Music by
Always Ask Your Wife (Johannes Bergmark and Tippi)
Main methods for us are:- improvisation
- unorthodox instruments and sound sources
- Johannes Bergmark: amplified objects, constructions
- Tippi: circuit-bent (electronically modified) toys, self-made electronics, micro modulars (virtual analog modular synthesizers)
A sample from a concert at Fylkingen the 9th of January, 2009:
A sample from a concert at “Öppet hus” in ateljéhuset WIP, Stockholm the 8th of May, 2009:
Short bios:
- Johannes Bergmark:
Bergmark plays improvised and live electronic music for invented instruments, selected objects and electronics, among other things. He has made many instruments of his own design and construction (as well as some traditional ones) and he also makes his own contact microphones.Bergmark is also an occasional writer, electro-acoustic music - and text-sound composer, sound poet and piano technician. In his attitude a skeptic and surrealist, not an artist. He has, however toured and collaborated with hundreds of other artists worldwide since the 90's. He also makes sound sculptures, interactive sound installations, performance art and teaches and lectures.
Residing in Stockholm, where he is active mostly in the organization for radical and experimental art Fylkingen (he was chairman 2002-2004 and is again 2009-), at the electronic music studio EMS and in the Surrealist Groups in Stockholm and Szczecin.
- Tippi:
Surrealist and Skeptic, physically oscillating between the two continents but mentally boundless. Self uneducated, in daily life speaks a language combined of three.Scalpels, glue, contact microphones, pincers and circuit bending equipment follow her on her trips as her main fields of activity so far includes collages, performance, objects, sound environments and music.
Conceptual inspirations from science, as well as pure usage of chance meetings in her work, creates a way of escaping easy descriptions of having a certain style. Driven by the spirit of inquiry, styleless and scattered is taking chances to collaborate with anybody ready to take risks of experimentation within art and beyond it.
Collaborations of Johannes and Tippi as a music duo:
Jörgen Adolfsson, Johan Boberg, Erotic Boulders (with Mitchell Brown, Damian Bisciglia, Joseph Hammer), Fågelpingis (with Tomas Halling and Jacob Ullberger), Kio Griffith, Sten-Olof Hellström, Daniel Miguel Karlsson, Luc Kerléo, Sven Larsson, Jonatan Liljedahl, Bobby Loachfillet, Herman Müntzing, Noisiv (Séamus O´Donnell, Joffrey Guillon & Jo Frgmnt Grys), Jair-Rohm Parker-Wells, Ann Rosén, Sören Runolf, Cecilia Wennerström, Per ÅhlundPlaces where Johannes and Tippi have played as a music duo:
Fylkingen, Stockholm, with FågelpingisFylkingen, with Johan Boberg, Luc Kerléo and Sören Runolf in the sound environment Soundcheck, Room Service, Resting Circuits & Semla Med Varm Mjölk
"Audio_Entropia 007 | Mak Nite" at Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw, PL
International Noise Conference Euro Tour at Fylkingen
"24 timmars improvisation" at Fylkingen
K-Salon, Berlin
Öppet hus in ateljéhuset WIP, Stockholm
California tour: at California Stage, on The 16th SoToDo Congress of Performance Art, Sacramento, California
Echo Curio (Echo Park, Los Angeles, California)
Club Dingaling at Hyperion Tavern (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California)
Composers Decomposed series at Heco's Palace, Oakland, California
Tom's, Berkeley, California
Fylkingen, with Luc Kerléo + Noisiv in the event “A Play-off, Battle, Friendly Match, Let's Get Sporty – elektronisk ljudmiljö och konsert”
In “Anfang - en kväll med konst och böcker för att markera ett nytt kapitel i boklådans historia!” in ateljéhuset wip:sthlm och Kulturbutik/Konsten, Stockholm, with Luc Kerléo. Pictures on the WIP Facebook page.
Fylkingen, with Luc Kerléo in the small festival Ljusfest
Tippi's musical instrument setup, June '09
Johannes Bergmark's musical instrument setup, June '09
Johannes Bergmark, Tippi, Herman Müntzing.
audio_entropia_007 & Mak Nite Project, Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw 20.03.2009.
Video: Mariusz Jodko, Maciek Bączyk
Tippi's and Johannes Bergmark's musical instrument setup, January '09