Lleida! Y Reus!

Tomorrow, saturday 30 of april we play in Reus. And on monday 9th of may we play on a balcony in Lleida! Nice poster!

Generative music with Max4Live

Here is a little set for Ableton Live that uses the new max4live devices to generate a monotonous but everchanging ambient-tune. It uses only one sample from a kickdrum to make sounds of clicks, bass, pads and a theremin. You need the latest version of ableton live and max4live to open it.

Download here

26.03.2011 Fifth Anniversary of the NIU

Our favourite place in Barcelona - the NIU - is five years old now. We play a tribute session for it! Together with Marti doing visuals and David making his Impossible-presentation in his impossible style.

23.03.2011 World Water day with viva con aqua

We play on the World Water Day. Friends of us started the spanish section of "Viva Con Agua", a NGO that works for worldwide free access to drinking water. The party they made in the Raval located Freedonia was a blast. After us there was a Rumba-band and a tapdance-hip-hop-freestyle session going on.

Paul Rose - "Works for Theatre" out now on bandcamp

A selection of music and score done for theatre and dance, all composed and produced by Institut FATIMA's Paul Rose is available now on our bandcamp-site. (or listen to it via the player below).

Barcelona based musician Paul Rose presents a selection of tracks from works he did for theatre plays, choreographies and installations. In 2007 he collaborated in the first of an ongoing series of plays with set-designer Maria Pons and director Beatriz Liebe. "Agnus Lupus" was a play, but also an instalation that the audience was invited to visit after seeing the performance (Instituto del teatro, Barcelona, 2007). For "Mon Amour" was a play based on M. Dumas' "Hiroshima Mon Amour". The stage set was based on 5 isles that during the days after the performance worked as automated installations, with music, sound, light and robotics involved (Strobe-festival, Amposta, Spain, 2008). The third play/installation that Paul worked on was called "Palabres Alaudes" - A multichannel audio-theatre-installation that was on display at Convent de San Agusti, Barcelona, in december 2009.

With choreographer Angela Lamprianidou he worked on various dance- and performance-pieces. Here we can hear excerpts from "Shortcuts" (2008), "Sit" (2010) and "Shortcuts Collagen" (2011). The plays have been performed at various theaters in Spain and Germany.

En mi corazon

En mi corazonnnn (con los alumnos del taller de ableton live convent de sant agustin) by institutfatima

A track made by Carsten with his alumnos in our last Ableton Live classes.

9.12.2010 Bicycle Film Festival

We play on the opening of the BicycleFilmFestival Barcelona - in the very nice shop PINZAT in the Borne neighbourhood. Lots of Beer, people standing in the rain, bicycle-art on the walls and later a Fixie-Bike gets unwrapped and outboxed and built. Whow, see yourself:

oferta de navidad: Taller/Workshop Ableton Live @ Hangar

 

Passatge del Marquès de Santa Isabel, 40
Can Ricart
E-08018 Barcelona

precio  100 euros.

inscripción: click aqui

En el taller mostraremos todas las funciones de Ableton Live, mostramos como producir un tema desde el principio hasta el final, como trabajar con temas o muestras de audio grabados, como pinchar música con Live, como crear tus propios midi instrumentos, como utilizar los efectos de Live para directos, y mucho mas.

Habrá proyector, altavozes, una selección de controladores-midi, micrófonos, tarjetas de sonido etc. para probar y experimentar. (el taller dispone de un CD para cada participante que contiene Live-Sets con ejemplos, samples y presets, vst´s y mucho mas para poder empezar a producir directamente.

Para mas información y inscripción contactanos en 

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGlhN0xrTUVkMTFCQ0xGY1JTeDJTWWc6MQ

29.10.2010 Freedonia: Better than the pope

Foto: Veronica Elizondo

First time playing the Freedonia - a nice little theatre/bar/hangout in the deepest Raval. Dr Apfel reads and plays, first a stunning presentation of his Roadmap, then a couple of his lovely songs. Later ee play our set, and for the first time since years: We DJ! People dancing until the club closes. Whow, we had a good time!

Foto: Jan Koeppen

sat. 2nd oct 2010 Music Hack Day

Fotos: Alexandra Varela

Owen of the fantastic band Barcelona Bakalao is one of the organizers of the Music Hack Day Barcelona, and he invited us to play on that event. What a pity that we did not have time to participate in some of the workshops (especially the one about the rgb-arduinome, that's something we want to have!!!). But anyway, saturday night we rocked the campus. We played a stunning cover of Still loving you by the Scorpions, offered some meditation advice for the world and made a lot of noise. Uyuyuy.

Ableton Live Workshop with Institut FATIMA (2./3. October)

So we give another workshop on the music-production software Ableton Live. It's for beginners, but also interesting for everyone who already knows a bit. Location is our favorite Gallery-Concert-Venue-Workspace-Factory - the NIU in Poble Nou. Check the link for details and inscription:
http://niubcn.com/workshops/workshop_ableton_esp.htm

26 of June 2010: Girasolfest!

Wonderful small festival out in the countryside, we played together with a whole set of friends: N'Sista, Arbo, Equipo, Ferando Lagreca, Frozen Radio, David Apfel - basically all the people that play a lot at the NIU. Tremendous full moon, a horse dancing to our horse song, swimming pool, a theremin-love-machine. Perfect!!!!! Hope to be there next year again!!!!

The video shows a moment of the afternoon right before the concerts started. Everyone was supposed to plant some sunflowers and the string duo played some Thelemann and Bach to chill in.

12 june 2010 Sidecar Barcelona

Supported by our friends DubÜten (see above), a rocky night at Barcelonas Rockclub par excellence. Unfortunately without visuals this time, but there was not enough space anyways. And it was good to see that our music works without visuals as well. And we can play guitars!!!

3 / 4 / 5 june 2010 the reacball instalation @ Convent San Agusti

so they push buttons and we move slowly!

1. of June 2010: Classe Sense Fum

We played at the Cosmocaixa on an event from the Generalitat: Classe Sense Fum - Class without smoke. They honored 12 year old kids for not smoking. We did a blasting show and had lots of kids dancing on stage. Fun!