Sunday 2 and 9 December 2012, 2 - 9pm:
anécdotas de barcos fluctuantes
(2012, Premiere)
Video and radio play (even cinema for the ear)by Ulrich Ludat
Moving pictures, lively sounds and a poem meet.
Ulrich Ludat on 'anécdotas de barcos fluctuantes' [12'46'']:
A hot Sunday afternoon in Tigre (Argentina). Tirelessly shovels and roars a dredger, spends rubble on two—thereby fluctuating—ships, boats incessantly rush past, dogs are aimlessly wandering around... a bizarre scene, acoustically as visually, in which parallel worlds meet. - Later moving images and sounds, in particular sounds, encounter a poem of the Chilean Paulina Contreras. - Is it possible, with the soundscape and the memories of the images in mind (so to speak, such as with closed eyes), to interact with the poem adequately? - Anecdotes of fluctuating ships...
The video was taken during a residence at the Proyecto ace in Buenos Aires (proyectoace.org). The artistic work was made possible by the support of Monika A. Haberer, Brigitte Ludat, Valérie Quilez and the Saarland-Sporttoto GmbH (Saarland-Sports-Toto Ltd.).
Special Booklet limited edition, handmade, available ohrenhoch: Interview with Ulrich Ludat (in German), biography, description of the work 'anécdotas de barcos fluctuantes'. Making, illustration, interview: Knut Remond.
Ulrich Ludat was born in 1959 in Öhringen, Germany. Currently, he lives and works as independent artist in Saarbrücken, Germany.He studied Romance Philology, Philosophy and Musicology in Germany and Italy and Music at the Saarbrücken State Conservatory (Diploma, 1990).
From 1990 until 1999 he was teaching instrumental music at several public and private music schools. At the same time, from 1990-2006, he was active as performer and instrumentalist with the'ensemble for astonishing music [archae.o.pteryx]', specialized in contemporary music (theatre) and performances.
From 2003, Ulrich Ludat was intensifying his artistic work as composer of pieces using selfinvented and constructed 'instruments', adding performance elements, multi-channel audioplayback,video, and even film. To realize the multimedia part of some compositions he worked atas important institutions like the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Since 2008 he is realizing large projects, accompanied and/or 'disturbed' by smaller ones.