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´lang gekracht - live tempera

by Heesch/Schneider/Zoepf

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Marcus Heesch - eggtempera
Hans Schneider - baritone guitar
Joachim Zoepf - baritone saxophone

music to look at,
painting to listen to
freely improvised music meets spontanous painting in realtime.
The audience is able to witness an adventure, challenged together by musicians instrumentally and the paiter preparing pigments - without sketch, concept or plan.
So far it is not a performance but genuine work in progress. Usually the acoustic and the visual results are depending on the actual venue and audience - in all cases, acollective artwork arises, unique and never to be done again.


You can't make a painting without breaking eggs!
John Bisset, 1997
In the mid-sixties John Cage suggested that all experimental musicians should relate their work to the visual artists of the 20th Century. This was at a time when Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz had been released about six years previously - a record whose cover featured Jackson Pollock's painting White Light from 1954 - like a manifesto.

Since then quite a lot has happened. Improvisation in its 'liberated' forms developed an independant and widespread music scene, coming now to its fifth generation. It seems this scene has the strength of innovation which John Cage expected to be in visual arts during his decade. And like no other, it offers the freedom, materials and spiritual horizons most suited to uniting the different arts.

I have had the honour to take part in interdisciplinary moments of such context. It is anarchy that works - with proper results, given the prerequisites of tolerance, respect and prudence. 'lang gekracht is a document of Utopia - as painting as music. Created in realtime, while rooted in a common inspiration, both results carry the strenght to stand on their own.

The qualities in my painting reflect those of the musicians - in other words: Hans Schneider and Joachim Zoepf obvisiously took part in painting. Looking far over the edges of canvas and CD I can recognize a vital artwork of remarkable visual and acoustic character.

Just like someone from a London audience noticed: It's live-tempered, isn't it?

Marcus Heesch
Berlin, in March 2003

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released February 26, 2006

Playing time: 19:32 minutes Edition: 100


Free improvisation, recorded live and interdisciplinary on April 26, 2002 in the WERFT, Cologne

Sound recording and production : Joachim Zoepf Cover design and production : Marcus Heesch

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