Impressions from the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge
Ost-West-Achse, Viktoria Lasaroff and Christoph Bauer, bedazzling the audience with Balkan Bond Blues.
photo: dl
Impressions from the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge
The Lady got the blues: Biefke, the enchanting voice of the Kings Of Spreedelta
photo: placeboKatz
Impressions from the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge
The Kings Of Spreedelta tuning in for a fine dose of fast swing.
photo: dl
Fri 17 | 10:30pm
VLADIMIR HIRSCH | UNDERLYING SCAPES
live performance
Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech avantgarde composer and musician, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition. Besides creating solo works, he is the founding member and leader of Skrol, Aghiatrias and various other projects of alternative music. His compositional style is characterized by polymodality and the emphasis on new sonic properties of instrumentation, created by force of digital technique. The music is marked by a dark, tense and tempestuous atmosphere, crossings over from experimental manipulations to unambiguous strictness in composition which are marked by highly evocative atmosphere enriched by conceptual themes ranging from metaphysics, anxiety to spirituality.
Vladimír Hirsch has been creating a rich blend of music for over 2 decades. His extensive collection includes more than 40 albums. Vladimir Hirsch performs regularly in his native country and abroad.
pictured: Jákob’s Ladder by Robert Carrithers and Marianna Auster
Fri 17 | 8:15pm
JAKOB’S LADDER by ROBERT CARRITHERS and MARIANNA AUSTER German Premiere in attendance
And don’t miss “Jákob’s Ladder” (German Premiere) by Robert Carrithers and Marianne Auster at 8:15pm (part of “Two Short Stories”), a loose mystical portrayal of a biblical story inspired by Masonic lore and Prague mystic symbols, enhanced by the ethereal powerful music of Vladimír Hirsch.
Robert Carrithers is a Prague based filmmaker, photographer and script
writer. He has been documenting the musical and art underground scene
since the 1980s, exhibiting around the world with his most recent, NYC
80s’ underground Club 57/Mudd Club series, receiving critical acclaim.
He is presently completing a documentary about the legendary Berlin
based band Fatal Shore and is in pre-production on a humorous erotic horror
feature film set in Prague. He has lived and worked in New York, Los
Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin and Prague.
Marianna O (Auster) is a Prague based (originally from Brooklyn, NYC) photographer and montage video maker, whose narrative collage films accompany Vladimír Hirsch’s and Skrol’s live music sets. Extracts from films, documentary footage, commercials and other lost relics are given new disturbing plots and spiritual dimensions. She has also worked on CD album cover designs for Hirsch’s releases.
Á deux, á trois …
Wolfgang Spahn, a DL regular on the screen as with installations, performs live with Kammerensemble ad hoc at the Kulturhaus Mitte, Auguststr.21, 10117 Berlin.
Tomorrow, Thurs 3rd of June, 8pm
Tonight´s VJ Special Fri 19th 11:30 pm
“Panic! It sounds like a toy box turned up side down.
How can she make such pretty & chaotic sounds!?
I love it!”
– Ryuichi Sakamoto
Kyoka
What on earth is a kyoka? Simply a solo artist whose cut-up-and-dance laptop electronica suggests more screws loose than fully tightened? Her style has seen her labelled as anything from a pop idol to a noise artist. And as it is usually the way, the truth lies somewhere in between. Starting her solo career at university as a side-project to her school band, Kyoka quickly found herself favouring ever-more unusual outlets for her scatterbrain sound. Finding J-pop utterly unpalatable, she began to look overseas, finding live shows in Europe and the US as well as presenting her own show on Britain’s Resonance FM, ‘Postcards From Kyoka’.