Apparatjik's second album, entitled 'Square Peg In A Round Hole' will be formally released 21st February 2012.

The first version of the album was previously made available through the Apparatjik World iPad app and via email to the participants of the agreeneryouniverse project.

A further ten versions will be available in the run up to the full release, giving fans the opportunity to be a part of the production of the final album.

Discussion and further news in the forum

News has emerged of an Apparatjik performance for the autumn. The band will perform as part of the steirischer herbst Festival of New Art at the Orpheum Theatre in Graz, Austria on 15th October 2011.

Facebook event

Last.fm event

steirischer herbst

Orpheum

A press release, presumably giving more details and ticket info will be available shortly.

Follow the news of this performance in the discussion thread

This weekend sees the final two performances to close the 'Light Space Modulator' project at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Details for the two shows:

26th March: Doors at 8 pm ; Live performance 9 - 10 pm

27th March: Doors at 8 pm ; Live performance 9 - 10.30 pm  
'Catherdal Footsteps'
This final show will be a special interactive performance featuring the Deutsches Kammerorchester performing the footsteps of the exhibition's visitors and conducted by Magne A. The show is dedicated to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect of the Neue Nationalgalerie (this day being the 125th anniversary of his birth)

Travel and accomodation advice for Berlin (including the location of the Apparatjik smart car) is now on our forum. (Many thanks to rachel333 for the info). Photos and discussion of the performances can also be found at the same link.

Three of the Apparatchick team will be in Berlin over the weekend;  tweeting updates and photos from Thursday to Sunday, of the exhibition and performances, using the official apparatchickcom twitter account. (Many thanks to Catherine, Caterina & Denise).

Tonight sees the first of three Apparatjik performances at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin as part of the 'Light Space Modulator' project.

The program for tonight, 12th March is as follows:
Doors at 8pm and performance 9 - 10 pm.

Apparatjik will perform inside a large-scale cube from which moving images will project onto the surrounding glass structure of the building.

Keep up to date with news, videos & photos from the performance as they come in, on the forum and on tumblr.

The exhibition part of the project will also be situated in the glass hall of the Gallery, running between 13th - 25th March. Entry to the exhibition is free.

Daytime program: 'Responsive Light Space Modulator'
10 am - 6 pm Tue - Fri // 11 am - 10 pm Sat - Sun

Evening program: 'Apparatjik tv & film'
6 pm - 10 pm Tue - Sun

Night program: 'Pixel City'
10 pm - 2 am Tue - Sun

A further two performances will close the project on the 26th & 27th March. Tickets, priced at €29 are still available from www.apparatjik-tickets.com. Details for these two shows:

26th March: Doors at 8 pm ; Live performance 9 - 10 pm

27th March: Doors at 8 pm ; Live performance 9 - 10.30 pm   'Catherdal Footsteps'
The final show will be a special interactive performance with the Deutsches Kammerorchester and is dedicated to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect of the Neue Nationalgalerie (this day being the 125th anniversary of his birth)

Apparatjik recently contributed a mini-summit to the 'Globe' art, performance & music program held at the Deutsche Bank Towers in Frankfurt.

The 3 day summit took place between 2nd - 4th March and involved a talk on "Sustaining Creativity - Creating Sustainability" as well as other discussions and a special iPad disco performance.

The guys also performed in the cube during the opening ceremony of the Deutsche Bank Towers on 25th February. Watch videos of Snow Crystals, Look Kids and Arrow and Bow from the performance on youtube.

The guys were once again dishing out free zonk, and this time it was edible!

Apparatjik are due to perform their ‘apparatjik light space modulator’ show at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, on the 12th, 26th & 27th of March, with a special Apparatjik installation between performance dates.

A limited number of tickets will be available from theoutland tomorrow at 10am (GMT) onwards.

Full bulletin here.  Discussions here.

Facebook Event 12th March // Facebook Event 26th March // Facebook Event 27th March

And ticket info from the horse’s mouth -

Apparatjik Feb 1st, 10am UK - theoutland.com €25 each plus handling/shipping.

Apparatjik have recently signed up to Ping, the new social network side of iTunes. Ping enables users to follow their favourite bands and artists, and allows artists to share pictures, videos and other interesting tidbits.

It's as annoying as the rest of iTunes tho and I doubt it'll dampen their fondness for posting random stuff on facebook any time soon, so if you have an aversion to iTunes, like me, you probably won't be missing much.

In other news, Magne has promised in a recent Radio 2 interview that the band have more exciting shenanigans planned for 2011 -

"Well yeah, there's a lot of hoovering to be done around the house on the 5th of December, so I am gonna be starting my new career as a domesticated animal (laughs). Other than that I assume that it will be much the same as it has been, I have always juggled a career as a visual artist running parallel to music. The only real difference is that a-ha won't be recording and won't be touring. And I will be looking forward to collaborating with other musicians and musical projects, whether it be writing or recording, or indeed crossing over into other areas, like this side project with my friends from other bands like Coldplay and Mew, through this Apparatjik thing that we have going. I look forward to a few very exciting things with those guys in 2011. Other than that I will be exhibiting and writing..."

Thanks to Catherine for posting this on the forum.

Apparatjik Statement to coincide with the performance at the Serpentine Gallery 2010