In 1997 Kapotte Muziek did their first workshop, but that was late
september so it will take a while before we talk about that. Today we
have work from a workshop we did at the Kulturbunker Muhlheim in
Cologne in 2005, organised by a true supporter of Kapotte Muziek, the
ever lovely Till Kniola. There were more or less six or seven
participants that day. A workshop starts at 11:00 in the morning with a
general introduction (by me) on Kapotte Muziek and some examples of
electro-acoustic music, then Roel explains how to make a contact
microphone, which participants then make two of them themselves and
Peter explains making field recordings. Then the participants go
outside and find whatever junk to play on and do some field recordings.
When they arrive back, the junk is connected to contactmicrophones and
checked out for the sound quality and we all listen to the field
recordings. There is a bit of a rehearsal and in the evening we play
one or two short concerts with them and then Kapotte Muziek plays solo.
In this zip file
you'll find MP3 of the concerts (the first three pieces) and six field
recordings. It was the first time I used a new laptop to record on and
something went wrong adding some distortion to the sound, but no doubt
some will like that. A few pictures are enclosed as well. The one here
shows Till Kniola (left) and Roel Meelkop (right). Players were: Peter
Duimelinks, Roel Meelkop and Frans de Waard, plus participants of the
workshop whose names I no longer have.