10/10/19
“The wait is over. Join us for the launch of the new issue of Shit And Death by Dirk Verschure!!
We will have a display of his originals for your pleasure, join us for a drink! Meet the man.”
05/10/19
Hey Berliners! we’re at this fair for Saturday 05/10 opening from noon to 20h so drop by our stand!!
SO36 is on Oranienstr.190 in Kreuzberg nearest UBahn: Kottbusser Tor
27/09/19
TONIGHT!! 20h onwards
Join us at Kontakte ’19 Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art where we will be sharing a table with some great independent Berlin labels!! Come check out our selection at:
Academie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
More info:
KONTAKTE ’19 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art
Festival
KONTAKTE brings together more than 20 premieres and over 120 artists over five days. A central component of the programme features Berlin-based initiatives with international resonance. Among them are Óscar Escudero and Julia Mihály, who received the ensemble mosaik’s “Progetto Positano” 2019 advancement award, a project by Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin with musicians from Shanghai, and the T.I.T.O. Marathon with a line-up of 14 of the world’s most exciting turntablists. Productions expanding into the performative uniting interdisciplinary sounds, installations, performance, choreography and theatre are another main focus this year.
Further highlights include two theatrical productions by Helmut Oehring and the premiere of Daniel Kötter and Hannes Seidl’s third part of their music theatre trilogy Stadt Land Fluss.
New works can also be discovered by Chengbi An, Beatriz Ferreyra, Hanna Hartman, Mesías Maiguashca, Robin Minard, Caspar Johannes Walter, et al. Kicking off the festival, Ensemble Garage offers a journey back to the music capital of Cologne in the 1970s, with music from the Feedback Studio Köln, founded by Johannes Fritsch, Rolf Gehlhaar and David Johnson.
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Detailed programme: www.adk .de/en/projects/2019/kontakte19/programme.htm
Further information about the festival: www.adk .de/en/projects/2019/kontakte19/
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Tickets:
Festival pass € 40/25
(Wed to Sun, except Hall 1)
available at the receptions at Pariser Platz 4 and Hanseatenweg 10, daily between 10 am and 8 pm, no reservations possible
Day pass € 15/9
(Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun; except Hall 1)
available at the receptions at Pariser Platz 4 and Hanseatenweg 10, daily between 10 am and 8 pm, no reservations possible
Special Events
€ 5/3 (Hall 1, Hall 3, Studio Lobby, Conference Room)
€ 7/4 (Small Auditorium)
€ 10/6 (Hall 2, Main Auditorium)
www.adk.de/tickets
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook .com/events/507228639864199/
Auf DEUTSCH:
Die dritte Ausgabe des Festivals KONTAKTE fragt nach Möglichkeiten des Performativen in der elektroakustischen Musik und setzt auf neue Produktionen, die sich durch ihre Suche nach neuen Formaten der Kommunikation und Partizipation auszeichnen.
Im Mittelpunkt des Festivals stehen in Berlin verankerte Projekte, die auf internationale Zusammenarbeit setzen. Dazu gehören die Abschlussveranstaltung des vom ensemble mosaik vergebenen Förderstipendiums 2019 „Progetto Positano“ mit einem Doppelportraitkonzert zu Óscar Escudero und Julia Mihály (27.9.), sowie der „T.I.T.O.-Marathon“ mit einem Line-up aus 14 der derzeit spannendsten Turntablisten weltweit, kuratiert von Ignaz Schick, der am Tag des Berlin-Marathons (29.9.) den Ausklang von KONTAKTE ’19 bildet.
Premiere feiern der letzte Teil der Musiktheater-Trilogie “Stadt Land Fluss” von Daniel Kötter und Hannes Seidl und, erstmals in Deutschland, ein neues Projekt des französischen Objekttheaterkünstlers Laurent Bigot. Zu den Höhepunkten im Bereich des Performativen gehören ein sich der Zeichensprache bedienendes Musiktheaterstück von Helmut Oehring mit dem Dresdner Ensemble El Perro Andaluz (29.9), immersive Performances von Thomas Ankersmit (28.9.) und Francisco López (27.9). sowie neue Arbeiten von Chengbi An, Beatriz Ferreyra, Hanna Hartman, Caspar Johannes Walter, Robin Minard, Mesías Maiguashca, u. a.
Zum Auftakt des Festivals spielt das Ensemble Garage (25.9.) Werke für Instrumente und Elektronik aus der Umgebung des Feedback Studios Köln von Johannes Fritsch, dessen Nachlass sich im Musikarchiv der Akademie der Künste befindet.
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Details zum Programm: www.adk .de/de/projekte/2019/kontakte19/programm.htm
Weitere Informationen zum Festival: www.adk .de/kontakte19
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Tickets:
Festivalpass € 40/25
(Mi bis So, außer Halle 1)
erhältlich ab sofort an den Empfängen Pariser Platz 4 und Hanseatenweg 10, tägl. zwischen 10-20 Uhr, keine Reservierung möglich
Tagespass € 15/9
(Do, Fr, Sa, So, außer Halle 1)
erhältlich ab sofort an den Empfängen Pariser Platz 4 und Hanseatenweg 10, tägl. zwischen 10-20 Uhr, keine Reservierung möglich
Einzelveranstaltungen
€ 5/3 (Halle 1, Halle 3, Studiofoyer, Besprechungsraum)
€ 7/4 (Kleines Parkett)
€ 10/6 (Halle 2, Großes Parkett)
www.adk .de/tickets
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No rain no pain
20/09/19-22/09/19
Come see us at Friends With Books, the yearly art book fair at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Preview: Friday, September 20, 6–8 PM
Saturday & Sunday 21 & 22 September 11-19h
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
Getting there:
Closest S+UBahn: Hauptbahnhof
U-Bahn U55
S-Bahn S5, S7, S75
Tram M5, M8, M10
Bus TXL, 120, 123, 142, 147, 245, M41, M85, N20, N40
FREE ENTRY
About:
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Europe’s leading art book fair committed to the distribution and promotion of artists’ books and associated mediums, launches its sixth edition in the iconic Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. From September 20–22, 2019, a wide array of over 200 international exhibitors, ranging from artists to art publishers, will present their publications, reflecting the diversity of today’s art publishing. Free and open to the public, the fair explores all facettes of contemporary art publishing through a strong programme of lectures, panel discussions, book presentations, performances and art installations, bringing understanding to the discipline and celebrating its resurgence in today’s digital climate.
The 2019 edition will host a series of curated temporary Art Installations including Alias (MX), Tamami Iinuma (FR/JP), Kathrin Köster (DE), Marlena Kudlicka (PL), Rudolf Samohejl (CZ), and Mathilde ter Heijne (NL). For the second year running, Friends with Books will present a newly commissioned Children’s Art Installation – this year by artist Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS), Iceland’s representative at the 57th Venice Biennale, in parallel with a children’s workshop and daily activities. Performances will include the artist collective Black Palm (DE) and artists Mette Edvardsen (NO), Jeroen Peeters (BE) and Lara Salmon (US).
The yearly Public Programmes series will feature lectures, conversations, panel discussions and performances presented in partnership with Argobooks: Birgit Rieger and Claudia Wahjudi; Artphilein Editions: Caio Reisewitz and Daniela Labra; Tamami Iinuma and Thibaut de Ruyter; Black Palm: Sonja Cvitkovic, Verena Dengler, Marine Drouan, Anke Dyes, and Megan Francis Sullivan; Verlag der Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung: Micha Bonk, Ulrike Boskamp, Joerg Franzbecker, Annette Hans, and Sebastian Stein; Marlena Kudlicka and Agnieszka Gratza; EECLECTIC: Chiara Capodici, Erik Göngrich, Janine Sack; The Invisible Archive (in collaboration with Goodbye Books): Yon Natalie Mik, Lara Salmon, and Micaela Terk; Hatje Cantz: Nanne Meyer and Lena Kiessler; Fiona Geuss; neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbk): Florian Wüst; Varamo Press: Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters, among others.
This year’s Friends with Books Blog interview will welcome artist Elisabeth Tonnard in conversation with art critic Agnieszka Gratza.
The annual Friends with Books Artist Poster Edition will feature a new poster edition by Anne Schwalbe in an edition of 200 – 25 of which will be signed and priced at 50 € to help support Friends with Books.
22/08/19
“bohemian drips. presents:
[BD010] Microtub – Chronic Shift LP (binaural 12″ LP)
compositions for three microtonal tubas, recorded in binaural audio in the big water reservoir of Berlin-Pankow, reworked and augmented with analogue synthesizers
Pre-release event, record presentation and official Speicher III × Sauvage / Ankersmit Vorspiel at Staalplaat record shop! You’ll be able to purchase the LP before its official release date for a special price.
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× listening session of the upcoming LP
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× concert by Peder Simonsen (microtonal tuba & modular) & Robin Hayward (microtonal tuba)
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× talk by Robin Hayward
× drinks
× LP’s
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Microtub is the world’s first and only microtonal tuba trio, exploring Just Intonation and the rich harmonic potential of the tuba. In collaboration with bohemian drips and Ace Tunes they bring us their new release “Chronic Shift”, featuring recorded material from the stunning “Großer Wasserspeicher” (large water tower) in Berlin-Pankow, mixed with analogue synthesizers.
Carefully recorded in binaural audio by the bohemian drips engineers, this unlikely combination of tubas and simple synth pitches provides a meditative and immersive experience, and an auditory glimpse into a truly unique acoustic space. By using Kunstkopf stereophony and the perspective of a so-called dummyhead microphone (Neumann KU-100), the acoustical scenery of the tank was captured in 3D-audio, relocating the listener into the actual recording situation.
The project was born during the site-specific bohemian drips festival “Speicher II”, where Microtub performed two pieces in June 2018. The purpose of this record is to make available to a larger audience the experience of this special room, where the three tubas cease to sound like normal brass instruments and are turned into a machine transmitting harmonics as if from another world.
The title track “Chronic Shift” is a rework based on the piece “Sonic Drift”, a Robin Hayward composition written specifically for Microtub. Originally premiered in the “Speicher II” festival, recordings were made during rehearsals, and these were transformed by Peder Simonsen into the piece that became “Chronic Shift”.
The rework zones in on three moments from Hayward’s original composition, most prominently a dyad sustained by two tubas in the huge water tower looped over and over, with Simonsen adding his Modular and Prophet 5 synths. The synths augment and create interferences with the room harmonics resulting from the looped tubas, reminiscent of both Eliane Radigues work with the Arp 2500 synth, and Alvin Lucier’s use of simple waveforms in his electroacoustic compositions. The dyad is sometimes broken by powerful chords played by the full three tubas of Microtub.
“Chronic Shift” represents a snapshot of the original piece, which drifts and rotates through neutral harmonies based on the 11th, 13th and 29th harmonics and subharmonics that are contained within the microtonal tuba tunings. As the second part of the piece approaches, we hear a solitary tuba played by Martin Taxt using the 18 seconds of reverberation in the space to create beatings with itself, surrounded by modular synth drops that reference the water that used to flow within this space to supply Berlin’s population over a 100 years ago.
In “System Reboot”, based on a composition originally made with a sculptural score from the Hayward Tuning Vine, Simonsen takes another approach in treating the recorded material. Here we hear the full original piece played by the three tubas from beginning to end, and the added synths mainly shadow the harmonics in the giant room, both as sustained pitches and as spaced out droplets lending movement to the track.
Simonsen himself on this release:
“I wanted to convey my own experience of playing with a group of tubas in this incredible space. Robin’s concept of Embodied Harmony has never been so apparent to me as when sitting in this giant brick tank feeling completely immersed in the pitches of the three tubas and feel them course through your body. You can actually sense the vibrations in your stomach when the chords are in tune, and you feel very much part of the whole space and people around you. The harmonics take on a sinusoid life of their own and live in an almost separate space above your head. It’s a very peaceful and calming experience. With Star System Rework I wanted to augment the harmonics, while doing it at a volume and timbre where you are left guessing what is sounding in the room, and what is a synthesised pitch added later. I hope to draw the listener in to the core of the sound, to where the really deep listening starts, where the composition opens up and becomes really interesting, and in that process share my own experience of the place”.
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Robin Hayward – microtonal F tuba
Martin Taxt – microtonal C tuba
Peder Simonsen – microtonal C tuba
Recorded during “Speicher” festival 2018; reworked & mixed by Peder Simonsen, 2019
Mastered & cut by Andreas Kauffelt at “Schnittstelle” in Berlin, 2019
Cover design by Alexander Meurer; photo on back by Tania Kelley
A collaboration between bohemian drips, microtub & Ace Tunes”
01-31/08/19
“In the first few months of 2019 the Zenevloed collective organised a series of illegal raves at the Morgue / Amsterdam. Creating a temporary space where different disciplines meet.
“Disciplines benefit most from each other when intensively exposed to each other’s ecologies. Interlacing various media representing a whole concept of resistance is what we are attempting to get across.” (Zenevloed)
Inspired by the ephemeral nature of the raves, Matt Plezier created visual installations based on the the dystopian vision of Blade Runner, alienation and displacement; working with collages of media headlines, video and a sea of survival blankets. Art that only exists for the night as part of an experience that can be documented but not recreated.
Invited by Anagram Books, Matt Plezier will exhibit this work at Staalplaat/Berlin. A renowned institution, label, store and distribution of experimental music since 1982.
Opening night will be on Thursday August first at 20:00. There will be drinks, music, t-shirts, stickers, prints and zines.”
20/06/19-31/07/19
We are excited to welcome Aude Carbone to Berlin to show her work at Staalplaat this June & July! Original drawings, prints, books, DIY publishing, handmade dolls, posters and more!!!
Suckle suckle, Berlin!
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French artist Aude Carbone is preparing a selection of her works for us, think monsters, creatures, six eyed women making your eyes swirl in their sockets, also guts, pink, blue lips, genitalia and contortions — what else could you possibly want?
Join us for the opening night!
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Pour les Francophones:
“On pourrait épiloguer interminablement sur le parcours professionnel hasardeux et les errances de vie infinies qui ont mené Aude Carbone à faire ce qu’elle fait aujourd’hui, mais on entendrait vite fait ronfler même les fayots les plus assidus.
Autodidacte pour l’essentiel, 2012 marque une rupture fondamentale dans ses approches graphiques et artistiques, notamment par la découverte de la sérigraphie. Ses productions, ou accouchements d’images, vont alors se mettre à fouiller les viscères d’expériences vécues plus ou moins traumatisantes et mettre à vif les malaises chroniques d’êtres torturés dans leur corps et dans leur relation à l’autre. Tout un monde qu’elle aura l’occasion d’exposer à diverses occasions à Montpellier (2014), Bari (IT – 2016), Bruxelles (BE – 2016) Clermont-Fd (2016, -17, -18), Crest (Drôme – 2016, -17), Toulouse (2018) ou encore Marseille (2018) ou Arlanc (Puy-de-Dôme – 2018).
Non contente de noircir à son gré les feuilles qu’il lui tombe sous la main, la sérigraphie lui permet du reste d’encrer d’autres pages formant par la force des choses des livres, auto-édités avec les éditions EpOx et BoTOx qu’elle développe en parallèle depuis 2013, et qu’elle s’efforce de faire voyager… Toujours un peu plus loin.
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Interview réalisée par Peter de Kuster et publiée sur le site The Heroine’s Journey”
09/05/19
Staalplaat shop presents a range of LPs and CDs from the ancient stock of the Staalplaat label in our shop. Big in the 80’s (or 90’s probably) Staalplaat label moved to Berlin in the early 2000s and separated itself definitively from the shop in 2007 with Guillaume Siffert taking over as new shop owner extraordinaire!
As the shop reopens, we selected a mini exhibition of the label’s ancient and rarely seen albums, including a few collectables of the label’s most repackaged faves: Muslimgauze. From the now Berlin based Staalplaat label’s numerous and still ongoing Muslimgauze releases, be it LPs or CDs and so on, digging the furthest corners of Muslimgauze’s apparently endless catalogue, alongside a more extensive display of the older ambient “Morts Aux Vaches” series of highly designed cds packaging, as well as a few other handmade rarities from way back when. All this is on display in the shop for a small nostalgic trip back to them days. Why not!!
This mini show runs throughout the month of May.
Opening 19:00 Saturday 09/05/2019
Location:
Staalplaat shop, Kienitzer Str. 108, corner Weisestr., 12049 Berlin, Neukölln
Metro U8 (navy blue line): Boddinstraße or Leinestraße (0min. from Alexander Platz). Bus 104, 167, 344: Herrfurthstraße.
03-05/05/19
03/05/19 Miss Read book fair 2019
FREE ENTRY
drop by our stand as Anagram Books at the Miss Read book fair in Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt museum, Tiergarten.
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin.
09/05/2019
“The intense improvised outlet from the two jazz imprisoned horns lead you towards noise.
G.E.K’s Johannes Lund & Maria Bertel pushes their saxophone and trombone with a tangle of structures that creates the core of the duo’s music.
The members has put out several releases on the danish collectives ‘yoyooyoy’ and ’egetværelse’, both individually as well as the self-titled ‘Gud Er Kvinde’ 10″ in 2008 and ‘Sun’ from 2014.”
20h start
