“Picnic in Foret Noir”  A night of surprises at Direktorenhaus

An informal feast of book signing, discursive picnicking, action weaving, illustration and performance

Date: 22/07 /2010

Time: 7pm

Entrance: Free

Inspired by Olaf Hajek’s illustration Foret Noir from his current exhibition at Direktorenhaus, the “Picnic in Foret Noir” starts with the opportunity to meet the artist himself who will be signing copies of his beautiful book “Flowerheads”, bring your copy or buy one on the night.

But of course the Foret Noir is no ordinary forest.

Bring snacks and join the Discursive Picnic with UNWETTER, the collective who have since 2002 mastered the art of picnicking everywhere from the Hamburger Bahnhof to Documenta11.

And what will you sit on? Join Action Weaver, Travis Meinolf, who will bring his prototype looms and teach you how to weave the very cloth for your very own picnic blanket. Meanwhile you can expect the forest to come to life around you with PLAYberlin’s interpretation of Hajek’s work. You can even become part of the forest yourself and have your photo taken in the Foret Noir Photo Booth.

We’d love to say more, but you’ll just have to come down to the Foret Noir for a big surprise…

This event is totally free, but bring your yarn to weave with, bring food for the picnic … and our bar will be open.

From 19.00 till 23.00

Further info on:

ACTION WEAVER

OLAF HAJEK

UNWETTER

As TAMTAMTAM is resting to dust off some Lederhosen, the TAMTAMTAM DJs followed the invitation to play some Dance Muzik at the O Tannenbaum.
Comfortable shoes are welcome.

Sets by:
#Johannes Wengel (Muziki was dansi Disko)
#Justin Kennedy (”Caribbean Nights”)
#Felix Grabow

starts:        Saturday, 17th July, 10 pm
adress:       Sonnenallee 27 (Neukölln),
near Hermannplatz station (U8)
entree:       free

To get you inspired:

To see who else is coming: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135325849835322

Bring FRIENDS & PARENTS For an UNFORGETABLE –TANNENBAUM—- DANCE EXPERIENCE!

See you there!

I begin by remembering what i once read: The fake is the unhappy offspring of a present without depth…….

In my mind fake leads me to a list of associations from the act of deception to fraudulence, to the description of that which is superficial to not that deep, to the form of a replica or copy to the idea of reflection and then ripples and reverberates and ever so slowly arrives at….. echo.

#1st public showing of Sarah Lewis’ (Lewis Forever) new piece

Friday July 9th
10:00 pm
14 Dresdenerstr.

Date: 26th-27th of June 2010 from 2pm till 9pm

@ Donaustraße Nord

So you could al go there first and join our TAMTAMTAM 10 after that with full creative forces.

http://dieideenfabrik.blogspot.com/

Wir empfehlen Folgendes:

“Idee des Kommunismus – Philosophie und Kunst Konferenz”

Datum: 25-27.06.2010

Kurzauszug:

Idea of Communism. Philosophy and Art is a scientific/artistic conference aimed at considering the concept of “Communism” from a new perspective and including its multiple significations. For three days, all rooms in the Volksbühne will be devoted to this event. “Since the labour movements in the 19th century and their interpretation by great minds of the times, the word “Communism” has been at the intersection between politics and philosophy. Therefore, nowadays it must be considered on the basis of both its ideal content and the actual experiences to which it has been associated and in which it has been seriously compromised.” (Alain Badiou) The conference will focus on a review of the socialist States that embodied the motive of a “dictatorship of the proletariat” in the 20th century. With this in mind, it will host a significant number of participants from Eastern European countries. The main events are four philosophical panels on the subject “The word Communism: between philosophical criticism and an actual review of the socialist States” led by Alain Badiou (Paris) and Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana). The aesthetical approach to the subject is an art program including performances, installations, films and concerts. (find out more here: http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de)

Die Tickets kosten für das ganze Wochenende 50 Euro / ermäßigt 25 Euro

u.a. dabei und zu empfehlen:

Alain Badiou (introduction Freitag)

Felix Ensslin & Jan Ritsema (Podiumsdiskussion Freitag)

Slavoj Zizêk (Samstag)

I’m sorry about the distorted sound quality of the video but the Raum18 Soundsystem was just insane and gave the recording equipment a hard time.

Photos by Miguel Lopes

Filming by Nathaniel Fowler

Edit by Johannes Wengel

Performances by MI AMI (US), Ben Butler and Mousepad, O Tannenbaum DJs

Enjoy.

B

The next TAMTAMTAM is coming on the 26th of June, Saturday. We’ll have two performances, a lecture, nice music from Justin and Ligia and Mokkhhitos.

FIND MORE PHOTOS ON OUR FACEBOOK GROUP PLAYBERLIN

~

Dmitry

Mnemosyne Atlas

But first things first:

1) adLibdances @ Laborgras

On Friday the 11th of June at 18.00, LaborGras will host a dance performance by adLibdances / Kat Válastur featuring our dear friend Ligia Manuela Lewis. From what we’ve heard this work is really beautiful and inspiring, so we urge you to make it there. The entrance is free.

2) TAMTAMTAM Undercover

After that, the same Friday on the 11th of June at 22.30 we invite you to TAMTAMTAM Undercover, which will take place at Dmitry’s studio at Kunstfabrik.

The thing about this TAMTAMTAM is that we have a smaller space and a special situation with the entrance that is always closed (not our fault). So we decided to use this opportunity to do something a bit more intimate and to get to know you better. If you’d like to come, please, send back an e-mail shortly introducing yourself to info at playberlin dot com (if we don’t know each other personally) and I’ll send you back the invitation, the exact location, and the times when we’ll open the door.

We’ll have Johannes Wengel sharing his latest music raritaeten, as well as a special guest from France – Perrine en Morceaux – who will perform live her solo set of which she herself says: “I sing ways of saying over loops of music. I wonder and experiment with what pop can possibly mean, using 1 body, 2 machines and 3 mics. I dream of songs as relational viruses.”

3) The New O Tannenbaum Location

The next day, on Saturday the 12th of June, our friends O Tannebaum are opening their new location on Sonnenallee 27 (close to Hermannplatz u-bahn). We are very excited about this new space as they’ll be showing great films, host amazing music events, serve nice strong Belgian beers, and, of course, DJ themselves. So, check out their website for more information and come on the 12th to celebrate with them.

4) T3 Lab – Share Your Practice

Finally, after a long marathon of art, music, and entertainment we invite you to come to our T3 Lab, which will be hosted at my studio on Sunday the 13th of June at 22.00. We’ve been doing it since March and the main idea is that people are invited to share their practice followed by a Q&A / feedback session. We have artists showing their works in progress, talking about their process, giving workshops, discussions, etc.

This time it will be me presenting network analysis of texts and how networks can be used to create nonlinear associative narratives in a performative context. To get an idea, check out ThisIsLike blog where you can see some of my posts on this topic. If you’d like to come, please, reply to this e-mail, as the number of spaces are limited.

Thank you for your attention!

Tracklist:

Minimal Man – Loneliness (Beginning)
Rihanna – Rude Boy (Murlo Mix)
Rune Lindbaek – Klubb Kebabb Intro
Oriental Disco – Gozy
Yann Tomita – Doobee Time
The Ebony Dukes – Girls
Ata Kak – Daa Nyinnaa
Bonanza excerpt
Wakimbizi – Title unknown
Onipa Nua – I Feel Alright
Raymond Scott – County Fair
Eydie Gorme – Noche de Ronda

enjoy

Johannes // PLAYberlin

MAY 22ND @ RAUM18
Mi Ami (San Fran. Thrill Jockey)
Ben Butler & Mousepad (Berlin)
O Tannenbaum DJs (Berlin)
22Uhr. €7 (B4 12, €8 after).
Ziegrastraße 11, 12057 Berlin
www.raum18-berlin.com

Mi Ami – the disco punk trio from west coast usa make their anticipated return to Berlin as part of their ‘Steal Your Face’ album tour. The last show supporting Black Dice rocked the audience hard with their hi energy performance. Taking in elements of dub, techno, punk, rock they really are in world of their own. A world where people have fun and party hard to drums, bass and synth and then explode in torrents of energy waves as guitar and voice ignite. Berlin, this is your one and only chance to catch this unique band in 2010, DO NOT MISS.
www.myspace.com/miamiamiami

Ben Butler & Mousepad (live)
Berlin based drum and electronic mayhem!
Ben Butler & Mouse Pad is Joe Gay Against You/Germlin’s new project with Bastian Hagedorn. Anyone exposed to the furious shake & pop of pixelated DIY dance fury from either act should expect excellence. Anaglouey electro pop dance music for people raised in the digital age who want to party like its 2999.
http://www.myspace.com/benbutlerandmousepad

O Tannenbaum DJs is Pieter and Olivier – two DJs from Berlin who can keep people dancing through the night like no one else in the city. Their music is a highly eclectic mix of the magical tribal vibes, forgotten and unforgotten 80’s & 90’s dancefloor hits, wave, 70’s electropop, dancehall, acid, cumbia, 50’s & 60’s rarities, but mostly stuff you never ever heard before. O Tannenbaum are residents of TAMTAMTAM parties organized by PLAYBerlin. In June  they ll open their new space in Neukölln. We ll keep you updated.
http://www.o-tannenbaum-berlin.de

This event is lovingly presented by Littlebig & PlayBerlin:
www.littlebig.org.uk
www.playberlin.com

including following performances:

Yellow Legs by Justin Palermo

Untitled by Todd McQuade

What they are instead of by Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger

filmed by Nathaniel Fowler edited by Johannes Wengel

More Videos of the single performances will be coming soon.

The next TAMTAMTAM will happen on the 11th of June. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay tuned.

Taken with Yashica T4 (point and shoot camera), which i more than recommend. You get them quite cheap for about 50-70 euro on Ebay.

Enjoy, maybe you’ll find yourself in some of them.

Johannes / PLAYberlin

]]> http://playberlin.com/2010/04/playberlin-snap-shots-october09-march10/feed/ 1 http://playberlin.com/2010/04/tamtamtam-9-lupita-photos/ http://playberlin.com/2010/04/tamtamtam-9-lupita-photos/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:12:08 +0000 admin http://playberlin.com/?p=2122 The photos. From the last TAMTAMTAM at Lupita. Beautiful people. Beautiful place. Beautiful music. Tempting the temptation. Sensing the sensation. Revealing the revelation. The next TAMTAMTAM is happening in June under the open sky, under the open air, under unrestricted circumstances. Subscribe to our newsletter to be informed: http://playberlin.com/newsletter/

Photos by Miguel Lopes / PLAYBerlin

Savvy Contemporary is a pretty new gallery in Neukölln and will host some of our upcoming TAMTAMTAM Salons, which is a new format next to the music and performance nights. What it is in detail, we will announce soon. But first, read more about our friends at Savvy gallery:

SAVVY CONTEMPORARY – the laboratory of form ideas is a new, ambitious art space in Berlin aimed at fostering the dialogue between “western art” and “non-western art”.

The gallery features different formats:

ARTS

Every two months, SAVVY CONTEMPORARY will present an exhibition in its gallery space aimed at fostering the dialogue between “western art” and “non-western art”. In this light, a curator will be invited by SAVVY’s art direction to further invite an artist from Europe or North-America and another artist from Africa, South-America, Asia or Australia. This trialogue will be moderated by the invited curator. The process of the trialogue and its result will culminate in an exhibition and a publication to the exhibition.

EVENTS

Performance Art
SAVVY Contemporary will anchor, on a monthly basis, a performance art show. Performance artists from the fields of theater, contemporary dance, synthesis, etc will have the possibilities of experimenting, reminiscent on Marinetti’s concept of performance art in the premises of the SAVVY Contemporary.

Performance art at SAVVY Contemporary will be coordinated by Cilgia Gadola (cilgia.gadola@postmail.ch)

Cooking Performances
SAVVY Contemporary will host a monthly cooking performance for a limited clientele. The kitchen will offer three-course menus from different countries and continents. Contact SAVVY Contemporary to acquire a place on the waiting list.

Music Performances
Music performances are the backbone of the SAVVY Contemporary. Experimental Jazz, Modern Classic, Improvisations are just a few points of interests.

Music performances at SAVVY Contemporary will be coordinated by Robert Würz

Cine Club
The Cine Club at SAVVY will present selected movies and documentaries.  Jewels of movie history and rare films will be shown on two dates every two months.

More details under:

www.savvy-contemporary.com

Look no further. This Saturday, 27th of March, it’s going to be 19º Celsius and we are going to celebrate it with

TAMTAMTAM 9: Music + Dance Night

This time we will put an emphasis on your cardio-vascular system and all the deviations related to it:

NAMOSH (Live, Musikladen Show)
http://thisislike.com/o-tannenbaum-djs/about

JOHANNES WENGEL / TAMTAMTAM (DJ set)
http://thisislike.com/tamtamtam-berlin-party/about

DEE MEE TREE (Visuals)
http://thisislike.com/dee-mee-tree-performer/about

TAMTAMTAM Crew (Lights, Visuals)
http://playberlin.com

Location: LUPITA, Skalitzer strasse 135a (U8: Kottbusser Tor), the entrance is right next to the Kaisers supermarket entrance (literally, to the right of the main Kaisers entrance). Ring Lupita, donate your fingerprints, and walk to the 3rd floor.

Doors open at 21.00, live show at 23.00

Entrance: €5

Achtung! Due to the limited capacity, we ask you to confirm your attendance on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110572385622821 or by replying back to this e-mail (pls include your name) if you don’t use Facebook.

Fine Print:

TAMTAMTAM is a nomadic event organized by PLAYBerlin.Com platform for music and arts. It blends curated content with improvisation, and the only recurrent is the constant change and movement. We invite musicians, performers, the audience and let them create an event that would provide inspiration and entertainment for everyone involved. See photos and videos from the previous events on http://playberlin.com

TAMTAMTAM is sponsored by This Is Like – cross-disciplinary system for curatorial practice and research.

“PADAM” by BENJAMIN BIOLAY

Its been directed by M/M Paris

#the rumours also say he has an affair with the french first lady Carla Bruni (read about it here)

Johannes(PLAYberlin)

TAMTAMTAM 8 @ Uferhallen, 13 March 2010

Performances by Justin Palermo, Todd McQuade, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot. DJ set by Johannes Wengel. Lights by Clement Layes. Video by Diego Agullo with Dee Mee Tree and Yuko Kaseki.

Film “Silver Globe” projected throughout the evening by Andrzej Zulawski.

Photos by Miguel Lopes.

Special thanks to Nina Kurtela, Paul Schoen, Jessica Taylor, John-Erik Jordan, and Diego Agullo.

Also, subscribe to our newsletter and join PLAYBerlin Facebook Group to keep in touch!

There is a concert of the sub pop recording artists Jesy Fortino aka Tiny Vipers at Sophiensaele (S-Bahn Hackescher Markt) on Wednesday the 10th of March. We highly recommend to come.

To make sure you get a ticket, come a bit earlier. The show starts at 8 pm.

tickets cost 10 EUR (reduced), 13 EUR (normal)

There are 2 other acts before:

- Crystal Hell Pool (start 8:10pm)

- Kria Brekkan (8:45pm)

- Tiny Vipers (9:45pm)

get an impression here:

We are happy to announce the TTT8 Performance event, which is taking place @ Uferhallen this Saturday, 13th of March at 8 pm.

(note, that we had to move the location from Alte Kindl Brauerei!)

This time TAMTAMTAM will focus exclusively on live art / dance performances / visuals. Everything starts at 8 pm sharp and finishes at midnight so please come on time!

The program of the evening:

OBJECTS WITHOUT PROPERTIES /// PA-F (Performing Arts Forum, France)
8.00 – 8.15 pm, presentation of a new project by PAF via video & direct Skype link

YELLOW LEGS /// by Justin Palermo (US/DE)
8.30 – 9.00, performance + video

UNTITLED /// by Todd McQuade (US/DE)
9.20 – 9.40 pm, contemporary dance, solo

WHAT ARE THEY INSTEAD OF /// by Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot (US/DE)
10.00 – 10.30 pm, contemporary dance, duet

+ DJ set by Johannes Wengel + lights by Clement Layes + visuals by DMT
8.00 pm – midnight (between the shows and afterparty)

Address:

Uferstrasse 8-11

13357, Wedding, Berlin

(it’s just 3 mins walk from U-bahn U8: Pankstrasse).

Directions: Walk out of u-bahn, walk along Badstrasse, take the 3rd left on Uferstrasse, and when you see a courtyard on your left (100 m), go inside and walk until the very end. The entrance is on the left. See the map with directions attached.

Time & Entrance: The shows start at 8 pm sharp and the evening will continue until midnight. After that we have a few ideas for you where to go next (surprise), but if you want to see the shows, please, come at 8 pm. The entrance is €4 to €5, we’ll run a cheap bar (this is to help towards the artists’ fees).

You can also RSVP (confirm that you attend) on our Facebook page.

We hope to see you all there!

#TONIGHT# 17th of February @Ausland Berlin

GRIME DIRTY BALTIMORE CRUNK DANCEHALL

Matt Porterfield’s PUTTY HILL Baltimore Club Premiere Party with DJ Fett (Planet Rock, Bomb Mitte), DJ Donna Summer (Nightshifters, Birthday Party Berlin, Cock Rock Disco), Sick Girls

Celebrating the Baltimore Film “Putty Hill” @ Berlinale 2010

watch the trailer:

PUTTY HILL trailer from Matt Porterfield on Vimeo.

Adress is:

Ausland

Lychener Str. 60

10437 Berlin

We recommend you the very special Valentine’s Day “Whiskey and Tea(rs)” @ our favourite Hotel Michelberger

All broken hearts and souls are welcome to ease their pain with whiskey and some nice music. Don’t hide your tears.

date: 14.02.2010

starts: 4:30pm

adress: 39-40 Warschauer Straße, 10243 Berlin

nearest tube: Warschauer Straße (U1)

DRESS BLACK!!!

find more details on the flyer below.

Clement Layes / Public in Private/ “Allege” (excerpts):

What is like Public in Private?

Dee Mee Tree / “Keeping the Connection” (excerpts)

What is like Dee Mee Tree?

Olivier Maarschalk / O Tannenbaum / “First Actuate”

What is like o tannenbaum djs

Quim Bigas Bassart / Improvisation

Also, subscribe to our newsletter and join PLAYBerlin Facebook Group to keep in touch!

Videos by Alex Forge and Nathaniel Fowler (7thheaven.dyss.net) + friends, edited by Dee Mee Tree, photos by Miguel Lopes + friends

First, we had 2 hours of performances by Clement Layes, Olivier Maarschalk, Dee Mee Tree and Quim Bigas Bassart. Then the action shifted into the club space where the party started. Johannes Wengel was on the decks, Mark Boombastik + Kirsty Kross performed their live act, Gelbart demonstrated the wonders of multi-instrumentalism, and O Tannenbaum DJs kept the people happy :) Our MC Doris Dorenkrupp together with Black Magic Dancers was making sure the energy was right and Bana Banal finished the evening with a performance.

If you want to learn more about the artists, check out http://playberlin.com/2010/01/tamtamtam-7-magic-happens/

Here are the photos from the event, more videos our coming soon!

Subscribe to our newsletter to be informed about our future events on http://playberlin.com/newsletter/ – we’re planning a smaller salon-like event every month, the next TAMTAMTAM 8 is happening in March or April and we have the open-air TAMTAMTAM 9 planned in May at a beautiful location in Ostkreuz.

So, something to look forward to! As always, if you’d like to perform, have ideas, photos, videos, please, drop us a line on info at playberlin dot com

Yours,
PLAYBerlin – TAMTAMTAM Crew

Most of the photos by Miguel Lopes, some photos by Alex Forge and Ned Fowler.

After a stint living in Berlin, Bowie and Kraftwerk obsessive and former band-hopper George Lewis Jr. moved back to his home base of Brooklyn and started writing affected electronic pop under the name Twin Shadow. This backstory is maybe not that unique, but Lewis’ elicitation of songs as enigmatic as “Castles In The Snow” and “Yellow Balloon” – both co-produced by Ed Banger affiliate Mickey Moonlight–certainly is. They’re like a wiser, well-adjusted alternative to glo-fi, due on a forthcoming 7-inch in March with another set to follow for Chris Taylor / Grizzly Bear’s Terrible Records. Yes, this dude will probably have a really good year.

What is like George Lewis Jr.? Click below to find out:

Here are some snapshots of how far we got with this little project by now.

TAMTAMTAM 7: MAGIC HAPPENS

MUSIC + PERFORMANCE PARTY HOSTED BY PLAYBERLIN AT ZurMoebelFabrik (ZMF)
(Brunnenstr 10, Mitte, Berlin – metro Rosenthaler Platz – see map)

WE’LL HAVE TWO SPACES: A GALLERY AND A CLUB

This time the theme is “Magic and Illusion”, so we will welcome you to the world of constant change, transformation, and surprises. Appropriate costumes are welcome. The evening will be started with three live performances at the gallery, precisely from 8 to 10pm, then the party starts at the main space with several live music acts and short performances! Everyone is invited to do something on the theme of magic.

GALLERY (8 PM TO 10 PM – come on time, please, shows start at 8 SHARP):

FIRST ACTUATE /// BY OLIVIER MAARSCHALK (O Tannenbaum)
8.00 to 8.20 PM (lecture-performance)

ALLEGE /// BY PUBLIC IN PRIVATE /// http://thisislike.com/public-in-private-dance/about
8.40 to 9.20 PM (contemporary dance)

DER UNTERRICHT /// BY DEE MEE TREE & BRANDON JOHNSON /// http://thisislike.com/dee-mee-tree-performer/about
9.30 – 10.00 PM (performance)

QUIM BIGAS BASSART ///
10.00 PM (dance performance)

MAIN SPACE (10 PM TO 6 AM):

JOHANNES WENGEL (DJ set) /// http://thisislike.com/johannes-wengel-dj/about

O TANNENBAUM DJS /// http://thisislike.com/o-tannenbaum-djs/about
(DJ act)

TAMTAMTAM CREW /// http://thisislike.com/tamtamtam-berlin-party/about
(live performance)

MARK BOOMBASTIK + KIRSTY KROSS (Team Plastique) /// http://thisislike.com/mark-boombastik-band/about and http://thisislike.com/kirsty-kross-artist/about
(live beatbox and music hypnotism session)

GELBART /// http://thisislike.com/gelbart-band/about
(multi-instrumentalism)

THE BLACK MAGIC DANCERS /// http://thisislike.com/black-magic-dancers-collective/about
(special guests from far away lands – performance)

MASTER OF CEREMONIES Doktor Dösenkrupp
(performance)

… AND YOU ..
(you are invited to bring a costume, make a short act during the party, etc).

ACHTUNG!

This time we have two events happening at once.

The gallery space will host a dance show and two performances, from 8 to 10 pm. Then the action will maaagically flow into the other club space around 10 pm.

So if you don’t want to miss anything, come before 8 pm!

Also, in the very likely situation that there’s too many people, we’ll have a priority boarding line.

In order to make sure you get in, please, come early (at 8!)
or even better – confirm your attendance on ThisIsLike.Com or on Facebook

Flyer by John-Erik Jordan ( http://thisislike.com/john-erik-jordan-artist/about ) and Kirsty Kross ( http://thisislike.com/kirsty-kross-artist/about )

It’s an excerpt of the Show of Brian Mitchel and Brendan Dougherty @ TamTamTam 5 @ Raum 18 in August this year…

enjoy and get excited..next TAMTAMTAM coming up early 2010..

●K■I▲N●D■E▲R●D■E▲S●S■A▲T●U■R▲N●

Photos by Marc Seestaedt:

Photos by Christian Nielsen:

Photos by Miguel Lopes:

09.11.09 // 8pm sharp

concerts by BENOIT PIOULARD (Kranky/USA) & CRAYONSMITH (Dublin/UK)

ABOUT:

Since a young age, Thomas Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He began playing piano before his feet could reach the pedals, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment by combining remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard

www.pioulard.com

Having played in various musical projects from a young age, in early 2004 Ciaran Smith began playing his own 4-track recorded songs live under the name ‘Crayonsmith’. Soon after, he asked close friends and local musicians Ronan Jackson and Ruadhan O’ Meara to jump on board. With them, they brought bass, synthesizers, samplers, autoharp and live percussion/drums to the mix resulting in a fuller band sound.

myspace.com/crayonsmith

myspace.com/hanswurstvegancafe

adress:

Dunckerstrasse 2a (nähe Danzigerstr.)

Berlin, Prenzlauerberg

U2 Eberswalderstr. / M10 Husemannstr.

ALSO Upcoming:

28.11.09 PIROTH (Stockholm/SWE)

19.12.09 NATHALIE STERN (UK/SWE) & GEM ANDREWS (UK)

Thank you so much to all the 300+ people who came to TAMTAMTAM 6 Sci-Fi “Time Travel Gone Wrong” Halloween performance+music party last week.

You were all so beautiful, fun, different, and frightening at the same time – we all had an amazing time travel experience…

Our special thanks go to Sci-Fi Design Team lead by John-Erik Jordan (Eric Green, Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Brandon Johnson, Paul Schoen, Jessica Taylor, Ruby Grosser, Dargelos Kersten, Rachel Higgins, Anton Blume) who created amazing costumes, videos, and space design.
Ben Butler and Mousepad (Bastian + Joe) for their powerful and fantastic performance.
O Tannenbaum DJs for making everyone dancing and having fun longer than we could ever imagine (kind of usual thing). Isabel+Josep for their time travel DJ set.
Kirsty Kross, Dee Mee Tree, Brandon Johnson, Jessica Taylor, Wirag Normale, and Johannes Wengel for the Eternal Return of the Word performance and video.
Diego and the rest of the CUE for joining in and sharing their creative energy.
Eric Green for being time traveler and having his birthday at the same time.
Paul Schoen for interactive video projection.
Sarah Lewis and Lukas for helping us all out.
Alte Kindl Brauerei and Brion for hosting the event and being so cool to work with.
Micha for lending us his PA.
ThisIsLike.Com for support.

UNLIKE for recommending TAMTAMTAM to its readers.

BIER BIER for the bier.
Miguel Lopes, Christian Nilsen and Marc Seestaedt for amazing photos.

And, of course, to all the people who were there wearing their amazing outfits, having great energy, being playful, enjoying each other.

We have more photos on the way, above are just a few of hundreds, most of them made by Miguel Lopes, except for #3 and #4 made by Christian Nilsen. If you like the pictures, feel free to contact us to get the contacts of these great photographers. We’ll be putting more photos and videos online very soon!

Our next TAMTAMTAM is coming in one or two months, so let us know if you want to perform, have ideas, spaces, anything you wish to contribute – info at playberlin dot com

Also, subscribe to our newsletter and join PLAYBerlin Facebook Group to keep in touch!

In this event we will attempt the first ever time travel, but will also make sure it goes wrong. Magic creatures will be born, mishaps and fuckups will be embraced, the Higgs particle will be present there with us sabotaging its own appearance through the constant removal of any points of reference that could be considered “central” or “original” (in the Biblical sense of the word). Science is fiction, and fiction is science. Time travel has never been closer to us. Embrace the monstrous nature of the human beings, come and celebrate your inner self.

For more information, check out our weekly Podcasts, so you can tune in on the subject and be prepared.

TAMTAMTAM 6 ••• Halloween ••• Costume Party

Sci-Fi ••• Time Travel Went Wrong ••• Large Hadron Collider (Mis)Launch

31 October 2009, Saturday @ 9pm
Alte Kindl-Brauerei
Werbellinstr. 50, Neukölln, 12053, Berlin (U: Boddinstrasse, then follow your feelings)
Cover: almost free

We have about 50 costumes to give away at the party or your can bring yours!

Present: O Tannenbaum DJs, Ben Butler & Mousepad, Isabel+Josep DJs, Epic Performance Crew, Johannes+DeeMeeTree (Vogelstrauß)
Space design and performances by: John-Erik Jordan, Brandon Johnson, Eric Green, Kirsty Kross and the rest of TAMTAMTAM crew

This time CUE is joining TAMTAMTAM, meaning the event will be even more exciting and playful than ever!

Click on the comic strip above to see it large.

ahoi J-J-J

TRACKLIST:

bbc radiophonic workshop – exploring the lab (doctor who)
tonto’s expanding head band – judgementor
mahavishnu orchestra – one word
bbc radiophonic workshop – take a closer look
arsenal – folk epic tale
ryuichi sakamoto – tell ‘em to me

STORY (included in the Podcast):

The Time Traveler’s History of the Future

PART II

One such anomaly occurred when I was taking a trip far into the past. The number on my year-counter grew as I went deeper into prehistory. I was somewhen in the vicinity of the Cambrian Explosion, when the machine suffered a sudden jolt, nearly throwing me to the ceiling. Checking the instruments, I noticed that the year counter no longer displayed the year. It didn’t even display numbers. An esoteric pattern of cryptic symbols rolled across the screen. About the same time, I noticed the cabin of the vessel becoming unbearably hot. I was worried that some of the unknowably complex machinery was overheating. I had no choice but to stop.
I knew not the time or place where I brought the machine to rest. Most of the sensors were going haywire, but I was able to discern that the air was breathable and the temperature bearable. With the utmost precaution, I exited the vehicle and inspected the hull. There was no damage that I could see. Maybe letting it cool down would be enough. I decided to give it some time in standby mode and made brief forays into my surroundings, always keeping the machine in sight.
The area was flat, with small bluffs dotting the landscape. The atmosphere was thick and wet, suggesting a coming storm, but there were no clouds. The flora was unusual. No flowers bloomed. Dry twisted branches reached out from short trees that I would have called shrubs if it weren’t for their very thick trunks. I realized what was so strange: I was taller than everything in the landscape. After scouting the machine’s perimeter, I headed south for a half kilometer before hearing noises. Voices? The wind? Cautiously, I crept toward the source of the murmuring.
From a dense tangle of the dwarf-trees on top of a low bluff, I looked down over an open area cleared of brush with a huge bonfire at the center. Between me and the fire, about 50 meters away, I spied what seemed to be animals huddled together. Undeniably so, but something about them was terrifyingly odd. At first sight of them I was struck with a chill up my back. Hairy, scaled, feathered; I couldn’t recognize any one animal, but they possessed the features of all kinds of different fauna. Then I realized what was so strange. Despite their different kinds of hides and heads, they were all shaped like anthropoids. These were creatures from nightmares or myths. I could only describe them as monsters.
My scientific curiosity got the better of my fear and I managed to stay put, using all my willpower not to flee immediately to the ship. The animal people were gathered in some kind of ritual, chanting rhythmically and surrounding the only green thing I had seen in the entire landscape: a frail sapling. Creatures came from the edge of the circle with armloads of kindling to add to the already enormous fire. The higher the flames leaped, the louder and faster the chanting became. It was as hypnotizing at it was terrifying. I was startled out of my trance with the crack of breaking branches. A squat hairy beast was practically on top of me, gathering firewood from the tree under which I hid. I watched, paralyzed with fear, as it’s hideous claw reach for my arm, obviously mistaking it for a branch. The creature’s touch made me instantly recoil, sending the startled beast tumbling back. As I stood to run, it gave the most awful soul-piercing cry my ears have ever heard. The chanting stopped and the entire horde looked up at me. Before I could turn, they were upon me: running on all fours, running upright, slithering. A few of the brush-gatherers must have flanked me, because a small phalanx of creatures blocked my path back to the machine. I doubled back the way I had fled, but cut around the side of the bluff to avoid the brunt of the onslaught. I found myself in the clearing. Maybe I could get a torch from the bonfire and hold them at bay. I could hear their wild braying. It seemed only an arm’s length behind me. I made a b-line for the fire, directly through the site of the ritual. I felt it, and heard the wild exclamation from the horde, before I realized what had happened. In my wild haste, I had trampled the sapling under foot. The cry that rung in my ears was one of mourning, anguish and hatred. I didn’t stop. I didn’t think. I ran for the bonfire and grabbed a firebrand from the edge of the leaping flames.
I swung around, waving the torch in front of me. I expected the mob to run at me like a torrent, but they were huddled around the sapling. Despondent moans and cries emanated from the field around me. The green sapling. In this dry and wretched expanse, it had been something important. I destroyed something these beasts cherished, possibly a key to the future of this world.
The animal men seemed to no longer notice me. My retreat to the machine was unhindered. It waited for me, dormant. It responded to my commands and I was able to return to the continuity with which I was familiar. The year counter showed that I was back in the Cambrian and I continued on my intended voyage. I never found out where or when that strange world had been, or the consequences of my actions.
– - -
Travel in time long enough and you are bound to find other cross-temporal adventurers. Some even became pioneers of a culture based on time travel. I hoped that following these threads could unlock the mystery of my own machine and when it came from.
Early breakthroughs in time travel technology culminated in an era I dubbed the Messenger Age. At that point, no matter – let alone passengers – could travel at rates faster than the present or in a direction other than the future, but a brilliant pioneer did manage to send information back in time. His first messages were aimed roughly toward the Middle Ages. The experimenter was hoping to share helpful knowledge with the era in order to hasten scientific progress and bring The Enlightenment centuries sooner. Although the messages were received, he failed in his intent. Most of the middle-agers who received his transmissions and tried to share the knowledge with the masses were burned at the stake as heretics and witches. A lucky few were just ignored.
The technology improved and messages were sent to more reliable sources in the future. The benefits of this relationship between the Messenger Age and the future age with which they communicated cannot be overstated. The Messengers gained priceless knowledge and the means for improved technology. The future was able to fill many holes in their own anthropological record and strengthen their evolutionary theories with direct access to a prime source. Not just communication, but also commerce became very strong between the different times. It became the first Cross-Temporal Age and offered whole new levels of enlightenment to humankind. Not surprisingly, one area of research to benefit immensely was time travel. The barrier to matter traveling in time was overcome and the two cultures were finally able to meet, emigrate to each others’ times and even interbreed. By the time the early Messenger Age reached the late Messenger Age via normal chronology, the version of the future that the messengers first contacted was a thing of the past. Both ages had coalesced into a homogenized culture that was greater than the sum of their original parts.
It was during this period that I chose to send a message home. I had been gone for millions of years and felt nostalgic. Not only that, but I wanted to arrange a meeting upon my return. I sent a cross-temporal transmission back to 2009 with an invitation for my friends and select luminaries of the era to meet me on the night of October 31, 2009. I could take as long as I wanted to continue to travel so long as I scheduled my return accurately.
– - -
As I mentioned before, even with all the incredible things I witnessed, I still found myself becoming nostalgic for the early Twenty-First Century. For a long time, I lost my desire to travel. I became indolent, spending days at a time in my penthouse overlooking eon-spanning Megatropolis. All I could think about was the barrier that I could never cross, not even in my incredible machine or with the advances of contemporary humanity. Providence may have bestowed upon me an amazing vessel for navigating outside the temporal trap, but I was still only skipping stones on the surface of an impossibly deep ocean. Traveling in time does not conquer it, or free us from the entropy of the universe. It merely remixes continuity.
After my vast cross-temporal journey, I came to realize that I am far from understanding time, let alone escaping from it. No matter how much I traveled – no matter how deep in time I journeyed, no matter the elaborate and elegant new connections I drew across disparate chronologies – I was still limited by another kind of time – my own mortality.
TIME TIME TIME. The Tyranny of Time. In the end, we are still temporal animals, fated to live for a mere 30,000 days. No matter where in history those days occur, entropy catches up with us and we, as individuals, must always come to an end.

The Package is compiled by the 3 J’s (John-Eric “Halloween Mastermind”, Joe “Mr Ben Butler and Mouspad” and Johannes “Hermann the German”)

Comic Strip(by John-Erik)

Podcast (by Joe and Johannes)

Science Fiction Story (which is included in the Podcast – by John Eric

*also as a little update: Ben Butler and Mousepad (Joe and Bastian) confirmed that they will play at the 31st.

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Tracklist of the Podcast pt 1

haruomi hosono – cochin moon
chris & cosey – put yourself in los angeles (intro)
phillip glass – lady day / man parrish – hip hop be bop (don’t stop) pt. II
steve hillage – fourever rainbow (intro)
crash course in science – mechanical breakdown
magma – mekanik kommandoh
black dice – nite creme
cromagnon – fantasy / caledonia
kiem – time doesn’t heal
roger limb – nyssa is hypnotised (bbc radiophonic workshop)

The Time Traveler’s History of the Future

(featured in the Audio Podcast)

[The following account was transcribed from an audio cassette tape discovered by archaeologists digging in Western Australia. Although the surrounding strata was dated as having formed between 500 million and one billion years ago, the tape, embedded in solid rock, could not be accurately dated.]

PART I

… where was I? Ah yes, how to travel in time. The problem is that we’re thinking about the present as a location in time – a place in history. But no, the present is always the present, so it must be something else – yes, YES – the present is a rate of travel in the fourth dimension!
So in a way, we are all time travelers – speeding through our universe at a rate of one second per second …
But I was impatient. I wanted to travel at a rate beyond the present – to visit a future that I would never reach within a normal human lifetime, if traveling at the normal rate. Unfortunately, my early experiments yielded results in the opposite direction. With the aid of a psychotropic solution as the de-chrononization agent, I did manage to travel in time, but on a path inverse to the rate of travel I intended. I became trapped in a three second loop for seven days. It almost drove me mad …
- – -
For the record,  I didn’t make the time machine. If it hadn’t been for The Event, my research would not have progressed. I would have been stuck in the present. I should have been stuck in the present.  It was too improbable to be coincidence. Sure, some people are lucky, but the laws of the universe don’t  bend to accommodate even the luckiest among us. I was studying biological samples that I had brought on my ill-fated time excursion (no discernible effects), when I was temporarily blinded by a white hot flash in the middle of my lab. When I regained my vision, a giant hexagonal jewel hovered inches above the floor. The surface emitted light, but didn’t seem to reflect any. It was a uniform matte silver, barely casting shadows on itself. I found the only break in it’s uniformity, a tiny panel, pressed it and a side of the vessel opened like an aperture. Before I could look inside, two corpses toppled out. They were dressed in some kind of opalescent fabric the likes of which I had never seen. Whoever they had been, they were too badly decomposed for me to discern much. If their suits hadn’t been holding them together, I would have found two piles of bones in the seats. The instruments inside the jewel told me exactly what it was – a time machine. No, how could this be a coincidence? Time machines don’t just appear in the labs of scientists trying to discover time travel! I had a hunch that there was more to this. Someone must have sent it for me …
- – -
I encountered a race of humans a few hundred years further into the future. I ventured into the community from my machine’s clandestine location in the nearby woods. I wouldn’t take any chances with being discovered as an outsider again. This precaution proved futile when I saw the first inhabitants of the time. I noticed two humanoids walking towards me on the otherwise abandoned path. I immediately noticed the translucent bags sitting on (or was it growing from?) their heads. Shaped somewhat irregularly, the bags were filled with some kind of gas, and moved, seemed to breath really, ever so slightly. When they noticed me, the elder one screamed and his younger counterpart fainted. I should have been more discreet. I should have realized that my form would have been just as shocking shocking to what passed for normal in that epoch.
- – -
… they were covered in what looked like a horrible fungus – spreading from their necks to snake down their backs and arms, sometimes sprouting and fanning out. I would have believed that the humans had been conquered by mold if it hadn’t been for their completely serene demeanor and obvious intelligence. Clearly, the human/fungal relationship was symbiotic. As hosts, the humans received ample energy from the parasites, allowing for a boost in brain power not seen since the Cognitive Revolution of 30,000 years before my time. All the problems we called “the human condition” were no longer a part of life. The symbiotic relationship with a lower organism was echoed in their culture and architecture – perfectly integrated into the natural world. Even fashion was affected. Some people trimmed their fungus like topiary, often growing them into magnificent capes. In fact cape length seemed to be a status symbol. The fungus appeared to be, if not the source, then at least a major catalyst in humanity’s astronomical (and peaceful) development.
- – -
I was mightily encouraged to see humans thriving like this and hurried several hundred years deeper into the future, eager to see our humble race, the descendants of curious apes, rise to ever more glorious heights. But what I encountered was a crushing disappointment. The zenith of the Cape Age and its many developments was in ruins. Living furtively among the empty shells of a once great nation were a frightened and filthy people. Living in conditions, and with skills, not much better than our cave-dwelling ancestors. What had happened? I skimmed the interim period from the comfort of my ship. Watching backwards to witness the symbiotic relationship falter. Some virus had affected the fungus, making it sick, it started to die, and with it, all the accumulated knowledge of mankind. The humans had taken their mental enhancements for granted and now were utterly stranded without the aid of  their parasitic benefactors.
- – -
I ventured several thousand years deeper into the future. I had been shaken by my last encounter with people and wanted to put some time between myself and that particular version of humanity. I  felt that the human race could use some time to find their bearings again. I stopped the machine once I spotted a copse of trees sprout up nearby – a good hiding spot. The machine’s scanners didn’t pick up any of the telltale signatures of human habitation – radio waves, heat signatures from dwellings. I got out to investigate and saw nothing. No people, no buildings, not so much as a rusty soda can. Back inside the machine, I toggled back and forth by a decade or so to get a feeling of the surroundings, but it was all the same. A pristine, green and tranquil world. Was the future bereft of human life? Had we finally destroyed ourselves, leaving the healing planet in peace?
My answer came at nightfall. When the red sun set, the night sky came alive, not with the familiar constellations, but with the gleaming traffic of satellite cities, the future of humanity spread in vast nets of light across the night sky. Pointing my machine’s antennas skyward, i was able to pick up a startling cacophony of broadcasts. The human race lived on, quickly filling a previously vacant evolutionary niche – sub-orbital …
- – -
Needless to say, seeing other times is merely tourism and eventually gets boring. After several weeks of traveling (in my timescale) I decided to tinker a little. I chose projects that would not alter the course of history (not too much). I bought three DiscDroid DJ Bots from a retailer in about the year 4500 and took them to 18th Century Vienna, where I enrolled them in the finest music academy. With a real education and some culture, I wanted to see what these glorified appliances could do. I was not disappointed. In fact, I plan to bring them back to my time where they can bestow a new form of music upon the charlatans calling themselves “artists” these days.
- – -
My experiments have had drawbacks. The more I tinkered with time, the more anomalies I discovered. I am now positive that my doings have caused these glitches in time – glitches in time – glitches in time – glitches in time …

TAMTAMTAM is coming back on the 31st of October with the Halloweeeen sci-fi / time travel went wrong theme. We would very much like you, yes, you to be a part of this event as well. So if you feel like contributing something, which could be an object, a performance, a piece of music, a word of encouragement, a word of critique, food, money, organs or anything else – please, do let us know. Otherwise, we’re also still looking for a suitable space, so if you know a venue that could host about 150 people and has several rooms and no annoying neighbors – we need it!

John-Erik who will be in charge of making the space look special has a special request for you guys. Basically, he wants you to give him all your junk so we can build something up for the night. And unused stuff will be part of the huge junk swapshop, where you’ll be able to exchange items, find new love, and so on. Here’s John-Erik’s message:

Need to get rid of stuff? Play Berlin wants it. Why? Because the costumes and decorations for TAMTAMTAM’s Halloween party will be made out of junk. The junk you don’t want anymore. All this unwanted stuff will become the raw materials for our art department to build the dazzling sci-fi world where the party will take place.
So don’t throw it away. Give it to us and it can live a new life as an ancient monster/mad scientist/atomic ray gun/symbiotic cape creature/space-time vortex/telepathic tube array/ time machine control panel/etc.
Think of TAMTAMTAM’s art department as Berlin’s newest city service: Creative Recycling.

Please contact John-Erik if you want him to pick up your unwanted things. Or you can schedule with him to drop them off at a designated Halloween Materials Dropp-Off spot.
John-Erik: johnerikjordan att gmail dottt com
01578 361 5516

LORD AUCH (UK)

-the new Band of Simon McCabe (ex BLACK WIRE)

The Sun and the Wolf

Strange Forces

DJ’s

Gordon Raphael

and for the first time ever!!!

Joe (Ben Butler and Mousepad) and Johannes (Vogelstrauß) DJ Team

about LORD AUCH:

„In other words Lord Auch’s pop journey has started in the darkness occupied by Nick Cave but infused with the pop sensibilites and ambition of Pulp. Not surprising then that Lead singer Simon McCabe and Danny Prescott (drums), are both formerly of Leeds underground mavericks Black Wire – Still in their early twenties, Lord Auch played their first gig at Bardens Boudoir in December 2007 and attracted the attention of the Young and Lost Club, who, that night agreed to release their debut single. Shortly afterwards they joined the sold out Young and Lost Club tour with Noah and the Whale. With influences that range from Tom Waits to Scott Walker to The Birthday Party and with a sharp, exciting and compelling live show Lord Auch are the atypical new band to be aware of… “ (artrocker)

Open from 8pm

Bang Bang Club
Neue Promenade 10
10178 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0) 30 – 604 053 10 
Web: www.bangbangclub.net

Below you will find a short description, a visual map (feel free to contribute!), and a slideshow from the presentation.

“The internet and new technologies have led to a paradigm shift, which transformed the expectations and demands of the audience. We’ll discuss how music can be perceived as a whole experience, as an event, which can be presented beyond traditional means and mediums. We’ll talk about various ways to fuse music, arts, and technology and provide viable business models for independent artists.”

What is like Beyond Music? Click below to find out:

There will be a lot of interesting talks and presentations about various music platforms, initiatives, and strategies for musicians to promote and distribute their music.

We invite you to visit the events hosted by PLAYBerlin within the convention:

Wednesday – 16th of September – 14.15 to 15.45

Music 3.0 – Leveraging The Web’s Potential (workshop @ #camp conference)
Where: Muenze Berlin (U: Klosterstrasse, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin, Germany)
Teaser: http://thisislike.com/music-30/about
“During this workshop we will demonstrate several practical strategies that musicians and artists can use to connect to their audiences and promote their music. We will show how popular social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace, SonicBids, ReverbNation, and Twitter can be used in conjunction with less known internet tools and technologies to build a fan base and create the new channels for promoting and distributing music. “
The workshop will be held by Dmitry Paranyushkin

Watch the workshop online

Thursday – 17th of September – 17.45 to 19.15

Beyond Music: Fusing Art and Technology for the New Economy (discussion @ #camp conference)
Where: Muenze Berlin (U: Klosterstrasse, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin, Germany)

Teaser: http://thisislike.com/beyond-music/about
“The internet and new technologies have led to a paradigm shift, which transformed the expectations and demands of the audience. We’ll discuss how music can be perceived as a whole experience, as an event, which can be presented beyond traditional means and mediums. We’ll talk about various ways to fuse music, arts, and technology and provide viable business models for independent artists.”
Moderated by Dmitry Paranyushkin and Johannes Wengel

Watch the presentation online!

Friday – 18th of September – 10.00 to 18.15

ThisIsLike.Com visualizations will be used to present the most interesting topics from the #camp conference
Where: Radialsystem V (U: Ostbahnhof, Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Friedrichshain, Berlin)
“We will present associative visual maps of the main topics covered at the #camp talks, workshops, and discussions during the previous two days. The audience will be invited to go online and contribute live to the associative maps, helping everyone share and exchange the knowledge.”
Created using ThisIsLike.Com software

Visual representation for trending topics at all2gethernow 2009:

Video version:

This workshop was part of all2gethernow #camp conference that took place on the 16th of September in Muenze Berlin. Here’s a brief description and a slide show that was used during the presentation. We also embedded the visual associations widget from thisislike.com using which you can expand and research the topic even further.

During this workshop we demonstrated several practical strategies that musicians and artists can use to connect to their audiences and promote their music. We will show how popular social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace, SonicBids, ReverbNation, and Twitter can be used in conjunction with less known internet tools and technologies to build a fan base and create the new channels for promoting and distributing music.

The workshop was held by Dmitry Paranyushkin

The new technologies and the internet have changed the way music is made and distributed. Collaborative aspects of Web 2.0 made it possible for the musicians to get direct access to their audience and distribute their music much easier.

With the advent of new web technologies, commonly referred to as Web 3.0, another major shift is expected. Web 3.0 is not only about collaboration, it’s also about recommendation, it’s about more advanced technologies, and new hardware that expands the possibilities of software.

It’s not enough anymore to create CDs or distribute MP3 to make a living. Music is not a commodity anymore, it’s an experience. How can we conceive of music as an experience, as an event, and harness its full potential using Web 3.0 technologies?

What is like Music 3.0? Click below to find out:

This are some Berlin “Snap Shots” of the past 2 months, mainly taken at Playberlin events or related activities…maybe you will find yourself in one of these

check out below:

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Thank you to all the people, performers, and musicians for TAMTAMTAM 5. We had an amazing varied lineup, very interesting people, and great acts. Special thanks goes out to all our friends, who took care of the sound, the door, and the bar: Brandon Johnson, Eric Green, Sarah and Ligia Lewis, Joanna Seitz, Drew Kaiser, Klaus & Johannes, Christoph, Petya, and all the others!

And another round of special thanks to all the musicians, performers, and artists who took part and made TAMTAMTAM happen:

Tapemaster Trash /// http://www.myspace.com/16341255
Ben Butler & Mousepad | http://www.myspace.com/benbutlerandmousepad
Flame Stag & Hot Fruits performance DJs /// http://vimeo.com/5440440

Batalj (SE) /// http://www.myspace.com/batalj
Ze People Og Korh (Berlin) ///
Manbird Dog (Berlin) /// http://vimeo.com/5677146
Brendan Dougherty and Brian Mitchell (Berlin) /// http://www.myspace.com/brendandougherty
GTUK (Berlin) /// http://www.myspace.com/gtuk

Mitsu Salmon & Ryotaro (JP/US) /// http://lightsake.blogspot.com/
Jessica Taylor (DE/US)

Dee Mee Tree /// http://deemeetree.com
Justin Palermo /// http://thisislike.com/justin-palermo

Photos by Dmitry Paranyushkin and Joanna Seitz

Act: Happiness (SWE) & Friends

starts @ 8pm

Details:

Hans Wurst

Dunckerstrasse 2a (nähe Danzigerstr.)

Berlin, Prenzlauerberg

U2 Eberswalderstr. / M10 Husemannstr.

Every Wednesday @ Maria Club, starting from 8pm. See Google Map here.

More info: http://dieremise.blogspot.com

Join our next TAMTAMTAM 5 Music+Performance Party, on Saturday the 15th of August, at RAUM 18.

The symbol of the night is The Incredible Tree-Climbing Goat (see the flyer) and we genuinely predict that some time through the night things will happen that will make The Incredible Tree-Climbing Goat pale in comparison.

As usual, we have a unique mixture of musical styles and alcoholic beverages, famous artists and introvert geniuses, live performances and visual stimulation, super-interesting people and weirdos who are fun to be with. Several unexpected surprises are also to be revealed throughout the night.

Bring yourselves and your friends and let’s all meet again and have fun together.

TAMTAMTAM 5 LINE UP:

DJs:
Tapemaster Trash /// (preview)
Ben Butler & Mousepad | (preview)
Flame Stag & Hot Fruits performance DJs /// (preview)

Live music:
Batalj (SE) /// (preview)
Ze People Og Korh (DE) ///
Manbird Dog (DE/USA) /// (preview)
Brendan Dougherty and Brian Mitchell /// (preview)
GTUK (DE) /// (preview)

Performances:
Mitsu Salmon & Ryotaro (JP/US) /// (preview)
Jessica Taylor (DE/US)
The Fruit Boy/Girl

Video:
Justin Palermo /// (PREVIEW
Dee Mee Tree /// (preview)

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Entrance: 5 EUR
Very cheap bar
Doors open on Saturday, 15th of August, at 9pm
Performances start at 10pm
Doors close on Sunday, 16th of August, at 5am

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RAUM 18 is located on Ziegrastraße 11 12057 Berlin (Neukoelln), just next to S-BAHN Sonnenallee and Hotel Estrel.
View Google Map

NOTE: If you want to take a taxi or a bike ride to RAUM 18, you can use our new CLUB MITFAHRGELEGENHEIT feature.
Just post your ad and find people to share with.

What is CUE? On the surface, it’s kind of an open improv night where people come and play together. But on a deeper level it offers much more. While most events do everything possible to be “successful”, CUE leaves it to the audience to make something out of it. That means that it leaves a space for failure, weirdness, fun, boredom, party, creativity – and anything else the people bring in. That’s why they sometimes call it “anti-event”, a kind of accidental meeting with no expectations and no commitments, a sort of arrangement to pass by at a certain time in a certain place and see what happens.

So…

CUE ON THE BRIDGE, FRIDAY 7th AUGUST 8 PM:

next to the Paul Löbe Haus, 1 min from Reichstag, between Sbahn Hauptbahnof and Friedrichstr.

Check out the map – click here

More info:
http://www.cueberlin.blogspot.com
http://www.cue-ifyouneed.org

NEW! CHECK OUT THESE PHOTOS FROM THE LAST CUE IN BERLIN

 

Tuesday August 4th @ 21:00 Basso FREE ENTRANCE

Jeremy Wade + Brendan Dougherty – Improvisation

Eike Wittrock – Lecture, On Canine Love and Swans

Eva Maria Bakardjiev – Performance, Ambiguous Pattern

Tomi Paasonen – Performance, Work in Progress excerpts from .. WOW ¥€$
Staged & Choreographed by Tomi Paasonen
With Simo Kellokumpu, Justin Kennedy and Helga Wretman

We propose that performing otherness is a threshold towards repositioning our habitual understanding of queer ideals. Creature Feature will work to create an intimate space for performing dispossession, rapture, monstrosity, flamboyance, glitter, hysteria and general ecstatic irrationality. Or la la la… its opposites!

Curated by Jeremy Wade

Directions – BASSO – 187 Kopenicker Str. enter through courtyard
Metro – Schlesisches Tor

Photo by yuves@FlickR
Tracklist:

The Residents – Swastika On Parade
Jawoll – Taxi
Duran Duran – Girls On Films
Lizzy Mercier Descioux – Fire
Scott Walker – Jackie
ImpLOG – Breakfast
Belle Epoque – Miss Broadway
Devo – (I can’t get no) Satisfaction
James Chance – Bedroom Athlete
Mika Miko – Capricornations
Disconcerts – Window Shopper
Blurt – Puppeteer
Chrome Hoof – Mad Air Punch pt 2
Fire Engines – Facs =-= Groobbbee
Ohne Untertitel – Keine Zeit
Sprung aus den Wolken – Bevor Sie Dich Töten
Abe Vigoda – World Heart
Palais Schaumburg – Morgen wird der Wald gefegt
Joachim Witt – Tri Tra Trullala
Martin Rev – Secret Teardrop

FRESH OUT OF THEIR RESIDENCY AT NEW MUSEUM NYC, THEY’VE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU AT MARTINSKI FINE ARTS THIS WEEKEND IN BERLIN!

Come to the opening

Starts today 8pm sharp

Ends tomorrow 8pm sharp

LEWIS FOREVER
George Jr., Ligia Manuela, Isabel, and Sarah
lewisforever.com

and

Joanna Seitz

Blaine from Mystery Jets wrote on his blog : “[...] And so it was. With no bottomless budget to speak of, our old ex-church of england R-registration Transit rammed with amps and synths, and a small crew of two (our manager’s masterful assistant Chris behind the wheel, and Henry on filming and hype man duties), we rolled into town, and set up shop at the newly opened Michelberger hotel on Warshauer strasse. Opened early especially for our visit, the Michelberger became the ultimate party crash pad for our stay, and with only six guests in the whole place (us), I have to say we could have got away with murder. In fact we kind of did [...]” Read more on http://behindthebunhouse.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, July 8th: Berlin Hilton at NBI Thursday, July 9th: TAMTAMTAM4 at Atelier Frank Zucht Saturday, July 11th: Berlin Festival Warmup at Hotel Michelberger Monday, July 13th: at White Trash Restaurant

Thank you so much to everybody who came yesterday to TAMTAMTAM 4 and all the fantastic performers and musicians. We had an amazing line-up and all the people were very generous and so great to be with.

The next TAMTAMTAM will be on the 15th of August and it’s going to be even more exciting: we’ve already got a few nice surprises for you guys…

We’ll also do a more chilled informal film showing one of these days, so if you’d like to be informed about that, make sure to subscribe to PLAYBerlin newsletter.

This is like TAMTAMTAM 4

We are proud to present enigmatic London based outfit THE CRYSTAL WOLF FIGHTERS as they glance at the city to perform three very special gigs during this week, starting already tomorrow:

Wednesday, July 8 | BERLIN HILTON at NBI, Schönhauser Allee 36.
Thursday, July 9 | TAMTAMTAM4 at Atelier Frank Zucht/Kunstfabrik 2nd Floor, Am Flutgraben 3.
Saturday, July 11 | BERLIN FESTIVAL WARMUP at Hotel Michelberger, Warschauer Straße 39/40.

Live Music by:
The Crystal Wolf Fighters (London) Special Surprise Concert
Basketball (Vancouver) Electronic Set – Preview
Jailhouse Fuck (Sweden/Berlin) [canceled]
Theo & Claire (jazzy Nina Simone Cover)

Performance by:
Isabel Lewis (Lewis Forever) – Preview

DJs:
O Tannenbaum Djs – Preview
Flame Stag

Installation / Video:
Dee Mee Tree – Preview

We’ll run a cheap bar. The entrance will be 2 euro (membership fee).

The night starts at 9pm sharp. First acts from 10pm even sharper, so
come early.

Come to:
Atelier Frank Zucht
Kunstfabrik 2nd Floor
Am Flutgraben 3
Kreuzberg (U-Bahn Schlesisches Tor – next door to Arena Badeschiff)

To get in you have to call / text the number
+49 15 777 8650 77 when at the door.

And also…

Next door at Badeschiff there’ll be a nice beach party the same night, which you can also attend – so take your swimming wear!

Don’t miss them at TAMTAMTAM 5 on the 15th of August at WIR Gallery. DJ Flame Stag will also do his own set next week at TAMTAMTAM 4, which will happen at a secret location on Thursday or Friday (we’ll announce it later here).

Filmed on Tuesday, June 30 at West Germany.

shot on Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

http://www.myspace.com/basketballanimal
http://www.myspace.com/jailhousefuck

in remembrance:

Performances by:
Dee Mee Tree (preview)
Legs Akimbo (Team Plastique)

Music by:
Grischa Lichtenberger with Fichte (preview)
Special Rider (preview)

Visuals by:
Short Circuit Observation Unit
New music video from Vogelstrauß

Merchandize & jewelry from Vogelstrauß

We’ll also have a bar running and a surprise film showing.

Come to:
Atelier Frank Zucht
Kunstfabrik 2nd Floor
Am Flutgraben 3
Kreuzberg (U-Bahn Schlesisches Tor)

To get in you have to call / text the number
+49 15 777 8650 77 when at the door.

Jemek Jemowit (live)
Labrador (live)
+ Special Guest Band
Dennis Rodman (DJ)
Jailhouse Fuck (DJ)

check: http://www.myspace.com/reallyfatkids

O Tannenbaum presents:

*Night of the Clowns*

Dress-code: Clown Dress up as a clown and don’t pay any entree!
There will be make -up at the party too.

COME EARLY! starts at 20.00!

Live: Chris Imler
Performance: Das Glas Institut
Lecture: Sander Kalverda

dj Das Gezicht (Classic Rock)
dj Added Touch (Baltimore Club)
dj Numuw (Cumbia)
dj Lady Jerry Moumoune (Kuduro&Outsider)
and the O Tannenbaum DJs (Thriller)

+ all night open air film programme. Doc. on Derrida and much more.

+ BBQ
bring something to grill!

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Performances:
Eric Green, Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Ligia Manuela Lewis
Video: Justin Palermo, Alex Forge
DJs: Flame Stag, Knotty Drew, JW Enterprises
Where: Theaterkapelle, Boxhagenerstr 99, Friedrichshain, Berlin
Entrance: €5 (€3.50 with a flyer) – limited entry, come early

TAM TAM TAM

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