bohemian drips. & Mellowtown present:
Walls Will Fall × The 49 Trumpets of Jericho
a site-specific composition by Mazen Kerbaj
at the old water reservoir of Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg
Walls Will Fall is the world premiere of a site-specific composition by the musician, cartoonist and composer Mazen Kerbaj. It guides 49 Berlin trumpeters through the large water reservoir in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg.
„presents: Walls Will Fall. The 49 trumpets of Jericho“ weiterlesen
Let’s not forget that many of us take it as a given to be sitting in a gender-mixed audience, listening to a single female voice.
Let’s not forget about the joy of dancing together in public.
Let’s not forget about the freedom to give concerts, without having to ask for a permit from an institution.
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, we hereby present some female role models from the music of Iran.
„International Women’s Day: Role models from Iran“ weiterlesen
Tyshawn Sorey (*1980) is a composer, performer, educator, scholar, percussionist, trombonist, and pianist from Newark/USA. He currently lives and works in New York. He completed his doctoral studies at Columbia University this year and has taken up a professorship at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in September, a position once held by his mentor, the composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton.
Sorey is a 2017 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for “assimilating and transforming ideas from a broad spectrum of musical idioms and defying distinctions between genres, composition, and improvisation in a singular expression of contemporary music.” He has been Artist in Residence at this year’s Jazzfest Berlin. In the interview he talks about and being limited to a jazz drummer, his experiences in marching bands and the benefits of cookware.
Photos: Camille Blake
„To create a context for a living organism: Tyshawn Sorey“ weiterlesen
A drum kit consists of big and small drums and cymbals. At least on paper. But in reality we see highly individualized drum kits that can reveal the most fascinating stories about the musicians playing them. So here is your turn: just match the right drum kit with the right drummer. You can win a tambourine by SONOR as a reward for your speculation. Because it is never too late to learn a musical instrument.
Myriam Van Imschoot makes performances, creates sound poetry and vocal pieces, exhibits video and sound installations. She holds a unique position in the Belgian art field, moving between institutional fields and media, with a keen interest to experiment with contexts when not creating her own. After a nine-month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Myriam Van Imschoot presented Yodel Portrait Phil Minton, a new film on the British singer and living legend Phil Minton in early 2017. Van Imschoot had an international breakthrough with the vocal and radiophonic performance What Nature Says (2015), which will be shown in Berlin, October 4–5 at Hebbel am Ufer, HAU3.
In the interview, she talks about human sounds without using the vocal cords, her interest in yodeling and she denominates the detriment of our living sound archives.
Marte Röling (*1939) is a painter and sculptor from The Netherlands. She learned to draw from her father Gé Röling, who was also her teacher at the Rijksakademie (The Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam). From her mother, the painter Martine Antonie (Grolle), she learned in essence to look through things to the very core of the visible world.
Röling experienced success from a very young age. She was renowned for her fashion drawings for newspaper Het Parool, which have reached a number of over 1000 in 12 years. In the 1960s, Alan Bates, then representing the Dutch Label Fontana Records, commissioned Röling to design a series of album covers for avant-garde jazz releases.
In the interview, Marte Röling talks about her inspirations, a yellow ear and her surprise about her covers being exhibited in record stores.
We’re happy to announce the first Berlin concert of Brazilian vocalist Grazie Wirtti with Matias Arriazu from Argentina on 8-string guitar.
Premiered in Germany by Johanna Bock.
Proudly presented at Salon am Moritzplatz in Berlin.
„Presents: Grazie Wirtti (BR) & Matias Arriazu (ARG)“ weiterlesen
Has live music become irrelevant because of the playlists on your smartphone?
No, quite the contrary.
Let’s investigate how much music fits into the world’s smallest performing space; Berlin’s last existing telephone booths. Analog meets acoustic, nostalgia meets the contemporary. Enjoy the trip.
Visit our older sista with synthetic music for dancing, the Teledisko:
http://www.teledisko.com/
Have a look at these people recording international musicians in Berlin’s staircases:
http://www.stairsberlin.com/11628864
Episode 19 – we proudly present Jawad Salkhordeh
Has live music become irrelevant because of the playlists on your smartphone?
No, quite the contrary.
Let’s investigate how much music fits into the world’s smallest performing space; Berlin’s last existing telephone booths. Analog meets acoustic, nostalgia meets the contemporary. Enjoy the trip.
Visit our older sista with synthetic music for dancing, the Teledisko:
http://www.teledisko.com/
Have a look at these people recording international musicians in Berlin’s staircases:
http://www.stairsberlin.com/11628864
Episode 18 – we proudly present Niko Meinhold
We recently had the honour and joy to present five concerts of cellist, composer and improviser Helen Gillet from New Orleans in Berlin. Here’s a small review in pictures and sounds. With our favorite song.
