Lunahouse
Datum
Rehearsal in Northern Italy
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music: Matthias Wieneke, Eric Olsowski
A rehearsal in the middle of the „Pampa“ in 1995, not so far from Florence, but much higher up. We were here to produce something for Italian television. However, I hardly remember any details about it. As the second cameraman, I was fully occupied with the teams and did my projection exercises on white marble rocks and old houses in the cool summer night of the Southern Alps region. The music came from Matthias and Eric, I used it to record over the original soundtrack, a conversation between the project management and the artists. It is often the case when I project outdoors that people join me in the light and action of my paintings and enjoy talking to each other. Young people like to use the immediate proximity of the moving colorful live projections as a meeting place.
In this video you can clearly see that only high-contrast structures come out well on the dark natural stone of the house, the colors are partially absorbed, what still makes it to the lens of the camera is then no longer really colorful. The eye is naturally more sensitive and can perceive the colors very well even on suboptimal projection surfaces.
The Judgment
Datum
For the Kafka year 2012
Musik: Matthias Wieneke, Eric Olsowski
As a group, we wanted to create a performance based on the novella „The Judgement“ for the upcoming Kafka year. It was an attempt to come together virtually via the Internet, as we didn’t have the opportunity to meet in one place. That’s where the project failed. There was no continuity, working „as time allowed“ led to nothing, there was a lack of input to select accurately from the jungle of possibilities and allow the whole thing to grow.
Musically, I think it was a success. The musicians met for rehearsals without further ado and developed very interesting timbres and rhythms, lively and dramatic arrangements for the scenes in the novel.
The artist, alone in his studio, struggled with his pictures, apparently discarded more than he created and, disconnected from the creative boost of the musicians, was unable to follow the Kafkaesque arc of suspense throughout the entire novella, even though the music was accessible to him. It therefore remained piecemeal and yet it is not uninteresting. Watch it and decide for yourself.
Kategorien Exodus , Projekte
Little Star
Datum
Performance rehearsal
In the mid-90s, I occasionally rehearsed with the Intermission Orchestra and got to know Lukas there. He knew an interesting location in the Eifel where we wanted to meet up to see if the two of us could get something going. His idea was to start with a children’s story. If it had worked, we could have offered it to schools and kindergartens – why not? This rehearsal happened, but it was to be the only one, Lukas backed out for health reasons. Well, what else can you say, I thought to myself. There was something wrong between us – our mentalities were already quite different. In my opinion, you actually have to see this as an opportunity. But developing a program takes a lot of time and a lot of rehearsals, maybe that put him off. It quickly becomes too much for me too, because I always have a lot of building up to do at every rehearsal. Musicians don’t usually think about that, they put down their little effects unit, unpack their musical instrument – and that’s it.
When I looked at the recordings of the rehearsal today, decades later, I thought it was a shame. Of course, in this first joint rehearsal we first tried things out and created the intro for the story and then tried to find moving images to enhance the atmospheric sounds and noises. It was a good rehearsal, in my opinion. It showed what could work. It’s a shame that it came to nothing.
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