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Projects/News/Links February 2012 The Songwriters Workshop 2011 The Jazzschule Berlin is hosting a 15 week lyric writing course. For more information and registration: Jazzschule Berlin A beginners and an advanced workshop at Go Vocal School was held on January 29 - 30 2011. Stayed tuned for more information about the next workshops in Stuttgart or contact: Go Vocal A lyric writing seminar was held at the Neue Jazzschool, Munich on May 7, 2011. Stay tuned for more information about additional workshops at the Neue Jazzschool in 2011/12. A workshop is planned in 2012 at the Future Music School in Aschaffenburg ... more to follow! New CDs - Breakfast On Wall Street (GeekWeekend) & Tune A Fish (Morning Oyster Musick) Breakfast On Wall Street is an entertaining mix of dark, biting beauty, plugged into absurdity, and infused with irony. Now available for downloading at cdbaby, iTunes and the usual digital venues. Breakfast @ cdbaby Breakfast @ iTunes Breakfast @ Amazon Tune A Fish is a laid back and slightly tongue in cheek fusion of blues, jazz and americana with an on-the-road feel that takes a few unexpected turns. Now available for downloading at cdbaby, iTunes and the usual digital venues. Tune A Fish @ cdbaby Tune A Fish @ iTunes Tune A Fish @ Amazon About Tune A Fish: Guitar music is something I've always loved. It can be like a distant train whistle, a seedy hotel room or the taste of dust at the side of the road. Tune A Fish is a postcard from places imagined and real that takes you on a haunting and ever-hopeful back-roads trip. The pieces range from melancholy to slapstick featuring resonator, lap steel guitars and ocassionally saxophone or flute. April 2011 - after a week in the studio the first batch of M.O.M. vocal recordings is in the bag along with two new toe-stubbing GeekWeekend tracks. Special thanks to Joerg (git.), Rachelle (vocals) and studio wizard Thommy! January 2012 - The bed tracks for several new songs are finally in the can. I'll be heading back into the studio again in february and March 2012 to finish up the vocal tracks, mix and master. Release date will be in the early spring. Tina Trumpp In May (2011) I began working on the lyrics for Tina's second album 'Duality'. It has been a joy to work with the music composed by Tina and Sebastian Studnitzky. Seven new songs were recorded in Berlin at the end of September. 'Duality' is scheduled for release in March 2012 on the TTRUmusic label. Downloads are now available @ Amazon iTunes Tina Trumpp's debut CD 'Come A Little Closer' featuring 'Raindrops In November' is also available at iTunes and Amazon For more information: Tina Trumpp Marko Jovanovic This fall I began working on the lyrics for three songs to be featured on Marko's debut album. Marko is an exceptional harmonica player, singer and bassist. Not without a unique sense of humour his music is a wonderful blend of Serbian folk music, blues and gritty Americana. I look forward to the recording sessions and the instrumental songs Marko is composing. The album release date will to be announced at a later date. For more information: Marko Jovanovic 61 Minutes, 27 Stations Video Installation with Live Music Performance and Interactive DVD The audio-visual project "61 Minutes, 27 Stations" is based on an idea from video artists, Monika Rechsteiner and Benjamin Krieg. The film is centered around the historical Berliner 'Ring' S-Bahn. A gap in the Berliner Ring was reconnected 12 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the music composition has now been recorded and mixed at Thommy Hein Music Productions, Berlin. A limited edition interactive DVD will be available in June 2009. The films projection area for the live performances is circular. The screen 'moves' in a full circle at a diameter of 6 meters allowing the audience to view the images from two spacial perspectives as they travel around the Berlin 'Ring' in realtime. The musical composition functions as an intregal part of the film presentation. The compositions structure enables the musicians to interact directly with the visual images and the original ambient recordings in the film. The premiere performances were on June 13th and 14th, 2009 at the Waltzwerk Münchenstein in Basel, Switzerland. Performances in Berlin were at Radialsystem V on April 10, 2010 (see photos below). Film Production & sound design: Monika Rechsteiner and Benjamin Krieg Musical composition & electronic processing for the DVD: Rob Hoare Ensemble Contraire : Judith Rickenbacher, flutes / Marc Baescher, clarinets / Michael Mueller, piano 61 Minutes, 27 Stations Info Homepage & DVD orders: Click here GeekWeekend News 2011 February 2012 Talk about planning ahead ... the next GW performance has been scheduled for July 10, 2012 at the 'Supermarket' 268 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market, Toronto. We'll be joining forces with dreamSTATE as a part their Drone Cycle. It looks like we're up for F# ... For more information visit: http://www.theambientping.com AMBiENT PiNG RADiO Here's the link: http://www.ambientpingradio.com For more GW stuff ... just follow this link: GeekWeekwend.ca 'Breakfast On Wall Street' our debut CD is available for downloading at cdbaby, iTunes and Amazon (see above). In August 2010 GW recorded a spontaneous session with quasiMODAL in Toronto. Special thanks to Lapspace, Calvin and Kris Mason for making these recordings possible. Yes, our second CD is still in the works. We recommend patience and in the meantime to download 'Breakfast On Wall Street'. GeekWeekend - live and 'plugged in' at the Ping, August 2011. More GeekWeekend links: Yes, we're still on myspace ... even though it has turned into rubbish ... and on Facebook GeekWeekend at myspace In August 2006 GeekWeekend decided to undertake a series of time synchronized recordings, which were then to be individually processed, edited and finally put together on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. The result was "TransatlantischeZeitZonen". It's available on the limited edition Deep Wireless Radio Art compilation CD4 or you may listen to it at: http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/2007/Radio.html House Trap (2:44) August 2007 Keeping the trans-Atlantic thing alive, Steven and I submitted our entry for the Dollar Storey short documentary competition at the 2007 Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago. "House Trap" recalls an incident at my first residence in Toronto. It's online and may be heard at: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/collections/4-shortdocs/year/2007/page/7 Song and Film Music Links On Nov. 6th, 2009 the song, Between Night and Day was performed by a 25 piece orchestra at the Bielefeld Film and Musik Festival in Germany. Between Night and Day (Goldbeck/Hoare) was commissioned as part of a new soundtrack composed by Axel Goldbeck for F.W. Murnau's silent film,'Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans' (1927). For more information: Axel Goldbeck Coffee Anyone? Premiere DVD The DVD of Coffee Anyone? (premiere performance) has been completed. The DVD also includes the performance of J.S. Bach's original, 'Coffee Cantata'. 'Coffee Anyone?' is a modern adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's, "Coffee Cantata". The premiere was on Saturday October 6, 2007 in Berlin. View a short video excerpt: This Town View a short video excerpt: With Coffee Music: Joerg Schippa Libretto: Rob Hoare For more details also visit: http://www.joergschippa.de FESTIVALS Deep Wireless Festival 2007 - Toronto, Canada As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound installations, new commissions, special radio broadcasts, a compilation CD and a conference. "A Cardboard Box in Berlin" was selected for 8 channel presentation the Deep Wireless Festival in May 2007. Festival Synthese 2007 Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France (IMEB) Panorama 2006 « L'eau » Thursday June 7, 2007 My composition "First Law" (4:57) for prepared piano and digital processing was selected for presentation at the 2007 festival. An excerpt maybe heard on the samples page of this web site . . . EXTRA LINKS You'll find all relevant links scattered throughout this web site, nevertheless there are a few extra links below I wish to mention :-) Natalie Chandler: http://www.englisch-profi.de/ If you're in need of top notch english-german-french translations I can heartily recommend the link above :-) Guitarist Eric St-Laurent: www.ericst-laurent.com Eric is an amazing musician and guitarist. After living in Berlin for years, he recently returned to Canada. We all miss him here, but forutnately there's this link! Eric's latest CD release 'Dimensions d'Istanbul' is out and available. A truely beautiful CD, which I feel should be a part of every CD collection. Rainer Brennecke: www.rainerbrennecke.de Rainer and I go back a long way. He's a fine trumpet/flugel horn player and a long standing member of The Fun Horns - an excellent four piece band which you might like to check out! Peter Castine: http://www.castine.de Peter is a composer and software developer. Working with Max/MSP he's been a big help and inspiration. Werner Keller: http://www.werner-keller.de Werner is a friend and visual artist/graphic designer in Berlin.

projects, news & links

Projects/News/Links
February 2012
The Songwriters Workshop 2011

The Jazzschule Berlin is hosting a 15 week lyric writing course.
For more information and registration: Jazzschule Berlin
A beginners and an advanced workshop at Go Vocal School was held on January 29 - 30 2011.
Stayed tuned for more information about the next workshops in Stuttgart or contact: Go Vocal

A lyric writing seminar was held at the Neue Jazzschool, Munich on May 7, 2011.
Stay tuned for more information about additional workshops at the Neue Jazzschool in 2011/12.

A workshop is planned in 2012 at the Future Music School in Aschaffenburg ... more to follow!

New CDs - Breakfast On Wall Street (GeekWeekend) & Tune A Fish (Morning Oyster Musick)

Breakfast On Wall Street is an entertaining mix of dark, biting beauty,
plugged into absurdity, and infused with irony.
Now available for downloading at cdbaby, iTunes and the usual digital venues.
Breakfast @ cdbaby
Breakfast @ iTunes
Breakfast @ Amazon

Tune A Fish is a laid back and slightly tongue in cheek fusion of blues,
jazz and americana with an on-the-road feel that takes a few unexpected turns.
Now available for downloading at cdbaby, iTunes and the usual digital venues.
Tune A Fish @ cdbaby
Tune A Fish @ iTunes
Tune A Fish @ Amazon

About Tune A Fish: Guitar music is something I've always loved. It can be like a distant train whistle, a seedy hotel room or the taste of dust at the side of the road. Tune A Fish is a postcard from places imagined and real that takes you on a haunting and ever-hopeful back-roads trip. The pieces range from melancholy to slapstick featuring resonator, lap steel guitars and ocassionally saxophone or flute.

April 2011 - after a week in the studio the first batch of M.O.M. vocal recordings is in the bag along with two new toe-stubbing GeekWeekend tracks. Special thanks to Joerg (git.), Rachelle (vocals) and studio wizard Thommy!
January 2012 - The bed tracks for several new songs are finally in the can. I'll be heading back into the studio again in february and March 2012 to finish up the vocal tracks, mix and master. Release date will be in the early spring.

Tina Trumpp

In May (2011) I began working on the lyrics for Tina's second album 'Duality'. It has been a joy to work with the music composed by Tina and Sebastian Studnitzky. Seven new songs were recorded in Berlin at the end of September. 'Duality' is scheduled for release in March 2012 on the TTRUmusic label.

Downloads are now available @
Amazon
iTunes
Tina Trumpp's debut CD 'Come A Little Closer' featuring 'Raindrops In November' is also available at iTunes and Amazon
For more information: Tina Trumpp

Marko Jovanovic

This fall I began working on the lyrics for three songs to be featured on Marko's debut album. Marko is an exceptional harmonica player, singer and bassist. Not without a unique sense of humour his music is a wonderful blend of Serbian folk music, blues and gritty Americana. I look forward to the recording sessions and the instrumental songs Marko is composing. The album release date will to be announced at a later date.
For more information: Marko Jovanovic
61 Minutes, 27 Stations
Video Installation with Live Music Performance and Interactive DVD

The audio-visual project "61 Minutes, 27 Stations" is based on an idea from video artists, Monika Rechsteiner and Benjamin Krieg.
The film is centered around the historical Berliner 'Ring' S-Bahn. A gap in the Berliner Ring was reconnected 12 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the music composition has now been recorded and mixed at Thommy Hein Music Productions, Berlin. A limited edition interactive DVD will be available in June 2009.

The films projection area for the live performances is circular. The screen 'moves' in a full circle at a diameter of 6 meters allowing the audience to view the images from two spacial perspectives as they travel around the Berlin 'Ring' in realtime.
The musical composition functions as an intregal part of the film presentation. The compositions structure enables the musicians to interact directly with the visual images and the original ambient recordings in the film.

The premiere performances were on June 13th and 14th, 2009
at the Waltzwerk Münchenstein in Basel, Switzerland.
Performances in Berlin were at Radialsystem V on April 10, 2010 (see photos below).
Film Production & sound design: Monika Rechsteiner and Benjamin Krieg
Musical composition & electronic processing for the DVD: Rob Hoare
Ensemble Contraire : Judith Rickenbacher, flutes / Marc Baescher, clarinets / Michael Mueller, piano
61 Minutes, 27 Stations Info Homepage & DVD orders: Click here

GeekWeekend News 2011

February 2012

Talk about planning ahead ... the next GW performance has been scheduled for July 10, 2012 at the 'Supermarket' 268 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market, Toronto. We'll be joining forces with dreamSTATE as a part their Drone Cycle.
It looks like we're up for F# ...
For more information visit: http://www.theambientping.com

AMBiENT PiNG RADiO
Here's the link:
http://www.ambientpingradio.com

For more GW stuff ... just follow this link: GeekWeekwend.ca

'Breakfast On Wall Street' our debut CD is available for downloading at cdbaby, iTunes and Amazon (see above). In August 2010 GW recorded a spontaneous session with quasiMODAL in Toronto. Special thanks to Lapspace, Calvin and Kris Mason for making these recordings possible. Yes, our second CD is still in the works. We recommend patience and in the meantime to download 'Breakfast On Wall Street'.

GeekWeekend - live and 'plugged in' at the Ping, August 2011.

More GeekWeekend links:
Yes, we're still on myspace ... even though it has turned into rubbish ... and on Facebook
GeekWeekend at myspace
In August 2006 GeekWeekend decided to undertake a series of time synchronized recordings, which were then to be individually processed, edited and finally put together on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. The result was "TransatlantischeZeitZonen".
It's available on the limited edition Deep Wireless Radio Art compilation CD4
or you may listen to it at: http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/2007/Radio.html

House Trap (2:44) August 2007

Keeping the trans-Atlantic thing alive, Steven and I submitted our entry for the Dollar Storey short documentary competition at the 2007 Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago.
"House Trap" recalls an incident at my first residence in Toronto. It's online and may be heard at:
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/collections/4-shortdocs/year/2007/page/7

Song and Film Music Links
On Nov. 6th, 2009 the song, Between Night and Day was performed by a 25 piece orchestra at the Bielefeld Film and Musik Festival in Germany. Between Night and Day (Goldbeck/Hoare) was commissioned as part of a new soundtrack composed by Axel Goldbeck
for F.W. Murnau's silent film,'Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans' (1927).
For more information: Axel Goldbeck

Coffee Anyone? Premiere DVD

The DVD of Coffee Anyone? (premiere performance) has been completed.
The DVD also includes the performance of J.S. Bach's original, 'Coffee Cantata'.
'Coffee Anyone?' is a modern adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's, "Coffee Cantata".
The premiere was on Saturday October 6, 2007 in Berlin.

View a short video excerpt: This Town
View a short video excerpt: With Coffee
Music: Joerg Schippa
Libretto: Rob Hoare
For more details also visit: http://www.joergschippa.de

FESTIVALS

Deep Wireless Festival 2007 - Toronto, Canada
As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound installations, new commissions, special radio broadcasts, a compilation CD and a conference.
"A Cardboard Box in Berlin" was selected for 8 channel presentation the Deep Wireless Festival in May 2007.

Festival Synthese 2007

Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France (IMEB)
Panorama 2006 « L'eau »
Thursday June 7, 2007
My composition "First Law" (4:57) for prepared piano and digital processing was selected for presentation at the 2007 festival.
An excerpt maybe heard on the samples page of this web site . . .

EXTRA LINKS
You'll find all relevant links scattered throughout this web site, nevertheless there are a few extra links below I wish to mention :-)

Natalie Chandler: http://www.englisch-profi.de/
If you're in need of top notch english-german-french translations I can heartily recommend
the link above :-)

Guitarist Eric St-Laurent: www.ericst-laurent.com Eric is an amazing musician and guitarist. After living in Berlin for years, he recently returned to Canada. We all miss him here, but forutnately there's this link! Eric's latest CD release 'Dimensions d'Istanbul' is out and available. A truely beautiful CD, which I feel should be a part of every CD collection.

Rainer Brennecke: www.rainerbrennecke.de
Rainer and I go back a long way. He's a fine trumpet/flugel horn player and a long standing member of
The Fun Horns - an excellent four piece band which you might like to check out!

Peter Castine: http://www.castine.de
Peter is a composer and software developer. Working with Max/MSP he's been a big help and inspiration.

Werner Keller: http://www.werner-keller.de
Werner is a friend and visual artist/graphic designer in Berlin.