Music:

Member Since: 10/25/2006
Band Members: SYNTRON
Influences:
JAPANESE BUTOH / DEUTSCHER AUSDRUCKSTANZ / GROTESQUE DANCE / CLASSICAL JAVANESE AND NEW GAMELAN / UNICA ZÃœRN ANAGRAMS / MORSE CODE

ELKE POSTLER - performance, grotesque dance, vocals, slides & screenings
&
TOM ZUNK - compositions, STEINBERG Cubase and all instruments, vocals

Elke combines audio-visual installations and performances in her works.
She studied Communication Arts at Berlin Weissensee arts college making her degree in 2001. Participation in workshops, exhibitions and performances in and around Berlin, in Italy, Poland and the U.K. Works with various media: slides, video, photography and prefers collaborations with musicians.
Statement:
It is of importance for me to: achive an ambiguity in form, find absurd solutions and rooms that inspire me, to fathom the strangeness of my own inner spaces, embrace the shadowwoman as the source of inspiration.

Tom studied Ethnomusicology at Berlin..s Free University and classical Javanese Gamelan as well as innovative percussion techniques with Indonesian composer and musician extraordinaire Gutama Soegijo and was member of BANJAR GRUPPE Berlin, one of Europe..s few experimental Gamelan ensembles with numerous concerts nationwide and international from 1978 to 1994.
On stage with improvised music since 1976. Own compositions since 1993.
He is worldwide one of the few soloists on the Waterphone and plays all kind of wind instruments, keyboards and percussions as well as electronic devices and - since late 2007 - THEREMIN!

Tom is on myspace with various past* and present projects in 8 more profiles:
Tom Zunk *
Ghetto Raga *
Men Working Overhead *
Waterphone
U.F.O. Schiphorst *
Thomas Zunk
Thereminstry
Atmosphaeren

PLEASE NOTE that the music featured on this profile are Toms only works for Cubasis software. This medium was only used between 2000 and 2002.

Influences:
Sounds Like:DISTURBING NOISES / MORSE CODE
Blue Flashplayer:
Anagramme Vol.I 2001 / 4 tracks /
Der eingebildete Wahnsinn
Im Staub dieses Lebens
Niemand hoert auf zu leben
Tausend Zaubereien
were composed and realised 2001/2002 with STEINBERG Cubasis by Tom and are the most advanced compostions in a series for computer software using anagram poems by Berlin surrealist artist Unica Zürn (1926-1970).
Whereas earlier pieces were inspired by minimal and Gamelan music, these late pieces are based on conversions of the text via Morse code into musical events. Tom calls it MORSEalphaBEAT. If you know the Morse code and understand it fluently you can hear the text from the rhythmic patterns.
NOTE: This third album production has been released by the French underground label FRONT GAUCHE DE L..ART in Rennes.

Red Flashplayer:
Zuern 2001 / 9 tracks /
SYNTRON..s second album features for the first time anagrams by Unica Zürn.
Liebet euch untereinander and Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind were recorded under studio conditions at Tom..s.

Yellow Flashplayer:
SOL_Erste Synfonie 2000 / 4 tracks /
SYNTRON..s first album production. SOL_Erste Synfonie in four movements for STEINBERG Cubasis and live instruments (Kendang hand drums in part One and Four and Waterphone in part Two and Three). Below is the documentary recording done by Tom on DAT. Part One and Four live at "...undabdiepost!2000" - Festival für junge experimentelle Kunst, Postfuhramt Berlin June 2000. Part Two and Three live at Vernissage Sommerwerkstatt "Endmoräne e.V." Alter Bahnhof Gusow/Oderbruch/Germany.
SOL was the first collaboration of Tom Zunk with performer Elke Postler. Elke screened an abstract film shot by herself in the streets of Berlin in the weeks before the performance. She also performed a kind of archaic motionless dance in a beautiful golden costume her bodily parts painted all blue. There does exist a video of the Postfuhramt gig and we will hopefully place it here soon!
Complete recording, total length 47:03