Filed under: live reviews | Tags: Andrea Ermke, Arthur Rother, Burkhard Beins, chris abrahams, echtzeitmusik, echtzeitmusiktage, heaven and, ignaz schick, Joerg Maria Zeger, Marcello Silvio Busato, margareth kammerer, Martin Siewert, perlonex, sink, stephan mathieu, Steve Heather, Tony Buck, Zeitblom
« We had no money, no grants, no institutional support, and little critical attention, but we had the one crucial ingredient an insurgent cultural scene needs in order to flower: cheap rent. Cheap rent, I learnt, is far more important to fostering a vital art scene than grants, galleries, and so on. » (Bob Ostertag about life in the East Village of Manhattan in the end of the 70s. In Creative Life, University of Illinois Press.)
Cheap rent is probably what makes Berlin’s improv and experimental scene so attractive for German or foreign artists, and therefore so lively. Most musicians playing for the Echtzeitmusiktage, Mika Vainio, Jan Jelinek, Tony Buck, Burkhard Beins, Antoine Chessex, Werner Dafeldecker, Joke Lanz, Thomas Ankersmit, Lucio Capece and many others, live or spend most of their time in Berlin. In this context, a festival gathering all those residents was a duty and a blessing. I attended as many gigs as I could, even so I surely missed a lot.
Read the rest of this review on tokafi.com.
— For some pictures of Stephan Mathieu’s gig, visit Mapsadaisical —
Chris Abrahams and his DX7 (by Miss Hecker)
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