Suma & Fatima - In a garden

Today we played a improvisation set with our long time friend Frank Rudow - who recently moved to Barcelona and is working here with his new project Suma. He had been invited to make music on a event organized by friends, and he invited us to play together with him. The event took place in a kind of greenhouse and we played ambient music for the invited guests between plants and a surreal exposition. Frank used stones, leaves, flowerpods and found objects for percussion, we played on two laptops, sampling his noises. On our drop-page you can listen to the last 11 minutes of the one and a half hour long improvised ambient set we played.

La versión de "La perversion"

First attempt in creative abuse of creative commons. Our curator Oscar Abril Ascaso has published a serie of songs with his band OAA+SaLA (Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra avec Les Autres), all under a creative commons licence that allows to use the material for derivative work. "Ok, let's go!" we thought, and made a remix of one of their tracks. We used the liner-notes of the track "La perversion" from the band's website, translated them into german and put them over some spliced and diced samples from the original track. Selbstreferenz at it's best, as we have lyrics explaining that a sadist pervert would be someone who is putting himself into the place of the other, thus creating IMMANENZ. What else is a remix? The original track from OAA+SaLA can be found here, our version can be heard and downloaded here. (Foto: Oscar Abril Ascaso and Sedcontra studying)

Expopo, 1rst of march 2008

We will play a little improvisation set at the Expopo - a one day exhibition of our artist friends webportal Guapopo . The location is a huge flat in the Eixample. The idea is to have people make the sound of the artpieces exhibited, and then use these soundbytes to compose little pieces of music. Hmmm, if that works?

We are in "TimeOut"

We have been featured in the Time Out (Barcelona edition)!

In the museum Santa Monica

We have been invited to take part in a projectin the museum Santa Monica: 14 bands will rehearse in a wooden box in the central hall of the museum during the next three months. The outcome will be published under creative commons licences. We will have two slots, tuesdays and thursdays from 4 until 6 in the afternoon - and you can come and visit us. We still don't know exactly how the whole process will be, but we are looking forward to make some Rampampam!
We will for sure record a lot and try to put as much stuff online as possible!
Here is the myspace from the project.

Videos from the performance at transmediale

On sunday, 3rd of february 08, we made three performances at the transmediale-festival in Berlin. Now the first videos have been posted on youtube:




you can see more videos here, and here and a very special one here .

Foto-love-story about IFATIMA in BCN.urb

Institut FATIMA has been featured in the fotonovela-magazine BCN.urb, published by our beloved ayuntamiento (General Itat). We managed to fill in some last corrections into the text, so have a look at it and compare the german and the catalan texts. The magazine is available for free at numerous places in Barcelona and features among others Sonia Gomez .

Download a full pdf-preview of the fotonovela here.

03.02.2007: Berlin Transmediale

Hurrah! We will play at the festival transmediale in Berlin. The event will take place at the Haus der Kulturen, sunday 3rd of february, 3pm. We will do 3 or 4 interventions with reactivision and big symbols in the hands of the audience. Here our page on the festival's web.

21.10.2007 Improtronica session Nr. 6 - Festival Tardor Poble Nou

We play the next Improtronica Session, this time without invited musicians. Lots of people at the NIU, as the event is part of a bigger festival (Escena Poble Nou).
Bad luck, as we start the concert one of the computers doesn't boot anymore. No battery left. Also the reacTIVision part of the set up doesn't really work so fine. But then again people just find it funny and entertaining to see us struggle with the machines. And we have very nice visuals by Margot van Ham, including live cam and some material we had prepared at home some night before the concert. Video and audio-recordings of the event exist (and might be posted here soon)

20.09.2007 Cabaret Hoffmann, Gracia BCN

Beautiful small venue. We got invited because another band had to cancel and proposed us to play. Nice!! Actually the concert is part of the LEM-festival somehow - and we always wanted to play on the LEM, so now we have made it!
We let someone from the audience sing a song. Some bizarre descontrolled accidents happen. In the middle of "Mamasita" we have suddenly a very strange singing/effect-part that came out of nothing because of badly prepared set up. All beats stop and only some strange echoes continue to sound while we sing the chorus. Surprise. We smile and all people laugh about it. We feel lucky!

??.09.2007 Poble Nou

Event in an abandoned factory in the neighbourhood. N'Sista playing after us. Very nice location, a spity that the place will be closed and torn down soon. We play mainly the "Chimeneas 22@"-set, but this time with quite different dynamics, different ending, more technoish.

29.07.2007 Improtronica Session

Improtronica session number 5 (yes, there were two secret ones ...). This time we had Hermes form the audiovisual collective Telenoika and Cristóbal Saavedra aka Equipo with us. We also had some VJs from Telenoika invited, but they didn't show up. So we plugged in a camera, and gave it into the hands of the audience. They did a great job!!

Here the recording of it.

28.07.2007 Chiringuito Montalt

Concert in a Chiringuito on the beach. Beautiful setting, a recording of some parts of the concert exists. Beautiful flyer and posters made by the promoter - who was happy because it was the last event he had organized and according to him it was the most successful one for him.

27.07.2007 Funambul

What a pity that we don't have a recording of this concert. The Funambul is a little bar in Hospitalet with a tiny stage. Although there were only very few people at the concert we played a very nice set, sang in tune, made some beautiful improvisations and the machines worked fine. We also had some bizarre visuals by Raff, a friend from belgium.

25.07.2007 Campus Party Valencia

The Campus Party is a big gathering of people with computers, held yearly in Valencia. We played at the stand of EP3, a magazine published each friday in spanish's biggest diary El Pais. Here a video with a part of our performance. It was the first time that we used big symbols and gave them to the audience during the concert.