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Thu, May 30 2013 7:30 PM

Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue Berkeley
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NO MORE TWIST! & KONGRAD SPRENGER

NO MORE TWIST!
After collaborating in different ways since 2003, Charles Celeste Hutchins and Polly Moller decided to make their partnership official, becoming the performance art duo No More Twist! They have played live on KFJC radio and at the Edgetone New Music Summit. Charles Celeste Hutchins is a Californian abroad, testing Philip K Dick’s theory that once you become a Berkeley radical, you can never leave. He explores issues of regional identity, plays music, goes to school and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth. Polly Moller is a flutist, vocalist, and composer equally at home in the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary composition, and rock, performing with Reconnaissance Fly, ReCardiacs Fly, and Ghost in the House and creating sound-art rituals based on natural phenomena and the Western occult tradition.

KONGRAD SPRENGER
composition for electric guitar

Konrad Sprenger (Joerg Hiller, born 1977, Lahr, Germany) is a composer/ producer and artist based in Berlin. Since 2000 he also runs the label choose records. He has produced recordings by such diverse artists as Ellen Fullman, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Ashley and Terry Fox and has performed for years as Konrad Sprenger with such luminary bands as Ethnostress and Ei and the art group Honey-Suckle Company. Since 2000 Hiller/Sprenger regularly tours and performs together with the minimal music composer Arnold Dreyblatt.

His music and installation work have been presented among others at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Cubitt Gallery, London; Podewil, Berlin; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Gallery Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Schaubühne, Berlin; Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Bundespressekonferenz, Berlin; Sonar-festival, Barcelona; Berghain, Berlin; Theatre Arsenic, Lausanne.


Cost: $10-20 donation