oscillators and fruit-salad at BHC collective

A fruit-salad will be served at the bhc-collective opening this Saturday. It is gonna be delicious in taste and sound. Oscillator signals will be send through both your dish and your body; you are welcome to have a try and become a living switch.

After that Simon Berz and matchees are gonna perform an atmospheric live electronic set with circuit-bent devices. It is our challenge to stay beneath 70dB...



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concert with ayankoko at salonbruit

salon bruit

live electronics and guitar by ayankoko joined by matchees playing oscillators and circuit-bent devices.
an improvised set of static sounds and minimal noise.

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Galerie Waschhaus
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concert

Two nice circuit concerts the next days at "Keller der Erkenntnis"

In a beautiful little cellar at Koppenhagener Str. 14 / Berlin

This time with Simon Berz from Zürich www.badabum.ch

nice place, good people, great sounds, no entrance

six white horses at madame claude

Dear lovers and haters of strange music,

we gonna have a gig at madame claude on the 3. of November and
it would be really nice to see you there.

we are the six white horses

wieland : drum computer, effects, keyboard
preslav literary school: tapes, fieldrecordings, keyboard and guitar
matchees: circuit bendings, oscillators

and ayankoko

laptop and devices (link)

you can check out some recordings on our session site

TILL THEN!

here is some video of the start of the concert

with "Walden Kunstausstellungen" at the "5. Berliner Kunstsalon"

We are happy to announce that "balloon treatment" is on display with "Walden Kunstaustellungen"at the "5th Berliner Kunstsalon".
Further artist on show are Ralf Schreiber, Simon Berz, Ralph Bageritz, Reinhold Gottwald, Henrik Jacob.

balloon treatment

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The installation uses balloons as resonating bodies, employes them as speakers and microphones. The observer is free to replace the balloons, create feedback or indicate sounds. "balloon treatment"can be modulated and played. Some balloons are provided with LEDs so they can visually indicate the acoustic input signals.

Wilm Thoben & Klaas Hübner
Berlin 2008 for "loadz of berloons"

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LOADZ OF BERLOONS

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circuit-concert at "Mutationsklub"

We gonna play on this really lovely and nice event with our circuits. till then!

Galerie Vorspiel
Mutationsklub

Joint Custody Projekt Berlin

"You can never go home again
The title of the show refers to an American cliché, which proposes that as we move through life our assertion of what is "home" invariably changes. Many of you are not native to Berlin, Germany, or Europe itself. Some of you may have been born and raised here. You represent a typically diverse population of a large metropolis. We are interested in the proximity or distance, both cultural and emotional, from what you consider home.

Your task is to reflect on what home means to you. Where do you come from, and where do you find yourself now? Discover how your partner expresses these reflections and incorporate them. Your piece should claim a unified idea of home, or the absence of home. How do you answer the questions, 'Where are you from' and 'What is your home?' As the process develops, you should try to recognize what you and your partner have in common as artists and as people." http://jointcustodyproject.blogspot.com/

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Het Rondeel at Kunstour

Het Rondeel ist taking part in the Kunsttour 2008 in Maastricht. Again we gonna come together from all over Europe to create a diverse Happening and present our works.
for more infos check out also Kaspars site

I will present some of my DIY lamps and a slide collage projection which modulates oscillator sounds with photo resistors.

Guest at 10x10>11

the Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich) invited Kaspar König and Simon Berz to perform for 10 days in the DADA-House, the place were DADA was born in 1916. Among other guests I gonna be there with my vegetables and make a fruit salat delicous in taste and sound.

Amalgamation

"Because art is made of the same material as the social exchanges, it
has a special place in the collective production process. A work of
art has a quality that sets it apart from other things produced by
human activities. This quality is its (relative) social transparency.
If a work of art is successful, it will invariably set its sights
beyond its mere presence in space: it will be open to dialogue,
discussion, and that form of inter-human negotiation that Marcel
Duchamp called 'the coefficient of art,'…The work of art actually
shows (or suggests) not only its manufacturing and production process, its position within the set of exchanges, and the place, or function, it allocates to the beholder, but also the creative behaviour of the artist…So every canvas produced by Jackson Pollock so closely links the flow of paint to an artist's behaviour, that the latter seems to
be the images of the former."
(Nicolas Bourriaud)

"Amalgamation" is a groupshow of Julia Calver, Alexander Chinneck, Richard Cramp, Klaas Hübner, Jack Killick, Annie Lord, Matthew Miller, Candida Powell-Williams, Helen Turner, Jack Strange, Clare Wallis.

15th - 21st October
Ada Street Gallery
2a Ada Street
E8 4QU London

private view
Thursday
18th October
6-8 pm

Waiting in the wings

Performance & exhibition with the title "Waiting
in the Wings" (means the moments before you perform),
will take place in Maastricht from the 15th to the 17th of september.


The exhibition will have three parts:
The performance park an Installation build up from the settings and
scenes. Visitors can go inside the installation. Performance acts will
happen inside and bring it to live. The experience of the visitors will
be the main aim.
There will be a main show every evening. Open to concerts, sight shows
singers & songwriters and so on.
Besides that, there will be exhibition space for artworks and
(video)documentations of the artists that are involved.

Berlin Lodz Express

Students of the Lodz Academy of Art and of the School of Art and Design Berlin Weissensee have jointly initiated LODZ-BERLIN EXPRESS, a project that aims to provide an international forum for discussion where artists from different cultures can exchange ideas and share experiences. The project shall enable and support cooperation between artists and the discourse about different artistic views, and enhance mutual understanding.
We want to start a long-term cooperation between the two cities and give young artists the opportunity to participate in international events.
We are looking for creative people who want to cooperate with us in different projects and to take part in our own exhibitions and workshops and to put in their own ideas.
The first collaboration projekt is the Berlin-Lodz-Express which will take of on the 5th of September for a ride trough Lodz and with a expo on board. This will be followed by a show on the 8th in "the Museeum of Books" in Lodz.

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harvest

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Harvest is a changing video and sound installation created for "kleine Raumverschiebung". Mechanical rhythmic sounds layered independently from the visual collage of the moving machine imagery. This video is just a short outtake.

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Tags: installation, berlin, art, collage, work

kleine Raumverschiebung

"Kleine Raumverschiebung" (little space shift) is inviting to visit the five story building and take part and shift the spaces together with 20 Artist from different nations. The aim is to transform the whole house into something else and make every level a "Bojekt".

4. floor: parks and stories
3. floor: sound
2. floor: decision run and the brake trough a wall with a Picasso guitar
1. floor : cullet and action
basement: vivification of mummies

one big brake trough
and a big marble course is connecting all the levels!!

participants: Anton und Jakob Theileis, Andreas Weissenbrunner, Konrad Fitz, Julian Graf, Biko, Xenia, Phillipp Schrader, Robert Förster, Kai Selbar, Florian Baumgartner, Johanna Jaeger, David, Daniel Chluba, Anne Witt, Emanuel Jesse, Albert Moravecz, Klaas Hübner and some more

11-15 August
saturday vernissage 5 pm
sunday 4 to 9 pm
monday/tuesday 3 to 7 pm
wednesday finisage 5 pm
at
Liebenwalderstrasse 16
Wedding

Hinterhaus
Freie Klasse

I beg your pardon, I never promissed you a rose garden!

Jeder Berg hat seinen Mythos, der Rosengarten hat sein Heldenepos. Mit unsichtbaren Fäden verteidigte der eifersüchtige und leicht verschlagene Zwergenkänig Laurin einst sein Zauberreich gegen alle Eindringlinge - und begründete damit den Mythos von der Wehrhaftigkeit der Tiroler. Glücklose, Sinnsucher, Utopisten, Schutzsuchende, Träumer, Nationalisten und Geschäftemacher haben sich das Mythen umwaberte Bergmassiv im Laufe der Jahrhunderte zu eigen gemacht.

Die Ausstellung “Der Rosengarten wird überschätzt” sucht einerseits Anknüpfungspunkte individueller, künstlerischer Positionen an den Berg, in dem sich Wünsche, Ahnungen und Schicksale verdichten, andererseits zitiert sie im Titel die Aktion von Joseph Beuys: “Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet” aus dem Jahr 1964. Beuys missbilligte die künstlerische Haltung von Duchamp, der die Kunst, trotz Ready-made, nicht von ihrem musealen Dogma befreien wollte.

“Rosengarten” space for emerging artists
22.07. - 02.08.07
Di / Ma - So / Do 17:00 - 22:00

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papergirl

I think this project is so nice that you just have to fall in love with it and take part. Thanks for this great idea! The following is written by "papergirl". Please check out their web page!!!

Papergirl is an artpaper which will be
distributed this summer in Berlin
for the second time.

All kinds of contributed work by all kinds of people will be collected, packed in bundels and distributed by bike in the style of american paperboys.
The contributions can consist of a single piece or several copies; it can be a sticker, poster, drawing, text, picture and so on.
Everything you already have or always wanted to do. Even the amount and format is up to you, because nothing will be edited or printed afterwards. All given contributions will simply be collected, placed onto different piles which will be bundeled in the end. So each version will be an original, if you join in!
It will be a non-profit artpackage, to be handed out for free.

From 16.-19. of july there will be a preview in the Senatsreservenspeicher
(Cuvrystr. 3-4, U1 Schlesisches Tor)
in advance of the exhibition Planet Prozess.

www.papergirl-berlin.de

"Im Treibhaus"

"Im Treibhaus" which means "In the hothouse" is a specially arranged group exposition of several young artists of the KHB Weissensee at the "ARD Hauptstadtstudio" in Berlin. They gonna show their individual positions of contemporary art examining "time, space and media". To be seen are installations, painitings, photo and text works, video art and a multimedia performance.

Opening:
5th of June at 7 pm
ARD Hauptstadtstudio
Wilhelmstr. 67a
10117 Berlin

for the opening a registration is requiered up to the 1 of June.
Please write an e-mail with your full name and address to: kommunikation@ard-hauptstadtstudio.

Exhebition PDF (german)

Circuit Circus Workshop

30.5. -3.6.07 10.30h - 18h
UDK Berlin Hardenbergstr. 33 / room 202

Cause the last one was just soooo nice, we gonna have another one. This time we still gonna dive into the unknown depth of circuit boards but we gonna arm ourself with sensors and usb interfaces and check out puredata to give it another turn. Newcomers and beginners are most welcome! Guided by Kaspar König this time we will be at the UDK from the 30. of May to the 3. of June. The whole Workshop gonna end with a concert at the eschloraque at the 4th of June.

Opening at Ackerstr. 18

"Tonangeben" in the Gallery "Ackerstrasse 18" shows the interaction of the visual and the acoustic in their next exhibition. Eight artists are presenting installations, drawings, machines and video with different approaches to music. Like allways the opening will be on the 18th (Wed) at 6 pm and will be opened by a harp performance of Julia Becker who interprets drawings of Damien de La Faye. mikhail a crest brought the "Bragafon". An organ powered by fermentation. Paul Darius is mixing classical music with pop graphics , Jana Debrodt made an installation for the plants. Klaas Hübner made unusual electronic instrument. Sophia Pompéry sings about space orientated axes and Mikolaj Polinski created a three-dimensional musical structure.
Hope to see you there, at Ackerstrasse 18 in Berlin Mitte.

Wien III

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Tags: vienna, wien, wind

Wien II

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Leftovers (Wien I)

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Better watch the screen!

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You better watch the screen! The german airline "Airberlin" has this animated films running during the flight like other companies. But this company has something really special. Instead of looking out of the window just next to you, you can have a view out of an animated airplane window just on the screen. What the fuck! And now you gonna watch on your screen how somebody looks through a camera filming a screen with an animated window to an animated landscape. Very deeeeeep!

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: airplane, window, flight, screen, stupid, animated

automatisch

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A group exhibition called "automatisch" full of little surprises created by Valentin Hertweck, Eckhard Karnauke, Daniel Kemeny, Paul Darius, Jana Debrodt, Marcel Mieth, Taro Furukata, Steffi Stangl, Hans Heiner Feldmann, Cyril Capbarat, Julius Rost, Jan Vormann and Irene Pätzung.The Expo will take place up to the 16th of March 07 at "Gallery 18" (Ackerstrasse 18 in Berlin Mitte). Opening times are Thursdays and Fridays from 4 to 8p.m.!

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Tags: automatisch, art, exhibition, installation, gallerie 18 berlin

Beep-Piep-Knarz-Final

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After five days inside the intestine of different electronic devices we finally put the soldering irons by side and made a concert . If you make it to the end of the video, the fact that you did it, will be a proof for your mental strength and your deepest interest in musical masterpieces of the presence.

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: circuit bending, hardware hacking, hack, sound

"Automatisch" Gallerie 18

The Sculpture Department of the KHB opened a galerie at Ackerstrasse 18. Openings are always on the 18th at 6 p.m. (bzw.18 Uhr). The space is just in the backyard a small stair up on the right hand side. This time the topic is "automatisch". A lot of small machines are turning, vibrating and pumping and turn this little room into a dream world of weird gadgets.
Jan Vormann and Irene Pätzung curated this show and are also presented by their work. Regular opening times are Thursdays and Fridays between 4 and 8p.m.

Sorry for delaying the video uploads. Got some struggle with my connection.

hack in action

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So here here is a little video to give an impression how this hack works. Well to be called musician i need some practice i guess. But i will work on that, promised!

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Tags: hack, hacks, diy, circuit bending, sound, amplifier, play station, klaas hübner

sound play station

This are some pc speakers hacked in a way that you can use them as a sound play station.
I just opened the amplifier, found out different connections on the circuit board which sound nice and marked them. Then I soldered cables on the spots and connected them to the unused circuit board I got from a friend. So you can use your fingers to build the bridge in the electric circle.When you touch the right points you can just play the control panel like a keyboard and also bend the sound the way you press it.
In addition I put the volume and the bass potentiometer each on one panel.
When you play both panels a the same time the sounds influence each other which gives you even more possibilities to play with.
ehhh??? sounds tooooo weird to you!? Don't worry I will add a video later on, so you can see how it works,

Berlin Funeral

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On my way to school I found this guy looking at a digger moving the left parts of a industrial building. It looked quiet strange. He was dressed black with a big Berlin print on his back. In his hand a cheap shoping bag. Black too. It seems he was remembering something.

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Tags: digger, black, berlin, funeral, deconstruction

some pics from the workshop

To see some more pics of the workshop Beep-Piep-Knarz just click here

Beep-Piep-Knarz Concert at KHB and UDK

On Friday the 16th we gonna open a Party of the class of Mrs Möbus at "Universität der Künste"
The concert of the self made hardware hacked and circuit bended devices will be at 7 p.m. in room 77. So be prepared for some experimental sounds trying to touch music.
After that DJ Jones gonna appear and 3 United gonna perform "Alps Revolution"! Food and stuff will be provided by a special guest!
Before that we gonna play at 4 p.m. at the KHB as a final of our workshop.
Come, see and listen!!!!

Daniel Kemenys Fridge Installation at the ICE

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It was a great evening with a lot of nice people and some cool fridge installations. For me the best part of the ICE (In case of Emergency) was the Installation of Daniel who set up a stereo in the fridge and played a record made of ice. No .... there were no tracks on it! But it was a nice noisy sound. In the other fridges we found a frozen bubble, a singing electric bird, peas and other stuff. For more photos of the event look here and for more videos go here and search matchees.

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Tags: fridge, ice, record, in case of emergency, daniel kemeny, art, installation

BEEP-PIEP-KNARZ

The KHB Weissensee and Interflugs are supporting a workshop with Kaspar König.
We gonna play around with electronic hardware and hack it. The aim is to build some fine working noisy gadgets. Kaspar will give us support from his five years experience of "circuit bending" and "sound design".

In Case of Emergency

In Case of Emergency(ICE) and Global Warming our Ice Sculptures gonna be save in the freezer. 10 Artist of the Berlin School of Art Weissensee are inviting to a journey through Berlin. They gonna be at a different house, at a different freezers every half an hour to look at frozen water. Wodka will be served for everybody. At least a bottle every station. I hope we come home save!

mobile drum set

This mobile drum set I did a while ago for Andreas and Peter. They wanted to perform on the streets of Berlin and wanted to be very fast.
To carry around a drum set and build it up on the street is not quit comfortable to do, especially not several times a day. So we had to get a practical conclusion. We sat together and developed this mobile drum set out of some old parts of a drum kit and a hand truck we bought for 50 Euro in a shop. You can take it into the subway and then onto the streets and back and forth. Street music with a drum set is quiet rare in town. This drum set could change that! All you need is a old drumkit with some hardware and a handtruck ans some place were you can weld.

Just lift it up and move! The only thing you need is something to sit on.

I cut some part of the frame out and bend a new metal tube so that it fits around the base. The base is fixed with two bolds. One on the bottom and one on top.

On the other side I cut the frame and fixed the base drum like that.