Mika Vainio is best known as being half of the widely acclaimed electronic music formation 'Pan Sonic'. But even though he has exhibited in some of Europe's most important art venues and collaborated with the elite of the contemporary art-scene, the rest of his oeuvre is less known. The publication 'Time Examined' by raster-noton, the German label for minimal electronic music, aims to change this with a chronological overview of Vainio's wanderings throughout music, installation, performance and video. The book plus two audio cd's is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the audio-visual work of artists associated with raster-noton. For the accompanying exhibition raster-noton and LAb[au], the Belgian electronic arts trio, join forces to retrospect Mika Vainio's oeuvre; an attempt to make tangible 12 years artistic creation.

For the accompanying exhibition raster-noton and LAb[au] / MediaRuimte join forces to retrospect Mika Vainio's oeuvre; an attempt to make tangible 12 years artistic creation:'Mika Vainio's work is not so much about structure or formal reductionism per se, as many of his fellow artists and musicians have been doing over the same span of years: rather, it has to do with the aura of structure, with the halo around rhythm, and the effects of sound as it erodes the space - physical and mental - around it, melts within it, hits and scratches it or softly enwraps it.' _ Daniela Cascella

Producer:
Raster-Noton

Coproducer:
LAb[au], MediaRuimte

Especially for the occasion Mika Vainio will exhibit a new sound piece, based on MediaRuimte's sonorities and constituted by two looping compositions of different length, transmitted by radio-transmitters and played by several tube-radios distributed in the gallery. The soundscape is constituted by the overlap and time-shift of both compositions and spatial setup of the radios. The exhibition will feature the publication by rendering book-extracts navigable by microfilm reader and sound-extracts audible by listening post.