Boy oh boy oh boy! If in Berlin, or anywhere near and around, don’t miss the chance to experience ICTUS ensemble‘ Liquid Room VI! Pointing out possible variations for perception of temporality, this 4 hour multiple stage spectacle is just perfect for those who see, listen and feel music as possibility to combine experiencing pleasure+thought……
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Sounding Aurora
Six planks of wood. Six percussionist. And a trippiest of journeys. The pulse begins sharply, but soft. Steady, intricate intertwining of different pulsations are starting to build a twofold entity of sound’s invasion. The beating of the timber. Whose inner voice starts to seep into the air. The pulsating beats remind on heart beats, and…
Capturing the very essence of natural movements
“capturing the very essence of natural movements. In the movements of each piece, every part is necessary. In that respect, the form follows the function. My work is the manifestation of ideas that come to me from the natural world. The grace and form of all living things, and the way they interact, leaves me…
strincussion [strings+percussion] = magic
Yaybahar – completely acoustic, electronics free, instrument designed by Görkem Şen, with sounds like electronic universe of stones and metal.
micro world. macro beauty.
THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification. Klaus Kemp has devoted…
Spotted: Composers Doing Normal Shit
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The birth of the Clapping (music)
“A late evening in Brussels, 1972, Steve Reich attends an ill-performed night of flamenco in a cheap nightclub. He and his ensemble deride the playing, grimace through the singing but are suddenly struck by a moment of epiphany as the dancers bring hands together in the corrillo for a section of Palmas. Walking out into…
Sound of Space
Although space is a vacuum, sound does exist in it. Not as pulsing waves through the air how we perceive it, but as electromagnetic vibrations -electromagnetic waves that pulsate at the same wavelength as the sound waves… so we can actually hear the sounds in(of)space. The specially designed instruments on several NASA probes, including Voyager,…
Hands of Bresson
“The things one can express with the hands…” – Robert Bresson “A work of archival criticism that forgoes the language of rigour for that of rapture… here are hands – votive, tender, purloining, trembling – that make me want to raise my own hands in gratitude to this mysterious poet.” – Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight &…
the man who planted trees
“The Man Who Planted Trees (L’homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as “The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met, and The Man Who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness”, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It was adapted to this animated short by Frédéric…