The Cooperation between the composer/zither player Leopold Hurt and the electronic musicians/DJs Andi and Hannes Teichmann dates back to a common performance at the festival Zither 4 (Munich) in 2001. What started as a spontaneous, spur of the moment collaboration between musicians from apparently very different musical spheres soon became a long-term project.
One of the first highlights of this rather unusual combination was the joint venture of performing a live soundtrack to the newly restored silent film Der heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain) (1926), a German alpine drama starring Luis Trenker and Leni Riefenstahl. Live sets followed in Club der Visionäre in Berlin, during the festival Zither 5 as well as another screening of Der heilige Berg with their live accompaniment, as part of the Serious Pop Festival at the cultural centre WUK in Vienna.
The musical starting point of the teichmann hurt project is the string instrument, the zither, whose live sounds are sent on an acoustic journey. With the help of a loop station single phrases are recorded and played back; creating a repetitive pattern that builds a musical framework for the sampler and the laptop. Extensive sequences will be drawn out in the process via delay loops, as well as analog tapedelay and other effects that together construct musical landscapes in which the zither player is allowed to move around freely. This mosaic of sound is accompanied by an electronic foundation provided by a drum machine and a Moog synthesizer, which in itself gains a particularly individual sound thanks to the zither.
Due to the nature of these live performances, with instrumental interaction on the one hand and effects on the other, the final musical form of each individual performance is only ever realized in the moment. Each and every concert is a new experience for musicians and audience alike. Clearly defined song structures interchange with improvisation of ambient character that fluidly evolve against an organic time signature. This unique effect is amplified by the use of historical sound material (samples) taken from the classical repertoire as well as from Alpine Folk Music.
The three musicians also collaborate with the video artist Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST, Berlin). Geist takes his live-material from mini cameras placed very close to the zither and the electronic devices. During the performance he mixes the live input with prerecorded video loops of characteristic natural landscapes in different focuses.
DOCKVILLE 3-Tage-Festival für Musik und Kunst vom 15. bis 17. August auf der Elbinsel Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
* über 50 Spitzenbands (Dockville-Player auf der Webseite) auf 2 Bühnen * Headliner spielen in voller Konzertlänge * außergewöhnliche Kunstinstallationen auf dem gesamten Festivalgelände * fulminantes Nachtprogramm garantiert lange Nächte! Unter anderem mit: DJ Feadz (Ed Banger), DJ Phono, DJ exel. Pauly (Fettes Brot), Egotronic, MIT * 3 Tage Urlaub auf der wunderschönen Elbinsel incl. Campingareal im Grünen! * vergünstigte Tickets noch bis zum 15. Juli!
Samstag 19. APRIL 2008, 24 Uhr
Ghostclub präsentiert: GROOVE REBELS
Support: Natalie Novak, L-ED
im Martin & Davis Eimsbüttler Chaussee 1-3, Hamburg
Mittwoch 30.04. 2008 ab 24 UhrLovetunes präsentiert:
TANZ IN DEN MAI mit:
ONUR ÖZER (VAKANT / Istanbul)
DJ PHONO (Deichkind / Hamburg)
A Different Jimi (egoexpress / Hamburg)
aen Pudel / Hamburg)
Den April hinter sich lassen und mit voll Karacho in den Mai tanzen - wild wirds werden: Auf der Lovetunes ist ausgiebiges Feiern zwar seit jeher Programm, doch das Line-Up am 30. April lässt diesmal keine Wünsche übrig: ONUR ÖZER, DJ PHONO, A DIFFERENT JIMI...und viele viele mehr. LOVETUNES empfiehlt für den Mai:
DIGITALISM - IDEALISM-TOUR 2008 am 10. Mai im
VIVO-Altona - Bahrenfelder Str. 254, Hamburg-Altona
Einlass 22 Uhr - Konzert-Beginn pünktlich 24 Uhr!DOCKVILLE-GALA am 23. Mai im Uebel & Gefährlich mit
Stereo Total, ADA, 1000 Robota, Castanets, Frank Spilker (DJ), Clintwood u.v.m. http://myspace. com/dockvilleGHOSTCLUB feat. PAUL KALKBRENNER am 31. Mai im Martin & Davis
Eimsbüttler Chaussee 1-3 /// http://www. myspace. com/ghostclubhamburg
UFFIE & DJ FEADZ, STEREO MCs und KRAWALL und REMIDEMI am Sa. 09.02./23:00 im
Uebel & Gefährlich (Feldstr. 66, 20359 Hamburg).
support: Tilman Tausendfreund, Bergee, Vioxx, Timo Burdorf & Chris Lohr
VVK: ermäßigt bis 26.01.08 € 12,-
Hey, check my new Videos. Its all made with a Loopstation, beatbox, Git, Shaker, Melodika,... . First songs of my first Album are uploaded next week:o))) Liebe Gruesse aus Berlin, der Konrad
A poem for your day:
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Rest In All Love Is
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I love you like this...
dark, i can barely see your eyes...
so dark my eyes are useless. My
heart opens wide its light on you
and your face brightens like the
static on a TV screen, or like the moment
we die and things begin to go all white
and
then
you're an angel laying before me...
the same one that has been there all along,
the one my eyes turned into something else and I
am ashamed I was deceived.
Then,
I see you, I see you like the energy that flows through my limbs,
now, like the breath that takes the universe and
gently creates another, now, like my feet walking
on glass, now, like I was never there.
I love you like I was never there. So gently, never there. In the dark
where I can barely see, and, rest in all that love is.
