An evening with Torsten Kretchzmar & Moped

Fri, Sep 30
9:00pm
$5

Torsten Kretchzmar, the German electro pop performer, is described as
the love child of Kraftwerk and Sprockets and is now bringing you the
next best German word since Fahrvergnugen with his project
"Entschlossenheit". His lyrics are interpreted by the abstract dance
artist Tanner Coleman Stewart.

Torsten Kretchzmar rocks the soft-spoken, androgynous artist to a tee
in this excellent techno concept project. With a dead-pan behind-the-
scenes documentary and videos complete with Oskar Schlemmer-esque
dance moves and over-the-top filters, it's not only solidly catchy,
teutonic music, but a completely fun and inspiring Gesamtkunstwerk.
At ATA he will present his DVD "Entschlossenheit" in a live
multimedia show with a special perfromance of "Dunkelheit" and
"Feuchtigkeit"! www.kretchzmar.com

Also, fearing that the tagline "live electronica" has become a catch-
all for any knob-twiddler attempting to incorporate an actual
synthesizer into his or her set, Mission District multimedia trio
Moped prefer to call a spade a spade. In this case (real-) live
instrumentation and laptop-generated soundscapes compliment the
oddball visuals of video wizard Cripes! in creating an AV feast to
shake your booty to.

Blending hip-hop, Progression Sessions-minded jazz'n'bass, and the
improvisatory spirit of --dare I say-- a jam band (think Soundtribe
Sector 9), Moped's eclecticism plays to the genre-hopping music lover
in us all.

Venue:

Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street @ 21st
San Francisco
415-824-3890
www.atasite.org

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