Report Ausklang Festival
Here i am, after a long stop. Many unexpected events didn’t allow me to keep on writing continuosly.
So i had the pleasure to spend few days in Hamburg in the end of the 2008 to take part in the annual Ausklang festival. The festival is the reference meeting point for the local experimental scene. Every year some representative artists from the Hamburg scene plus two foreigners artists play their shows at Hoerbar, an old cinema out of use, recycled in a unique way by the organizators. The Hoerbar is one of this cultural spaces that are slowly disappearing in Europe.
They organize concerts every week and a real community of artists and passionate of experimental music and media is living and sharing ideas and ispirations in a familiar and warm atmosphere. totally out of any kind business mentality, but only focusing on the pure passion for the sound. I remember some places like that in Italy a long long time ago, some old memories which makes me nostalgic.
During the Ausklang Festival you can also enjoy and taste one of the best experimental music collection i’ve ever seen out there, thanks to some kind guys running their own music distribution service. They come at Hoerbar and build there this unique exhibition of incredibly rare materials, cassettes, cd, minitapes, dvd, minicd … you’ll find there every kind of support you can imagine, and every kind of experimental music you have always dreamed of. I was embarassed for two days cause i didn’t know what to buy,… i would have bought everything!!
The line-up of the festival show an excellent quality. Many different approaches to experimental music made this festival a little but amazing showcase of arts.
Trautonia Capra (voce, synth, gothic electronics)
Napalmed (historical free-jazz, noise, harshcore duo from Czech Rep.)
Felix Kubin (Futuristic experimental pop musik from Hamburg)
Unfortunately i wasn’t able to make pictures of his show. He created a nice atmosphere with his hyper-delicate electronic music and a live score of an ancient black&white movie.
On the second day…
The SAD (nowave/visual/noise free audiovisual improvisation from Italy)
Bruno&Michelle are smiling (hironic high-speed pop from Hamburg)
Asmus Tietchens (Electronic music, soundscape)
Special thanks to Stefan and Robert at Hoerbar for taking care of me
and to Kera&Andrè from Incite!! great times in Hamburg thanks to you all…
more infos: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/en/
May 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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