play loud! (live) music series

A shadow theater performed in October 2010 during the culture days in Sophienkirche in München-Riem (Germany). Written and performed by Gisela Oberbeck, with music composed and performed by Limpe Fuchs.

"Animare – Trails in the World’s Chaparral" is a story about creation and decay, about movement and static, about growth and decrease, about the vast source of nature and change. It’s a meditation of light and darkness and sound and silence. Objects come into being and vanish, they move or stand still, they grow or shrink. They are found in nature: whole plants, stalks, roots, panicles, bones, stones, which obtain our interest. Also shaped forms of paper, cut or torn, which communicate with nature. Each sound has also a sound shadow and each shadow contains a sound. In the performance tension is created through slow movement and the dialog with the sounds.

In 2010, play loud! productions began working on their Limpe Fuchs Archive series dedicated to reissuing the work of German musician Limpe Fuchs (Anima, Anima-Sound and solo work). Click here for more info: https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/49-limpe-fuchs

Limpe Fuchs is a legend in the experimental music scene. In the late sixties, this percussionist drummed on self-made instruments, together with her then husband Paul Fuchs, in the Ensemble Anima. During that time, Limpe and Paul Fuchs cooperated with the classic pianist star Friedrich Gulda, as well as with jazz luminaries like Albert Mangelsdorff, and continually attracted the interest of their audiences in new constellations. Limpe Fuchs' solo peformance with "variable wood and stone rows, ringing bronze in the pendulum strings, and a variety of skin and bronze drums" is a rare occasion to witness one of the early avantgardists of the scene from the old Federal Republic Of Germany. She attempts, while playing live, to develop her musical ideas from the "resonance of the location where the performance takes place" - "to make music in the flow of time, with simplicity and emotion". Her main concern is to sensitize the process of hearing: "Every tone is a sensation. Listening instead of shutting one's ears. Establishing silence."
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The "painted or (re-) corded" film
A text by Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios

As filmmakers, it is important the performance we film will be recorded unadulterated. At the same time we do select by positioning and framing the camera, i.e. we watch subjectively. In principle we try to edit inside the camera because we would like to show the presentation in its entirety. It is crucial to know that most of the time we only work with one single camera. The camera is not rigidly tied to a tripod because we want to be able to react at any given moment to what is happening within the spontaneous/improvised performance. Consequently our work turns into an active composition during the show. It could be called a form of drawing (in German the term "drawing" inhabits the word "recording") with the camera. As with all spontaneous/improvised art this sometimes works out nicely, other times it fails poorly.
The question that drives us is the question friends or our children at home will ask us: What did you see? Could you tell us? For us it is easy due to the fact that both, visually and aurally , we can (re-) play our direct impression because we had filmed (drawn) and *recorded it (*the word "recorded" in German also inhabits the word "cutting/editing").
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play loud! (live) music series

CONCEPT BEHIND THE SERIES

The “play loud! (live) music series“ is based on three precepts: Alan Lomax´s work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel´s BBC radio sessions, and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as the Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn, Blank and Pennebacker.

play loud! aims to create an extensive archive of interesting popular music and culture that includes both material from the filmmakers' large amount of unreleased footage and material from other sources.

play loud!’s music films have been called raw, rough, canny, straightforward, adventurous, witty, insightful, direct, non-tricksy, minimal, unpretentious handheld camera work, artful film paintings, minimalist filmed paintings, painted films…

Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot and without any edits.

“When we film live shows, we don't use a TV style, but one that is very personal, intuitive and playful. Nothing is staged for the shoot. You go along with whatever happens.” (Dietmar Post)

Streaming offers everyone- fans, researchers, journalists- the opportunity to access the archive and support the use of the material by others. Paying a small fee to view the material helps to cover the immense costs of a private archive.

If there is great demand, some of the recordings will be made available on vinyl.

"Shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do." (Jonathan Demme)

001 Floating Di Morel: A Summer Evening (2009) (VOD, DL)
002 Doc Schoko: Oktopus im Pentagramm (2009) (VOD, DL)
003 FM Einheit + Irmler: Live at Berghain (2012) (VOD)
004 Faust: Live at Klangbad (2010) (DVD, VOD)
005 Gebrüder Teichmann: Live at Maria (2011) (VOD, DL)
006 Christy & Emily: Live at Klangbad (2012) (VOD, DL)
007 Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers: (2017) (VOD, DL, LP)
008 Camera feat. Rother & Moebius: Live at HBC (2012) (VOD, DL)
009 Friedman & Liebezeit: Live at Festsaal Kreuzberg (2013) (VOD)
010 Lydia Lunch & Philipp Petit: Live at Volksbühne (2013) (VOD)
011 Guru Guru: Live at Lido (2014) (VOD, DL)
012 Gisela Oberbeck & Limpe Fuchs: Animare (2015) (VOD, DL)
013 Limpe Fuchs: Live at Klangbad Festival (2015) (VOD, DL)
014 Die Regierung: Live in Essen (2015) (VOD, DL)
015 Anima in Two Films (1972-1973) (VOD)
016 Die Regierung: Live at Berghain (2017) (VOD, DL)
017 Locust Fudge: Live at Privatclub Berlin (2018) (VOD, DL)
018 Alan Vega: Live at Rockpalast (1982) (LP, DVD, DL)
019 Gods Gift: Live in Rotterdam (1984) (DVD, DL)
020 Martin Rev: Live in Berlin (2006-8) (LP, DVD, DL)

Up-coming:
Atari Teenage Riot, Barbara Manning, and many more.

https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/19-play-loud-live-music-series