Sunday, December 26, 2010

TOP TEN 2010!

A busy year draws to a close!
I don't want to say goodbye to 2010 without listing my personal top ten live experiences. I've seen many shows throughout the year, but these here are definitely the ones I enjoyed most:

01 Daniel Menche - live at The Holocene Portland
02 Sixes - live at The Lab San Francisco
03 Parabelles (Ute & Doreen ) - live at Tentstation Berlin
04 Charles Moneypenny - live at Staalplaat Berlin
05 The Haters - live at Luna Playhouse Glendale
06 Lasse Marhaug - live at The Smell Los Angeles
07 The Residents - live at Huxley's Berlin
08 Merzbow & Balazs Pandi - live at Berghain Berlin
09 Leif Elggren - live at NK Berlin
10 Alexandre Babel - live at Sound Forest Festival Riga

http://www.intransitiverecordings.com/music/best-of-2010-part-1/

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Bye Bye Butterfly!

Bye bye butterfly, good morning red wine!
Had a great time in the beautiful town of Xanthi in the north of Greece during 'absurd' festival with Leif Elggren, Balinese Beast, Socrates Martinis, Kostis Kilymis, DJ Bwana, Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani. Huge thanks to Nicolas 'The Burgermeister' Malevitsis and everybody else involved. Fantastic food, delicious wine, amazing landscape!


SI live at absurd festival Xanthi 4th Dec 2010


Nicolas Malevitsis, Joke Lanz, Leif Elggren

http://blog.noise-below.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthi

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Charles Moneypenny Report!

Charles Moneypenny is back!



CM live at Staalplaat Berlin 14th August 2010 (photos by Ute Waldhausen)


Listen to The Charles Moneypenny Report exclusively on Entr'acte:

http://www.entracte.co.uk/mixes/





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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Psychotic Einzelkind

Psychotic Einzelkind is the title of a Noise/Dance performance created by Joke Lanz (Berlin) and Brigitte Wilfing (Vienna).

The principal theme of the piece is affective and manic-depressive behaviour of 'only children'. To grow up as only child can cause significant social problems. They may have difficulties coping with situations such as a loss in friends, failure in employment, failure with personal relationships, uncontrollable anger, and girlfriends or boyfriends refusing to engage in sexual activity. Children who have experienced a stressful event, such as the separation of the parents or the birth or death of a close family relative, may also exhibit some or all of the symptoms.

Psychotic Einzelkind, named after Sudden Infant's CD album released 2008 on Blossoming Noise, was already shown at WUK Vienna in 2009 and at Transart/Underground City Festival in Labin (Croatia) in 2010. The next presentation of the piece will be at Fluc Vienna on October 5th, opening the night for FM Einheit.



Psychotic Einzelkind

Joke Lanz: composition, concept, performance, noise
Brigitte Wilfing: concept, performance, noise
Thomas Jelinek / Thomas Wagensommerer: light design
Alfred Reiter: sound engineering





Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Pictures at an Exhibition!

Opening of my exhibition 'Ins Gesicht' at Rumpsti Pumsti Gallery Berlin 4th September 2010. Thanks to all the nice individuals, all the kids and dogs who came to see my paintings. It was a wonderful and long Saturday.
Big THANKS to Daniel Löwenbrück and Ed Benndorf for giving me this chance to show my work and to be the first artist at the new Rumpsti Pumsti music & gallery space. Also many thanks to Bill Kouligas and Ute Waldhausen. Not to forget Marcelo Aguirre and Peter Pure who woke me up later on at a local bar further down the street.

The exhibition runs until Tuesday 28th September. Paintings are still available for 250 Euro each (31cm x 31cm, acrylic on cardboard). Please contact the gallery for further details.














Saturday, August 21, 2010

INS GESICHT!

JOKE LANZ - INS GESICHT:
paintings (acrylic on cardboard 1992-1995)

4. September 2010 - 28. September 2010

Opening: 4. September 2010 16-22h

Rumpsti Pumsti Music & Gallery
Weserstrasse 165
12045 Berlin - Neukölln

www.rumpsti-pumsti.com






I'm very happy to announce an exhibition of my early paintings from 1992-1995 titled: Ins Gesicht (engl: in the face).
In the early 90's I started to work on paintings and sound installations, collages and objects. It was the time when my son Céleste was a small child, when Sudden Infant was making the first big moves, when I learned about separations and new beginnings, when I drunk my first beer before breakfast and when Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Burgess and Frank Zappa died.
Childhood experiences, sexual eruptions, autoaggression and psycho mechanisms became major themes of my musical and artistic works.

This series of 27 head/face paintings (acrylic on cardboard/31cm x 31cm) created between 1992 and 1995 are now shown for the very first time at the Rumpsti Pumsti Gallery in Berlin.



Back then at the studio from left to right: Tobia, Céleste, Joke, Zeno

Monday, August 9, 2010

Memories part 1

Los Angeles, The Smell, 14th February 2010:


Damion Romero, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Joke Lanz, Lasse Marhaug