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Concept: Roberta Pupotto

Performers: Roberta Pupotto and Rocio Becerra

ERRE is a dance performance in which the freedom of expression and the absence of it are the main characters. Roberta Pupotto and Rocio Becerra show how Repression and Fear work together against freedom.What remain of us when our freedom of expression is taken away?

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Djs: Radio Hobo (Germany / Venezuela) & Edna Martinez (Colombia)

Tropical utopia! Every month we are on air on Cahsmere Radio sending from Berlin our landscape full of polyrhythms, flavour and beats in the cold diaspora! We dig deep into Champeta, Semba, Samba, Compas, Coladeira, Cumbia, Salsa, Highlife, Zouk, Sega or Afrobeat, and more... this time Djs Radio Hobo (Germany / Venezuela), Edna Martinez (Colombia) go out of the studio to be on the decks of Eschschloraque celebrating a non stop dancing Troptopia night! 

https://soundcloud.com/radiohobo/radio-hobo-mix-no-17-troptopia-afro-caribe
https://www.mixcloud.com/edna-martinez/stream/

 on the couch: Mr.B & MissVergnügen

Now here is Mwadka, a DJ who makes the floor dance the voodoo, takes the crowd on a journey of many dimensions and brings it all with an intensity that expresses the joy created by music. Her rhythms are funky, the atmospheres hypnotic. The waves of melodies, vocals and ethnic percussions go into the mix. On the stage stands a good looking woman, confident, inspired, exciting, with a charisma, a desire and a sixth sense for what the people want. When she says, let the party begin, it will, and, as long as she leads the dance from behind the stand, it will go on until dawn. No way to stand still, and after all, why should you, when, as Mwadka says, ‘life is light, and the music the language of love’.

What makes her style even more special is the spectacular way she uses the table. Mwadka doesn’t use it as a switch, from one record to the next one, but plays it as an instrument, and yes, in her case, as a drum. ‘It just happens, as soon as I feel the beat and vibrations of the music’, Mwadka tells, ‘I start tapping my fingers, and there it goes, I create rhythm with the sounds of the records. Again, why should a drum be drum? Like Roland Kirk, a famous jazz player said, “a good musician knows how to stretch it. He can play the piano on a washing board.” That’s what I do with the mix table.’

So here she is, a bright young woman, ready to take you on a ride full of emotion, ready to make you dancing to the music that unites us all, from the jungle to the valleys, the desert to the mountains, whatever colour, whatever background, it all adds up, it all makes the body sweat and the soul glow. Enjoy it.

Where:
Club der Visionäre/ Katerholzig/, Kikiblofeld/ Ritterburgske/Anita Barber/ Catwalk Michalski Bar/Ushuaia (Ibiza)/Klimt (Bari)

Mwadka shared decks with:
Jannis Siopis, Kiki, LBad, Eric D. Clark, Dinky, Margareth Dygas, Damian Lazarus, Thomas Melchior, Pier Bucci, Housemeister, Goldfinger, Tom Clark, Dani Casarano, Felipe Valenzuela/Chica Paula/Mike Shannon/…

https://www.facebook.com/DJMwadka/
https://soundcloud.com/Mwadka

Geheimnisvoll wie ein Mythos, doch wahrhaftig fabelhaft: Während Vampire, jene im Schutz des Dunkels wandelnden Nachtgestalten im Sagenhaften verweilen – unheimlich und gespenstisch –, lässt TROPICAL VAMPIRE, das Alternative-Electropop-Projekt der Künstlerin Anna Helmersson, sagenhafte klangliche Sphären in einem Live-Act wahr werden – unheimlich betörend und gespenstisch schön.

Langsam, aber stetig bauen sich höllisch gewaltige Soundscapes auf, die nur durch einen nahezu engelsgleichen Gesang durchbrochen werden, dessen Hall die Dimensionen einer gleichermaßen ruhigen wie intensiven klanglichen Umwelt verdichtet. Dahinter steht die Kunst, Facetten des Sounds etwa mittels Stimme, Samples, Effekten, Feedback Loops und pulsierenden Beats in eigenen Sonic Spaces zu gestalten. Sie versetzen das Publikum in den Schall und Raum von „Ice-cold experimental electronics with heavy hypnotic rhythms and dreamy ominous soundscapes“.
Zwischen verträumt hypnotischen Rhythmen und plötzlich aufkommender Düsternis sprechen die Tracks von einer ruhigen Intensität, doch niemals zu ruhig, um schlichtweg in andere Sphären davonzutragen: So entlässt etwa „Hard to give“ sanft in innere Gefühlswelten, während „Fire starts“ das eindringliche Spektrum experimenteller Electronics lodern lässt, bis „Two times“ oder „On the coast“ überraschend die Sounds lauer Sommernächte auffunkeln lassen. Vielleicht sind es all diese Verbindungen, die einen Vampir ins Tropische versetzen, doch niemals einen einzigartig gespenstischen Charme verlieren – Helmersson holt einen schon mit dem ersten Ton ab und lässt bis zum Ende nicht mehr los, „As [her] shadow walks behind“.

In jedem Fall ist es für alle Nachtgestalten und solche, die es werden möchten, die Gelegenheit, in andere Welten abzuheben – im Schutz des inneren Halbdunkels, das das Eschschloraque bietet! Live wird Anna Helmersson von Anti Zurowski von Nova Blast begleitet.

Text: Vera Fischer

Weitere Infos:
https://soundcloud.com/tropicalvampire
https://www.facebook.com/tropicalvampire/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZHUqPJAq9Q
 

Sounding bones is a research project based on the idea that Sound and motion are the two faces of the same coin. Through motion sensors and recording fields, we give sound to actions which are normally not able to be heard.
We explore the possibilities of the body to sound, bringing the focus to what is normally not audible to humans. Vibrations of rustling clothes, sliding hands, and moving joints and muscles of multiple performers are amplified through special contact microphones. In this way the gate into new ways of creating performance opens, giving the movers to create and shape the aural environment they perform in, through the sound and rhythms of their movement.

Jason Snell
An American artist and musician who integrates motion, sound, and AI to create multimedia performances.
www.jasonjsnell.com

Jadi Carboni is a performer, bodyworker, explorer of different forms of performing arts and healing practices, in which sound and movement become the mediums for discovering and creating.

Dj: Vela

Vibration pulsiert durchs Innere, Bass synchronisiert den Herzrhythmus, bewegt jeden einzelnen Muskel ... und in dieser Bewegung liegt Freiheit: sich vollkommen im allumgebenden Sound fallen und von ihm mitreißen zu lassen, der mit jedem Break die Leidenschaft der DJ auf die Tanzfläche transportiert. Wenn Sound in Worte gefasst werden kann, dann äußern sich so die Kraft und Stärke einer Klangsprache, deren Tenor ein packendes „BassBombardement“ ist: Denn kaum eine DJ hat die Bässe von den Turntables aus so in der Hand wie Vela!