here.here with Marcus Kaiser (1st/2nd May 2019)
German artist – composer – cellist Marcus Kaiser is the third guest of a series of streamed concerts taking place at IKLECTIK in London and at UCA in Farnham. The other concerts this year are Gildas Quartet (October 2019), Stefan Thut (10/11 April 2019), Jessica Aslan and Emma Lloyd (13 March 2019).
In Farnham and London musicians and performers drawn from the London experimental music scene as well as students, researchers and members of the Audio Research Cluster at UCA Farnham perform UNTERHOLZ (undergrowth) an evolving multimedia work that exists since 2006. The Farnham concert is streamed live.
FMC lecture theatre UCA Farnham Wed. 01/05/2019 4.30pm /
With Chris Jones (electric guitar), Marcus Kaiser (cello), Arusik Nanyan (acoustic guitar), Paulius Valteras (electric guitar), Emmanuelle Waeckerle (percussive objects), Harry Whalley (percussive objects)
recording of the concert accessible here and here
Iklectik London Thurs 02/05/2019 7.30pm
With Marjolaine Charbin (piano), Marcus Kaiser (cello), Arusik Nanyan (acoustic guitar), Ed Lucas (trombone), Edward Shipsey and Emmanuelle Waeckerle (percussive objects).
recording of the concert accessible here
UNTERHOLZ is a piece, that, like real undergrowth in a forest, continually changes in the course of time, i.e. from performance to performance and from place to place, carrying and sedimenting old, accruing new matter. The base situation is an installation with sine tones played back and a video showing a very slow sequence moving through a “jungle thicket”. Each performance of the piece is filmed and sound recorded. These recordings are then processed into the video/sound sequences for subsequent performances.
These are the 18th and 19th performances of UNTERHOLZ, after Austria, Dusseldorf, Munich, Berlin, Ljubjana, and Tianjin (China) to name a few places and in London at the ICA in 2011 for the Cut and Splice ; Gründelweiser festival performed by Manfred Werder (piano), Michael Pisaro (guitar) and Marcus (cello).
“If I should say something about my work, I would say that it is like a garden – something shifting in the shadow – something in the sun – growing from my discretion. In a garden you can move freely – romp around – destroy – have love affairs – sweep old leaves. A garden lasts a long time . “(Marcus Kaiser, the book is alive! 2013)
Marcus is a cellist–painter–architect–composer¬–builder/designer–maker of sound pieces–video artist. He does not juggle these activities – he works on all of them simultaneously as if they were part of some vast rhizomatic assemblage. He paints jungles the way they grow: adding layer after layer of green until it is nearly a monochrome. He records individual layers of sound regularly over the course of many days, until, when simultaneously played back, these recordings reach a point of near saturation (in which, however, sonic features remain distinguishable). (wandelweiser by Michael Pisaro, 2009)
here.here Marcus Kaiser poster and QR code
here.here Marcus Kaiser Press Release.
The here.here concert series, is a collaboration between bookRoom and the Audio Research Cluster at UCA Farnham, curated by Emmanuelle Waeckerle and Harrey Whalley, around their common research in extended, textual, visual, gestural and object scores and ways to integrate or experience technology in text/music/film/performances. The project is supported by UCA research fund.