Arts B-day on Södra Teatern in Stockholm
Notes for music -
in-brackets-text is from Södra Teaterns website....
Byetone
"den tyska electronica-stjärnan Olaf Bender som är en av grundarna till en av 00-talets mest inflytelserika etiketter inom den elektroniska musiken – Raster-Noton. Byetone live är en hypnotisk upplevelse där musiken i första hand ska trigga lusten att dansa. Det visuella är en viktig del av framträdandet och avsett att via näthinnan fördjupa den fysiska upplevelsen med rytmiska impulser av ljus och mörker."
I must say though that its awkward to listen to a hypnotic experience where the music in the first place is meant to make people want to dance (and that I think succeeded) in a room where everybody is sitting. It feels like the sitting gesture somehow frames this as "art" rather than "music" or "performance" and it gave me the feeling that dancing or treating this as awesome music would come across as ...simpleminded. The containment - the being above the physical body and existing purely in the mind? - becomes an indicator of understanding this hypnotic experience intellectually, not physically.
Tentakel
"är kosmisk elektronisk krautdisco med ambienta element. Tentakel utgår från ett trumset och lägger sedan till samplers, loop-pedaler och synthar. Pontus Torstensson spelar till vardags trummor i Echodeck, Uran, Sork och Surreal Lovers."
I missed crazy many performances that I would have wanted to see - somewhere between negotiating the whole thing as a party, multiple spaces and simultaneous performances as well as the obvious distractions of beer drinking and talking to friends instead of plotting and planning in regards to the programming. Well, well. In the end I cant have it all.
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| this picture has nothing to do with the Tentakel himself, BUT he had an orange t-shirt and there were green lights |
Stockholm,
the day after....
13-01-13
