JOKE LANZ remixes CHRISTIAN WOLFARTH

My good friend and percussionist Christian Wolfarth invited me to do a remix of one of his 'Acoustic Solo Percussion' 7"s from his volume 1-4 series. Alongside with Rashad Becker, Hans Joachim Irmler (Faust) and Günter Müller, this fine double CD is out now on his own Hiddenbell Records.
One disc contains all original pieces from 'Acoustic Solo Percussion Vol 1-4', the other disc contains the remixes.

http://www.christianwolfarth.ch/pages/de/index.php

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From TXL to TLV!

Sudden Infant live at 5th anniversary of Zimmer Festival Tel Aviv March 30, 2013

With a slight hangover from the night before at Ausland where I played a turntable solo alongside of Robert Piotrowicz and Ruben Patino, I found myself waiting at the departure gate in Berlin Tegel for my flight to Tel Aviv. It's my second visit to this vibrant and colorful city and the first time to play a full Sudden Infant show in Israel. I'm happy to escape this horrible never-ending winter in Berlin. Tel Aviv welcomes me with 24 degrees celsius!

Despite an Egyptian visa stamp in my passport I easily get through immigration and my friends Guy and Ron are picking me up. On the way to the city we get stopped by Israeli police because I forgot to wear the safety belts on the backseat!

The new Zimmer is way bigger than the old one but still kept his distinctive and unique style, filled with old television sets, tape recorders, turntables, graffitis, found objects, plastic dolls, posters etc.
I immediately feel at home! It's a great place to go and to meet some of the most interesting people in Tel Aviv.

Big thanks to: Ron and Guy for being such great friends and keeping the good work up in Israel, Mia, Alma and Aviad for their lovely hospitality, Nira, Har'El, Gabi, Grisha, Bachmutsky, Marsha, Andrew, Eli, Joe, Assaf, Gali, Ariel, Kabab and all the cool acts I saw at the Zimmer such as Mujahadeen, Laila, Mechonat Hereg, Sachi & the Kids and many more. THANKS for the great time!!

http://www.facebook.com/zimmeramma

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CoCArt Music Festival Torun

Some impressions from CoCArt Music Festival in Torun Poland:

Thanks to: Rafal Iwanski, Rafal Kolacki, Piotr Zawalkiewicz, CSW Torun, Peter 'Pure' Votava, Yannick Franck, Z'EV, Phil Maggi, Wim of Silken Tofu, Jean-Herve Peron, Pierre Bastien, Ewa, Anna, Natalia, Maja, Till, Heinz and everybody who supported and attended the two nights.

Photos by Tillmann Jakob (1), Zuzanna Larysz (2,3), Joke Lanz (4,5,6)


http://csw.torun.pl/activities/festivals/5.-cocart-music-festival

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Joke Lanz & Olaf Rupp

Live at Quiet Cue 95.2 (excerpt) August 18, 2012:

Joke Lanz: turntables
Olaf Rupp: guitar


Watch Vimeo video here:

http://vimeo.com/61522731


Thanks to: Nicolas Wiese, Michael Renkel.

http://www.audiosemantics.de/
http://quietcue.blogspot.de/

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Spring Snow Berlin!

Berlin 20th March 2013...

The Feeding of Silas!

Joke Lanz & Silas Töppich:
Feeding performance 11th February 2013 Berlin

Confrontation / Transgression

Joke Lanz & Ute Waldhausen 1 : 1
live at Extreme Rituals: A Schimpfluch Carnival
December 2 2012 Arnolfini Bristol UK

http://youtu.be/LOzdHwTiq-Q



Video by moju
Mixing by Rashad Becker

Despite not being spattered with shit, I enjoyed Extreme Rituals immensely. One Performance, in particular, I thought represented Schimpfluch style at its most true to form and at its most valuable.
Topless, Joke Lanz and Ute Waldhausen slapped and caressed each other with microphones attached to their hands, using feedback and the sounds of their confrontation to craft a fractious, spiky composition. I forget who threw the first punch, but the vigour with which they went at each other, not to mention the toplessness, made this set the weekend's most transgressive in the old school sense. It's power came from the way Lanz and Waldhausen appeared to compress the dynamic contours of a whole relationship, alternately tender and abusive, collaborative and destructive, into their drama. One of the oldest arguments in favour of transgressive art - one cited by Throbbing Gristle and Mike Dando, among others - is that it serves as a tool for the existentialist. By offending you, it makes you aware that you've been conditioned to be offended, and challenges you to take control of your reactions. But graphic depictions of sexual abuse, or Second World War atrocities, have been so common for so long - in the world of harsh noise at least, which is where Schimpfluch fans tend to reside - that they've lost their power to shock and become mere accessories of genre, redundant next to a mainstream culture already saturated by pornography and violence. Lanz and Waldhausen's performance was rare, then, in that it shocked - and shocked into reflection, not disgust.

THE WIRE - Nick Richardson  February 2013