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THEATERKAPELLE

Johannes — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:28:29 +0000

ABOUT

What has been a former cemetery chapel became now a very interesting music, performance and theater space in the heart of the Berlin area of Friedrichshain. Next to the highly cultural program the space still hosts a few more sacred events. And their souls are still dancing.

The venue has a nice cosy basement which fits about 100 people and which is possible to rent.

TAMTAMTAM #12 Tanztage

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:57:40 +0000

TAMTAMTAM is a moving party event, which creates possibilities for random encounters. It blends curated content with improvisation, analogue with digital, meaning with nonsense. We invite musicians, performers, the audience and let them create an event that would provide inspiration and entertainment for everyone involved.

Some photos from previous TAMTAMTAM events.
O Tannenbaum

TAMTAMTAM #5

Johannes — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:45:56 +0000

FEATURED

Batalj (SE)

(Music / Live)

Ze People Og Korh

(Music / Live)

Manbird Dog

(Music / Live)

Brendan Dougherty and Brian Mitchell

(Music / Live)

GTUK

(Music / Live)

Mitsu Salmon & Ryotaro

(Performance)

Jessica Taylor

(Performance)

Justin Palermo

(Video)

Dee Mee Tree

(Video)

Tapemaster Trash

(DJ)

Ben Butler and Mousepad

(DJ-Set)

Flame Stag & Hot Fruits

(Performance DJs)

FLYER / POSTER

VIDEO

by 00ifeltthat
Brendan Dougherty & Brian Mitchell TAMTAMTAM 5

FOTO

by Johannes Wengel /
Stefan Mark Färber and Dmitry Paranyushkin

TAMTAMTAM #4

Johannes — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:17:57 +0000

FEATURED

Crystal Wolf Fighters aka Mystery Jets (UK)

(Music / Live)

Basketball (US)

(Music / Live)

Company Fuck

(Noise / Pop / Live)

Manbird Dog

(Performance / Live)

Theo & Claire

(Music / Live)

Isabell Lewis

(Performance)

O Tannenbaum

(DJ)

Flame Stag

(DJ)

FLYER / POSTER

VIDEO

filmed by
Johannes Wengel

edited by
Stefan Mark Färber
Crystal Wolf Fighters aka Mystery Jets Basketball Manbird Dog at TamTamTam 4 Theo & Claire at TamTamTam4 Company Fuck at TamTamTam4 O Tannenbaum Djs at TamTamTam4

FOTO

by Stefan Mark Färber

NAT MUNARI

Johannes — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:19:48 +0000

About

Nat Munari aka Nathaniel Fowler is an audio/video artist in Berlin. He hails from Baltimore and plays in the synthesized monster named Unlimited Heroine and the band called Oxes. He is currently editing a feature documentary, shooting music videos, and collaborating with other peeps.He has been a collaborator on various TamTamTam and PLAYberlin events, capturing the keymoments of occurences.

About his current work

“Instead of approaching the “remix” as a danceable reinterpretation of an original track, I work with the connexion that a popular image has with its audio, as if they are one inseperable entity apart from the pop song product. Music Videos have become the status-quo format for discovering and consuming pop music. In a sense, music has become inseperable from the image, forming a symbiosis. No longer are songs made and preserved by their pure musical content. Particularly with commercial pop hits, the association of the moving image with the original audio creates the “success” and dictates its longevity. No longer are hits made and preserved by their pure musical content.

I dissect this correlation into small pieces (like a samplist would use pieces of a song) and create a new audio/video work by using the music video, not the music, as the source. All video that appears is accompanied by its original audio, and thusly all audio is accompanied by its original video.

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These new works play with the tension of rhythm based music versus how rhythm is portrayed in music videos; the video cuts are determined by fractions of beats within the music. This does not always coincide with a natural cut in the video. By searching for the moments in which new connexions can be made, moments of the collision between the rhythmic cut and the image cut, I develop a new story using the results.”Nat Munari Lady Gaga excerpt Nat Munari excerpt 2 Nat Munari lady gaga bad romance video excerpt
Nat Munari Video excerpt 2

Music Videos

The story behind the unfinished music Video for Gang Gang Dance

Mr Munari / Fowler:
“Funny what a year does to technology. I spent 4 days on preliminary work, keying and modelling, before preparing to dive into a month of handcrafting a quartz composer scene that would intentionally put errors into the compressed video I was working with. The band decided they didnt want a video so I stopped after 4 days. 6 months later Kanye West comes out with Welcome to Heartbreak, making any original idea I had redundant. 4 months later, somebody’s made a QC plugin and my month’s work is done in literally 5 minutes. Thanks to the “datamoshing” trend and the video artist bangnoise, I can lazily say “yeah, this is what i meant to do. see? Thanks for not trusting in my vision.”

The video excerpt also features our dear friends and collaborators Drew Kaiser and Ligia Manuela Lewis
Nat munari gang gang dance Yadnus music video nat munari
nat munari music video thank you birth reunion

TAMTAMTAM Chapter 4: Open Call

deemeetree — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:30:32 +0000

For the 4th edition of our residency at Direktorenhaus we decided to go virtual. While the rest of the city is going through Art Forum we thought it would be interesting to have our own forum related to arts.

The idea is that on the 9th of October we invite everyone who is willing to participate in one giant work-sharing session. Before Saturday afternoon you can send us something from your practice that you would like to showcase: text, video, images, yourself – or all of that at once.

If your contribution makes it through the bayesian filter, it will be featured in the new TAMTAMTAM 12 online issue on PLAYBerlin.Com

We will also ask you to attend our live work-sharing salon session on the 9th of October at an yet undisclosed location.

It’s a great way to put together something you’re busy with at the moment, showcase your work, and meet like-minded individuals both virtually and actually. It’s also a possibility to do something together in the future TAMTAMTAM events.

If you’re interested, please, send your submissions to info [[at]] playberlin [[dot]] com before the 9th of October.

TAMTAMTAM Chapter 3: “By With and Of” Afterparty

deemeetree — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:36:39 +0000

Direktorenhaus Opening

On September 23rd Direktorenhaus starts peeling back layers starting quite literally as the second floor of the house is presented for the first time.

In the exhibition, Peter Nencini and Elisa Strozyk explore the textures of the house itself exploring the mid-peel status of the 1930s of building and its DDR legacy. While Daniel Becker creates a beautiful site specific light installation.

Roman Bittner’s intricate Wallpapers will be shown as will Maike Dahl’s modern living silverware.

http://www.direktorenhaus.com/

http://www.illustrative.de/

Afterparty by TAMTAMTAM and PLAYBerlin.Com Launch

DJs:
Kandis Williams
SWADANSI

Pertransformation:
Eric Green (read) + TAMTAMTAM Collective (see)

Live:
Miss Hawaii (learn)

PLAYBerlin.Com Launch!
Miss Hawaii
Kandis Williams
SWADANSI

TAMTAMTAM // Chapter 2: Werkstatt

deemeetree — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:52:31 +0000

Donald Wysoski built his 127th machine that managed to get a marble ball into a hat following a complex route of random associations, physical laws, magical manipulations and divine powers (watch the video on the right).

Matthew Appleby built an amazing “Weather Machine” that produced wind, water, plants and the nature itself

Team Plastique performed a mini experimental show and recreated an amazing tropical landscape in Direktorenhaus’ corridor.

Dmitry Paranyushkin invited people to join him in making “Life Skills” videos where people share their most essential knowledge in a very comprehensive, yet concise way.

Eric Green, Jessica Taylor and Diego Agullo led a dance class in the hallway featuring some of the best Michael Jackson’s moves.

Andreas Stolber did a permanent concert inviting people to take part in his circuit-bending game.

DJs SWADANSI and Kandis Williams played the finest tunes and kept people dancing forever.

We also presented the new PLAYBerlin website and nice Spanish food was served by our friends for the guests.
Team Plastique
Donald Performance
Matthew Appleby machine
Kandis Williams
Dance Workshop
Andreas Stoiber
Life Skill with Fruzsi Jesse

TAMTAMTAM // Chapter 1: How to Reside

deemeetree — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:06:17 +0000

On the 10th of September TAMTAMTAM Collective had an opening of our 2-month residency at Direktorenhaus. Eight different ways to reside and eight different ways of having ideas. Interview room, Hands on room, Hypnogogic room, Solidifying waves of occurrence room, CUE room, and many other spatially distributed propositions and tasks to be randomly performed by random guests. The five future events will intensify the ideas and images that came up during the evening and you are invited to visit us in Direktorenhaus next week and join in the creation.
Here’s some snapshots of situations, images, and objects that everyone produced during the evening.

Find more images on the event’s page.
How to Reside

TAMTAMTAM Presents: Chapter 1

deemeetree — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:57:37 +0000

TAMTAMTAM Residency at Direktorenhaus

We would like to invite you to join TAMTAMTAM for our residency at Direktorenhaus in Berlin. For two months we will be experimenting in playing, interacting, making things, disrupting the interfaces, learning, cheating, partying, dancing, solidifying waves of occurence, being surrounded by quick crystals, sleeping, and eating together.

At the first event, on Friday, 10th of September, we occupied 8 rooms with 8 ways of having an idea. We all received tasks and spatially distributed proposals to give some initial friction necessary to start the movement. Together with our guests we generated ideas about how to reside in Direktorenhaus during the next two months.

See more images and videos in How to Reside post.

Your guides for the evening:

Johannes Wengel

John Erik Jordan

Jessica Taylor

Eric Green

Diego Agullo

Dmitry Paranyushkin

Marija Ivosevic

Clement Layes

Sarah Lewis

Ligia Lewis

How to Reside / TAMTAMTAM

JOHANNES WENGEL

deemeetree — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:42:30 +0000

Johannes Wengel is the co-founder of PLAYBerlin, TAMTAMTAM Collective and ThisIsLike.Com. He lives and works in a lot of ways. Under the name SWADANSI he is the resident of TAMTAMTAM and O Tannenbaum nights.

DMITRY PARANYUSHKIN

deemeetree — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:04:41 +0000

Dmitry Paranyushkin researches networks, human beings, dysfunctional interfaces, non-equilibrium states, and having more than two choices but less than four. He is also the co-founder of PLAYBerlin and TAMTAMTAM collective and the founder of ThisIsLike.Com.

TAMTAMTAM #9

deemeetree — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:44:37 +0000

Location: Lupita, Skalitzer Str 135a, Berlin
Live: Namosh, O Tannenbaum DJs
Date: 23 March 2010
TAMTAMTAM at Lupita