For the Festival NACHTUNDNEBEL 2013 the ohrenhoch-Kids from 8 to 11 years old present "ACTIVE FOG", a video installation composed of various short video clips.
"ACTIVE FOG" 2013
a space video installation of the special kind
by the ohrenhoch-Kids: Chiara, Elias, Tarek und Yuri
(Fixed Media, loop video duration 25:07 min.)
Direction: Knut Remond
Saturday 2 November 2013, 6pm - 11pm
(at the Neukoelln festival NachtundNebel)
and on the ohrenhoch Sundays
3 and 10 November 2013, 2pm - 9pm
on 10 November also live on ohrenhoch.tv
ACTIVE FOG is made from individual video clips by the ohrenhoch-Kids, composed to a mixture of sounds, images and colors.
The complexity of the creativeness:
The individual video clips were made with an iPad. The individual video creations were made from August to October 2013. The device was used as a camera, microphone, for the videomix or VJ, and for sound compositions. The ohrenhoch-Kids didn't just use their own video or sound recordings, but they also exchanged the video material between each other and processed it. Thus a quasi individual but also collective composition was developed. ?In the single video clips you also see some part of the electronic instruments they work with, on an analogue basis as e.b. mixing desk, analogue synthesizer, turntable, sampler, small amplifiers and microphone.
Mass media
It is exciting that there is a basic need to explore the different media such as video and sounds, with diverse contents and aesthetic and technical possibilities, e.g. in real time, and to experiment with a vision of an individual and co-determined process. The focussing or enlightenment that we are not an other-directed creature being eaten up with relish by the electronic media, the mass machine growing and brought to perfection at a tearing pace.
Hearing means seeing, seeing means hearing.
'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' is a sound gallery, a platform for the acoustic and the electro-acoustic music, respectively, and for sound installations. From the conviction that hearing has a direct correlation with seeing, and vice versa, at ohrenhoch processes are activated for a more complex dealing with our senses.
Computer, tablets, smartphone etc.
It is also very important that - with our every day machine, the computer, affecting us in all situations in life and setting many things through industry - the children take a sense and finally an understanding that the computer is not only a stupid table and marketing machine, but that we can handle this thing in a creative, witty and interesting way, and that we can subvert also the mass product, its logics and unhuman ends.
Spendenkübel für die Fortführung von Projekten und die nötige Infrastruktur für die ohrenhoch-Kids
Die Schule bzw. das Laboratorium für elektroakustische Musik und Klanginstallation für Kinder und Jugendliche ist ein unabhängiges und auf Freiwilligkeit basierendes Projekt, bei dem jedes Kind zwischen 5 und 14 Jahren mitmachen kann: Die Gruppe 'ohrenhoch-Kids Youngsters' sind die 5- bis 7-jährigen, die 'ohrenhoch-Kids' 7- bis 14-jährig. Beide Gruppen treffen sich ein- bis zweimal in der Woche im ohrenhoch.
Spenden für die Präsentation "Active Fog" werden für die Durchführung von weiteren ohrenhoch-Kids-Projekten eingesetzt. Die ohrenhoch-Kids und das ohrenhoch-Team bedanken sich im Voraus für Ihre Unterstützung :-)
ohrenhoch-Kids bei NACHTUNDNEBEL seit 2008
Die Klanginstallationen seit 2008 der ohrenhoch-Kids bei NACHTUNDNEBEL sind: "NACHTTROPFENDRACHE" Geräuschbox-Klanginstallation, 2008 (1. Preis Musik+Medien des junge-ohren-preises); "ohrenhoch ist NACHTAKTIV", Raum-Klang-Installation, 2009; "SAMMELSURIUM" (Tönende Stadtkarte 'Soundmap Neukölln 2010', und ein Video aus verschiedenen Clips, das die Geräuschforschungen der ohrenhoch-Kids und -Youngsters zeigt), 2010; "ohrenhoch ist NACHTAKTIV No.2" Raum-Klang-Installation, 2011; "Superfrösche und Kröten Music" Raum-Klang-Installation, 2012.
Knut Remond
Künstlerischer Leiter und Kurator 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen'
Förderer der ohrenhoch-Sonntage: Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V. und Konzert des Deutschen Musikrates
Sponsoren der ohrenhoch-Kids: Musikhaus Thomann, serve-u Technical Support, ROLAND, ZOOM, Electro-Harmonix, Dave Smith Instruments
Festival NACHTUNDNEBEL: Schillerpalais e.V.
ohrenhoch-Kids
The school or laboratory for electroacoustic music and sound installation for children and young and teenagers is an independent project based on voluntariness, with which every child between 5 and 14 years old may participate: The group 'ohrenhoch-Kids Youngsters' are the 5 to 7 years old, and the 'ohrenhoch-Kids' 7 to 14 years old. Both groups meet once or twice a week at ohrenhoch. Direction: Knut Remond.