Balkan Tour: Zdravo Goethe-Institut Mazedonia

This time a very special Tour, 4 diferent towns in Mazedonia. This country 
is really diferent, impossible to say where you really are. Maybe the most 
mutlicultural place in europe.

This time we also did a song production alltogether: this means, that all the participating schools from 4 cities where writing one songtext together:

Goethe-Institut Litauen Tournee

 Again on the road with the Spieltrieb Tour: 
5 different cities in Litauen by car from Vilnius 
to Kaunas, to Jubarkas, to Vieskniei, to Siauliai.  
The famous ilustrator from Dresden Grit Koalik 
(www.visuranto.de) was with us on the road, 
painting the whole Tour in her diary and the amazing 
results look like this 
(-->click into the image to see fullscreen):

Songproject: Deutsche Schule Barcelona

We had the mission to do a song about the German school of Barcelona together with the students in only some hours. here is the result:

Goethe-Institut Barcelona Workshop songs

These are the first 4 songs we recorded in schools on our Workshop Tour 
in the north of spain with german lyrics

Film about our Kids Workshop

short overview about what happens in our music workshops for kids in advanced technologies: 

 

Music Workshop in Mobile Technologies for Kids

Goethe Institut and Institut FATIMA present:


Hey kids! Let´s make some music with a football or the nintendo wii! 

Is that possible?

Institut FATIMA is presenting his new Music Workshop for kids in mobile Technologies. In cooperation with the Goethe Institut Barcelona this Workshop is promoted in the moment in Spain in Catalunya and Arragon and hopefully soon in many more places. 

Check out the Goethe Institut Website for more detailed infos:

Spanish version: http://www.goethe.de/ins/es/bar/lhr/wer/es10562403.htm

German version: http://www.goethe.de/ins/es/bar/lhr/wer/de10562403.htm

Ableton Live! Workshops Barcelona relaunched

new Ableton live workshop in Barcelona feat. max4live 
basics and implemantation of new mobile technologies

more information and inscriptions:
http://institutfatima.org/contact/index.html

telephone music

After Carsten´s Computer exploted while he was doing the camino de santiago and all his desk got burned, he had to forget and improvise a lot. so he started doing music with his telephone, with his nose by the way. here is a first example of one of this telphone songs (not edited, directly and live played with the nose)

Oh Tannenbaum Goethe!

Institut FATIMA is playing a concert with a telephone at the christmas 
party of the Goethe-Institut Barcelona. 
free entrance. 

Who comes dressed in green can win a travel to Berlin! 

More info here:
http://www.bonart.cat/actual/oh-tannebaum-al-goethe-institut-barcelona/

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/