Jessica Catron, Eric km Clark, David Kendall, Raven Chacon
Influences
noise, johnny cash, luigi nono, dodger stadium, nancy hefley bea, jessica catron, Wandelweisser, christian wolff, james tenney, Los Angeles, mark so, wilco, cat power, peter ablinger, Berlin, field recordings
Sounds Like
everything mixed into nothing; or "bright-eared" according to the Los Angeles Times (March 2006)
Existing in the period of my life which 20 years later will be summarized in a short sentence such as,
"Following a return to grad school for composition studies, Mr. Chang engaged in a vigorous stint of freelance performance work and organizing appearances at various gallery spaces for the purposes of presenting new and experimental music"
6th. of May the dkfrf will be in Montreal and in Hamburg. No internet connections, the plain geo/psychological/emotional notion that two episodes will take place at the same day on different continents is enough.
das kleine field recordings festival will transmit live on location from the cosy bar/theatre sowieso (sowieso-neukoelln. de) in Neukölln. Weisestrasse 24. U8 Leinestrasse
After the highly succesfull evening with the origami ripublika party, evapori and alexandre decoupigny
The noise legend from wedding Der Tapeman will make his appearance at the festival. He accepted the challenge to find some lost and accidental sounds in his vast archive of cassette recordings. What will come out from in between the noise thunders is a big surprise to all of us.
Marek Brandt (aka triPhaze) from privatelektro label / leipzig, will leave his alter ego at home, and bring recordings from his many travels to the poverty zones of Europe (not only in the eastern hemisphere).
Maikko is the special guest of the evening. To play at the festival he flew in from Turin in Italy. His will be a set that will evolve around the many recordings he made in Mexico
Due to sleeping children upstairs we will start rather early, at 21.37.
No problem to come early, you will like the bar, a kind of gesamtkunstwerk by its owner Marc van der Kemp.
Coming saturday 25th of Oktober the festival will dive deep into Neukölln, away from booming Reuterkiez to explore a new territory.
In the very nice and becoming bar sowieso (sowieso-neukoelln. de) there is also a little theater.
Berlin based Alexandre Decoupigny will bring recordings and an old piano from a room with an ear in Liverpool.
Also Berlin based and dkfrf regular Evapori will bring little objects from the woods. Maybe his performance can also be heard as a sonic essay on field recordings.
Origami Boe will perform after the break, and his set promises to be full of surprises. Anyone who has met and seen him last year can assure you that this is an occasion not to be missed.
the shows will start at 21.00 sharp, because of upstairs neighbours.
sowieso is in the weisestrasse 24 a parallel to the hermannstrasse U8 is Leihestrasse.
see you there or in case you cannot come this time, the next episode will be on november 15th.
the next episode...come yourself or tell your friends
20 th september sees one of the all time dkfrf veterans in action. Derek Holzer aka Macumbista will rock the house with his world wide recordings.
Adam Thomas (aka preslav literary school), the new kid in town, who has fastly gained recognition, has prepared a brand new set, based on his berlin experiences and observations.
Peter Prautzsch, the surprise guest during the stormy day of the tuned city event, will bring his recordings of mysterie and fernweh.
Saturday 20 September
Derek Holzer Adam Thomas Peter Prautzsch
O Tannenbaum Pflügerstrasse 79a Berlin Neukölln, U-bhf Schönleinstrasse
doors open and food at 20.00 shows start 22.00 approx.
On friday 5.September Albert Plank from Regensburg who also is the initiator of the das kleine field recordings festival in the Bavarian town will come to Berlin to present another set with recordings from his part of the world that has been a cul de sac for so many cold war years.
On this special evening he will be joined by Egyptian sound artist Mahmoud Refat, who will give you a chance to listen to Cairo.
Extra evening with Albert Plank and Mahmoud Refat hosted by take a dive Galerie "Takeadive" Solmsstrasse 19 10961 Berlin Kreuzberg U-Bahnhaltestelle: Mehringdamm oder Gneisenaustrasse starts 20. 30 sharp! really
What to expect? For sure it won't be a regular evening of field recordings: This evening will focus on the imitation of nature. And nature is the great reservoir of sounds. Scholars are talking about caves and the pictogrammes on the walls: deer and buffles, hunting and dancing. ..Caves with resonances that would carry the sounds into nature.
Did they imitate those sounds at those times? Would they have done it for artistic reasons? Or had they already figured out that they had to bow to some higher being? .. Will the scene on the 16th August resemble a cage or just a venue? What is to be found at the heart of field recordings?
