interinterinterview online

check this interview I had with the contemporary music festival ULTIMA before we went with our interinterinter show. It contains some statements about our concepts, philosophies and attitudes.

"Once the performative aspect of concert music is 'on the table' the compositional material is widely enlarged and it is impossible to go back. Even if you simply play notes, 'playing' shines in its own value and screams: take care of me!

InterInterInter shows two possible modes of taking care: the deconstructive and the constructive mode. Both can be fun like hell, if you don't stop before you go to far! Because that's where it gets hilarious."

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PAY A DAY - online now!

for the extra blog click HERE

CD-release with "3 Steine hoch (1999)" (panflute/git)

CD-release of ensemble verso (panflute, guitar) with 7 especially for them written pieces on the Karnatic Lab Records-label. You'll find my kind-of-opus-1 'Drei Steine hoch' from 1999 on this record.

You can purchase the CD for 15 Euro here.

SHOOTOUT at Croxhapox in Ghent/B

SHOOTOUT for two performers (vl/pst/vlc), 15 min

C.Ph.E.Bach wrote about this piece: "Daß alles dieses ohne die geringsten Gebehrden abgehen könne, wird derjenige bloß leugnen, welcher durch seine Unempfindlichkeit genöthigt ist, wie ein geschnitztes Bild vor dem Instrumente zu sitzen." ('Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen', p.44)

Double Walk-Composition South-West Bxl

collective execution of a score (partituur/partition) for a group and two guides
resulting in a structural experience of a chaotic environment
duration: ca. 40 min

For slideshow

New Music Demonstration in Oslo

A street demonstration,
bringing everybody together
interested
in new forms
of sound experience
and artistic expression
in the name of music
in Norway
at this moment.

4 Minutes Plane-Shooting at National Day in Brussels

"In the context of the final festival of The Ever Mass Land 19-21/07/09 (successor of HOTELbich), on the National Day of Belgium, I will organize a 4 minute plane-shooting during the annual military parade and its fantastic plane parade.

Greetings from Schaarbeek, so to say. We will serve you with handy guns and pistols. (The event uses only violence of thoughts.)"

For slideshow

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

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.

Self-Interview

Contribution to the publication "everybodys self-interviews" by everybody's toolbox. (requested by Mette Ingvartsen).

"a collection of 20 self-interviews in which various contemporary choreographers and performance makers question their own work, offering a wide panorama of the thoughts, questions and practices that are taking place within the performing arts today.
everybodys is an artist-initiated open platform created in order to share ideas and strategies that could expand the understanding of performance. It consists of a collection of workshop games, performance scores, texts and performance videos."

book publication as free download on archive and for purchase as paperback on Lulu

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.

"also doch" by Katja Dreyer and Bernard van Eeghem

"also doch" by Katja Dreyer and Bernard van Eeghem 20-22 Nov '08 at Beursschouwburg.
Next week in Nona/Mechelen and 2010 in Amsterdam.

I wrote the music and staged the piece.

'In Stein' during HALB-Zeit at HOTELbich

check out the HOTELbich-blog!

First page of In Stein (1999)

double-walk compositions at the park58 festival/Bxl

Double-Walk-Compositions for two simultanous walking groups in the parking 58, Brussels (the amazing round parking from the 50s close to Broukere).
Co-performer was David Bérger.
For slideshow:

VORSPIEL for two performers and recorder player

Vorspiel (2008), scored performance piece for three perfomers, including one recorder player, 20 min

performed  at rational rec (London), the Bijlokestival of de Bijloke (Gent), Borealis Festival (Bergen), Ultima (Oslo)
 
a video from rational rec (London, 2008). not yet editted. it's in 3 parts:

part 1,

part 2

part 3

intrumental compositions: Tatwaffe + Lauthalt + Hallo 4

 here you see the Black Jackets Company playing Tatwaffe.







Tatwaffe for clarinet, violin, guitar, piano from 2001. Played by Ensemble 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.

Hallo 4 (video) belongs to a serie of pieces for guitar and air-guitar, Hallo 1-2-3-4-5, from 2000-2002. This performance is by Matthias Koole in STUK/Leuven (Belgium).

Use headphones. Much fun!

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

http://hotelbich.blogspot.com/

HOTELbich-Parcours 20 July

out-side-in, Audio guide+installation

Check this map for a closer look!


out-side-in is a 16 minutes mp3-soundtrack for the courageous pedestrians on their way from Flagey to Naamsepoort / Port de Namur in Elsene / Ixelles:

"Climbing a mountain, overcoming temptations of shopping and leisure, squeezing and slaloming yourself through all kinds of bodily fellow-runner, passing ready-to-eat food and crossing 10 cultures.

How does it feel to be part of this urban spectacle, every day again?

Now you get the chance to test your senses and mind. And to compare your reality under the influence of an extra sound-layer. Change your way as the way changes you! Try it!"

exists as well as installation set-up with headphones and video.

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 2008

1 Libera me: cloned Freud room, destorted Verdi aria, volume pedal (images+ sound extract: listen at least 40 seconds!)

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.

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.

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)