HOTELbich

CHANCE at ViaVia Café, 11-Feb-2011

2011-01-14T16:24:00.007+01:00

Pictures on Facebook. Check the group 'MOTELbich'.

11-02-201, 21h (changed!)

MOTELbich presents

'Chance'

David Vilayleck and Xavier Lopez (FR)

Max/MSP-guitar-noise-style!

Two musicians from Perpignan and Paris fill up the ViaVia Café with their improvised soundlayers. Both appear in different formations out of a big pool of musicians in France (like trashvortex) and represent an experimental scene around 'toute autre forme de musique "libre"'!

http://soundcloud.com/ayankoko

http://www.myspace.com/mathieugarrouste

www.trashvortex.net

The Pitch on vinyl with MOTELbich concert!

2010-11-30T00:04:00.000+01:00

Here you go. MOTELbich is very happy!

KLEIN at micromarché, 16h, 13NOV2010

2010-11-10T00:29:00.003+01:00

Your next Saturday looks like this:

first you gonna check out the postcard of C&H at 12h in S(a)int Gilles, have a Guldenberg in Verschuren, walk slowly through the most bizarre parts of the center, slender over the fishiest market of town and then you hang out in the ViVia Café at Micromarché, preparing yourself with hot chocolate and a soup (not at the same time you freaks!), which fades you into a beautiful concert of this har...dcore-sensitive pop experiment from our eastern neighbors.

After, you give me a massage and then you may do what you want.
As long as you invite me...

http://www.myspace.com/kleinmusik

ViaVia Café at Micromarché
Steenkoolkaai 9 Quai de Houille
1000 Brussels

costs a voluntary contribution (feed their hat!)

Lutz Nikolaus Kratzer (Vocals, Drums,Guitar,Electronics)
Cordula Grolle (Vocals, Cello)
Karsten Deutschmann (guitars,Keyboard,Bass pedal,Violin)

FACEBOOK EVENT

29 Oct: Seamus & Viljam (Amsterdam) at La CompilOthèque

2010-09-16T00:40:00.004+02:00

Friday, 29 October 2010
at La CompilOthèque

in the evening
small entrance fee
super bar
http://www.myspace.com/seamusandviljam

Seamus & Viljam is an experimental folk song duo from Amsterdam. Their songs are many times biographical about artists, athletes, composers and such. Seamus sings and plays the fender rhodes, the harmona, the concertina and harmonicas and Viljam plays drums, guitar, ukulele, harmonica and sings. They stretch song forms and experiment with textures their vintage gear provides.

also join the facebook group MOTELbich

ULTRALYD at micromarché

2010-06-15T03:44:00.000+02:00

MOTELbich presents

ULTRALY (Rune Grammofon / Load)
from Norway and Germany

at Micromarché (quai a la houille 9, 1000BXL)

Sunday, 20 June 2010

doors 18h, concert 19h
5 Euro for the band

We might present a second band first.

For sure there will be a bar and some background music as well!

Kjetil Möster: saxophones/clarinet
Anders Hana: guitars
Kjetil D Brandsdal: bass
Morten J. Olsen: drums/el.vibraphone

Ultralyd has commited four releases:
First one, "Ultralyd", was released on FMR in 2004.
Second one, "Chromosome Gun" came out on Load Records in 2005.
A 200 ex CDR "Throb and Provision" was released on Utech Records in 2006, and an Ultralyd/Noxagt split LP also came out in 2006, that one on Textile Records. The fifth release and the third full-lenght album, "Conditions for a Piece of Music" is out now on Rune Grammofon.

http://www.myspace.com/ultralydh
http://hotelbich.blogspot.com/
http://www.micromarche.be/

Nicolas Field & Jeff Carey at CHANGING ROOM

2010-05-18T11:38:00.003+02:00

6 FEB 2010 Cross the land - a procession by bus

2010-01-20T14:03:00.010+01:00

MOTELbich presents a performative bustour

from Brussels t to the opening of greyzone at Z33 in Hasselt and back to Brussels.

Next to being a means of transport
the tour is a symbolic act.
It is a procession
bringing an object of cult back to where it came from:
the gallery space.

Here more details about the exact interventions during the tour!

16h15 departure Brussels bus from Av d Stalingradlaan 26, 1000 Brussels
(close to south station)
19h15 start opening Z33, Hasselt with loads of stuff till 0h00
0h00 departure Hasselt
back to Brussels
(no stops, but some weird noises from the engine of the vehicle...)

for the program of the entire exhibition

"Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone"

check out:

http://www.ooooo.be/greyzone/

The Pitch at micromarché café in BXL

2009-10-26T01:05:00.024+01:00

The Pitch (Berlin)

Michael Thieke - clarinet

Boris Baltschun - pump organ

Koen Nutters - upright bass

Morten J. Olsen (from MoHa!) - vibraphone

recordings from the concert will be pressed on vinyl soon. Here already a pretaste!

example track 1

example track 2

Sunday, 29 Nov 2009, 18h

Micromarché Café

Quai à la Houille 9 Steenkoolkaai, 1000 BXL

(between Saint Cathrine and Yzer)

"With the help of several acoustic devices The Pitch navigates through sonic territories with a fairly unique approach and instrumentation. Their navigational tools are the exaltation of a clarinet, the bruteness of a pump organ, the colors of a vibraphone and the airy profoundness of a double bass. The quartet neither plays compositions nor do they improvise - they play music that is structured in such a way that it garantees a maximum of flexibility yet ensures an audible coherence of pitch and sound material. The result is a beautiful combination of Feldman-like-melodies and slowly evolving tapestries of layered colorful sumptuousness evoking feelings of timelessness and expansion."

John Brown (The Wire)

FACEBOOK: look for the event on the MOTELbich group and confirm your presence!

JuliEn's TuRntAblIsM in Jerusalem

2009-08-14T10:42:00.002+02:00

He was there from the beginning and now he is there, in the Middle East.
Turn-it, Ju!!!!

fun against no fun!

2009-07-15T15:36:00.009+02:00

Monday 20 July MotelBich together with The Ever Mass Land invites at 21h (exact)
to meet in the geometrical centre of the Vossenplein (Jeux de Balles),
each with our flags and banners of existing or fictional micro-nations.
No more, no less.

some examples. print it, bring it! :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Flags_of_micronations

http://www.ooooo.be/indexhibit/ (ever mass land)

MoHa! in Zsennestreet17, Brussels

2009-05-08T13:29:00.006+02:00

KAMMER-Musik event by MOTELbich:

MoHa! (Berlin, Norway)

nonlinear: "Analog Signals", video-installation

Simon Steen-Andersen (DK): soundTAG, installation

'Just to say Hi': Greetings from an Audience, 3 min performance

The Final Count Down meets The Never Ending Story: 15 endings of Heavy Metal songs

Friday, 15 May 2009
Zennestreet 17 rue de la Senne, 21:30

The amazingly amazing duo MoHa! end their giganticly gigantic europe-tour in Brussels.
They bring along their brand new release (MoHa! + TAPE THAT).

Anders Hana - guitar, keyboard + Morten J. Olsen - drums & supercollider 3.
Labels: Rune Grammofon, Gaffer Records

BBC online: "MoHa! offer a kind of arhythmically funky metal musique concrete, sourced from electric guitar, drums and a laptop."

Rune Grammofon: "Our favourite noise spastics. The Wire called the single an extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz and they have elsewhere simply been proclaimed the future of Norwegian rock."

Show is organised together with Q-O2!

band:
http://www.n-collective.com/moha
sound:
http://www.myspace.com/themoha
label:
http://runegrammofon.com
composer:
http://www.simonsteenandersen.dk/
composers tags:
http://soundtag.info
Anne Welmer aka nonlinear
http://www.q-o2.be/en/agnitem.php?id=150
Q-O2:
http://www.q-o2.be
greetings:
http://greetingsfromanaudience.blogspot.com

facebook event!

HOTELbich out, MOTELbich in!

2009-05-07T23:12:00.000+02:00

Since my personal network is rather growing than shrinking it is only logical to continue HOTELbich on another level. From now on its called MOTELbich and its mobility will carry you to the most unexpected places, spaces and faces.
See you soon!

NACHGeschmack

2009-01-10T17:03:00.000+01:00

HOTELbich's finishing event
Saturday, 10 January 2009, 19h-3h

THE PDF OF THE PROGRAM

WIEDER-Aufbau 7
installation-parcours
new work by
Simon Steen-Andersen, Thomas Laureyssens, Christophe Meierhans
HOTELbich-expo
traces of 6 month HOTELbich
Open-Frames
LOG-iNS & individual snap-courses of
a brand new web-tool for all performance artists
21h screening
Anna Rispoli proposes a screening of
three recent Italian videoart works

KAMMER-Musik 4
20h Pedal Battle
Eric Tatepo Kembo and Matthias Koole show
two very different approaches to control an electric guitar
22h VINZ + Steen-Andersen
VINZ, Michael Schmid, Marieke Berendsen and Matthias Koole rotate between
narrative folk and conceptual contemporary composition

FREI-Zeit 3
fUll M o ° n snacks & sound
created and served by pierre ° deruisseau

(compilothèque)
hotelBAR
the team of nadine and some other
superheros try to make you happy
0h00 pünkst concert
explicitexplicit will clean your ears
0h38 DJ sëts
WrIgGlE yOuR bOoTy MuSiC by
JuliEn a.K.a JU and sCh!ZophoniC

WIEDER-Aufbau (re-construction) is a series of exhibition-events, where I ask artists to rebuild work in a new context and set-up.
KAMMER-Musik (chamber-music) is a concert-concept, which believes in the mixability of styles and their audiences.
FREI-Zeit (leisure-time) ignores the borders between work and leisure.

Simon Steen-Andersen's Self Simulator

2009-01-08T15:39:00.001+01:00

Thursday, 8 January 2009, 19h-21h

at iMAL (!) try-out of Simon Steen-Andersen's Self Simulator

Come between 19h-21h to test the first version of the Self Simulator, a work, Simon Steen-Andersen developed during his residnecy at HOTELbich.

'Finally it's here! Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience yourself, being you! See yourself walk and talk or interact with everyday objects - or how about watching yourself enjoying masterworks of art? Only reality sets the limits! The Self Simulator - as real as it gets!'

iMAL is at Quai des Charbonnages Koolmijnenkaai 30 1080 Bruxelles Brussel at the canal between Center and Molenbeek

Performative Lecture + WIEDER-Aufbau 6

2008-12-09T02:40:00.000+01:00

Sunday, 14 December, 19h, HOTELbich

Brussel-Paris
The Brussels based writer Bruno De Wachter will be giving a lecture-performance, elaborating on his 30 days walk from Brussels to Paris:
(Please note that this lecture is spoken in Dutch!)

“Ik wilde een lijn trekken tussen beide steden en elk detail dat op die lijn ligt,
registreren met mijn eigen ogen. De afstand afmeten met mijn eigen benen.
Mijn huisdeur achter mij dichttrekken, wandelen tot bij de Notre-Dame,
en terugkeren met de Thalys in een uur en twintig minuten.
Het werd een verrassende tocht van dertig dagen,
die mijn gevoel voor tijd, afstand en snelheid danig heeft aangescherpt.”
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WIEDER-Aufbau 6
In the second floor composer Simon Steen-Andersen, artist in residency of HOTELbich,
will show the installation LOLOOPOP:

LOLOOPOP (2006) consists of 2 visual loops and 3 audio loops.
The different durations of the loops –all between 3 and 4.5 minutes– make sure that the
primary layers won't meet at the exact same point before after 52
years, 211 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes and 36 seconds...

LOLOOPOP is the result of a close collaboration between Simon
Steen-Andersen and visual artist Carl Krull.

WIEDER-Aufbau 5

2008-12-02T01:33:00.000+01:00

Sunday, 7 December 2008

19h-23h: Julien Grossmann, 'Les Traversées', installation on two floors.
20h: Tomma Wessel + Ines Rasbach new score music on huge recorders!
21h Simon Steen-Andersen, audio-visual bonus piece by the new and last resident of HOTELbich!

19h - 23h Bar, of course.

Simon Steen-Andersen is a danish composer
and the new and last resident of HOTELbich!
Julien Grossmann is a french artist
and advized by James Beckett.
Tomma Wessel and Ines Rasbach are german recorder players
and specialized in contemporary score music.
Recorders are, by the way, wooden flutes and no recording machines!

WORKER'S CLUB

2008-11-25T18:29:00.001+01:00

In 1925, the Russian constructivist Rodchenko installed his prototype of a "Worker's Club" in Paris; a utopian interactive statement for socialist culture.

Times have changed, but socialism might recently have got another chance through the current financial crisis, somehow.

Let us seize this opportunity and see how a Worker's Club could be constructed today. Nicolas Galeazzi will invite several people during his one-week residency at HOTELbich to develop Rodchenko's idea through our contemporary visions.

On Saturday afternoon, 17h-20h, we will open the new Worker's Club to the public and invite them to test it while sharing a round of drinks and Christmas cookies among comrades.

S’ACOBLA plays HOTELbich

2008-11-19T01:03:00.000+01:00

2+2 musicians, who appeard already in various musical contexts, go with their new formation for wierdly transformed noise-pop with catalan lyrics (translated). Beautiful and absurd!

Nico Roig : Guitar, voice.
Miquel Casaponsa: Guitar, voice.

+ Guests:

Thomas Giry: Drums, bass and electronics.
Igaki Akiko: Violin, voice, accordion, keyboard.

The concert takes place during the SPIP-Media Ateliers (21-23 Nov).

I need a witness to perform

2008-11-13T11:25:00.000+01:00

Kajsa Sandström (SE) and David Bergé (BE/DE) will have this weekend the shortest residency of HOTELbich ever. They are in the middle of a reharsel process for their new piece, which they will premier at Weld in Stockholm 13 December. At HOTELbich they will make an informal showing on sunday, 16 Nov, 4pm.

”The desire to work together comes from a common interest in bringing performative elements into another frame than the theater. Looking for ways where photography, the process of recording images, can merge with movement and stagepresence.”

Read more about I need a witness to perform

WIEDER-Aufbau 4

2008-11-02T23:17:00.000+01:00

Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008, 20:30

in-betweenissage - show - two videos and all for the sake of sound:

with the presentation of Jérôme Porspergers expo,
a performance by the current resident Boris Baltschun
and an 'wiederaufgebaute' (reconstructed) installation by Baltschun/Helbich.

Jérôme Porsperger, Brussels
Do you know: pa papa papapapapapa? (2008)
nine A0 prints, one CD player
Jérôme Porsperge
opera autorouta (2008)
video
Boris Baltschun, Berlin, current resident of HOTELbich
bruoc sella pre-listening (2008)
sound-art performance
Boris Baltschun + David Helbich (Brussels)
There are many ways of saying Gleichzeitigkeit (2005)
dubble video-sound installation
Bar
+ Noises (2009)
DJ set Boris Baltschun

"I wish you free time but work!"

2008-10-21T02:06:00.000+02:00

HOTELBichs FREI-Zeit presents the partYvent:

A-G Institut (Hamburg) feat. The Grumbling Audience
"Post-Punk pour en finir avec le travail"
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 10:05pm - Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 4:25am

After two weeks of residency, Gustave Inc. organises a party around the results of his inquiry into The Structural Creation of Free Time during at Work. Next to crazy dancing and controlled drinking, you'll get in touch with some strategies to avoid work. For example by checking out this party!
Read also the request of Gustave Inc. below!

PARCOURS 3: Tourist in your Own City

2008-10-16T11:37:00.000+02:00

19 October 2008, Sunday:
PARCOURS is a collaboration between four North-Brussels based organizations: Compilothèque, Eléphant, Void*ptr en HOTELbich.

PARCOURS 3 will have an overarching theme: "Tourist in your own city", which will be refined also during the next parcours organized at the end of November and the beginning of January. With psycho-geographical, photographical, political, joyful and simply touristic concepts this PARCOURS aims to give new meanings to the streets of Schaerbeek.

PARCOURS is free of charge, you can join in at any time. Food and drinks will be sold at reasonable prices. Bring your digital photo camera!

Programm here:

HALB-Zeit - Sunday, 5 Oct., 7 pm

2008-10-05T15:38:00.000+02:00

HOTELbich totally belives in the following combination of musical performance:

Larkin Grimm plays Larkin Grimms songs
+
Matthias Koole, Katlijne Lanneau play David Helbich + Gabriele Manca

Larkin Grimm (USA) (experimental folk) played a fantastic concert in La Compilothèque last month. The Brussels audience have all the luck in the world that she\'s coming back! She will be sharing her fairy-like world and amazing voice during an acoustic concert in HOTELbich. http://www.larkingrimm.com/

The young and virtuos guitar/recorder (that's a flute and not a tape machine...) duo Koole/Lanneau plays two pieces of very differnet concepts. Still, both are writen score music.

- Duo Di Follia by G.Manca (Italy) is a 5 minutes crazy house piece in high registers, writen in 1992 or 1995 or 2000 or 2005 (says the internet...).

- In Stein (ca. 7 min), by the consierge of HOTELbich, is a half free score: real notes and actions, but the time is organised by the players reading silently a text while playing. In the end performative gestures take slowy over. Its from 1999, so very old music form a still very young composer!

After the concert the bar will stay open. And don't forget: HALB-Zeit = still 3 month to go!

(pictures by Tine Declerck)

Score of In Stein, first page:

BELGACOMt niet...

2008-09-23T19:25:00.000+02:00

24th of september. the new date. amazing. we got a date...
Will they fill this

gap in our lives?

or NOT?

25 Sept 2008:
"Not."

WELCOME HOME, INTERNET!

2008-09-09T01:23:00.000+02:00

NEXT EVENT:
"Welcome home, Internet!"
11th September 2008, somewhere between 12h - 17h
Waiting for the guy from Belgacom, who promised to finaly solve our 3 month old problem of isolation.

"We belive him this time!!
We will await him!!
We will celebrate him!
He is the way! - Welcome, Internet!"

AFTER:

...INTERNoT...

there are cool videos on facebook, too.

PARCOURS 2: Sun, 31 August 2008

2008-08-21T18:06:00.001+02:00

Again together with Compilothèque, L'Eléphant and void*ptr (Pieter Heremans) we organised a day with art, entertainment and food, all connected by experimental walks and games (!) between the 4 places. The special thing this time: we exchanged the places among the organisations! At the end of the day we passed the baton on to a constant event.

>11:00 L'Eléphant at HOTELbich
(Rue Gallaitstraat 80, 1030 Brussels): brunch - exhibition Laurent De Meyer "morceaux choisis" part 1, music by David Rolo, projection of Delphine Mathy

>walk #1: start ca. 13h: exectution of three-sided footbal game by Asger Jorn

>14:15 Void*Ptr at L'Eléphant
(Rue Thiéfrystraat 53, 1030 Brussels): installation and performance audio-offset
>walk #2: start ca. 15:15: walk-choreography

>16:00 la Compilothèque at Void*Ptr
(Avenue Princesse Elisabethlaan 46, 1030 Brussels): "installation ré-hydratante" and concert by Benjamin Franklin
>walk #3: start ca. 16:45: magic theatre on the road by David Néaud + "multiple" by Lotte Van den Audenaeren -
>17:30 HOTELbich at La Compilothèque
(Quai des Péniches/Akenkaai 50, 1000 Brussels): contemporary performance stuff met Benjamin Vandewalle/David Helbich and snacks by oscar, Travis and Katja

>19:00 Sci-fi-pic-nic organised by Constant vzw

FREE ENTRANCE FOR EVERY EVENT - drinks and food to be payed

MORE PICTURES:

and a special picture collection here!

and on the constant-site!
and:

and a video!:

parcours#2 from drolo box on Vimeo.

WIEDER-Aufbau 3

2008-08-01T16:07:00.000+02:00

Sunday, 3 August 2008
13h !! an easy-peasy vacation gathering at HOTELbich

with
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Joanna Bailie + Christoph Ragg re-open their:
Camera Obscura (with totally new soundtrack by Bailie!)
Same trick, but different light, different light angel. And: still stunningly beautiful! Before we break it down let's enjoy once more.
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Travis Robertson invites to:
A viewing of selected episodes from Satoshi Kon’s ‘Paranoia Agent’
‘Everybody is manipulated by the media, what a bunch of idiots.’ – Yuichi Taira

"A young boy with a baseball bat supposedly attacks a famous character designer under extreme stress to replicate her past success. News of the attack spreads through the media and internet, and enters the minds of the populace.
The assaults continue on people suffering from unbearable emotional and mental stress on the edge of nervous breakdown. By becoming victims, they are freed from their mental and emotional anguish, they are saved.
The nature of our hero /attacker’s persona increases, along with his power, as we follow the investigation of the attacks, victims, and the rumors that circulate.
Paranoia Agent explores post-modern societal issues of the mimetic influence of media, escapism, and consumer culture." (T. Robertson, artist under the roof of HOTELbich till end september)
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Rinah Lang hides again in the:
Live Instant Portrait Machine
You remember? Sit down on the chair - insert (whatever) coin - keep quiet in one position - Portrait will be finished when released out the rip - keep smiling!
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Christoph Ragg makes:
Crêpes without gluten!
adable also without gluten-allergy, it seems.
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David Helbich serves:
Coffee.

interessting articels about the (anti-)manga shown on sunday:
"Entertainment Re-oriented: Atomic Pop Pt. II: Hello Kitty and the Rape of Nanking"
+
Satoshi Kon interview

PICTURES:

HOTELbich Wieder-Aufbau 3

PARCOURS 20 July 2008

2008-07-18T01:57:00.002+02:00

before:

HOTELbich

during:

HOTELbich-Parcours 20 Jul

please send, upload, publish your pictures, if you have more. we for example miss very much pictures form void*ptr and the second walk!

VORGESCHMACK 28 june 2008

2008-07-18T01:11:00.000+02:00

" in the name of Arbeit + Freizeit "
6 months of residencies / exhibitions / events
David Helbich presents :

A foretaste of 6 month HOTELbich:
VORGESCHMACK:
28 June 2008 from: 19:00 until ... rue Gallaitstraat 80 – 1030 Brussels

from 19h-22h
Feldküche : serves dishes for 6 euros (sold-out!!)
between 20h30-23h30
Travis Robertson (first artist in residence) : welcome installation
VINZ : concert
Miriam Rohde & HOTELbich : performative presentation
Benjamin Vandewalle, Nicolas Baeyens & David Helbich : going Fluxus
La Compilothèque, L'Eléphant, Void*point & HOTELbich : parcours announcement
Crap{eye} : furnishings & installation
The Temporary Institute : book presentation
Oscar Miller : naming + "welcoming our artist in residence"
WIEDER-Aufbau 1 : first reconstruction expo
from 21h30 - late
Ju & his special guest SchiZophoniC : turning the tables
Gottfried Wendehals : Polonäse

SOME PICTURES HERE

AND MANY MORE HERE:

HOTELbichs VORgeschmack