https://ponysays.de ponysays Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:18:59 +0000 https://ponysays.de en https://ponysays.de/Die-Klavierubung-Steven-Takasugi Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:05:28 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/Die-Klavierubung-Steven-Takasugi Die Klavierübung - Steven Takasugi Version for Pony Says (Percussion, Guitar, Piano and Electronics) Premiere @Eclat-Festival 2022, Stuttgart Audio &amp; Video: Eclat-Festival / Musik der Jahrhunderte Portfolio:&nbsp;Pony Says Takasugi/MarinoSteven Takasugi: “When I was composing Die Klavierübung (with digital piano samples, no live performance initially) in my Vienna days, the notion of a Klavier Selbstmord accompanied me everywhere and plagued me to no end. Now, I’m not being cavalier about the very serious notion of mental illness in this regard. The idea is a personal one of course, but as I told a good friend once, you can do things in art…such as self-obliteration…that you cannot do in life. Truth is, it was as if the piano, exhausted with its repertoire and its long and illustrious history, was asking me most emphatically, “Why are you writing another piano piece?! Requiescat in pace. Let me rest in peace already!” I must confess, this idea came to me here in Stuttgart, at the Academy Schloss Solitude. The palace proper was undergoing major renovations and to educate the public, the rotting wood and crumbling plaster of the internal structure were put on display, as well as the exorbitant costs of the renovations, which had not been procured at the time. This served as advertisement for financial support no doubt. No one lived in the castle proper, but on sunny days in summer, it served as the backdrop for staging wedding photos: it was as if the castle also had to smile for the camera, and I felt sorry for it…this old castle that had witnessed so much history and was frankly, tired…naturally exhausted, rotting from the inside out, but was being forced to stand up straight and say “cheese” at the photographer. And analogous to this, there was something in the selfish idea of keeping the piano alive, that the instrument…now so infected and infused with its newly digitalized underpinning…a digitalized fabricated grin, so to speak…that it didn’t recognize itself as piano, as human anymore.” Revised extract from a lecture entitled “JNH: Just-noticeably Human: Lecture on Musical Humanness in the Age of Digital Automation” for the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf, October 18, 2021. https://ponysays.de/The-Ideal-Hour-Collages-for-Tom-Jessie-Marino Wed, 06 Apr 2022 12:32:08 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/The-Ideal-Hour-Collages-for-Tom-Jessie-Marino The Ideal Hour / Collages for Tom - Jessie Marinofor/in collaboration with Pony Says Premiere @Eclat-Festival 2022, Stuttgart Audio &amp; Video: Jessie Marino &amp; Eclat-Festival / Musik der Jahrhunderte Portfolio: Pony Says Takasugi/MarinoIn the beginning, Pony Says and Jessie Marino still face each other as strangers. Through a shared listening experience, a collective associative space and thus the basis of the artistic collaboration is created. Marino chooses for this 'listening session' the album Pieces for Kohn (1976) by Tom Hamilton, in which the US-American composer directly refers to paintings by the artist Bill Kohn. Based on the impressions of the electronic compositions, Pony Says and Jessie Marino enter into an associative exchange in Collages with Tom. As a collectively acting quartet, composer and musicians translate listening experiences into a musical approach to Pieces for Kohn. The range of actions extends from mere imitation, to sonic response, and finally to full musical emancipation. This process simultaneously shapes the musical setups of the performers, whose sounds refer sometimes more, sometimes less explicitly to the original: From 'classical' electric guitar setups, to digital synthesizers, to explicit sampling, Collages with Tom richly declines the sonic relationship the performers have formed through listening together. https://ponysays.de/negative-space-A-Yiran-Zhao Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:18:59 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/negative-space-A-Yiran-Zhao <img width="3024" height="1690" width_o="3024" height_o="1690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/908575d4c902030087af75e8090b20abf5a7cee7cced718f0a53c54815951949/Bildschirmfoto-2022-04-07-um-12.26.01.png" data-mid="138961683" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/908575d4c902030087af75e8090b20abf5a7cee7cced718f0a53c54815951949/Bildschirmfoto-2022-04-07-um-12.26.01.png" /> negative space A - Yiran Zhao&nbsp; for Pony Says - with electric guitar, electronic drum set, synthesizer and video premiered @ Pony Says Club#4 more about Pony Says Club .line-up Pony Says Club #4: Pony Says, Yiran Zhao, Somaticae supported by Impuls Neue Musik and Kulturamt Stuttgart&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="1686" width_o="3024" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06d91c3c3e8fd381e81c75718726d3ba5496984d13ccc72c20901814ee3417bf/Bildschirmfoto-2022-04-07-um-12.26.12.png" data-mid="138961664" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06d91c3c3e8fd381e81c75718726d3ba5496984d13ccc72c20901814ee3417bf/Bildschirmfoto-2022-04-07-um-12.26.12.png" /><img width="3022" height="1680" width_o="3022" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a263a12ef2816ab05263a5d8958003aa2e30902273a4b81f98219498b1c87cf2/Bildschirmfoto-2022-04-07-um-12.22.34.png" data-mid="138961675" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a263a12ef2816ab05263a5d8958003aa2e30902273a4b81f98219498b1c87cf2/Bildschirmfoto-2022-04-07-um-12.22.34.png" /> https://ponysays.de/Schotten-dicht-Neo-Hulcker Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:28:04 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/Schotten-dicht-Neo-Hulcker <img width="4024" height="6048" width_o="4024" height_o="6048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fad16f72d56d04137780158e499721b3cf81743d33b8212a2a10d4bde91dc3c/__DSC04422.jpg" data-mid="138866349" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fad16f72d56d04137780158e499721b3cf81743d33b8212a2a10d4bde91dc3c/__DSC04422.jpg" /> &nbsp;Schotten dicht - Neo Hülcker for/cooperation with Pony Says@Pony Says Capsules, Ackerstadtpalast, Berlin, June 2021 In schotten dicht, Neo Hülcker transplants three performers into an experimental arrangement of Plexiglas cabins spatially isolated from each other and microphoned. Contact with the outside world is only possible indirectly, with the help of gripping arms that interact with an instrumental set-up through holes in the front window. In their isolation, the performers pursue physical routines, sometimes choreographed and synchronized, sometimes occurring as if by chance. A community in isolation presents itself to the audience. In the artistic examination of hygienic, political, socio-cultural and digital aspects, schotten dicht gets to the bottom of the question of how (self-)isolation acts as a factor in our social interaction. Portfolio: Pony Says Capsules <img width="5698" height="3791" width_o="5698" height_o="3791" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc9500ebcc210637d304eb2092b15feab95dfa1990c958db3705b76451943f3b/DSC04298.jpg" data-mid="138867954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc9500ebcc210637d304eb2092b15feab95dfa1990c958db3705b76451943f3b/DSC04298.jpg" /><img width="6048" height="4024" width_o="6048" height_o="4024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d101bae8b4f05502e60b12496c77585958d794650a6953e008f826cad846ea3f/__the-mouth-felix_xDSC04454.jpg" data-mid="138866649" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d101bae8b4f05502e60b12496c77585958d794650a6953e008f826cad846ea3f/__the-mouth-felix_xDSC04454.jpg" /> https://ponysays.de/Differenz-Wiederholung-6c-Bernhard-Lang Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:22:07 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/Differenz-Wiederholung-6c-Bernhard-Lang Differenz/Wiederholung 6c - Bernhard Lang version for E-Guitar, virtual DX7-Synthesizer, E-Drums and Loop-Generator by Pony Says Video-Premiere @Südseite Nachts 2021 Mixing/Mastering: Matthias Schneider-Hollek Video: Christopher BühlerBernhard Lang: “ ... Die Komplexität dieses Werkes mit dem Klangmaterial einer klassischen Rockband, ergab sich aus der Vermischung der Klänge mit den Loops als vielschichtige Komposition. Dabei wurde konsequent auf Live-Verstärkung gesetzt und damit ein kompakter Klangkörper erzeugt, der den Raum füllt.”&nbsp;“Die Verschiebung der Differenz in den Geist bzw. die Wahrnehmung des Betrachters, ist an sich eine Strategie des Minimalismus; die Konsequenz, welche der Minimalismus daraus zog, war die einer Reduktion der Differenz im wiederholten Objekt, um den subjektiven Differenzierungen Raum zu geben. Hier weicht Deleuzes Konzept ab: Wiederholung bedeutet für ihn nicht unbedingt ein Einfaches, ganz im Gegenteil: Wiederholung kann Träger einer hoch komplexen inneren Differentiation im Objekt sein.” (siehe Bernhard Lang, “Repetition und Automatismus: die Bedeutung des Wiederholungsbegriffes in den Stücken der Differenz/Wiederholung-Serie”, 2002)“ source: bernhardlang.at https://ponysays.de/b-Simon-Loffler Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:27:01 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/b-Simon-Loffler b - Simon Løffler for three performers, effect pedals, lights and a loose jack cable performed by Pony Says Video-Premiere @Südseite Nachts 2021 Mixing/Mastering: Matthias Schneider-Hollek Video: Christopher Bühler https://ponysays.de/EYOHBTTADS-Jennifer-Walshe Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:07:01 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/EYOHBTTADS-Jennifer-Walshe Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere - Jennifer Walshe for three performers video-version by Pony Says Video-Premiere @Südseite Nachts 2021 Mixing/Mastering: Matthias Schneider-Hollek&nbsp; Video: Christopher BühlerJennifer Walshe: “The New Discipline” is a term I’ve adopted over the last year. The term functions as a way for me to connect compositions which have a wide range of disparate interests but all share the common concern of being rooted in the physical, theatrical and visual, as well as musical; pieces which often invoke the extra-musical, which activate the non-cochlear. In performance, these are works in which the ear, the eye and the brain are expected to be active and engaged. Works in which we understand that there are people on the stage, and that these people are/have bodies. Examples of composers working in this way include: Object Collection, James Saunders, Matthew Shlomowitz, Neele Hülcker, François Sarhan, Jessie Marino, Steven Takasugi, Natacha Diels, myself.“&nbsp; source: https://www.borealisfestival.no/2016/the-new-discipline-4/ https://ponysays.de/Verstreute-Lieder-Pony-Says-Mart-in-Schuttler Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:50:19 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/Verstreute-Lieder-Pony-Says-Mart-in-Schuttler Verstreute Lieder - eine post-individuelle Aneignung a cooperation between Pony Says and Mart*in Schüttler Stimme („SchuBot“) – Lucas Gerin Begleitung – Felix Nagl / Thilo RuckKonzept – Mart*in Schüttler &nbsp; Verstreute Lieder - eine post-individuelle Aneingnung is an ongoing song-cycle of classical songs which are beeing appropriated by means of post-individual and post-digital reinterpretation. The arrangements of mostly romanticistic songs aim to alienate the emotional content of the music - in this case songs by Franz Schubert. The singing voice is called “Schubot” and arises from the text-to-speech-synthesis-engine of “Alter Ego”. It is beeing controlled by a performer via midi-keyboard and motion-sensor. https://ponysays.de/Ears-of-a-composer-Pony-Says-Nico-Sauer Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:34:30 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/Ears-of-a-composer-Pony-Says-Nico-Sauer <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca9d74b7d7aa26b327c479adddb7c288d936443848e2132c4ce3f4dbdfdbe247/ears_of_a_composer_8_stranded_ft._pony_says.jpg" data-mid="138851466" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca9d74b7d7aa26b327c479adddb7c288d936443848e2132c4ce3f4dbdfdbe247/ears_of_a_composer_8_stranded_ft._pony_says.jpg" /> ears of a composer #8 Stranded Pt. 1 feat. Pony Says Podcast story: Nico Sauer music: Pony Says 1 January 2022 Nico strands on an island that he thinks is Anafi. Is it really? While he tries to remember what happened, how he get there, he inspects the landscape that is more than mangroves, sand and rocks. The island unfolds in a soundscape of music by the German contemporary music ensemble PONY SAYS that improvises over 15s miniature sketches of Nico Sauer’s “B-Music”, originally released on Instagram&nbsp;︎︎︎︎. PLAY EPISODE Links︎︎︎ Nico Sauer Ears of a composer https://ponysays.de/Abgrundtief-Innovativ-Philipp-Krebs-Felix-Stachelhaus Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:58:15 +0000 ponysays https://ponysays.de/Abgrundtief-Innovativ-Philipp-Krebs-Felix-Stachelhaus ABGRUNDTIEF INNOVATIV shortfilm/music-video composed by Philipp Krebs &amp; Felix Stachelhaus performed and recorded by Pony Says &nbsp;director: Elli Neubert dramturge: Saskia Kruse Kameracamera &amp; cutter: Ruxin Liu Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg 2021 (digital) including: “HAUL” by Philipp Krebs