COM.POST #16

with Nicola Unger (de) & Harald Sack Ziegler (de)

26 feb 2011
  • 20:00
  • De Player
  • Tolhuisstraat 107 - bg, 3072 LP Rotterdam

Nicola and Harald are preparing an eclectic mix of music, fashion, projections and optical illusions:
'Harald having a mix/re-use of different music styles that involve the horn, plus the live interaction with his horn. Visually a similar mix happens; Nicola using photocopies, older documents from the time of the music, but also selfmade/own drawings'. The vehicle will be a decorum in which a fashion show takes place. Models are projection screens by wearing historical orientated forms and data. In these constructed timewarps, music as well as the broader cultural heritage, are actual parallel information nailed on the spot.

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Poster for Com.Post #16 - Image by De Player

Harald 'Sack' Ziegler

An innovator and pioneer of the '80s German tape scene, Ziegler is a techno-Dadaist composer/pop artist of the highest order, known for his frenetic live shows with toy instruments. His shimmering mix of cheap electronica, German vocals, weird rhythms, samples and guitars almost always manages to stick to a more or less loose song format tending to appeal not only to fans of early German new wave, but also to anyone who has an inexhaustible love for wonky melodies and funky sound bites. A master of many instruments, Ziegler is as likely to whip out a French horn as he is a beat box, and "Punkt" collects more pop/noise/child music insouciance than you can shake a toy flute at.

Nicola Unger

Nicola Unger is experimenting in-between theater and art, using installation, video, performance and comics as a tool. She studied theater at Angewandte Wissenschaften in Giessen and graduated form DasArts in Amsterdam in 2004. Her latest project was the audioperformance 'First Person Plural', in which she investigates the mechanism of thinking. She performed and showed her work in Kampnagel (Hamburg), Sophiensaele (Berlijn), Vooruit (Gent), TENT. and de Rotterdamse Schouwburg (both in Rotterdam).

Com.Post

In the Com.Post series 2010 Memetism is a guideline to create new performative soundpieces leaning forward or bending over to opera, music(al), perfo-oriëntated, ritualistic slaughter, group autistics, chamber meetings amongst others. Four productions will be constructed. With Com.Post we’re searching for the compositional statement which has, within the completely stage-managed society in which we live, at the very least a disquieting effect. It is an exploration into the current state of affairs in the field of composed sound by invited artists, filmmakers, composers, scientists, architects and performers.