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On Sunday, January 17th, 2016, the
Concertzender will celebrate
a special anniversary: Art’s
Birthday. Yes, the birthday of Art. A celebration to
commemorate the French Fluxus artist Robert
Filliou. This birthday
will be celebrated with a grand, four-hour long, international radio
event between 8:00 PM and 12:00 AM, including a live performance of
Henry Vega in the studio of the Concertzender.  Would you like to experience this per-
fomance
with us? You are very welcome to join us!
The Internationale Ars Acustica
Group of the EBU
(European Broadcasting Union) has been organizing a major radio event
in honor of Art's Birthday for several years now.
Public broadcasters in Europe, as well as independant
radio stations
from all over the
world, provide a four-hour long broadcast on January
17 every year. These are broadcasted through two EBU satellites,
appropriately named Haydn and Liszt. This night various radio stations
all over the world will invite artists, musicians and sound artists to
broadcast live accoustic gifts. Every broadcaster has been assigned
some time on one of the satellites, meaning all broadcasts can be heard
everywhere.
Fluxus
The origins of Fluxus lie in the sixties. At that time it was mainly
the art movement kicking over sacred cows and which exploited the
experiment in all grades. The
word Fluxus was created by George
Maciunas, who is considered to be the founder
of the movembent, and it was first used around 1961 for art events in
which the boundaries between visual art and music were lifted. The two
best known Dutch
Fluxus artists are undoubtedly Willem de Ridder and
Wim T. Schippers. But there
are many famous international artists who
were attracted to Fluxus. For example composer John Cage bijvoorbeeld,
as well as video artist Nam Yune
Paik, visual
artist Joseph Beuys and composer La Monte Young.
The beginning of art
On January 17, 1963 Robert Filliou declared that one million years ago
someone
threw a dry sponge into a bucket of water. According to
Filliou, this moment marks
the birth of art. Ten years later the first
real 'celebration' took place: the one
millionth and tenth birthday of
art. This happened in the  Neue Galerie in Aachen, Germany. Filliou died in 1987, but several artists honoured his La Fête Permanente as Filliou described it himself, by continuing to celebrate
the birthday of art by means of mail
art, fax mail and slow scan television. Some kind of internet art avant la lettre.
Henry Vega
The Concertzender is proud to contribute to Art’s
Birthday with
Café Sonore. Especially since the
first contribution to Art’s
Birthday
by Café Sonore,
more than 10
years ago, was also in collaboration with
the
Concertzender. The Concert-
zender contributes to a particular piece of
music: a new work by Henry Vega, his Sponge
Suite.
Vega, an American composer and electro musician, will perform live in
the studio. This will take place from 10:20 PM to 10:30 PM. It can be
heard live on the satellite at this time as well. About this
event Henry Vega says:
“The piece refers to the birth of art and plays a homage
to this unholy action which arguably infected us all with the terminal
need for it. The piece takes and steals materials from different places
including the very same birthday card given in this sound occasion.
What I make of it steals from my own work as well, including music from
the film Symmetry as well as the Wormsongs
set.”
In this Café Sonore Special in honor of Art’s Birthday
2016, you can listen to beautiful work by global broadcasters for over
four hours. We will also bring you a number of expected and unexpected
guests, and if everything goes according to plan, there will be some
radio plays created à la minute. In short, it will be a true Fluxus
evening.
We would love to welcome you in our studio on January 17th
from 8:00 PM to 12:00 PM. You can find our studio at the Ganzenmarkt 14
in Utrecht. You can sign up by sending an email to hessel.veldman@concertzender.nl.
Seats are limited, registration is on a first come, first serve basis.
In case you want to know what's going to happen on January 17, please check out this special Art’s
Birthday-page
of the EBU.
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