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SOUNDSEEING – the Münsterland-wide sound art festival stands for top-class sound art at extraordinary locations. Voilá: Experimental, varied and very lively, we show here excerpts from the live recording of the improvisation concert with the trio Jaap Blonk, voice and electronics | Steffen Roth, drums | Stephan Froleyks, percussion, tuba, new instruments | from the former spinning mill in the LWL Museum Textilwerk Bocholt.

Jaap Blonk is a true vocal wonder. He sounds outrageous and cheeky, sometimes like one instrument, sometimes like many instruments. But most of the time he sounds like neither, is as noisy as the traffic or as shrill as a siren or the squeak of a door. And because all that is not enough for him, he sends his voice into the nirvana of electronics, where he modifies and multiplies it, boils it down or screws it up. An impressive presence and intensity, which is once again whipped up by the two studied drummers Stephan Froleyks and Steffen Roth with the energies of extremely free rhythms and countered with magical sounds of exquisite and partly self-made instruments. Is that jazz? If so, then of the very free variety. Is it avant-garde? It can be, but it doesn’t have to be. The trio Blonk / Froleyks / Roth loves to surprise themselves and as a listener you should never be too sure.

Sounds: © Trio Blonk / Froleyks / Roth
Camera: Sabine Herke
Composing: herkewerke

SOUNDSEEING – the Münsterland-wide sound art festival 2023 presents from 17.06. – 20.08. the sound installations of Emeka Ogboh at the DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst | Hörstel

The internationally renowned sound artist Emeka Ogboh, who lives and works in Berlin and Lagos, engages intensively with places and social phenomena to explore how private, public and collective memories and histories are translated, transformed, and encoded into different sensory experiences. In »Chi dị Ebere [God is merciful]«, Emeka Ogboh combines Igbo vocal and musical traditions from the Igbo people of Nigeria with electronic compositions. The starting point is the exploration of making music as a coping mechanism for grief and loss.
In the interview with SOUNDSEEING curator Stephan Froleyks and Sara Dietrich, artistic director of DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Emeka Ogboh sheds light on the background of his sound art project and gives a very personal insight into the process of creation. Of course, there are also audiovisual impressions directly from the exhibition – as inspiration for a visit or to listen to the various sounds at home.

Musical arrangements:
Jude Nwankwo & Uchechukwu Agbamegbue

Vocals:
QueenMary Mbias Okoro (Soprano)
Uchechukwu E. Agbamegbue (Soprano)
Tochukwu Favour Ezeoka (Alto)
Ndubuisi Sunday Azubuike (Tenor)
Godwin Odera Obodoeke (Bass)

Camera: Sabine Herke | Bernhard Kils
Composing: herkewerke

+ DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst

Cut & composing: herkewerke | Münster

SOUNDSEEING 2023 – das münsterlandweite Klangkunstfestival was supported by:
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW | Kunststiftung NRW | Gelsenwasser-Stiftung | Kulturregion Münsterland
Cultural and media partners: WDR 3 and kultur.west

Carrier: Landesmusikakademie NRW