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spannungsbögen

21.02.2012

in between

steiß

18.02.2012

manchmal war etwas schon teil einer reihe, noch bewor es sie
gab: ein nachtrag zu summ aus dem januar 2010

brandeilig

16.02.2012

lost in words

idylle #2

14.02.2012

zur kühlen ecke | normalnull

video premiere & concert

I met Ronni and Ingo while sharing an art space during the 48 Hours Neukölln festival and was touched by their performance. Ronni and I are currently working on a multimedia project together “4EL” and asked if I would be willing to do some video work for her duo project with Ingo, to which I happily agreed.

Spiritual Worldmusic, Sound Improvisation Poetry and Video Art

The vocal artist and voice magician Ronni Gilla and the poetic narrator Ingo Hampe create an harmonic, energetic, musical female-male reunion. The singing, the sounds and the poetry give birth to ancient mystic figures that take the audience on a journey through times and dimensions.

www.ronningo.de

February 19, 2012
Sontags Club - Greifenhagener Str. 28
10437 Berlin | 3pm

Ronni Gilla – vocal art, Tibetan singing bowls, bells, gongs
Ingo Hampe – text and narration
Ceven Knowles – video art

critique

11.02.2012

I got the privilege last Sunday to attend the 30^th year anniversary party of Touch Music label in Berlin as part of the CTM Festival. It was a wonderful event with a very impressive lineup. The setting was so perfect and the sound was so extraordinary, which made it difficult to concentrate on making actual photography without being intrusive thus disrupting the mood (no flash – no tripod).

I'm a bit annoyed with myself and this particular camera work. The location was gorgeous and gave the opportunity to work with shadows and massive forms to improvise with alongside sensationally beautiful sound pieces, yet there I was fighting with how to handle the camera without an annoying AF-assist illuminator breaking the darkness or the sound of the lens-reflex caught in a moment of silence or the guesswork of aperture versus manual focusing (without AF-illuminator one must use manual focus in order to take a photo in a very dark room, or perhaps I'm missing something?) or trying to hold still as to not make too much blur. In such situations one wants to use their camera for what it was made for rather than a little thinking and measuring computer.

I'm turning off these little helpful devices and reducing back down to the original completely manual way of photography for a while.

As far as the line up went Touch has some of the most quality artfull music and sound artists on one label. It was at times breathtaking to be in such a live installation. Here are some links to the performers that were there:

Hildur Guðnadóttir (played her new album for us - it's an amazing work!)

The Eternal Chord (recording of what played at the location: Passionskirche, Berlin)

Jana Winderen (one of the most incredible sound sculptures I've ever witnessed - it transformed the entire church into someplace else)

Marcus Davidson (brilliant)

Charles Matthews (filled every millilitre of air with beautiful organ)

Eleh (captivating pianist)

Organology (ensemble including Marcus Davidson)