Pictures from the event by Evelina Hultqvist.
Pecha-kucha's Facebook event.
Till svensk version
Tu-We-Th 10-12 August GÖTEBORG Geiger.
- Tuesday 10 Participation in Pecha-Kucha, 7.30 pm, free entrance, Park Lane, Kungsportsavenyn 38.
Pictures from the event by Evelina Hultqvist.
Pecha-kucha's Facebook event.
- Wednesday 11 workshops, at Sockerbruket 26, in Klippan near Röda Sten, station Vagnhallen Majorna
2-5 pm workshop with Johannes Bergmark (discovery with contact microphones)
Presentation of some unusual entrances into experimental musical instrument acoustics, from traditional to modern DIY musicians. Learn how to build contact mikes and discover sounds in everyday objects otherwise hard to hear. Bring soldering equipment if you have, and any kind of objects for discovering the potential of turning them into musical instruments!
6-9 pm workshop with Luc Kerléo (workshop around an oscillator)
Learn how to build a primitive synthesizer as the basis of a complex system. No previous knowledge necessary. Bring soldering tools and electronic junk if you have! Contribute to the buildup of the crazy electronic system of the Mubil! In English.
Geiger's Facebook event.
- Thursday 12 at 12 noon a workshop for children in Trädgårdsföreningen Palmhuset. Part of Barnkalaset.
at 4 pm, Bältespännarparken in front of the big cirkus tent, performance in Kulturkalaset
August the 9th we came back together again, in Göteborg, all from their own different directions. Luc came bumping on a bus all the way from Nantes, our colleague came from a trip in england and I came again driving the van by myself from Stockholm, with the mp3player loaded with good podcasts. Anna Svensdotter helped us very much with fetching both Luc and our colleague, and took them to the apartment.
Our host was Geiger. We were lodged in Sven Rånlund's and Anna Eriksson's 4-room apartment in Majorna where we immediately felt at home. Sven and Anna themselves were at the New Music Incubator in Kalv. Fortunately, I had packed the van with a lot of food, which was good when meeting up with the hungry gang late at night.
The shortest and first entry was a presentation at Pecha-Kucha. The concept is to talk to 20 pictures which are shown 20 seconds each. We hade divided it into 4 parts:
1. I showed pictures on five instruments. 2. Luc showed pictures from different sound art works he had done. 3. Our colleague showed collages and I read poems to them, which I had written especially for those (a couple of years earlier) and
4. Pictures of and about the Mubil (the only action pictures we had were of course from Gerlesborg). Some of the poems I had to read in an extreme pace in order for them to take 20 seconds. Among the full house with about 500 (?) people in the audience, we met Fredrik and Joanna Hagstedt and Tomas Halling, except Anna Svensdotter and others from Geiger. Afterwards, the photographer Evelina Hultqvist took an action picture on me, Fredrik and Tomas, which we can use for the project we later did in Göteborg and Kinna in September-October, under the name JoHaHa.
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For mine and Luc's workshops, Geiger had rented the new venue of Koloni in Klippan, an intimate small place where the lower floor is in the cellar with sofas that can be suited for having sleeping guests and the top floor has a mini-kitchen and a small terrace with a combined bar and bathtub! It was the first time I carried through the workshop according to the plan and I discovered that I was so starved to speak about unusual instrument acoustics that there was no time left for the participants to make their own contact mikes. I had to adjust the balance for the next workshop. There were many fun discussions and aquaintances. Towards the end, my old companions Gun Lund and Lars Persson from 24kvadrat appeared, and they took me to an exciting tour in the new large localities they had achieved in the Sockerbruket area (which have since been inaugurated under the name Tredje Våningen (Third Floor)). After many years with the smallest dance stage in sweden, they now advance in order to install two larger stages, one for dance of course, but also one for sound art and other things they have long had an interest for. They immediately invited me for a future performance with the Stringed Stirrups. This musical performance/instrument they were among the first to book, under the large lights ladder at Unga Atalante in the 90ies, which people still remind me about sometimes. Mattias Rickardsson from Geiger came along on the tour – Geiger has been hunting for a good sound art stage, so this was of interest for them as well. Gun and Lars were undoubtedly positive to a collaboration. It's exciting to see history being written in this way right in front of your eyes! I wish them both good luck and I'm sure it will go well, not the least because they also have Mats Lindström of EMS to support them.
Starving, I had to skip my presence at Luc's workshop, but came back in the end in order to pack our stuff and it seemed to have gone well. |
Luc Kerléo:
2nd date: Göteborg, Kultur Festival, aug. 11th 12th
-the context: a big festival in a big city, lot of people in centertown |
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As we were about to take the van, a number of police were gathering aroud it, looking suspicious. My police paranioa hit me and I wondered what I had done wrong. They couldn't say anything more than that “it's not so elegantly parked ... and it is a wreck, isn't it ... and so it is FRENCH! A true THIEF CAR!” Our colleague responded them, offended, to not intimidate our nice car!
Our colleague's workshop for children was placed in the beautiful Palmhuset (Palm Tree House) in Trädgårdsföreningen (Garden Society). Our hosts were Barnkalaset (Children's Party)/Kulturkalaset (Culture Party). They booked her in on a very short notice. Our colleague had been preparing a fascinating program with picture- and poetry experiments for a long time and it would have beenvery exciting to see how the children would have responded to it – if anyone had come! The arranger (Barnkalaset) didn't seem to have done much more work other than putting it on their web site and hoping for passers-by. With the park full of strolling families with children, martial arts and puppet theatre with powerful loadspeakers and large gestures, it was obvious that the difference with this workshop didn't come through. It would have been necessary with an active booking procedure or some such thing so that those who went there knew that this was what they wanted. A disappointment. Our colleague then needed to rest, and since we didn't have the time to find cooperating artists in Göteborg, our performance in the middle of the Kulturkalaset consisted of a duo with me and Luc. Earlier, when I discussed with Mattias Rickardsson about the pros and cons about participating in such a big popular event, eventually we concluded together to take the risk of trying it. There were wandering people and muzak/noise everywhere. We tried a half-locked version: the lower doors remained closed so that I, booked-in in the rear, was sitting a bit like by an open window. |
-van performance: The van was parked in a crowdy area with a lot of people walking around, going to different entertainment points. We performed during a bit less than one hour. |
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Some curious but skeptical youth talked ironically and cool-minded with me a few minutes while I played: “Such fine sounds.” – Do you think so, thanks, I think so too.” Among the remaining friends in the crowd were Rickard Widerberg, Emma Nordlund and again Fredrik Hagstedt and Tomas Halling. Afterwards, Tomas recorded a small improvised gag through a toilet roll where I participate a bit (he filled it up with some gags of his own and later put it on youtube). Luc was going on with his sounds about twice as long as me, even when I started to drive away from there!
Clean the apartment, get lost, leave the key to Christian Pallin, get lost again, rain and towards Kalv. |