Doldrums
photos by ela grieshaber & andreas waldschütz concept, direction: depart (gregor ladenhauf, leonhard lass) producer: schmiede / rüdiger wassibauer production assistant & general handywork: daniela schindler stage & lighting: jakob guggenberger (pro show) make-up: steffi lamm hair: cori pondorfer photo & video documentation: andreas waldschütz & thomas rath band: tom brüssel, christian schratt, jake, alex, florian leeb thanks: andi hansel
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Doldrums @ Schmiede, 20.9.2010
Depart & Schmiede present Reverb.On IV DOLDRUMS 20.9.2010, Alte Saline, Hallein in the doldrums where there is no direction but no guidance where there is nowhere to go but no standstill where there is no time but not a single moment where there is nothing but no focus on any sense where there is noone but nobody, you and the others where there is no reason but no nonsense at all O snail Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly! Schmiede
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Chukwa’s Approach
On the back of Chukwa, Bright like a mountain dew-tune and crystalline airs. We seek shell and shelter in subsurface saltlake sittings, The one-drone rondo-0-o. We rest against the interwalls of zero cavity‘s brainbows, Celebrating Achilles’ de-feet. Stir montane waters in the syncoronation of prime times, Immersed rim ram short circuit oscillations, In echological mining claims, Drilling me softly with a chord. What happens quiet shelldome if ever. …turtles all the way down Chukwa I (The Mountain) on Vimeo Chukwa III (The Final Encounter) on Vimeo (photo by Cornelia Auinger) Chukwa’s Orchestra: Anlanger Petra Bacher Clemens Brachtel Benedikt Bruckmayr Didi Eigner Richard Estrela Paul Farangis Firozian Fraunberger Stefan Grandits Sebastian Grüner Markus Hochleitner Gudrun Hovdkinn Elise Johnson Oliver Kargl Sebastian Karlstetter Simon Kickinger Max Kindlinger Florian Kinschel Anna Klinger Hanna Ladenhauf Gregor Lass Elisabeth Lass Leonhard Lercher Daniel Mayr Timna Mone Miriam Movahedi Paul Nassall Angela Pfaffenberger Florian Preuschel Julian Pusa Saila Radauer Clemens Rauch Roman Rösch Paul Rosner Willibald Saudek David Sauer Birgit Schabmayr Bernhard Schauberger Anna Schlegel Martin Senz Gerhard Steiner Johann Strobl Doris Tischler Sarah Wedel Marco Zauner Paul Zeitlhofer Peter Zopf Robert Krisch Gabriele (Projectmanagement) Wassibauer Rüdiger (Schmiede Support) Lali the turtle Thank you very much.
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Chukwa’s Approach
Reverb.On 3: Chukwa’s Approach Thursday. 24.09.09, 17.00h / 17.30h / 18.00h, Salzwelten Salzburg/Hallein Depart and Stefan Fraunberger present a new Performance in the series REVERB.ON in cooperation with Schmiede and Salzwelten Salzburg: Chukwa’s Approach. Inspired by concepts of Minimal Music and especially by the work of La Monte Young (“The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys”) an orchestra of 53 people is going to play a single chord throughout the whole performance. Situated about 100 meters below ground on a lake within a salt-mine the musicians and the audience are invited to experience the vibrancy of a mountain. Due to limited space we ask you to register in advance (Gabriele Krisch, 0699 10716582, chukwa@depart.at) More Information: www.salzwelten.at | www.schmiede.ca This Performance is supported by Land Salzburg / Podium09. German: Das Künstlerduo Depart (Leonhard Lass, Gregor Ladenhauf) hat 2007 im Rahmen der Schmiede die Reihe Reverb.On ins Leben gerufen. Mit dieser Performance-/Konzertreihe widmet sich Depart zeitgenössischen und ungewöhnlichen Konzepten und Kompositionen. Diese werden in ihrer musikalischen Form nahe am Original präsentiert, aber um aktuelle visuelle und performative Aspekte ergänzt. Ganz bewusst liegt hier der Fokus auf Kompositionen die bereits den Charakter von „performed installations“ in sich tragen.
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I am sitting in a Room
(photos by cornelia auinger) “I Am Sitting In A Room”: respiratoratorium room ringing resonant ruckus performance for one performer, two loudspeakers, two microphones, on-body-projection and delicate sound balancing duration: ca. 45 min. original composition by Alvin Lucier (1970) who’s talking when and where, hip or square, what moves the air ? In the second incantation of the Reverb.On Series in 2008, DEPART and Richard Eigner devoted themselves to the piece „I Am Sitting In A Room“ by Alvin Lucier. This idiosyncratic electroacoustic composition summons a physical component of compact spaces, their inherent resonance. A short text, which is selfreferential and recursive both on the room situation and itself, is spoken into a microphone, recorded and fed back into the room very closemouthed in a kind of acoustical mantra until the rooms own resonant frequency is overdubbing the initial signal beyond recognition. Richard Eigner and Gregor Ladenhauf were responsible for the acoustic implementation of this concept that was first realised in 1969 by American composer Alvin Lucier (*1931). Together with his DEPARTner Leonhard Lass, who is responsible for the visual translation of the piece, performer Gregor Ladenhauf adds to the piece as voice and screen at the same time. A speaker […]
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I am sitting in a Room
Depart & Richard Eigner perform Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room. Mo 22.09.2008, 21h @ Schmiede Hallein (Alte Saline, Pernerinsel Hallein) „I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. ” (Lucier 1970) Using the ideas of Alvin Lucier’s piece “I am sitting in a room”, Richard Eigner & depart will unlock the secret sounds of Schmiede Hallein’s fabulous spaces. ,,Every room has its own melody, hiding there until it is made audible.” Schmiede 2008 Richard Eigner
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Vexations
“Vexations”: on & on & on, till the beak of yawn play a loophole into your headpeace performance for two piano players, projected video and stream of consciousness writing. original composition (1893) by Erik Satie. duration ca. 1200 min. our resume: Vexations is a challenge, a practical joke and a timemachine. eriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatieeriksatie “Je m’appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde.” we perform satie. wir verformen satie. we do it for us. wir tun es für uns. we do it for you. wir tun es für euch. we do it because it is not important to be done. wir tun es weil es nicht wichtig ist dass es getan wird. we do it because we would like to do it. wir tun es weil wir es gerne tun möchten. we are two people playing piano and one computing and showing the difference. wir sind zwei, die klavier spielen und einer, der die differenz berechnet und zeigt. we will play it note for note. wir werden es note für note spielen. you will hear it note for note. ihr werdet es note für note hören. afterwards nothing will be the same. danach wird das nichts sein wie es war. Short piano piece […]
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