Report Max.Experimentell #5
May 25th, 2008Arrive in Stuttgart quiet early in the afternoon. Meet up with Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo), take the metro and arrive at Atelierhaus. A lovely building in Stuttgart fit with atelier of different artists. Meet Wendelin Büchler and all toghether we go to have a kebab and a beer.
This is how started my two days experience at Max.Experimentell, monthly review about experimental music, noise, live improvising and multimedia in Stuttgart & Ludwigsburg (DE) who have already hosted such great musicians as Gino Robair (US), Polvere (IT).
On the first night of this 5th edition of the review Ezramo&Büchler duo invited me and others german artists at their atelier in Stuttgart to have a jam session all night long. The atmosphere was great…
- The !S.A.D! – bass, live electronics
- Ezramo – Vocal, live electronics
- Wendelin Büchler – Guitar, live electronics
- Michael Jotter – Undefined phonetic objects
- Jörg Koch – Bass, live electronics
- plus more guests…
All in a circle we played toghether improvised soundscapes, sound texture, music for several hours, and a close, hyper-interested public has contribute to create a familiar, but warm and professional situation. Soon i should be able to upload the live recordings from that night.The day after was even better…
We moved to Ludwigsburg, a small nice town really close to Stuttgart, and after a semi-italian breakfast and some stimulating and passionate conversations we arrived to Max.Strasse, wonderful bar and exhibition space in Maxstrasse eins in Ludwigsburg.
I started to setup everything for my audiovisual improvising performance I C::ntr::l Nature in the gallery, and after a while arrived also Jörg Koch, Barbara and Mark Kysela, great improvised music trio from Stuttgart.
At nine and a half the show began!
Kysela&Jörg Koch trio let us taste their sound research at the borders between noise-music, spoken words, concrete poetry and Wintermächen. For me it was one of the best concerts i’ve ever seen. A great tension during all the liveset, sonic gestures, real-time processing of prepared harp, saxophone and objects, plus a great and brilliant auto-irony.
Not a simple performance but they made it human, funny and intensive… public was amazed.
Then it’s my turn!
I was a bit anxious about this performance cause public was totally formed by experienced artists and also ’cause i had to fix some technical problems due to my last performance in Paris at Vision(’R)Sonic.
In the end i sitted on the floor, among my bass, laptop and sound objects and all the people came to sit close to me. The space was great and contribute in a relevant way to the success of the performance. After few minutes of uncertainty i started to feel the positive tension grow in me and in the public’s eyes and i started to C::ntr::l my butterflies.
Half an hour later people was clapping hands in one of the warmest way that i have ever felt arond my gigs. I explained the whole project around I C::ntr::l Nature, the custom made software i want to publish for free and so on, and people get so interested!
When i finished my brief speech people was so excited that i was asked to play some more music… so i abandoned myself to an intimate, noisy and melancholic introspection…
After i ended the performance four, five people (among them Rue- german musician) came to me asking more infos about the project and we had some really constructive conversations… it was such a great satisfaction for me, and i learned a lot from the words that were flowing that night.
In the end we had some more beers, exchanged Max and PD patches with Jörg Koch, connected people with Kyselas, Ezramo, Wendelin and myself, talked a bit more with Joanna, the amazing person who also run Max.Strasse and finally got home for my last night in Stuttgart.
Special thanks to all the people who made this days amazing… i think it was one of the best situation i will remember… professionality, humanity, good feelings and a lot of ideas.
Links:
www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell
www.maxstrasse1.de
www.kyselas.de
www.elektrominibarklingelton.de
www.joergkoch.de
