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das kleine field recordings festival

2008

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9 August:
Simon Whetham
ongaku-hh
Kim Laugs
at
Alberto Ukebana map Urbanstrasse 116 Berlin Kreuzberg U-Bhf Schönleinstrasse shows start at 21.00!!!! because of neighbours with ears coming up: 16 August:
between natura morta and lanterna magica part two with Francesco Cavaliere and Seiji Morimoto
Haarmann
Minuit DelaCroix
at Kule Auguststrasse 10 10117 Berlin Mitte U-Bhf Oranienburger Tor S-Bhf Oranienburger Strasse doors open:20.30
attention
presentation of Nodar Residencies with Luis Costa and Manuela Barile is postponed to mid november!
November:
Bug
I (Rinus van Alebeek) look with wonder at the world wide web and see how it has become a reservoir, a storage room of each individuals creative outcome. (Of course there is so much more, but as in a city, I don't knock on every door and I don't enter every shop/gallery/bar/cinema and what so ever.) Sometimes it makes me think that a person's website is the final destination of his productivity. One of the reasons I organised this festival is to visualize, or maybe better, to materialize the information I got through the web.
The majority of the performing artists I met through internet. It is easy to maintain a digital relation. But to my idea there is also life after the world wide web. Webbing is communicating fast. The result could be meeting in a bar and have some chats and then go home to check some more e-mails. But this is the age of production. And I wanted to produce a Festival and thus present a place where an artform like field recording could have a platform.
I choose field recorders out of another wonderment. By now I know that Berlin can be considered one of the cities in the world with a amazingly lively experimantral/noisical scene. Musicians who have dedicated themselves to this artform often incorporate field recordings in their performances/compositions. But they seldom make appearances where exclusively field recordings are used. I don't know of any venue in Berlin with a programme that includes at least one weekly performance of pure field recordings.
The line ups of the Festival show the eagerness of the field recorder to present himself to an audience, I mean a real live audience, and not a digital audience at the other side of the computer who will download his netrelease, and whose presence often is diminished to the figure that indicates the number of downloads.
I consider the worldwideweb as a means of communication. I often consider communication as a means to get together and produce something. (Yes, I have my moments of nice goodtime nonsensical blablaing, but hey, this is also what talking is about, but I don't like to be so technocratic that "having a good time" equals "communicating good vibes", before you know, it will become a registered trademark).
I would like to respect networking: That's why I have contacted (internet)radio's around the world to ask them if they would like to dedicate some of their time to the festival. I like radio, because I can imagine sounds swirling in some space where ever on the world. And I also like the excitement, knowing that sounds produced in Berlin will go travelling into orbit and from there back again to the Australian desert.
November 2006: programme and reviews
February 2007: programme
August 2007: programme
August 2007: Das kleine field recordings festival in SecondLife
August 2007: the long radio day
Harold Schellinx's written report on the February 2007 edition of the festival: part one part two part three
Harold Schellinx's field recording of the February 2007 edition: back to Berlin

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Member Since: 1/10/2008
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However! You might not want to go through the pain of setting up a gmail account.In this case you can send a mail with subscribe in the headerto rinus at zeromoon dot com And I will do the work for you.thanks! Adviced readings: Field Notes is a bi-lingual magazine published by Gruenrekorder . Content1. Christoph Korn: Reflections on Sound 2. Costa Gröhn: 8 Theses on Field Recordings 3. Marcus Obst: Unterbecken Markersbach/The Magic of Nature & Electricity 4. Stefan Militzer: Tones, Sounds & Noises/Part 1: A Small Typology of Sound 5. Tanja Hemm: Location, Sound, Listener, Listening/Thoughts on Site Specific Sound Installation 6. Aaron Ximm: Sound, Music, Art?/Searching for a Personal Aesthetic
Influences: Berlin hosts and attracts many musicians, and has a very vivid scene. Unfortunately this town offers also its 'Berlin Conditions.' Everybody performing here knows what this means: door money only, and in some cases not even that. The festival has a very spontaneous character. A coincidental arrival of more then one field recorder could trigger a new festival. So far most of these visitors and resident Berliners as well agreed with the terms to play for honour, for joy and for a pocketfull of coins. Applying for fundings would mean that too many things had to be known and scheduled way to much time in advance. In this way it would almost be undoable to add artists who arrived at the very last moment. Which would be a pity. All this doesn't mean that the festival works without a budget. The real value lies in the enthousiasm and the unconditioned cooperation of friends and collegues. I would like to mention Martin from Wendel who has been a great supporter from the beginning on, who helped with his time and promotional skills, and to Tobias Luther from (then) radioincorrect.org . Among the participating artists I have to be really really thankfull to everyone, but Derek Holzer as well as Lasse Marc Riek have been very helpfull in promotional matters, as was Carsten Stabenow who brought his surround system to add to a exquisite listening experience. All the places where the festival landed so far helped because of hosting us for free, giving out free drinks to the artists as well. The August 2007 edition saw artists travelling in from remote places like Paris, Malmö or Oslo. They agreed on forehand to loose money on this adventure, for which reason I mobilised some help from the Phonography Mailing Group . Thanks to the help of these mini sponsors all the guest from outside Berlin saw (a great deal of)their travel expenses covered.Four people who deserve special mentioning are Udo P.Leis who helped me with the tiresome work to put all the information on line (In fact it is still there Feb. '07 Artists and pictures and festival-to-go ), Björn Eriksson (aka miulew (tahake)) for spending so much time and energy to set up the virtual section of dkfrf in Second Life, to Ruben Patiño (aka pato ) and Tobias Luther who coordinated the great radio day on August 10, 2007.
Sounds Like: between natura morta and lanterna magica part two Saturday 16th August Kule Auguststrasse 10 Berlin Mitte What to expect? For sure it won't be a regular evening of field recordings: This evening will focus on the imitation of nature. And nature is the great reservoir of sounds. Scholars are talking about caves and the pictogrammes on the walls: deer and buffles, hunting and dancing. : Caves with resonances that would carry the sounds into nature. : Did they imitate those sounds at those times? : Would they have done it for artistic reasons? : Or had they already figured out : that they had to bow to some : higher being?: Will the scene on the 16th August resemble a cage or just a venue? What is to be found at the heart of field recording? : Can the human voice help? : Can radiowaves lead us to a way of better understanding. : Is there life on earth?:Forget all the questions. : Come and see : Minuit DelaCroix, : Haarmann : and : Seiji Morimoto & Francesco Cavaliere : do a mindbubbling show at Kule, : and maybe they will touch : your soul : as well.:
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

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26th of july

hello friends and listeners, please notice their is a change of address the venue will not becake and coffee in the weserstrasse melanie velarde michele spanghero and sean barrett will play ...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:41:00 PST

The Tao of Sound  Report on Michael Northam, Soichiro Mitsuya and Alessandro Bosetti

1. Sound and Archeology, Sound and Biology, Sound and Cannibalism, Sound and Dermatology, Sound and Endomorphism, Sound and Futility, Sound and Geometry, Sound and Holography, Sound and Industries, So...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:39:00 PST

today 4th of july it rains in berlin, but dkfrf will be covered!!!

hello friends of das kleine field recordings festival, this evening we were supposed to have the concerts in open air. It rains. there is however an alternative space on the same festival ground. so ...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:59:00 PST

as squat in tuned city 2- 5 july

In neukölln,a part not touched by tunedcity.dewith the help of participating artistsdas kleine field recordings festivalhosted by cake and ...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:30:00 PST

14.june in berlin kreuzberg

Attention please,it is in a new place2. hinterhofaufgang 51.OG. linksstart at 22.00 sharpwe have guests...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:12:00 PST

30 may

flyer design by soichiro mitsuyaAlessandro Bosetti will report in from his travels through the southern states of the USA and will perform translations from gullah/pennsylvania dutch/creole/cajun fren...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:20:00 PST

The American Trauma - report on the edition of 17. May

A good thing about a book that holds almost one thousand pages is that it can be worthwhile to read it. It might absorb you and make you forget everything around you. Dom DeLillo..s attempt to write T...
Posted by das kleine field recordings festival on Mon, 26 May 2008 05:40:00 PST