FAMOUS
GRAPES

record label and event series exploring the aural and visual articulations of experimental music

11.12.24
ALBUM RELEASE FGR03
24 Ribs ٢٤ ضُلع

by Los Panteros (cassette and digital)

Composition by Tony Elieh & Aya Metwalli.
Recording, mixing & mastering at Morphine Raum supported by Musikfonds.
Artwork & design by Hatem Imam.
Vocals takes were recorded at Tunefork studios.
Co-released by Archipel editions, Aldarrax editions & Famous Grapes Recordings.

23.10.24
20fps
// MORPHINE RAUM berlin

> Nour Ouayda
> Nour Sokhon
> Basma al-Sharif
> Sara Kontar

20fps is a new series for sound and experimental film hosted by 20 Seconds Magazine at Morphine Raum, in Berlin.The series is conceived as a space for the splicing of experiments in sound, performance art and film, employing unconventional techniques in order to communicate social, political and artistic narratives.

21.09.23
famous grapes x faeth x archipel
// XSTER berlin

> diego ferri (it) + mi ho (JP)
> falsos profetas (fr/es) + maurice louca (eg)
> kalmaüser (DE)

Berlin-based Japanese artist and pianist Mi Ho performs an improvisational set on effected piano with Italian sound artist Diego Ferri on electronics and cassette loops.

The duo Falsos Profetas ( Niko de Paula Lefort and Selu Herraiz ) performs with Egyptian musician and composer Maurice Louca—DIY instruments, guitars, electronics, modular syntheziers.

Kalmaüser is an experimental noise duo performing free-form improvisations on percussion and guitar.

22.11.23
20 SECONDS
// MORPHINE RAUM berlin

> CHIHEi HATAKEYAMA (JP)
> Ale Hop (PE)

Chihei Hatakeyama is a Tokyo-based Japanese musician and mastering engineer. In a career spanning almost two decades, his delicate and detailed ambient compositions have continued to set themselves apart for their intricate structure and ethereal timbre.Alejandra Cárdenas Pacheco, known as Ale Hop, is a Berlin-based Peruvian-born musician, curator and researcher. Her performances often blend visceral sounds with an unavoidable emotionality, combining extended guitar techniques and electronic synthesis.

06.11.22
20 SECONDS
// MORPHINE RAUM berlin

> TIMOTHY ISHERWOOD (CA)
> KALAS LIEBFRIED (DE)
> ANTON VIDOKLE (RU)

Timothy Isherwood (sir o sir) performs the work "Caldeiras" based on the biophony and geography of the island of São Miguel using diverse sources, like resonators, hydrophones, spatialized sound and melodica.Munich-based artist, curator, and musician Kalas Liebfried performs a work for guitar and electronics. At the core of his artistic ethos lies a conviction in sound‘s capacity for sculptural and socio-political discourse.Anton Vidokle is an artist working primarily in film. Vidokle’s current practice focuses on Russian Cosmism, a school of thought developed by the Russian librarian Nikolai Fedorov that tried to unite science, technology, religion, and art.

09.08.22
20 SECONDS
// MORPHINE RAUM berlin

> TARIK BARRI (NL) + LEA FABRIKANT (IL)
> PEDRO OLIVEIRA (BR)
> PEDRO MAIA (PT)

The audiovisual performance project ZO melds the worlds of artists Tarik Barri and Lea Fabrikant. Employing pioneering software, which reinterprets space, time and movement in a live context, along with voice, electronics and visuals.Poet, performer and researcher Pedro Oliveira grounds his work in a number of themes, but the most prominent are the concepts of sonic violence and its correspondence with identity. Oliveira's projects demonstrate and apply the limits of oppressive sonic identification through performance.Pedro Maia is committed to a spirit of experimentation across his multidisciplinary body of work. The images of the Berlin-based Portuguese artist reveal themselves in a range of forms, such as live visuals for experimental music performances and films to be exhibited in the cinema, in both feature and avant-garde formats.

21.06.22
20 SECONDS
// STANDARDS STUDIO milan

> ABDULLAH MINIAWY (EG)
> ALMA ĐELIĆ (RS)

A new performance by Paris-based Abdullah Miniawy, following the release of Untitled, an edited translation of the poet’s 2021 piece, featured in 20 Seconds Issue 3.Alma Đelić, the Belgrade and Paris-based poet and musician will perform a collection of material rooted in her practice of improvisation and sonic manipulation, tethered to and simultaneously liberated from delineated composition.

11.09.21
famousgrapes sessions 03
X 20 SECONDS MAGAZINE
// KM28 berlin

> niko lfo (fr) 'aurality' LP RELEASE
> GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER (DE)

Sound artist Niko de Paula Lefort (a.k.a. Nikolfo) performs a work to inaugurate the release of the album Aurality -20°10’45.3176” -044°04’01.4329”. Lefort's practice covers the fields of music making - composition and improvisation with guitar, voice, electronics, percussion, radio transmission and various sounding objects -, instrument building, field recording and radio art installation.

Grischa Lichtenberger is an electronic music producer, visual and installation artist. The aggressive tone in his sound design has its counterpart in an emotional depth of the musical structure - a hermetic idiosyncrasy of rhythm and melodies that implement a personal handwriting into the arrangement and sculpture of the sound elements.

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14.09.21
20 SECONDS
// A.L. Berlin

> SIR O SIR (CA) + LEA FABRIKANT (IL)
>TEMPS ZERO
> DIMITRA ZINA (GR)
> MAXIME L. (FR)
> DANIEL MELFI (CA)

Film screening by sound and image collective "Temps Zero" of the Exhibition Film from Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2020. sir o sir performs the soundscape "Orlando" from the eponymous installation by Julie Beauvais with poetry readings performed by Lea Fabrikant. DJ sets by Daniel Melfi, Maxime L., and Dimitra Zina.

01.07.21
RECORD RELEASE FGR02
Aurality -20°10’45.3176” -044°04’01.4329”

by niko lfo (vinyl 12” and digital)

Aurality -20°10’45.3176” -044°04’01.4329” was recorded at the Fazendinha, or Little Farm, near Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Augmenting past inquiries into the materiality of sound and its role in mediating experience and transmitting knowledge, Niko de Paula Lefort (FR) surveys the consonant properties of the region’s biophony. The album is a two-sided exploit of a 24-hour period radiating out of dawn and dusk. Divided further, each cyclical procession yields a new orchestra of natural sonic phenomena.

21.05.20
RECORD RELEASE FGR01
solar panels on the moon

by sir o sir (vinyl 12” and digital)

Solar Panels on the Moon is a collection of restrained, yet poignant ambient soundscapes. Meditative field recordings permeate throughout; whether Athenian buskers, or Polish street bazaars, ambient sounds splice with the weight of visceral, droning chords. The album is a meditation on the inevitable dissolution of earth’s resources and its singular solution, which remains shrouded in simplicity.

17.11.19
famousgrapes sessions 02
// ACUD Macht Neu berlin

> niko lfo (fr) + laura fong prosper (pa)
> ramsha (pk)
> etherlands (au)

Laura Fong Prosper is a visual artist from Panama based in Berlin. Her work addresses themes such as the collective memory, retro-futurisms, ancestral imaginaries and eco-feminisms while interweaving video, analog film, new media and other materialities. Sound artist Niko de Paula Lefort performs his work "Aurality" with visuals from Prosper.

Ramsha Shakeel, experimental musician and interdisciplinary designer originally from Pakistan, now based between Toronto and Berlin, performs her unique combination of bowed guitar and electronics.

Australian electronic musician and sound artist Monty Callaghan (a.k.a. Etherlands) performs his reinterpretation of John Cage's words on silence.

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20.06.19
famous grapes sessions 01
// ACUD Macht Neu berlin

> lea taragona (br) + martín antolínez (cl)
> sir o sir (Ca) + elsa laurent (Fr)
> motorcycleroaddome (us)
> lea fabrikant (il)
> diego ferri (it)
> daniel melfi (ca)
> dokia (ro)

Lea Taragona is a Brazilian sound artist and composer. Her work focuses on the voice and its entanglements with language and technology. She performs with visual artist Martín Antolínez.

Parisian visual artist Elsa Laurent constructs a personal work through photographs mainly in black and white, which act by their presence as sculptural pieces. Together with sound artist sir o sir, they present a sound and visual triptych on the themes of environmetnal solitude, minerals and the human breath.

Lea Fabrikant—born in Riga, raised in Jerusalem—composes, improvises and compiles expressions/errors in between sound, image and technology.

Minnesota electronic producer MCRD (motorcycleroaddome) presents a set verging on mashup to sonic deconstruction.

Musician, producer and sound artist Diego Ferri, born in Rome, presents experimental improvisations using electronics and live cassette loops.

DJ and journalist Daniel Melfi (co-founder of Famous Grapes and founder of 20 Seconds Magazine) and Romanian DJ Dokia spin records to close the night.

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