Beer Barrel Polka Teremin Reunion
  ADD soundsystem ver. 2.0
  Postcards From Berlin
   
 
25. April 2008, public space, CZ_Prague
Miloš Vojtěchovský (CZ)
Mlok, Institute of Intermedia
performance, streaming
 
BBTeremin Polka Reunion is a sound and space intervention in the public domain. It consists of as many as possible players playing together the accordion and teremins. It is situation for indeteremied number of performers in Prague, Las Vegas, Mexico, New York, or any other city or villages.
The Internet broadcast will rejoin the single players or groups in different locations and cultural contexts.

Round square or Dejvice square with large park in the middle offers the possibility of gathering of crowd of people playing accordeon or don´ t play accordeon or teremin.
Technical infrastructure offers the possibilty to stream sound and image on internet

Musical theme is the international evergreen Beer Barrel Polka, aka Skoda lásky, composed by Jaromír Vejvoda in 1927.
Under the name Beer Barrel Polka became during the second world war this song a symbol of democratic alliance against the Nacis and Totality.

The concert of accordion players is joined by sound of teremin a first electronic musical instrument, conected with rather different cultural framework.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Barrel_Polka
members.fortunecity.com/..barrel_2.html
   

 
30. April – 01. June 2008, Ciant Gallery, CZ_Prague
rRadim Labuda (SK/CZ) (project author), Darina Alster (production, CIANT), Milan Guštár (CZ) (technical support)
CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies
installation, performance, opening/exhibition
 
Interactive installation and performance series

Project ADD SOUNDSYSTEM is a sound installation conceived as an
open system and tool for other artists to realize their own sound content. ADD SOUNDSYSTEM can become a space for some form of music production or performance, it can be used as a sound installation or a sonic playground for a workshop. The aim is to create a specific social context, space for encounters, communication and participation. ADD SOUNDSYSTEM oscilates between different types of sound production and perception. It decentralizes the position of musician / performer and obliterates both creative and physical gap between the creator and the audience. Installation is designed to be as transparent, easily understood and operated for any audience member.

ADD SOUNDSYSTEM consists of two basic connected components:
mixing table and suspended loudspeaker grid. The mixing table is a combinatoric matrix constructed from simple electronic elements. It contains five input units and a larger number of output units. Each output unit is a very simple mixer which allows to produce a variable mix of the five inputs fed into the system. Sound producers and audience take their places and operate input and output units according to the current situation (music production, performance, workshop, installation). The most typical would be a situation where the output units are handled by the audience and inputs are taken by the creator/s.

The loudspeaker grid contains number of single loudspeakers which is double the number of output units - as the speakers are in stereo pairs. Each output unit is connected to a pair of speakers. Speakers are suspended under the gallery ceiling and spaced out into an even grid creating a sound field. This situation allows the audience to actively shape the sound field created in the gallery. The perception of the sound composition then depends on the listener’s position in space which means that each listener’s experience is individual and unique.

Performances by:
Anja Kaufmann
Beseppy
Dan Vlček
Darina Alster
DJ Francois Perrin
Krusha
Martin Janíček
Michal Cabowitz
Michal Mariánek
Rentip
Tomáš Vaněk
Mark Eisler
 


rRadim Labuda (born 1976) has studied Faculty of Architecture at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Prof. Miloš Šejn and Prof. Michael Bielický. In 2004 he received a semester exchange at San Francisco Art Institute. In 2005 has become finalist for the Oskár Čepan Award in Slovakia. Graduated in 2006. Since 2004 his work is focused on the medium of video. Exhibited nationally and internationally.

http://radimradim.org
 
   

 
27. April 2008 15h, public space, DE_Berlin
30. April 2008 18h, public space, CZ_Prague
Gaby Bila-Günther aka Lady Gaby (DE)
performance
 
Spokenword/movement performance in Berlin Kreuzberg 36. The text and movement focuses on urban stories in site specific places of Berlin's Kreuzberg 36 area through the eyes of an expat. Kreuzberg 36 is where I live and work as an artist. The area inspires me daily. Its independence, arhitecture, its streets, its parks, its public artI. The performance will tackle many issues such as self expressions, public art, site specific impressions, political and social matters, urban issues, cultural jamming, multiculturalism through spokenword and movement. The performances will move around from place to place, a Half an hour intervals. Site specific performances live from various public spaces in Berlin's kreuzberg, in front of various sites where the grafitti POET is sprayed. from an unkown public artist. POET tags will feature as the background of my spokenword performances that will embrace many aspects of the Kreuzberg 36 area in Berlin. Prior to the performances I will like to collect some written thoughts and visuals depicting various artists' urban environment. These will be used to compose spokenword pieces that reflects everyones thoughts and realites. These pieces will be performed in Prague. I would like to get in touch with many of the participating artists in this festival. I invite these artists to write to me about their urban environment, about their places...

All thoughts and visuals should be sent to the blog of myspace site: http://www.myspace.com/wonderclub by the 15th april, 2008
 


Gaby Bila-Günther aka lady gaby is a published writer whose reviews, poetry and nonfiction articles have appeared in Australia, Norway, Sweden, USA, Germany, and England. She curates the monthly performance and poetry show, FUEL in Berlin and writes for www.dorfdisco.de the column: lady gaby’s world. Besides performance shows, lady gaby promotes rock and roll groups at some of Berlin’s wicked and eclectic clubs: King Kong Klub, Bassy Cowboy Club, Schokoladen, Ausland, Zentrale Randlage., Wendel clubcafe and Barbie Deinhoffs.

http://ladygaby.awardspace.com/
 
   
 
 
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