Manafonistas

Yesterday the first open-air live event (the wind was a bit to cold still): a pre-opening gathering of Rotterdam’s NORTH SEA ROUND TOWN city community festival with its 350 musical events at 125 locations …

Stro/ing free form Body Voice (Fl)Air(y) Sweeps – forte effusione frappant

Sanem Kalfa, (voc, cello), Lucija Gregov (cellos), Alice de Maio and Kelly Bigirindavyi (dance) presented the very personal exploration of their 3-days residency at Wibbine Kien’s Driebergen Farm on the rural outskirts of Rotterdam – A closeness experience of open throws and hitting arrows.

Here only a few pictures of many sequences of gripping movements of bodies, voices, strings, eyes and souls in high directness.

Apropos closeness … an album with duets of Charlie Haden comes to mind, released 1976. It’s duos with Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Alice Coltrane and Paul Motian, an early (unforgettable) school of listening. Simply a cross-sectional association.

 
 
AUDIO  Closeness Duets

The videotape ended up here from a filmmaker’s household. Never heard of „Elling“, by Christian Ellefsen, Norwegian original version with English subtitles. I watched it for a few minutes just to get an impression and I planned to give it one or two stars out of five, referring to the movie-rating game Michael suggested a few days ago. For me, it had a comedic feel to it at first as these two traumatized middle-aged men tried to find their own lives; the characters were not believable to me, but the authenticity of the characters is one of the most important characteristics of a successful movie. One day in the hallway, Elling mumbles a sentence to himself and discovers poetry in it. That’s the storyline that grabs me. Everything passes on to something else. In the end, it’s just me and that anonymous voice from the quiet streets of the night. And four stars at least.