THESADDJ.COM new media art and open source culture » hoerbar http://www.thesaddj.com A blog around free and open source art works and tools, shared knowledge, constructive criticism, sci-tech innovations and net behaviours. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Report Ausklang Festival http://www.thesaddj.com/report-ausklang-festival/ http://www.thesaddj.com/report-ausklang-festival/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:04:44 +0000 Marco Donnarumma http://www.thesaddj.com/?p=244 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/

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On 28th December i will be really glad to perform my work I C::ntr::l Nature (nowave/visual/noise audiovisual live improvisation) at Ausklang Festival at Hoerbar, Hamburg.
The artists invited:

  • Felix Kubin (HH)
    (Futuristische Popmusik / Elektroakustik)
  • Napalmed (Tschechien)
    (Jazz Noise Free Industrial Improvisation)
  • The !S.A.D!
  • Trautonia Capra (HH)
    (Elektronisches Kunstlied mit Theremin + Gesang)
  • Asmus Tietchens (HH)
    (Elektronische Musik / Klangforschung)
  • Bruno & Michelle are smiling (HH)
    (Bös-komischer High-Speed-Pop)

“The Hörbar is the central meeting point for consumers and producers of electronic, electroacoustic and industrial music in Hamburg, every Wednesday from 9 pm to 1 am in the rooms of the B-Movie in Hamburg St.Pauli. Every last Friday in a month there is a concert with different music projects, performance artists, lectures or/and films.

“Since 1995 the Hörbar organizes every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the ‘Jahresausklangfestival’ (German for “year’s last notes”). On two subsequent evenings six to eight artists and groups perform in the movie theater. Moreover labels releasing and distributing experimental music are invited to build up their stands and present and sell their products.”

more info: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/?Ausklangfestival_2008:Weitere_Infos

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