Berlin Week/Haunted Houses Reviews/Updates

 Getting on the Flixbus, guitar and suitcase in hand, in a few hours I will be in Berlin again...

playing solo set at Madame Claude on May 27th 

    at 22:30 approximately...

 https://madameclaude.de/events/experimontag-68/

and then solo at Loophole on May 29th, 

   the hour TBA. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/351442582385193/

These sets will be composed of 4 different & subtly shifting sounding environments/

ambiences, with acoustic guitar woven throughout/plus the mysteries of the sound-table.

Then, at Tatwerk on June 1

(Hasenheide 9, Aufgang 1, 3. OG)

    I will be providing a somewhat different sound palette

in support of Ana Kavalis, in a project we rehearsed for

and previewed last month, called Somehow Standing.

 

 By way of introduction, click on this video :)

  

 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=852808888431697

 

Two performances at 3pm and 6pm,

Space is rather limited for these performance so

reserve tickets ahead of time by writing to

info@tatwerk-berlin.de

or arrive early :)

looking forward to seeing as many old and new friends as possible, as ever... 

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Muzykofilia Festival in Torun. Great times. Good musics. 

Wonderful audience.   Here's a video (audio only, of course) of my set direct from the board.  https://youtu.be/wSk-L9rjnQI

 

Photo: Agnieska Janik

 

 

Here's a very funny, creative review of my Haunted Houses album:  

 

    "I came for the house music, all dressed with my ravers outfit on and glowstick tightly squeezed in my hand… it must have been here somewhere I thought.. i mean, of course it’s an illegal house party and the directions are always a little vague, but still we should hear some booming beats to follow. But when going through all these abandoned houses over in this block, it slightly became apparent that this promised house party might be a misconception from our side… still trying to get out of here in order to find something else seemed to be more troublesome than expected." 

Read the full review(and link to the album) here

 https://yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/jeff-gburek-projects-haunted-houses

 

 

 I discovered that my album "Remote Provinces" released in 2009 on Aural Terrains label has now a representative track is posted on Youtube. I think it's sold out. But it's nice to hear a piece of it.   https://youtu.be/VlO5uJTMtmA

 

A few photos and then, it's time to say goodbye to blog-space and hit the road

 

Dom Artusa, Torun

Sunset, Santok, Dym Festival

Artist Jerzy Gąsiorek in Santok

Assemblage by Jerzy Gąsiorek, Santok

Ink on wood by Jeff Gburek

Karolina

Set up, Muzykofilia Festival, Torun

 

Radiophrenia Plays Two Cities by Jeff Gburek with Ilaria Boffa

 Radiophrenia Glasgow will be playing a few sound art pieces of mine in the next week.
  
     Tonight May 15 it's "Two Cities"

        On May 20th,  they will play
           "Dream on Orpheus Street"
                   (to be covered in the very next entry to this blog).
 

Flood in Poznan, 1889

   Radiophrenia is accessible via the link below and they will be playing a great variety of audio art, plays, field recording, hoespiel and sound collages with commentary and , yes, even a sense of narrative purpose.
 Until May 26th

 http://radiophrenia.scot/how-to-listen/?fbclid=IwAR27Qqw1o_qOHLKtktrwIjwNqIK1LZrGEptcpXYm79zs5zJckZSDzczZesE

“Two Cities” is composed of spoken word, poetry, site-specific field recordings, & acousmatic sound. The work encompasses themes of ecology, personal position, isolation, community and the liquidity of modernity, in all it’s elusive forms. The reflection of the two artists dwelling in two cities funneled into one place here & now for the listener. Ilaria Boffa, lives in Padova, Italia and Jeff Gburek in Poznan, Polska. They contemplate together, and apart, the waters rising and receding in the wake of civilizations that mark the tide levels of the planet. Audio, music and composition by Jeff Gburek.

For those who missed the radio presentation, no FOMO!
You can find the whole available for download here. Support our work within your means.  https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/two-cities

Part 1. “The Shrinking Pond”

Begun in 2016, when the desiccation of the region had just about peaked and all local bodies of water seemed still to shrink from contact with the outside world, the recordings of an early Spring during the crisis of a great dry year. The environment of the pond in Poznan was documented on 3 different levels and these sound layers are revealed with an animated and multi-dimensional audio-texture. One strata is the literal binaural ambience, the noises of machines and animals heard within human range; the next, hydrophones in the river and pond, and then recordings of magnetic resonance fields (caused by electric cables, street lights, automobiles, cell-phones — all using a disembodied guitar pick-up to capture sounds that are not normally within the human auditory spectrum. These sounds were then re-composed into a series of free audio spirals. After having heard Ilaria Boffa’s work, “The Two Cities”, I decided to add another spoken word intervention of my own, recorded this November, contemplating the atmosphere of ecological indeterminacy and human fragility. Together with the following piece “Acqua Alta, the tables turned and now liquid nature is swelling almost perilously at the seams. We stretch the cable of trans-communication, make ghost-bridges between two cities far flung and yet conjoined by a common liquidity. Special thanks to Marco Lucchi for the fragment of his “November Song” that appears in the composition.

Part 2 “Acqua Alta”

Embedded in this track is the voice of Ilaria Boffa speaking on two occasions. The first are phrases commemorating the language of Zygmunt Bauman (the sociologist and philospher, born in Poznan) and the concept of Liquid Modernity while in the second moment she takes us on her journey to Venice amidst the floods in November where she recites a poem called “The Two Cities” which, in her own words, “deals with a profound sense of absence and distance, the acceptance of a painful looming scenario that echoes from a remote past. Sinking, drowning becomes simultaneously a very private and universal condition, a reflection on the global eco-dynamics currently shared by living and non-living beings.”

The compositions feature texts and field recordings made by Ilaria Boffa in Venice recomposed, reconfigured and supplemented by Jeff Gburek in the studio and around Poznan, featuring slide guitar, piano, field recordings, radio captures, incidental voices (birds even). Thanks to Kołorking Muzyczny for piano and “the space to think” and Karolina Ossowska (backing vocals/voices on “Acqua Alta” and for inspiration in general).

Jeff Gburek is a multi-instrumentalist, sound designer & composer who uses prepared guitar, radios, magnetic field antennae, theremin, manipulation of organic objects, & special microphones to bridge formal music & environmental sound sources, bringing multiple dimensions of sound into consciousness. He has lived in San Francisco, Montreal, NYC, Berlin, Brussels, Lyon and now Poznan. Collaborators include Michael Vorfeld, Tetuzi Akiyama & Keith Rowe of AMM. He’s performed at Unidram Festival in Potsdam, Ad Libitem Festival in Warsaw, FRIV Festival in Poznan. He currently leads workshops offers private lessons on improvised music, acoustic ecology, field recording, English and Italian at Kołorking Muzyczyny, Poznan.

http://transparent-abelard.blogspot.com/
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/