PS live at Salon Bruit

Somehow I was curious to see and listen to PS at our last Salon Bruit evening. I had never seen somebody playing the Theremin. Philippe, the P in the PS, came up to me before the concert and showed me the instrument: a blackbox, hardly bigger then my walkman.

When P. started playing he was partly hiding behind the chairs of the front row. His back to the audience, his instruments under the table, and, invisible to us, a piece of scotch over his mouth to secure the contact mike. I didn't perceive his sounds as music. In the scarce light of the kino something else happened.

Philippe is born in the heart of Paris, and has lived there all of his life. By coming to Berlin, he changed one metropole for another. His sounds expressed this existence. Not as a conflict, but as every day life. Before the concert I suggested to him to go on stage, to show what he did. He refused. And logically so, he refused. Going on stage, showing oneself, is about stories, and about zooming in on the many details a town has to offer.

Philippe went the opposite way. One timevisible, next time disappearing to become part of the whole and get absorbed by the streets, then by the quartier, and ultimately by big city life. And then, what was left, and what was heard, was the city itself. This concert was one of the last occasions to see PS. He will return to Paris next month. For Salon Bruit it is a loss.His sounds deserve to be heard more then once a year.

Rinus

Wednesday 23rd of August - Tape Kino (little change)

There will be a little change of programme on this edition of Salon Bruit's Tape Only. Marcel Türkowsky says he is very sorry, but due to some urgent sonicities he had to leave town.
We have found Julian Ronnefeldt to play with us. He will bring the tapes of his video camera. Mind you, just the audio will be played, the visualising part is up to you. His recordings include sounds from Kazachstan, Saint Petersburg and last evenings sensational performance by Mooodepathologie on the Kurfürsten Damm, here in Berlin.

Our host will be Vorwien in Kreuzberg, to be found on the Skalitzer Strasse 41.

Complete information, also on the other two evenings of Salon Bruit are to be found further down this blop.

John Morin/Carine Lequyer/Richard Scott

Scott/Van Alebeek/Antena/Mangrove Kipling

Antena and Mangrove Kipling

Rinus Van Alebeek and Richard Scott

John and Carine from Otokan

Thursday 24th of August - Salon Bruit Special

Otokan is a group from Nantes, currently visiting Berlin. They will perform coming thursday (!) in the bar, and possibly also in the kino.
As always we will decide at the last moment.

For sure they will play two sets, in a different line-up.

Sounds and songs and chansons will be generated from a table full of objects and mini-instruments, an electric guitar, a toy record player and stored recordings.

In Nantes Otokan is involved in the promotion and development of experimantral music as part of the HUB collective.


Doors open at 21.00
Kastanienallee 77, Prenzlauer Berg, U-bahn Eberswalderstrasse

Be welcomed,

Announcements for wednesday 23rd and friday 25th are to be found scrolling the page.

Friday 18th of August - last minute Salon Bruit

Yesterday I was dragged out of my supermarkt trance by a phone call. I was in K*f*land, had walked around for half an hour like some Hunter Thompson creature, and was staring at the cheese, when my mobile started singing.

Salon Bruit calling. Do we play? Yes, you play next week. No tomorrow!

Our friend Laurent is back in town. And he has the keys as well. Today Salon Bruit opens the doors at the kastanienallee 77, from 21.00 hours onwards.
There will be musicians and their instruments, some beer as well. Maybe our friend Wolfgang Pedersen will show up, maybe not.

You will be able to speak french. Bring your own Brie.

Be welcomed.

Friday 25th of August - Salon Bruit

Dream noise

Ashram noise

konstruktivist noise




2kilos&more

Richard Scott

PS




from 22.00 onwards
Kastanienallee 77, Prenzlauer Berg, U-Bahn Eberswalderstrasse

Wednesday 23rd of August - Tape Kino

Those who were present at our noise picknick under the trees in Joachimstrasse, might have witnessed our farewell to summer concert. Even on that evening it was getting chilly. Thanks to all for showing up.

Next we go to Kreuzberg. On the Skalitzer Strasse is a little Cinema with a garden. We will start playing after the movie. It is a Kung Fu movie by and with Stephen Chow.

We will be without Stephane Leonard who is recording the Martini-tower in Groningen, and has promised to bring back some peperkoek. Also Marco Lampis is not with us this time, because he has gone to Sardegna for a short visit. Hopefully both of them won't forget to do some recordings for our next evening.

Coming wednesday Marcel will be back from his holiday in Berlin. And we welcome Kenneth Nielsen who is riding around town at the moment in search of tapeplayers. Soichiro brings his beamer to do some tapeprojections on the trees. His new selection of audioreports will be nicely distorted by Marc. Yours sincerely will run around and tell everyone to put down the volume, because there is children sleeping on the first floor.

Special feature will be the cinema. Our concert will be filmed and projected on screen while we play in the bar.

Program:
21.00 Kung Fu Hustle (Hk 2004/99min) from and with Stephen Chow
22.39 Tape Kino (Ger 2006/80min) from and with Kenneth Nielsen, Marc Fantini, Soichiro Mitsuya, Marcel Türkowsky, Rinus van Alebeek.


Vorwien, Skalitzerstrasse 41, U-Bahn Görlitzer Bahnhof


Be welcomed.

Friday 11th of August - Kastanienallee 77

It has been one of my dreams to convince Luciano Pavarotti to sing the songs of the late Sex Pistols. The name of the album should be Pavarotti sings Rotten. I never had a chance to meet the maestro in person. For the first time in my life I will be able to speak to someone who can help me. Collin Oldham has played cello for one of Luciano's buddy's. Should be a piece of cake to have Pavarotti on our stage for a christmas recital.

So far our guests stand in a row of friends. And I am very pleased to have been introduced to Anne Wellmer by Justin Bennett, who performed chez nous a month ago. Anne has made life easy for me. She wanted to have a pleasant evening and invited her friends. From their various biography's one can imagine that the whole evening will be one of imagination.

Here is the information as provided by themselves:


Anne Wellmer is a sound artist, born to be angry in Germany in 1966, raised to be wild in America 1970-1973 and educated to be noisy in the Netherlands 1992-1997. Among her work are performances and installations, music theater pieces and choreographies. She performs as an improvising musician, as a composer and as a singer on various electronic instruments, such as the VCS3 EMS Synthi, the ARP 2600, the STEIM crackle box and laptops.



Collin Oldham's musical life includes 25 years of experience as a performing cellist, two university degrees in cello performance, and appearances with the (US) National Symphony Orchestra, and Washington (DC)Opera with the likes of Valery Geirgiev and Placido Domingo. He has given solo and chamber music recitals in Chicago, Los Angeles, Moscow, Louisville and Berlin. He was a founding member of Dr. Nick, a Moscow blues band and has toured and recorded with Richmond Fontaine. In 2005-2006 he studied at Stanford's center for computer research in music and acoustics, where he developed some novel contollers for perfoming music with computers.



Collin designs instruments that bring computer music and digital synthesis under the influence of the physical world. They speak to his laptop via a microcontroller.

video


Sebastian Meissner is one of our neighbours. In his latest work he deals with the concept of 'Heimat'. You can find him somewhere in the bush of ghosts: _____________________________________________________________
******__ country roads __************__bizz_circuits__*******
*****************************__ take me home __**********
**__ to the place __*************__kLIMEK__**********
*******************__open_source__**********__ostendzoo__**********
*******__random_inc__***********__random_industries__**************
*******************__ where I belong __****************
_________________________________________


And when all seems over and done, Das Naturhistorische Museum der Klänge will bring a candlelightconcert to you in the bar. Das Naturhistorische Museum der Klänge scarcely make public appearances. So far they have performed in Guru's Palace in Capo Vaticano, at the Leprochaun Convention in Burg Güsing and der Kuhstall in Innsbruck.
Toilet Music of their last album Ciao Jazzclub has been aired by radiostations around the world. Rumor has it that the director of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao never visits the bathroom without toilet music. But please, don't tell anyone.

listen to toiletmusic

and be welcomed.

Thursday 10th of August: Tape Caling Home Base

 
The Tape Wedding Special turned out to be an energetic and happy chaotical evening. Special thanks goes to Der Tapeman, who played a set full of voices from the other side, while the room slowly filled itself with a giant cloud. We also want to thank Philippe and Filippo for their generous help and their great welcome. And of course our thanks goes out to our listeners for coming. All of you have made this evening really special.

Salon Bruit's next Tape Only will be hosted by Home Base. This club/lounge/living room with garden is to be found in Mitte, in the Joachimstrasse 20. Nearest U-bahn is Weinbergerstrasse or Rosenthalerplatz. The Joachimstrasse is between the Gipsstrasse and the Auguststrasse. Special notice: the evening starts at 19.00 hours!

The line up will be pretty much the same as the last time, though we might think of some other presentation. You can expect Soichiro Mitsuya to play his miniradio and microphonewalkman, Marcel Türkowsky will do another walkmantrapezeset. Stephane Leonard will join in to conduct the cassetterecorderchoir. Then Marco Lampis will present sounds and songs from his mythological dreambook and yours sincerely will present yet another guest to do some whuu whiii.

See you next thursday, and, remember to come in time.

Happy listenings,

Rinus

Made in China

 
There was still sunlight in the Kastanienallee. The bar was full of red discs, red toy volkswagen station cars (the old model) that were running in endless circles, and a red radiotransmitter next to each disk. It was a joyfull sight. Children walked in and out, mothers sat on a chair, and the people from k77 came to look at the yodlings.

The red was China red, like the lanterns in the restaurants or the flags on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. I would call it poppy red as well, and not because of the flower, but because of Pop. Would it be pop, if those cars were miniature wedding couples, and the radio inside a wedding cake? I guess not. But it was no use lingering over this question. Nor did I have time to imagine Staalplaat Soundsystem occupying Beijing's most famous square with their red army of discs, toy cars and radio's, just after the hour of the tai-chi-chuan exercises.

In came somebody who looked like an intelectual, a philospher maybe. Sweaty, shortsighted and a heavy rucksack on his back. He didn't take the rucksack of. He looked in disgust at the toy cars going around and around and around, listened a few seconds to the soundtraffic and came to the bar:
" A serious musician would laugh at this! You mix nothing with nothing and what you get is nothing!"

A post-Einsteinian was talking to me, and I didn't recognize him. What a missed chance. I should have offered him a chair, something to stand on, and a glass of water too, of course. I would have loved to hear his discours on nothingness, rising above the sunny soundscape that made salon bruit such a nice place to be.

Rinus