Dedicated to Dean Roberts
Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Valerio Tricoli, Margareth Kammerer and Emanuele & Elisabetta Porcinai
Fri Oct 10 | Doors 20:00 | Start 20:30
KM28, Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin
Is there a right way to remember someone? Probably not. Like the filming of a written story, it will necessarily betray the collection of images, sounds, impressions, projections that we created for ourselves. After Dean Roberts’ passing, many of us felt the need to come together in his absence, to commemorate him as a friend and as an artist. Music and a little irony felt—if not the only right way to do so—one that felt natural to us.
Inspired by his seminal 1998 record All Cracked Medias, we thought of coming together as the "cracked" pieces of an imaginary band, taking on an equally scattered and performance-based approach to music-making. The open-endedness, the loose form, the glitches, the unpredictable cracks in the seemingly uninterrupted surface of sound, the space and the moment as part of the piece, the stratification of sound. There is something extremely powerful about something, or someone, that could fall to pieces at any moment, yet doesn’t. The tension, the energy, and the beauty that reside in the very unpredictability of the unsettled parts of a whole.
On this evening, we, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Valerio Tricoli, Margareth Kammerer, Emanuele and Elisabetta Porcinai, will be performing a continuous piece for percussions, guitars, voice and tape, in which nothing has its given place but somehow does ultimately fall into place. We’ll be drawing from Dean’s repertoire in our many different but equally personal ways, in the hope of creating a space for joyful remembrance.
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