Sunday invite to the bar: Wert der Grenze/Wat is de Grens Waard?

[Romain / rXg]

Kai ,
I think it was very cool, I really liked the concept even if it could be a
bit experimental for some people  ( for this type of work, you could check
the work of some artists from the Enschede art school named  "AKI" ;)

Everything was in German or Dutch but I was luckily surprised that I
understood almost everything ...  :P

The theatre was really cosy (btw it was the  first time I went there).
Musically I really liked when the musicians begun to play the notes from the
partition moved by the actors also I liked the electronical beat background
music mixed with those instruments  ...
About the Video I liked the first act of the Dutch actor when she goes under
the green screen ( which was replace by a forest background)  to disappear
underground ...

All in all I was pleased to meet Kai for the first time, also I learnt how
to pronounce correctly his name ... ( shame on me heheh )  :)
I 'm glad if I could help a bit to find musicians for his project ...
If I have to do it again I will cause Women and Gentlemen,
Kai performance/conducting asymmetric patterns  made me think of
 Zappa behaviour  ...  :)

Ps: I will be so cool if Kai will be there for the next Music-bar
Meeting ... :)











On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:05 PM, K9 Kai Niggemann <canine at waf80.de> wrote:

> The two filmscreenings/concerts on sunday went really well. It was very
> nice to meet Romain in person at Het Vestzak Theater in Enschede and to have
> a few words -- of course there was much too much going on to sit down with a
> drink and really talk, but I'd like to do that sometime in the future.
>
> It was a very exciting run up to the concerts: I had a bit of a problem
> finding a trombonist from Münster, I only met Gunnar Weiper, a guy who plays
> in three different ska and Jazz bands on thursday. I went through the score
> with him and I noticed that if you mute notes in Logic's pianoroll editor,
> they still show up in the score..;) Other than that using Kontakt4 to write
> trombone was quite sufficient, a fact that was a big relief to me.
>
> The violin was played by Julia Philippens from Amsterdam. She is a really
> good violinist, I understand she is fairly well known in Jazz and
> classical/contemporary circles. She performed in Amsterdam (at Paradiso) on
> saturday night, jumped in a car with her boyfriend as a driver afterwards
> and arrived in Münster at 2 in the morning. We accompanied her boyfriend on
> his dinner (Döner near the trainstation) and went over the score in the
> Döner place, clarifying why my bars didn't add up (I was making loops that
> go against the 4/4 beat of the drums on the film's soundtrack).
>
> We then went to sleep, got up only five hours later to go to the theater,
> set up and soundcheck in time for the 11 AM matinee show.
>
> In the first show something happened to the film (we were playing from a
> laptop, the DVD had shown some other glitches during the rehearsals). The
> film froze for about 1 second, very rhythmically, in the final part,
> generating an awesome opportunity for the two player's improvisations.
> un/fortunately this didn't happen again at night in Enschede...
>
> We then had a quick talk, breakfast, drove to Enschede, set up there, had
> late (at 5:30) lunch and headed back to the theater for soundcheck. We
> performed at 7:30 (in time, this time) and things went smoother there. We
> had a much smaller screen, the musicians had more light and the audience had
> a much clearer view of the entire setup -- everyone who saw both shows said
> they liked and understood the concept much better the second time.
>
> The content of the film was a series of improvisations: Jort Bonne, a
> filmmaker from Enschede and I were set up together to create something
> (anything) that uses the Euregio (the region left and right of the border)
> and the border as a topic.
>
> We decided to have two actors, Diet Gerrit from Enschede and Ekkehard Freye
> from Münster meet for the first time in front of the camera. It was an eerie
> meeting because they were both extremely nervous, unsure whether or not the
> other was acting and if they knew something the other didn't...
>
> Then there were a few scenes where the on screen actors interacted with and
> directed the musicians, probably the funniest being the part where thy hold
> out musical notes, cut out from black cardboard over a set of music lines,
> asking the violinist and the trombonist to follow what they show.
>
> Now we will see how we go on. Maybe if they give us more money we will add
> another layer of interaction and improvisation by remixing the material or
> something...
>
> We filmed everything (the performances too) and recorded audio from
> Münster, but my H4n failed me in Enschede, it just turned itself off after
> five minutes, forgetting anything that had been recorded until then, in
> spite of fresh batteries... Something wrong about the mixer's outputs going
> into the +48 enabled (forgot to turn that off) inputs maybe?
>
> Again thanks to Romain for coming! It was great to meet you, and again
> sorry I had so little time after the show!
>
> Let's see how this goes on..!
>
> Kai
>
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Romain
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