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Steffi Weismann & Annette Krebs

Steffi Weismann and Annette Krebs collaborate since 2004. They developed audio- visual performances for sound- objects, speakers, text, live- video, performers, field recordings a.o.. During the years, they developed their own characteristic aesthetics. Theme, musical and visual materials are processed in a abstract, partially absurd- surrealistic way. Sound and image are treated equally, decorative backgrounds are deliberately avoided.

Actual:

Developement of a new piece for 5 speakers (Annette Krebs) and LapStrap performance(Steffi Weismann),during a residency in Brussels, Q-O2 Werkplaat from 25.1.- 3.2.2011. Presentation of first results during a post-residency-showing on 2.2., Q-O2.

Repertoire:

Le vol

audio- visual concert performance in 3 parts:

Le vol I

Annette Krebs - e- guitar, mixing desk, sampling, sound objects
Steffi Weismann - live-video (max-msp/ jitter), video projection via big- screen (single channel)

The video recordings show the two artists moving through a large department store, occasionally stuffing objects in their bags. These shoplifting scenes are processed in loop sequences, distorted or dissolved by Steffi Weismann and varied in tempo. Annette Krebs works with a set up of different sound sources, combining an electric guitar with preparations and pick ups, a mixing desk and noise samples from outdoor recordings. The jointly developed composition has developed from a fixed form to an open musical-visual dialogue.

Le vol II

Annette Krebs - sound objects, 4+1 speakers, e- guitar, mixing desk, sampling, performance
Steffi Weismann - dictaphone, voice, sound objects, flash, performance

Comic- aesthetics inspired, neo- Dadaist reminding sound performance with various objects and speakers using text fragments in french, japanese, english, german and polish and quoting a short scene of "les enfants terribles" by Jean Cocteau.

Le vol III

Annette Krebs - composition for 2 speakers, performance
Steffi Weismann - text projektion (2-chanal), performance

In the third part of the le-vol-trilogy Annette Krebs and Steffi Weismann illuminate the issue of property and the problem area of copyright/copyleft. The piece is based on interviews in german, english and french. One time the voices are filtered, and another their simultaneous deployment leads to abstraction. The letters, too, dissolve at times into flowing structures. The white script not only wanders across the broad surface of the room’s back wall, but also deliberately touches the bodies of the two performers.

Performances, a.o.:

2005 Iftaf and Ammanstudios, Vienna; Labor Sonor, Berlin; ElektroPopKlub- Festival Bytom, Poland
2006 Lem- Festival, Barcelona
2007 medien/kunst/labor tesla, Berlin

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