Columna Ascaso

Paul plays with some people in a project called Columna Ascaso. Originally there was a couple of protest-songs written by Oscar Abril Ascaso that needed to get arranged, played and recorded. A number of people started to play and record them in a punkrock-fashion, among them Paul ,but he now did some remixes and experimental stuff with the original material. Some of it already found its way into Institut FATIMA live shows. this next one is a coverversion of a song by spanish songwriter Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio.

Rebel Phonk

This was a blast! We played on this year's Rebel Phonk Festival. A rave in a cottage near Girona. We had a bit trouble getting there, the card that B. wanted to give us got it's windows smashed in the night before we went, so we had to find someone to carry us. Luckily we found Jasmin who took us along in her Range Rover, together with DJ Nicenoise. Nice ride!

Once we got there we met Monne, one of the organizers. Well, when will we play and where? Answer: "Main stage, headliner". Whow. When is that? "Tomorrow morning at 10". Errrrr....
OK, in the end we played during the night, great sound and amzing gig. in the middle of the concert the energy broke down, after some great investigations after 15 minutes power came back and we all danced our asses offf. Also great DJs, we enjoyed it a lot, rebel phonk really rocks! Party never stopped. Here a short video that I shot at 12:30 on sunday: They continued to dance until 5 pm.

Those people know how to party!!

29.04.2012 Balconitis again!

We played another catalan plaza-balcony. This time in Palafrugell, a beautiful little town at the Costa Brava. The whole town had a kind of flowers and decoration centered fiesta, concerts and expositions in patios all over town. The Balconitis-crew was invited to organize two double sessions on saturday and sunday on balconies over the central main place of the town. We played sunday, after "Mariachis Semblanza". Behind lots of catalan flags.

New studio

We have a new studio. Actually we don't have it, we rent it for a couple of days per month. it's the studio of those guys: http://befaco.wordpress.com/ . They build modular synthesizers! They have a huge one in the other room of the studio:

Great stuff, hope we are going to jam one day on all of those machines and effects!!!

kinect connect - making music by dancing

We bought two kinect-cameras and are experimenting. The kinect camera tracks your body position in three dimensions and allows you to use your body-position as controller for all kinds of software.

We found a very nice software solution for using the kinect with ableton live by an american guy called Ryan Challinor. It's incredibly easy to use and pretty versatile. After a couple of minutes we had the first instruments ready to play by waving our hands in the air and Carsten recorded this video of myself having fun with it:

This was only the very beginning. We are now preparing a setup that allows to remix our music by dancing. Expect more videos soon....

Fotos & Video from our LEM concert

Our concert at the closing night of the LEM-festival was great. Lots of people dancing in the audience (and on stage). As we had only about 45 minutes to play we compressed all the stuff that went well during the last concerts into a non-stop-show. Intense, intense. After the show we danced a lot to DJ Gonzo's set. Must have been a couple of years ago that I have been dancing to Can's "Mother Sky", my god, what a great track for freaking out. I also was impressed by the concerto of Cargo, two guitars, lots of pedals and little samplers, doing a droney, spaced out improvisation set.

Here are some fotos, kindly submitted by fotographer Diego Bustamante Giraldo.

here is a short video of the concert: 

and here a nice review: http://lookingfordrama.com/2011/10/institut-fatima-nibble-the-hand-that-feeds-them-cargo-go-safari/

Ableton Live User Group Barcelona

After giving last saturday's Masterclass in the NIU we decided with the participants to found the Ableton Live User Group Barcelona. There is a facebook group here. Meetings, workshops, all kinds of activities are expected. 

Video from the Music Hack Day on Sonar 2011

we found that today on the web, a video from our presentation on the musichackday2011 at the Sonar, BCN

we play on the LEM festival

29th october, Espai Jove La Fontana, 190, Gracia, Barcelona

Lots of dates!!

Summer is nearly over and we have a lot of dates coming:

17.09 Hangar, BCN: Concierto Institut FATIMA + DJ Set Familärer Terrorismus

21.09 NIU, BCN Institut BenGala: Paul Rose & Raffaele Cuccu in concert

01.10 Bar Seco, Poble Sec, BCN: Oktoberfest - Concierto Institut FATIMA

07.10 Jornades Electroniques de Bergueda: Presentation of our installations and concert

22.10 NIU, BCN: Masterclass Ableton Live + Improvisation session

29.10 LEM-Festival, Gracia, Barcelona: Concierto Institut FATIMA

20.07.2011 Sant Feliu de Guixols

Wonderful concert in an abandoned hospital in the centre of Sant Feliu de Guixols. The decoration they had come up with was all the x-mas-decoration from town stuffed together!! Best sound since a long time, the sound guy had some custom made subwoofers that made yummy bass (that's the company: www.nouso.net) . Hooray. The white whine was excellent, thank you, Luz, for bringing me another bottle to the stage! The party afterwards was wild. Breakfast was yummy again (tostadas with tahima and honey). Then we got invited for an exclusive visit of an exhibition of sound installations by Luthiers Drapaires. Excellent stuff, we especially love the Maquina de Amor that has been at several festivals where we played lately.

Then to finish our visit we had a nice swim at this beach, just around the corner. And excellent lunch on a parking lot in the harbour. Thanks  a million to Stefan and Barbora for driving us

Sabado 25 de junio 2011: Antic Teatre

uh, nex stop Sonar - Music hack day

OK, so we are going to be again on the Sonar Festival again. 

This time on the Music Hack day (http://bcn.musichackday.org).

We will try to find hackers that help us with our new interface: 
digital noisemaking animals. 
Soon more about that here on our website!

Next stop: Antic Teatre 25 june 2011

New material from Intitut FATIMA: we have been preparing a liveset with singer ben Gala, aka Fisheart. In a couple of weeeks, on the 25th of june, we are going to present it in a double feature concert show at the Antic Teatre in Barcelona. Soon fotos, videos, music and more here on our website.

Picnic!

From our friend Helena Acosta we received this little video from our performance on last year's "Paradis Perdut"-picnic. This makes me

think that we really should play another picnic in some park here in Barcelona. Anyone up to organize such event with us?