Projekte - PENTATONES _ THE MOSAIQUE BEATS ENSEMBLE

preENTER is a symbiosis of artist and audience, of installation and stage, of image and sound. preENTER is a collaborative project of Pentatones (music) and YouAreWatchingUs (visual arts). For two years, the two groups have been working together in Weimar on audiovisual ventures at the nexus of performing arts and graphic arts. 

preENTER is divided into two parts: a video installation and an audiovisual live performance: The installation consists of six commercially-available flatbed scanners mounted on a metal framework. Visitors are free to use them for the duration of the installation. Once a visitor creates a scan, it immediately appears on a projection screen and becomes part of a growing stock of images including faces, bodies, objects, messages and abstract forms. The installation calls for a creative contribution from the visitors partaking of it. The result is a constantly expanding archive fed by the uncensored visual expressions of the public. 

The character of the project, which has been primarily documentary up to this point, is radically modified in a second step. In the preEnter sessions–the reworking of the graphic material in a live audiovisual performance–the artists respond to the audience input with their own interpretation of the content. The ensemble consists of four musicians and three video artists. They play their sets with specially developed audio & video controllers, but synthesizer, sequencer and sampler as well as classical instruments like double bass and piano also come into play. Pentatones and YourAreWatchingUs create a multi-layered set comprised of moving images, sound collages and complex beat structures, produced in real time, recorded and recontextualized. Images are generated for sounds and sound for images. 

Artists: Delhia, vocals and text; Albrecht Ziepert, piano and synthesizer; Hannes Waldschütz, bass and synthesizer; Julian Hetzel, beats and sampling; Timm Burkhardt, Ramon Grendene, Kai Meinig, installation and video; Mario Weise, audio technology 

Shows at (excerpt): Ars Electronica, Linz; Audiovisuale, Leipzig; Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg; Fusion Festival, Lärz; Audiovisual Arts Festival Illumineye, Weimar; Labor-Bar, Zürich; MShi Modenschau, Jena; Plai Festival, Timisoara; Profile, Bremen

www.preenter.de

"Monokultur" is a transdiciplinary project by Julian Hetzel and Timm Burkhardt about the phenomena of repetition. Its a cooperation between Pentatones and YouAreWatchingUs in collaboration with the "Deutsches National Theater Weimar" and the "Bauhaus University Weimar".

Monoculture in its original sense means the constant cultivation of earth with the same species of an agricultural crop. This kind of extensive farming is in its first periods very efficient. But the long term repetition of this process leads to a considerable damage of the ground.

The Artist-duo started in a research concerning a structural analysis of the phenomena in search of clues to the cultural situation of the present – in particular to the way of live and work. According to this they developed a study about uniformity, efficiency and standardization. This study was printed and published as a newspaper.

On this background Hetzel and Burkhardt developed a concept of a live performance. They transformed the content in an new language and form. Together with a team of about 15 artists from various fields of work; dancers, actors, musicians and video-artists, the performance has been showed to the public in 2008 and 2009.

Albrecht Ziepert from Pentatones composed and conducted the music-ensemble.

www.monokulturmonokultur.de