Concert | Sonic Arts Lounge / North & Berlin
Not many man-made things are powerful enough to trigger a disturbance in the Earth's geology on the scale of an earthquake. Only a nuclear explosion is powerful enough to be recorded by seismographs around the world. Differences in pressure conditions in the ground, maintained over a period of time, create waves (sound) that are transmitted within the earth.
You could say that the musical concept of Namba Wan Jesas Man is based on precisely this process. Sound needs a body to transport it. In this case, it will be the ‘body’ of the Hamburg railway station that provides the resonance.
Namba Wan Jesas Man emerged from one of the many collaborations of the experimental-artistic forum, which is based in a former factory site in Stockholm (Kolsyrefabriken). Their goals are a holistic breadth of sound and the utilisation of the omnipotent possibilities of music. The question is, how high will they climb on the Richter scale?
Namba Wan Jesas Man
Johan Zetterquist – guitar
Johan Skugge – computer
Henrik Andersson – bass, oscillator
Egill Sæbjörnsson – vocals, guitar, video
A co-operation of Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof and MaerzMusik I Berliner Festspiele