a place for cultural
remembering?

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Joke Lanz

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Keith Rowe

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Skipp
With contributions by:
Tetuzi Akiyama, Oren Ambarchi, Thomas Ankersmit, Knut Aufermann, K. Michael Babcock, Ed Baxter, Nicolas Bourquin, Thomas Brusa, Kim Cascone, Nicolas Collins, Frank Dommert, Leif Elggren, Fear of God, Tina Frank, Florian Hecker, farmersmanual, General Magic, Al Haig, Institut für Feinmotorik, Jason Kahn, Toshio Kajiwara, Tomas Korber, Joke Lanz, Alan Licht, Paul Lytton, Erik M, Sachiko M, Marcus Maeder, Lionel Marchetti, Jos Moers /meeuw, Günter Müller, Martin Ng, Phill Niblock, Dave Phillips, Pita, Gert-Jan Prins, Marina Rosenfeld, Keith Rowe, Philip Samartzis, Jim Sauter, Michael J. Schumacher, Bernd Schurer, Skipp, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Yasunao Tone, David Watson, Chris Weaver, Craig Willingham, Stephan Wittwer, Otomo Yoshihide.
Georg Gatsas – THE PROCESS

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Georg Gatsas
Georg Gatsas who lives in New York observes closely artists and
musicians in Brooklyn. He is literally seeking to be next to the shown
people and wants to know all about them. Along with the photos of Georg
Gatsas there will be poetry by the New Yorker writer Ira Cohen and some
features by the artists - bands Devendra Banhart, Lizzi Bougatsos,
Brian Degraw, Suicide, Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), Kid606, Erase Errata
und Jim Thirlwell aka Foetus.
19 September 2003, 9 PM, TIGERBEAT6-NIGHT, Concert with KID606, DWAYNE
SODAHBERK, DJ/ RUPTURE, ELEKTROMEIER, DJ CURL organized by Norbert
Möslang at Grabenhalle St. Gallen.
4 October 2003, 9 PM, ANOTHER PROCESS, Concert with NORBERT MÖSLANG,
ERIK M., TEXTA, RÜCKGRAT, TECHNO ANIMAL, TONTRÄGER RECORDS organized by
Georg Gatsas at Grabenhalle St. Gallen.
22 October and 5 November, 6.30 PM the artists Norbert Möslang and
Georg Gatsas guide visitors through the current exhibitions EMA and The
Process.
9 November, 2003, 4 PM we are closing the current exhibitions EMA and
The Process with Georg Gatsas and Nortbert Möslang as DJs playing music
by the artists/musicians of the exhibitions.
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