Notstandskomitee live Berlin tonight

Today is a screaming nice saturday and tonight Notstandskomitee meets Femme Facade at Supersonic Club Berlin, Weichselstr. 15 Berlin Neukölln, 22:00

Kino Kabarett 2006

At Kino Kabarett 2006, where you have 48hours time to conceive and finish a short movie, I made some soundtracks, like this one. Zabel and friends from Reunion came up with this thing and while they were filming, me and Volker Havlik, with whom I had the project Konform together, made the soundtrack. Working title was Gratte Les Couilles which was changed in the similar subtle name Wanker.
Regular listeners of my music will recognize some of my signature sounds, augmented with Volkers guitar works.

9 movies to ruin your first date

Here is a list of extreme and disturbing movies, certainly nothing for anyone below 18 or 30 years, you have to have the mental constitution and media competency to digest these, otherwise your soul might get folded like an Origami went wrong.

These are perfectly suitable to ruin your first date, normally your date becomes your opponent, throwing up and/or just walk away. If not, your are dating either

- a fellow cineast, so you can look forward to countless hours discussing movies. Dreams can get true.

- your psychiatrist, so that straitjacket isn't a fetish toy…

- YOU should walk away as quickly as possible

Anyway, these movies are giving your first date that certain Taxi-Driver extra:

1. Salo by Pasolini. An important movie showing how victims becomes offenders. Very intense and precise, watching this felt like getting skinned alive, was thinking about leaving the cinema. Was banned in Germany. The most gross effect (those who have seen it, know what I mean) was done with Mousse-Au-Chocolat and orange jam, actually yummy when you think about it.

2. A Serbian Movie

Seems to be the new king of disturbing movies. Haven't seen it and from what I read about never have the intention to. But yeah, said the same when I was looking at the lobby cards of Dawn Of The Dead, but that was 1978 and I was 8 years old, perfectly happy with Disneys Snow White, Godzilla movies and Bud Spencer. Meanwhile I enjoy watching the original Dawn once a year, reconstituting my distrust in mankind and 70s wardrobe.

If you ever need some depressions, paranoia and want get rid of your appetite or any positive attitudes towards sexuality, this might be your ticket. Maybe watching Bambi several times after that cures the wounds.

3. Last House On The Left by Wes Craven

Hard to believe that David Hess was in general a nice guy and wrote songs for Elvis Presley and others, but thats acting. One of the first movies combining a Chainsaw and a human being, 1 year before Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

A modern version of Bergmans Virgin Spring.

4. I Spit On Your Grave

Haven't seen that and don't feel I ever want to. Main actress of the original 70s version is granddaughter of Buster Keaton.

5. O.K. from Michael Verhoeven

A german take on the horrors of Vietnam war or war in general. Everything looks fake and it tries to break the illusions of film, but its intense, has a snuff feeling and it brought down the Film Festival in Berlin 1970 because of the eventual dispute. Haven't seen it yet but I am curious, but it might damage my soul. Gustl Bayrhammer is in it but Pumuckel left the building.

6. House On The Edge Of The Park

Deodatos coverversion of Last House, complete with David Hess again in action.

7. Night Train Murders

Another italian Last House/ Virgin Spring version

8. Irreversibel

Not seen yet but Whitehouses William Bennett was impressed by it so it cant be a casual movie

9. Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer

some parts are uneasy to watch, I was suffering

Another nominees are Clockwork Orange (although the over styling ease it a bit),Ms. 45, Man Bites Dog and Deodatos Cannibal Holocaust (I wanted to like it because of its intensity and being a precessor of Blair Witch Project and others, but animal snuff is not acceptable ) and countless more…

Restlichtverstärker live in Berlin 21.7.2012

My band Restlichtverstärker with Servando Barreiro will perform tomorrow the first time in Berlin at Supersonic Club, a year after my Notstandskomitee concert there.

Blender lecture / workshop at LPM Rome tonight

I am going to give a Blender lecture / workshop tonight, 31.5.2012 from 22:00 till 1:00 at LPM in Rome, more schedule here. The Notstandskomitee concert is moved to 2.June at 22:20 http://2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/artists/Notstandskomitee/performances/thermal-explosion-machining/

next events

lot of stuff going on so here some of my next dates:

22.5. PD-Berlin Meeting at NK Berlin
24.5. Restlichtverstärker concert at LiWoli Linz
31.5. Notstandskomitee concert + Blender workshop at LPM Rome
9.6. Notstandskomitee concert with outpt+paris at Panke Berlin
7.7. Elektronengehirn headphonefestival Lab-Gallery Sweden
3.8. exhibition opening Galerie Einstellungsraum Hamburg

Elektronengehirn concert 16.April 2012 Berlin

Elektronengehirn performs at Mme Claude Berlin, 16. April 2012 21:00

rehearsing Elektronengehirn PureData live setup at the Block 4 studio Berlin

Experimontag at Madame Claude Lübbener Straße 19, 10997 Berlin, Germany

The full program:

CONURE (Ambient Noise/US,DE)

Now based in Berlin, Mark Wilson (also of 15 Degrees Below Zero and Rings of Smoke Through the Trees) has been creating ambient noise and other varieties of sound art under the moniker Conure since May of 2000. He has released an extensive catalog of music on Edgetone Records, Connexion Bizarre, Solipsism, Crunch Pod, and others, in addition to touring successfully throughout the US, Canada, and Berlin. Conure has also collaborated and performed with various other sound art, new music, and jazz musicians such as Big City Orchestra, Instagon, Nihil Communication, Rent Romus, CJ Borosque, Phillip Greenlief, and Thomas Park, amonst others. He currently utilizes various microphones, effects pedals, loops, field recordings, and mixer as his main set of tools to create sounds that range from minimal drones to heavily layered walls of feedback and cacophony.

http://conure.bandcamp.com/

ELEKTRONENGEHIRN (Electroacoustic Computer Music/Berlin)

After Elektronengehirn had started as a sideproject of the industrial outfit Notstandskomitee in 1996, it quickly took on a life of its own. Elektronengehirn is experimental and closely connected to the visual arts. The main feature of this electroacoustic music is that it’s done only with software instead of hardware synthesizers. Malte Steiner, who is the head behind the music, uses Max/MSP, pd and csound, and has played concerts in as many countries as Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, Cuba, Thailand and the US.

http://www.block4.com/index.php?id=8

DAVIDLY (Implied Music and Ambient/US, DE)