27 June 2009, 21h, Schaarbeek-Brussel: SHOOTOUT for vl+git

SHOOTOUT (first version)
new work for violin and guitar at What's next Festival.
Brussels, Schaarbeek.
Performers: Mr. Probe

stage interview Manfred Werder

21 June 2009 at q-02/Brussels: discussing Manfred Werders work after his concert with him and the audience.

some real politics

joining a stunt of European NGOs organising the "Eurovision Aid Contest". Winner: Sweden - Loser: Italy!

Just to say Hi...

Greetings from the audience of the concert 15 May by MoHa! are looking for a reciving audience!
Invitations are welcome.

Check the project-blog!

In Stein

My composition IN STEIN (1999) in concert

by "DUO DI FOLLIA"
(Katelijne Lanneau on recorders, Matthias Koole on guitar)

Sunday, 17 may 2009, 11h
Oaze, Werf 9, 2500 Lier, B, info + reservation 03 4882886

MOTELbich

MOTELbich the new name for the now normadic existency of my event creations.
Motto still: IT'S ALL PERSONAL!

Since my personal network is rather growing than shrinking it is only logical to continue HOTELbich on another level. From now on its called MOTELbich and its mobility will carry you to the most unexpected places, spaces and faces.

Firts event 15th of May. Click the image.
See you soon!

MOVE FOR A DAY at micronomics festival/Brussel

Thursday, 30-04-2009, Move for a Day took place during the Micronomics Festival in Brussels. Therefor some non-profit organiations, buisnesses and microinitiatives swaped their work places with each other. At 14h we did the procession of a sofa, as symbolic climax of the day.

All info in this PDF!

INFO in FR on Micronomics site, INFO in NL on Micronomics site

HERE a 5 minutes reportage on indymedia about the project.

Interview in Le Soir Magazine Victoire 25 April

Interviews and pcitures (how cool) 25 April in Victoire of Jerôme Porsperger, Christophe Meierhans, Eve Buneau et moi. In french.

PREVIEW HERE
POSTVIEW HERE

NEWEST WALK: back in time-WALK

walking back to the 60s:
backwards from a symphony concert to a fluxus reenactment event.

check also this audience video.
and the blog entry from PrInterPrInterPrInter

edition of TEMPORARY INSTITUTE online!

To read the edition of the TEMPORARY INSTITUTE (Laurent Liefooghe, Paul Craenen et moi) click here or scroll down 10 meters.

PrInterPrInterPrInter at Borealis, Bergen/NO

at this blog you can follow the activities of our group InterInterInter during the contemporary and experimental music festival Borealis.


Scroll down for the agenda of our stuff.

The project Greetings from an audience has been introduced during this festival. Since it will from now on travell for many years through different cities and events, it got an extra blog. Click-in.

for in between:

SAY...

HOTELBich's NACHGeschmack

With NACHGeschmack I finished the 6 months project HOTELbich. For this time I was the artistic director of a house for residencies and events in Schaarbeek/Brussels, which belongs to the organisation nadine for the next 3 years.

For the program of the last massive event and more information about this project check the HOTELbich-blog!

Concepts, which I will continue after HOTELbich:
WIEDER-Aufbau (re-construction) is a series of exhibition-events, where I ask artists to rebuild work in a new context and set-up.
KAMMER-Musik (chamber-music) is a concert-concept, which believes in the mixability of styles and their audiences.
FREI-Zeit (leisure-time) ignores the borders between work and leisure.

premier 20 nov in Brussels.

"also doch" by Katya Dreyer and Bernard van Eeghem 20-22 Nov '08 at Beursschouwburg.
Next week in Nona/Mechelen and next year in Amsterdam.

I wrote the music and coached the actors. Come. But learn some dutch before...

'In Stein' during HALB-Zeit at HOTELbich

check out the HOTELbich-blog!

First page of In Stein (1999)

21 SEPT: double-walk compositions at the park58 festival/Bxl

at 16h30 and 18h30: double-walk compositions for two simultanous walking groups in the parking 58, Brussels (the amazing round parking from the 50s close to Broukere).
meeting points: in front of the elevators at the 3rd and the 5th floor.

Together with David Bérger.

check for the beautifully ambitious park58-campaign: PARK58

VORSPIEL for two performers and recorder player

Saterday, 6 September 2008, 18h-19h-20h-21h
interinterinter (with: VORSPIEL + more)
an evening in 3 sets with dans, performance, music and book making
at the Bijlokestival of de Bijloke, Gent

Inter Inter Inter is a group that produce inter-disciplinary art events featuring performances, audience activities and live book making.
The group is made up of 6 people with varied backgrounds in dance, music performance and composition, visual arts, literature and screen printing.

Featuring:
David Helbich -- VORSPIEL for a recorder player and 2 performer
Matthew Shlomowitz -- WHEN IS A DOOR A DOOR? for 4 performers and audience
the Henningham Family Press -- new audience activities and live book making
Tomma Wessel (recorder), Shila Anaraki (dance)-- performing

VORSPIEL:

this is the dot-to-dot task, which the audience had to fill in during Tomma Wessel playing through the flagolettes-section of here PhD (in part 2 of VORSPIEL). the results were of course an elephant and a snake. of course.

a video of VORSPIEL for two performers and recorder player. not edited yet. it's in 3 parts:

part 1,

part 2

part 3

about the evening from the perspective of the live-bookmakers: click here.

a nice text in german. guess it will be my futur program-note...:
aus: 'Die Freibadclique: Dreier mit Ulla' von Oliver Storz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23./24.August 2008

(...)
Ein Dreier, das Gegenteil jeder Innigkeit - keine Feinsinnsverpackung, kein Ich-bin-dein-du-bist-mein-Text, sondern klar und einfach die Sache. Wie ehrlich das wäre, um nicht zu sagen rein! Die Reinheit des puren Ficks, der nichts anderes sein will. Und nur Vorteile im Praktischen: Kann der eine nicht, kann der andere, können beide nicht, wird sie können, und können beide, so wird sie sich findig aufzuteilen wissen - ideal alles in allem, nur - wie geht man es an? Man kann ja nicht einfach da stehen und sagen:"Los geht's!"

"Wir bringen ein paar Blumen mit."
"Oder Himbeeren. Frische Himbeeren kriegt sie bestimmt nicht jeden Tag -"
"und nimm deine Gitarre mit."
"Wozu brauchen wir dabei 'ne Gitarre?"
"Vorspiel, Mann, noch nie was von Vorspiel gehört?"
(...)

Tatwaffe + Lauthalt

I found a way to upload music. yeah. it's a little old, but still...:
Tatwaffe for clarinet, violin, guitar, piano from 2001. Played by ens.modern in Würzburg.
Lauthalt for violin, clarinet, cello, guitar, piano from 2005. Played by plusminus in Bremen.
Lauthalt-NEW, a montage and rearrangment, how the pice could be shorter and in better order.
Use headphones. Much fun!

PARCOURS, HOTELbich, WIEDER-AUFBAU: 20 July, Brussels

http://hotelbich.blogspot.com/

HOTELbich-Parcours 20 July

out-side-in

Check this map for a closer look!

Durant la demi-année écoulée, les artistes David Helbich et Thomas Laureyssens ont observé et enregistré avec de différents moyens les mouvements des piétons dans la commune d'Ixelles. Lors d'une exposition, ils montrent les videos, soundscapes et cartes qui en sont issu. La promenade artistique "Urban Obstacle Walk" ouvre et conclu cette exposition.

“Void” (Thomas Laureyssens) est une installation vidéo qui donne à réfléchir sur notre virtuosité quotidienne dans l'évitement des ostacles urbains.

out-side-in (David Helbich) est une bande sonore mp3 de 16 minutes destinée aux piétons courageux qui prennent le chemin de la place Flagey à la Porte de Namur.

zon-dim 06/07/’08
16:00 Urban Obstacle Walk, 17:00 > 20:00 Vernissage Expo
din-mar 08/07/’08 > don-jeu 10/07/’08
12:00 > 20:00 Expo
zat-sam 12/07/’08
12:00 Urban Obstacle Walk, 13:00 > 14:00 Finissage Expo (brunch)
Nederlandstalige Bibliotheek van Elsene, Rue Sans Souci Straat 131, 1050 Brussels

pictures of Urban Obstacle Walk, sunday, 6 july:

urban obstacle walk, sunday, 6 july 2008

HOTELbich's Vorgeschmack

" in the name of Arbeit + Freizeit " 6 months of residencies / exhibitions / events
check: http://hotelbich.blogspot.com/

Responsoria 1-2-3, installation parcours in Gent 13-15 june

1 Libera me: cloned Freud room, destorted Verdi aria, volume pedal (images)

2 Gegend die Wand: FM radio, streamed piece 'ram-ing', served glas of water (images)

3 Wake me up before you go: toy figures, green button, bass shaker (images)

Solo Expo invited by odradek in Gallery Spijkstraat (lightmachine), Gent/B

I am seized with fear and trembling
until the trial is at hand and the wrath to come:
It's cold out there, but it's warm in bed
They can dance, we'll stay home instead

Deliver me, O Lord,
from eternal death on that awful day
Wake me up before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo

when the heavens and earth shall be shaken
and you shall come to judge the world by fire.
Turned a bright spark into a flame
My beats per minute never been the same

The day of wrath, that day of calamity and misery
a great and bitter day, indeed.
You take the grey skies out of my way
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day

imagine changebility

photo-series 'imagine changebility',

presented in Académie des Beaux-Arts, for SUEDE 36 /architects and the City of Brussels.

4 postcards and a nickname
for the neighbourhood between Gare du Midi and Place Roupe: Drie Ponts (Three bridges, in a mix between dutch and french).

2 projects at MICRONOMICS in Brussels.

At Micronomics by Citymined, 1+2 May around Gare du Midi, Brussels.

Programm of festival here. For picture click the titels.

The Urban Obstacle Walk with Thomas Laureyssens ...

... and Tourist in Your Own City, with Varinia Canto Villa.

Self-Interview

A Self-Interview on the everybody's toolbox domain (request by Mette Ingvartsen). Until now 10 artist participated.

WALK 4 - Hellhans

WALK 4 was composed and performed in November 2006 by David Helbich and Christophe Meierhans.
During the TEMPORARY INSTITUTE it was 're-walked' January 2007 with Christoph Ragg (on the video) replacing Chr.Meirhans.

WALK 4 is a 45 minutes walk with two groups through the metro-station Art-Loi in Brussels.

We didn't talk during the walk. The two groups were created with a 'special effect'.
On the base of this public choreography lies a complex composition and a ticket to ride...

Check out the super documentation with comments from C.Meierhans spoken by Joanna Bailie. Montage by myself.

HALLO 4

check this link for a guitar piece I wrote in 2001. This performance is by Matthias Koole in STUK/Leuven (Belgium): video.

Hallo 4 belongs to a serie of pieces for guitar and air-guitar Hallo 1-2-3-4-5

Keine-Spiele mehr: Concept for walking audience

with Shila Anaraki.

Antwerp, MONTY, 2007: slideshow:

(admit: the dangeling camera is beautiful...)

Brussels, nadine, TANI, 2005 (video):



Brussels part 2

Amsterdam, Frascati, Something Raw Festival 2007:

SLIDESHOW

Lebenswege Wurmsysteme

performance by David Helbich, 31 oct 2006, Stadtsaal, Burghausen (Germany). Normal duration ca. 30 minutes.

The moving of (mePerformance, 31 oct 2006, Stadtsaal, Burghausen,Germany.
Lenght 8,5 min (normal duration ca. 30 minutes). Performed on the Festival Studium:Bühne.

Lebenswege Wurmsysteme was also performed during The Last Days of The Temporary Institute at Nadine/Brussels, january 2007.

The moving of (me and) the audience plays once again the main part. Other roles are given to a slide-projector and some images.

Thanks to Rinah Lang!

WE'LL COUNT YOU!

instrumental and body compositions on numbers, series and other formalisms
performed by The Calculators:

"Would you keep your countanance, if you were counted up by three counts, who counter every counterfeit with country-songs?
Not us.We count on you."

The Calculators 2 in York, July 2007: Matthew Shlomowitz, David Helbich, Mark Knoop
and
The Calculators 1 at Rational Rec in London, April 2006: (with Tom Pauwels)

schnipsen in York

more videos from the concert of The Calculators 2 in York last week (6 July). Enjoy me snaping. Check out my YouTube channel for more (like 'klatschen zählen' and 'the top ten of natural numbers'

...ABCDE in York...

performing a conceptual score by Matthew Shlomowitz at the University of York/England, friday, 6 July 2007

HALTUNGSSCHADEN

2005/2007, "music performs"

You can find a very nice VIDEO of the performance of this composition on youtube. The performance took place in the context of "music performs" in Netwerk, Aalst (Belgium), march 2007. Performers were: Shila Anaraki, Tom Pauwels and me. Haltungsschaden was premierd by the Berlin based performers ensemble Maulwerker in TESLA, Berlin 2005.

WALK 12 + WALK 1-12

9 January 2007


WALK 12 took place on 9 January 2007 in Brussels. It was the last of 12 walks, which were organised by THE MOBILITY DEPARTEMENT of THE TEMPORARY INSTITUTE between October 2006 and January 2007 each tuesday at 14h. This WALK took about 120 minutes with a coffe break. We used earplugs for some time and - like with all our WALKS - we didn't speak during walking.

The left shows a 'run through' the whole WALK in a combination of slideshow and little movies, the right shows the 'straight walk'-part through Parc Cinquantnaire.

pdf of documentation WALK 1-12 here.

THE TEMPORARY INSTITUTE

October 2006 - January 2007


nadine published the documentation (book and dvd) of THE TEMPORARY INSTITUTE in July 2008!

You can order it!
Or download it here in english or dutch.
The books centerfold here. (its hot, take care!)

WALK 5

WALK 5, tuesday, 21 november 2006:
St. Joost/Bxl-Berlin-New York-Ardenne/B-Amsterdam = the uphill-WALK
people: 7 in St.Joost/Brussels, 1 in Amsterdam, 1 in Berlin, 1 in New York, 2 (?) in the Ardenne (kind of mountains in Belgium)
rules: no talking; no shopping (except the guide)
all pictures of WALK 5
information on WALK 5 of THE TEMPORARY INSTITUTE

-re(en)acting to FLUXUS-

"STANDING IN SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES (AND SUIT)" and "CUTTING A PIECE" (an interactive installation, which you see around 7:46 min). By and with Benjamin Vandewalle, Nicolas Baeyens and David Helbich. 29 September 2006, Monty, Antwerp, Belgium.

There are many ways of saying Gleichzeitigkeit

video-sound-installation together with Boris Baltschun, 2005



A performance concept by Helbich and Baltschun, which developed into an audiovisual installation. Two facing screens show simultaneous video recordings of a slide projector, being subjected to several manipulations. One or two hands switch the machine on and off, they change slides series, show slide windows etc. The two videos differ from each other with regards to the order of the actions and the subject matter of the slides. The difference becomes clear only slowly and it turns into the essential theme of the image material. This is reinforced by the soundtrack, an autonomous composition made from actual sound material, coinciding in turns with one video or the other. The stereo-effect, created by an intersecting set-up (speakers aimed from the sides to the middle of the space), keeps setting the spectator on the wrong track.

- a dark room, size: minimum 25 qm
- 2 screens, about 2m x 1,5m, face to face
- 2 videobeamer
- 2 monitor speakers
- 2 DVD-player

here some pictures of the vernissage-performance.

KEINE-SPIELE (2004)

David Helbich, Shila Anaraki
Keine-Spiele
installaction of image-movement-sound by 2 performers duration: one hour

Brussels, MAP (MatrixArtProject), 2004, slideshow:


Keine-Spiele
an install-active constellation of at least 21 pieces.
involving slide- and video-projection, independent movements, md-player-pieces, one and two performers.
autonomous compositions composed in succession: no multi-media by mixing, but intermediality by separation.
showing things: showing the things with which things can be shown.
composition: the assertion of something being a piece.
installaction: performative self-service of devices in a prepared, arbitrary environment with obligatory activity.
games: are closed.

more text on open-frames

IT-WALK for payed audience

score (english)


Partitur (german)