floka bio text version. last update: 04.04.10
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"whether you call it just work, music, or art.there are two main lines in my work;
technology, and the alteration of simple things to create complex objects."
flo kaufmann - bricolage universelle, 1973
lives and works in solothurn, switzerland
as "bricoleur universal", sound and electronic engineer
mainly interested in electronic experimental music, sound and video installations.
www.floka.com
regularly works in collaboration with
christian marclay, for tabula rasa, performance
ursula scherrer mittel-land,video-sound project
strotter inst. for durchdrehen, performance
chris dubflow for echoskill hifi ,electronic dub
projects,concerts:
2010 amidst shelley hirsch,ursula scherrer, fred frith, flo kaufmann.the lab san francisco
2009 gaudenz badrut, flo kaufmann. bye-bye concert cite des arts paris
2009 "durchdrehen" Kreuz Solothurn
2009 3. Kunstnacht Brienz
2009 T.I.T.O Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin
2009 Bidouilles at 10 Years Anyma, Bollwerk Fribourg
2009 "vinyl" lydgalleriet bergen, norway. exhibition christian marclay, janek schaefer, otomo yoshihide, flo kaufmann
2009 "long ago" m.a. studio baden . performance Laurenz Theinert ,Ursula Scherrer, Susanne Mueller Nelson, Susanne Braun
2009 "roboloco" Bern, Reitschule , Grosse Halle
2008 "switch on" China. Concerts and Workshops in Peking , Shanghai
2008 "disk-o-mat" ,Shift Festival Basel
2008 "333 pirouetten", Kunstexpander Aarau
2008 "defects per billion", Theatre du Poche, Podring Biel
2008 "mos espa" .art en îlle, geneva
2008 "zwischenland", Videotank Zürich, video-sound installation mit Ursula Scherrer
2008 "mittelland" tresor kunstraum Stuttgart , video-sound installation mit Ursula Scherrer
2008 "tabula rasa" , ctm, Club Transmediale Berlin
2007 flooper. Performance für loopgerät, staubsauger und plattenspieler. diy festival zürich
2007 kompositionen für oud & staubsauger . Nehad Al Sayed oud, Flo Kaufmann, staubsauger , ONO galerie Bern
2007 „bakkery drones“ video&sound performance plugin basel mit ursula scherrer
2007 „underwood model12“ - Blackbox Schauwerk. Gessnerallee Zürich. Tonkünstlertagung. Interactive sound installation with underwood typewriter and vco‘s
2007 „loop vs loop“ - reset-market bern. concert for homemade cmos looper, typewriter vs. looper, guitar Flo Kaufmann, Bernhard Wagner
2007 „kapuziner“. Homemade-Labor Residence in Romain.Motier with Strotter Inst.
2006 „tacoma narrows“- sonorisation - diy electronic festival zurich
2006 „typosynth1“ concert for modified typewriter, 2 vcos, 3 vcfs, ringmodulator and vocoder, Walcheturm Zurich
2006 „durchdrehen“. performance for phonograph beercans and turntables with Strotter inst. Altes Spital Solothurn
2006 „direct to beer“ - phonographic recordings into 500ml beer can‘s.
2006 „cmos sounds“. workshops for electronic music. plug in basel, künstlerhaus solothurn for www.homemade-labor.ch
2006 „underwood model11“ - interactive soundinstallation. with a underwoodtypewriter, 6 vco‘s, 1 filter and 3 lfo‘s
2005 „hermes2000“. installation at kuenstlerhaus s11.solothurn.4 brainwave scanners attached to electrified mechanical typewriter
2005 „tabula rasa“. performance with christian marclay at Rentem tokyo japan.
christian on turntables, flo on cuttingmachine and electronic effects
2005 „tabula rasa“. performance with Christian Marclay at St.Luke‘s church London. Christian on turntables, Flo on cuttingmachine and electronic effects
2004 „the_sleeper“. video&multi-channel audio installation at „le dérniere cry“, gerechtigkeitsgasse bern.
2004 soundsheets produced for the new cd of strotter inst. a 120mm diameter sound sheet handpressed at kapsel3.it is used as a analog playable cd-cover for the strotter inst cd monstranz
2004 „tabula rasa“. Performance with Christian Marclay at Taktlos, Reitschule ,Dojo Bern. Christian on turn tables, flo on cuttingmachine and electronic effects
2003 la batie festival geneva. dubplate mix2. music concrete with david grubs and 4 other musicians. experimental loopback of freshly cut records.
2003 la batie festival, geneva, dubplate mix 1. performance with christian marclay. 4 turntables mixed by christian feed to flo‘s cutting lathe.
2003 „elvis for sale“.windows nr.4 .kapsel3, solothurn shopping window with faked elvis relicts.
2002 „schnipsel“.windows nr.3. kapsel3 solothurn during film festival. random timesliced 16mm multi projections of various movies.
2002 „computers“.windows nr.2. kapsel3 solothurn.installation with commodore CBM 8032 in basic on green CTR.
2002 „night_late_shift“. windows nr.1. kapsel3 solothurn. random time sliced 16mm projections of adult movies. bits and pieces on the opposite wall
1993 „3 bilder ein baum“. sex tod religion gruppenausstellung,kofmehl solothurn. installation of 3 oil paintings.
records:
2009 echoskill hifi: dub we do / guantanamo
7 inch vinyl
wowsville international wow-5502
2008 "flo kaufmann"
edition miracol genève
2008 echo skill hifi: gecko
7 inch vinyl, split single
bonzzaj bon-003 / a few among others afo-05
2008 „röntgenaufnamen“
double vinyl: 7inch vinyl and Flexidisk on x-ray film
2007 „the kent state vanguards“ 7 inch vinyl
wowsville international wow-4568
2006 „Durchdrehen“ engraved 500ml beercans, cylinder recording
Künstlerhaus S11 solothurn
2006 „die russen“
7 inch vinyl
wowsville international wow-4554
2005 angela&die beatagenten: „amour a 200“ 7 inch vinyl
wowsville international wow-4502
2004 angela&die beatagenten: „bad bad baby“ 7 inch vinyl
wowsville international wow-4501
2000 „mok la rok“ compilation boty2000 soundtrack 12“ vinyl/ cd
MastersOn Broadway MOB-0005-1,
Virgin Schallplatten: 7243-8-50236 2 0
grants, prices
2009 Cité International des Arts, Paris Atelier Kanton Solothurn
2008 «Werkbeiträge Digitale Kultur 2» Migros Kulturprozent
publications,reviews,articles :
2009 «Werkbeiträge Digitale Kultur 2» Christoph Merian Verlag Basel, Dominik Landwehr (HG)
2009 Handmade Electronic Music 2nd Edition Routledge, NewYork , Nicolas Collins (HG)
2006 Homemade Sound Electronics Christoph Merian Verlag Basel,Dominik Landwehr (HG)
2006 „Hörpunkt Klangbastler“ DRS2 Feature Hörpunkt. Martin Heule, Aldo Gardini