A "NEW" organization to promote the study of the kazoo in all fields, Mubil 1st performance in Helsjn from Johannes Bergmark on Vimeo. Mubil 2nd performance in Helsjn from Johannes Bergmark on Vimeo.
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JOHANNES BERGMARK,
Captain Kazoo,If you happen to be in Warsaw next week .. welcome to visit this festival.
18-23 October:
6 Festiwal Muzyki Improwizowanej Ad Libitum http://www.ad-libitum.pl/
+ 5 Festiwal Improwizacji Tanca http://sic.waw.pl/
I'll make an instrument making workshop, a lecture about Fylkingen and appear in concert
Thursday 20th at 19.00 at
Laboratorium, Centre For Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Wsplczesnej Ð Zamek Ujazdowski)
REPLY: To Johannes Bergmark, Sadly we missed the concert but we are looking forward to an update.
Thanx, Captain Kazoo
[Playing the Stringed Stirrups in Helsinki]
in the Fenix international youth project organized by Leader Sjuhrad, on August 21st, 2010, as part of the Mubil tour.
The young participants came from estonia, finland and sweden, and built oscillator systems and simple instruments based on contact microphones.
They then applied them into and performed through our electro-acoustic van, the Mubil.
We also introduced new ways of thinking about sound, space and acoustics to them, in order to inspire their creativity.
Here's the performance in the evening by the "oscillator" workshop.
More about Mubil: bergmark.org/ mubil
1960s-Present
By Shelley Esaak
It was originally used to describe any live artistic event that included poets, musicians, film makers, etc.
- in addition to visual artists.
If you weren't around during the 1960s, you missed a vast array of "Happenings," "Events" and Fluxus "concerts," to name just a few of the descriptive words that were used.
It's worth noting that, even though we're referencing the 1960s here, there were earlier precedents for Performance Art.
The live performances of the Dadaists, in particular, meshed poetry and the visual arts.
The German Bauhaus, founded in 1919, included a theater workshop to explore relationships between space, sound and light.
The Black Mountain College (founded [in the United States] by Bauhaus instructors exiled by the Nazi Party), continued incorporating theatrical studies with the visual arts - a good 20 years before the 1960s Happenings happened.
You may also have heard of "Beatniks" - stereotypically: cigarette-smoking, sunglasses and black-beret-wearing, poetry-spouting coffeehouse frequenters of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Though the term hadn't yet been coined, all of these were forerunners of Performance Art.
"Performance Art" meant that it was live, and it was art, not theater.
Performance Art also meant that it was art that could not be bought, sold or traded as a commodity. Actually,
the latter sentence is of major importance. Performance artists saw (and see) the movement as a means of taking their art directly to a public forum,
thus completely eliminating the need for galleries, agents, brokers, tax accountants and any other aspect of capitalism.
It's a sort of social commentary on the purity of art, you see.
In addition to visual artists, poets, musicians and film makers, Performance Art in the 1970s now encompassed dance (song and dance, yes, but don't forget it's not "theater").
Sometimes all of the above will be included in a performance "piece" (you just never know).
Since Performance Art is live, no two performances are ever exactly the same.
The 1970s also saw the heyday of "Body Art" (an offshoot of Performance Art), which began in the 1960s.
In Body Art, the artist's own flesh (or the flesh of others) is the canvas.
Body Art can range from covering volunteers with blue paint and then having them writhe on a canvas,
to self-mutilation in front of an audience. (Body Art is often disturbing, as you may well imagine.)
This kind of story-telling is much more entertaining to most people than, say, seeing someone shot with a gun.
(This actually happened, in a Body Art piece, in Venice, California, in 1971.)
The autobiographical pieces are also a great platform for presenting one's views on social causes or issues.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, Performance Art has increasingly incorporated technological media into pieces -
mainly because we have acquired exponential amounts of new technology.
Recently, in fact, an 80's pop musician made the news for Performance Art pieces which use a Microsoftš PowerPoint presentation as the crux of the performance.
Where Performance Art goes from here is only a matter of combining technology and imagination.
In other words, there are no foreseeable boundaries for Performance Art.
TO FEED THE SPIDER
ASTEROIDS, TETRIS, SKETCH & PAINT, DRUM MACHINE, DJ TURNTABLE, BREAKDANCE
THE MAKING OF GIMME MONEY
"THE PANHASSLER"
The Panhassler character is the consummate "in your face" aggressive panhandler. The Panhassler's sign reads
"GIMME MONEY"
No excuses, No sad stories, No appeal to the conscience of the passerby. Just a flat out demand for
"MONEY".
This unique recording takes you for a virtual walk down main street USA.
Its NU URBAN BEAT and DIN of VOICES create a doppler effect of never ending pleas for
"SPARE CHANGE".
The original recording was done with all battery opperated equipment while performing on the street,
in one take with no rehearsal, no overdubbing and no expectations other than
attempting to recreate the sounds of the street and the pleas of the panhandlers.
The only musical instruments used were a CASIO RAPMAN with a Voice Effector and a Kazoo.
The background rhythms, chorus, sound effects and voice manipulation were all done on the Rapman.
A BOSS digital Sampler/Delay was used to create the doppler effect.
Laurinda, my wife, is the photographer and jacket designer
We have several interesting stories re our adventures on the street. with me as the panhassler and Laurie as the tourist.
Innocent bystanders and passersby didn't know that we were together
we set it up that I would take up a position on the street and Laurie would come from the opposite direction and casually
snap a few pictures of an itinerant street musician/panhandler. Believe it or not, I actually made a few bucks during the photo shoots.
When I composed GIMME MONEY, I wanted to make it annoying, to make the listener pay attention, to go into a trance,
to visualize the scene, to become the sender and then the receiver, to experience a moment in the world of the panhandler,
to walk, for even a few minutes, in his or her shoes.
TO WAKE UP !
Several hundred copies of "GIMME MONEY" were given to guests
at the 15th Anniversary Party for The Coalition On Homelessness of San Francisco
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