Hey Berlin friends, hoping, that you are cultivating proper springtime moods in the Northern hemisphere as well:)
I'm playing live tonight with Itchy Spots at Zwitschermaschine from 19:30
Potsdamer Straße 161, 10783 Berlin
as part of the exhibition "Gegenseitig II".
With Dagmar Weiß, Stephane Leonard, F. S. Blumm LIVE
approx. 19:30 Uhr: Blumm & Leonard
approx. 20:00 Uhr: Itchy Spots https://itchyspots.bandcamp.com
My father took me there with him, to visit a composer friend in 1978. I saw this room full of giant synth module racks and super futuristic mix desk with multichannel height-adjustable speakers all around the room with my own eyes back then. I remember the heat created by this was enough for the whole complex to be heated in the Swedish winter.
A personal initiating experience for myself and impressive until today (but the old tech is mostly gone from what i hear).
Heather Stebbins piece "An Index of Fictions", composed for Yarn/Wire on Currents Vol. 9 is microtonal percussion layers versus tempered piano versus modular synth. That makes for quite an enticing journey for tuning tensions alone. Beautiful work & concentration.