This year so far

OK, it's quite early for a review of 2008, but I just made a short list of music that we produced this year:


Suma Fatima - In a Garden


Satangela


Die Bäume


(Hit the) Wall of Sound


En mi Eschbazzio


Comanche Fatima - I can't get me no nothing


Attraktiver Junge


I am the Kapital

Improtrónica again

Improtronica session with the colombian dubsters Territorio Comanche.

En mi eschtudio

We have entered the hangar.

02.10.08 :: Tips, trips y trucos en el NIU

Next thursday, 02.10.2008, we do an open workshop at the NIU in Barcelona. Idea is to meet people who have attended our ableton-live-workshops and everybody else interested in producing with live, just to show some tricks, discuss issues and do some music. Come and play! The event starts at 18 hs and the entrance is free. Address is Calle Almogavers, 208, Metro Llacuna.

19.09.2008 La noche de las dudas

Festa de Poble Nou, what a strange night. Because of the rain our concert got canceled, then again Josan who had invited us told us that we would play a little bit later, then it was too late already, and in the end we played. But in the meantime we went to a different party, saw the end of the fantastic Meneo-concert, then the rather strange Chicks on speed doing a noisy set with trigger-enabled-fashion and high-heel-string instruments. In the meantime phoning to our stage, we play, we don't play, canceling Marti who was at a different palce, then inviting him again. Lots of confusion. In the end we got to the our stage again and saw a electric Rumba band palying. After them we finally should do the concert. 2.30 in the morning. No time for setting up the machines, just throwing everything on the table and start to play. During the first two or three songs Marti was still setting up the videoprojection. And only a few people as audience, but nearly everybody danced! We played only the faster songs, and after 45 minutes it was over. Everybody smiled, a last drink and the night was done. Thank you to everyone who was there!

Concert in Fés

Just a little freakout in Marrokko ...

In the Slamklamfestival (1)

Salam, muy amigos. This is one of our announcements for the concert at the Slam&Klam festival
. Thanks to our friend Yunnez from BCN who recorded all the stuff with us.

On the road in Marokko


Our driver - Casablanca-Fès in 4 hours on the motorway.

The road was empty, the air full of smoke and the landscape a dessert under the nearly full moon. After falling asleep in the car we suddenly woke up at a restaurant for the meatbreak:


Meatbreak at midnight

Dozens of corpses hanging for the happy consumption. Many men eating, playing cards, not one drinks alcohol. We had an orange juice and listened to the beats of a party beneath.



Shopping in the Medina

Next day, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. On our way to find a ball for the reacTIVision-controllerism-manoeuvres we crossed some great stores in the medina. We have to go back again tomorrow, lots of shops were closed. But we got the ball and some great smelling superglue to attach the fiducial-symbols to it. And we found a tooth-store, so next year tooth-to-midi?



Our stage tonight

At two o'clock we arrived for the soundcheck, but now at 6 they still have no electricity, so we are back in the hotel blogging ... more tomorrow after our concert.

Video from the Caixa forum concerts

2 magic concerts recorded in August 2008. The first one on 6.8.08 at the Caixaforum Barcelona in a great venue, the first time with our new "wiij" Marti Sanchez (www.minoviasoyyo.es), really great visuals, but the sound of the video did not record, what a pity, seems to be something esoteric or some kind of descontrol! The second concert was in the Caixaforum Madrid togehter with David Apfel (http://www.elclubdelosastronautas.com) who is a spaceship and there we had the best feedback from the audience so far. This time we recorded good sound, but the video was shot on a trashy photocamera. We mashed up the videos. Enjoy it!

19.09.2008 Festa Mayor de Poble Nou

September is the month with two big fiestas in Barcelona, and we will play on one of them, la Festa Mayor de Poble Nou. Friday night at 1 am, more or less.

11.09.2008 Fès, Marrocco

Next stop Fès, Marocco! We will play at the Slam & Klam Festival. This year they celebrate the second edition of this festival that is dedicated to HipHop, poetry, electronic music and digital arts (at least that is what we have been told).
We will play a concert and as well give a workshop on our techniques for live sampling and controling our sequencers with Wiimotes and cameras. We are looking forward to get to know people from down there, getting to know new music and to learn about Klam - which is a kind of poetry and spoken word improvisation from Marrocco. If you happen to be in Marrocco come to see us on the 11th of September in Fès!!

21.08.2008 Madrid!

First time in Madrid! We played at the new Caixa-Forum, a museum on the Paseo de Prado, right in the middle of town. This time again with David Apfel, doing speech on "Impossible", dancing on "Muy chungo/Jabon Jabon" and giving a presentation on perspectives for a longer life by biotechnology and drugs. The audience was astonished. We made lots of fans apparently, more than sixty people signed up for our newsletter after the show!
We stayed in Madrid for the weekend, and have seen futuristic lifeforms by Theo Janssen and more incredible stuff at a digital arts exhibition at the Reina Sophia-museum, ate some broken eggs, had some tinto de verano, got to know the city etc.
Hope we will come back soon!

6.8.2008 Caixaforum Barcelona

A huge stage in front of the museum Caixaforum, a beautiful summer night. We had one of our biggest and probably best concerts this year. This time again with Marti Sanchez who did some great visuals. This was the first time we played with a setlist and knew which songs we will play in which order. And it worked out fine. The audience was very nice, very mixed, as some originally came for a Flamenco concert in the Auditorium, but then stayed for our show as well.

(Fotos: Jean Benoit Kauffmann. Merci!!)

18.07. Can Xalant, Mataró

FATIMA, kids and smokers

Festa de maig in Poble Nou again

09.05.2008 Music and science en el CCCB

On the 9th of may we played the CCCB - the same place were I have seen the most earshaking concerts of my live: Pan Sonic on Sonar a couple of years ago, and Sunn O)))) last year. We got invited to play together with Oval. Oval is Markus Popp who then again is a firend of firends of my youth in Darmstadt. And the other act on this night, part of the mp7 concert series, was Martin Kaltenbrunner with his reactable. An all german-speaking line up, hehe.
Martin started the night with a presentation of his buzzingsqueekingfeeping table-instrument. After this rather serious, academic part of the night Oval played. Markus Popp had brought two laptops and dropped abstract noises and beats. A camera would film from behind, and to our surprise there wasn't much magic going on - no custom software, no unseen tools, just him dropping samples and audiofiles, like a DJ. I for sure had expected something more sophisticated, as Oval is considered as inventors of the Glitch-genre. Maybe his art doesn't translate so well into live concerts.
After this the audience had the chance to play with the reactable while we would set up our eqipment on stage. We had Frank Rudow as a guest with his nord-lead-synthesizer, and David Apfel as guest who would present his latest discoveries about neuroscience and virtual worlds and show accompying slides. We played a couple of songs in between. The audience liked it (I believe), and to our own satisfaction we heard that Alexander Hacke from Einstürzende Neubauten was there and seemed to enjoy it as well.
Here a link to another blog with a review of the event.
Fotos and some videofootage might follow.