Especially for the Italian Cultural Sunday; Una Domenica Particolare, Born Digital, Utrecht based foundation for new media and new creativity, presents in cooperation with the Robot Festival of Bologna, a new media program at the venue Theater Kikker. A Sunday matinee full visual music, live audiovisual performances by Italian new media artists in collaboration with Utrecht artists. Sunday 19 december between 14.00 and 18.00 you can visit this unique collaboration free of entrance.

From Italy there are performances of Andrea Sartori & Julian Carax, Alan1 and the UNZIP Project. Information about the artists watch below.

13.30                Doors open

14.00                Start program (doors close)

14.05 - 14.30    Andrea Sartori & Julian Carax (audio) & Martin Boverhof (video)

14.35 - 15.00    Alan1 (audio) & Bas K (video)

15.05 - 15.30    Unzip Project (audio) & Daan Kars (video)


15.30 - 16.00    Break, doors open


16.00                2nd run, start program (doors close)

16.05 - 16.30    Andrea Sartori & Julian Carax (audio) & Martin Boverhof (video)

16.35 - 17.00    Alan1 (audio) & Bas K (video)

17.05 - 17.30    Unzip Project (audio) & Daan Kars (video)


Nota Bene        Only 172 places; free of entrance; so be on time or watch the Livestream at home!

Andrea Sartori was born in Verona on 1978, nowadays living in Bologna (Italy).
He started his musical path around '90, and got deeper during his staying in Bologna where he studied Informatics at University. Raptured by the electronic music, he quickly became a refinement man leader for the Italian underground music scene, thanks to his first album,"Il taglia code"(Persona records 2007). The sound of Andrea Sartori, also known as Deepalso, is characterized by fine grooves, evocative moods, humid reverbs, hypnotic synth patterns and many other elements that it's hard to summarize as a catalogue label.
After founding "Homework ass.", the decennial cultural association for the Italian digital culture promotion, he went into the sound design world, and very soon he felt the need of exploring new lands where the sound sciences find more interest, and in the end he moved in Berlin for two years. Here he had the chance of working together with very fine international producers and sound engineers who influenced his taste but above all his attitude for live performance. A bit concerned and bored about the usual electronic live acts played as laptop-set, Andrea is really convinced that technology can do better if used in a proper way. The frustration for the "Dogma people" - as he likes to say - and "Miseral Music", give him the motivation for opening new windows to the research and close some gates to the dissipative noisy "Social artist network"...So after some extra studies, he developed new ideas and knowledge for making his own instruments and music devices. he has silently been working on his digital controller called “The Sartophone”. Currently Andrea is exploring the possibilities of this motion-touch sensitive device together with the drummer Julian Carax. They set up an unpredictable show of weird speeches between rhythm and motion.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/andreasartori
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g9bOVyIwXU

Raffaele Martirani, aka Alan1, is Rome's latest Techno Electro star-in-the-making. He describes his sound as “dance, analog, 80's and dirty”. Though Warp was his first love and Dopplereffekt's Gerald Donald his favourite producer,
we clearly hear the influence of Roman collegues Marco Passarani, Francisco and Raiders of the Lost Arp, meaning they must have shared a few pizzas together, or at least one very tasty carbonara.
Using Ableton Live (what else?), his live set will have your feet jacking and your cellulite woobled away by wiggling Moog phatty basslines, analog synth stabs and Techno Funk from the future. Zoom in, zoom out!

Links:
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/alan1music
Clone : http://clone.nl/search/alan1

Marco Ligurgo and Toni Puglisi joined together to form the UNZIP project at the end of the 90s. Both with a passion for electronic music, they immediately take part in the LED (Link Electronic Department), becoming resident djs at the legendary LINK, the most famous underground place for Italian electronic music in the 90s. In this way they share the scene with the best of the Techno world, from Hawtin to Villalobos, from Aphex to Ellen Allien and Sven Vath.

Their need to find their own space to research and try out new sounds, pushes them to became promoters and top of the bill djs at the Kindergarten in Bologna, where their Playhouse night was born.
In a short time Kindergarten has become a cult club and hosted the best guest djs of the worldwide scene. In this way UNZIP become well-known in Italy but also abroad, and have been invited to prestigious clubs such as Bar25 and the Watergate in Berlin and the Barraca in Valencia and the Moog in Barcelona. Moreover they have been invited to important European electronic music festivals: Electrosplash in Valencia, Sonar in Barcelona but also Elettrowave in Arezzo, MUV in Florence, Elita in Milan and Panorama in Naples.

Among the most talented Italian djs, they are also regular guest dj in many popuar Italian clubs like Altavoz in Venice, Magazzini Generali in Milan and Tenax in Florence. Their music is a mix of Techo-minimal sounds and nu-house, short loop and analogic sounds.

Besides Kindergarten the UNZIP Project are resident djs in the most famus and big club in Italy: the Cocorico in Riccione the real temple of Italian techno music.
 
They also are music producer: their music is released on Minisketch, Memento and  Tenax Rec.
Now they are working for new stuff between Berlin and Bologna and they are going to launch their own label, related to the Playhouse at Kindergarten night.
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For the Italian Cultural Sunday “ Una Domenica Particolare “ UNZIP will present a special chill out dj session that will celebrate their 10 years of dj career.

Links:
www.myspace.com/unziproject
www.myspace.com/marcounzip
facebook: UNZIP project