Das Hörstück Werkstatt ist ein Teil/eine Szene der immersiven Theaterinstallation "Warten auf die Barbaren" von Dominic Huber/blendwerk. Gessnerallee Zürich/HAU Berlin/Kaserne Basel/Theater Chur 2012/13
Soundproduktion Knut Jensen. 

Ein Zuschauer kommt in eine kleine dunkle Werkstatt und hört....
.....  im Anschluß empfielt sich Track: https://soundcloud.com/aha-birkeshof/lovescene-with-myself-in-the-rainforest

WerkstattV2

Song Music Band Projekt
an Icelandic-german Cooperation
played at:
ATW Gießen 2008/9
HAU Berlin Festival 100° 

Choir

a song poetry from 2007 

©picture: Ana Berkenhoff

Tatentier

A series of smallest clips for a special german radioshow-
this one is- oh, wonder: about Berlin!
by Björn Deigner and Ana Berkenhoff


Berlin I (teaser of a series of ten, unreleased)

from Ana´s walking-songs-series.
Following this rule:
walking, having a small melody you always have to hang on to and can develope from. you are not allowed to stop singing...
mixed+keyboard in collaboration with Mathias Moor, Frankfurt a.M. 2008     -not mastered

grossekunst

"Commodore" recorded choir rehearsal for our music theatre show "île flottante", at theater Les Subsistances Lyon/france. -Atari inspired
with members of the band Les Emöidroides/ at CNMSD Conservatoire National Superieur Music et Dance Lyon, France

Commodore, choir rehearsal

How bad can you play the guitar? 
This is on a onestring-lapsteel-
soundexerpt from my music for "Birthday" 

see videoexerpt: https://vimeo.com/channels/240384/71461831

Conzept/Artistic director: Andreas Liebmann.
Performance/Text: Andreas Liebmann, Ana Berkenhoff 
Music: Hannes Strobl Ausstattung: Mai Gogishvili 
Dramaturgy: Carolin Hochleichter
Technische Leitung: Tobias Klette
Artistic Collaboration: Beatrice Fleischlin
Assistance: Viktoria Popova, Neville Pfenninger, Eduard Schreiber
Production & ÖA: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro Support Produktion Schweiz: MAS, ARTS MANAGEMENT
Photo: Florian Krauss
 
With the kind support of: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Präsidialabteilung der Stadt Zürich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Georges und Jenny Bloch Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent.
 
A Produktion of Andreas Liebmann in Collaboration with  Rote Fabrik Zürich, Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin, AUAWIRLEBEN Bern
 
Further guest performances: Südpol Luzern, Theater Rampe Stuttgart

Happyguitar

London (2013)- from a series of ultra short radioplays

this is from a series of "Sonic Origami". Ultra short radioplays following a rule. Each word of a phrase or sentence is recorded in a different public soundscape .....
words:
Here,    with you,     my friends,     my friends,     am,       I,        my man.
locations:
Bag in bus, Underground, Buckinghampalace, Hackney street at night, Beach of Brighton, library.

Sonic Origami 1

This is a half texted/half improvised excerpt of a scene I developed for Dominic Huber´s immersive theaterplay "Waiting for the barbarians" which toured through swizzerland and germany in 2012 and 13.
 

Barbaren Monologue

small quicky from 2014
done at Artiststudio Unit 61, London, UK

Dinner with friends

in collaboration with the icelandic artist/dramaturg Símon Birgisson. done 2009 at ATW Gießen during the class with Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll


the number of the Beast

Track made for the theaterplay "mothering" by Katrin Hylla, Theater Marburg January 2015

mamama

This is an exerpt from an immersive theaterinstallation. Mastered in a stereo and OKM original head-microphone- version. 
In the scene two member of audience meet in a small machineroom. Via the earphones they are given the voice of the performer while they look into each others faces....

"Waiting for the Barbarians"/"Warten auf die Barbaren" eine Grenzinstallation von Dominic Huber, music by Knut Jensen


Lovescene with myself in the rainforest

...a performance presentation at Theatertreffen Berlin 2015
In 2014 I developed a durational performance-Installation for the Roskilde Festival/DK. 
(A collaboration with Savage amusement/Melanie Jame Wolf)
Over 4 days the audience could walk through. For one and up to four people I would use some magic devices and true story telling for an amusing show on performing, presence and live portrait painting by old masters. 
Followed by some visual tricks with a mini-projector :)

Here you hear a recording of a short sample of that work- which I performed at the Theatertreffen Berlin this year during a panel about theater and installation.

Become a perfect performer!

this is a 10 min. exerpt from a one-hour experimental-musical-radiodrama that I hope to put on vinyl sometime. 

OUR SONGS
song >< experiment

I partly grew up at my german grandmother. She grew up between the two world wars and 
spent her young adulthood in girl-camps helping on farms. Singing kept 
her alive and able to deal with the hard work. She was called 
"Singerle". The "Wandervogel" movement influenced her immense song 
collection, as well as the chansons and hits of her time.
My songmaking is experimentation. As long as my grandmother lived I 
thought I also should know songs. It took a while to realise that 
songmaking and experimentation is valid too.
In this work you hear my very early sounds&songs combined with her 
singing short before her death. My music was not yet established and 
refined, her voice was about to leave and a big love connected us. This piece was a liberation from my own expectations to music making, songing and composition.

What you hear: broken organ, voice imitating a broken organ, e-piano, 
synthesiser, rollerblades, guitar, drums, keys
www.anaberkenhoff.com/music

composition, recordings, songs, arrangement: Ana Berkenhoff
in collaboration with: Simon Birgisson, guitar, piano, voice
with: Annemarie Berkenhoff, Erich Berkenhoff

Exzerpt >< OUR SONGS ><

Track (unfinished) by Michael Holland & Ana Berkenhoff.
Recorded at Islington Mill/ Salford/ Manchester during sessions for the now released album "watch close"

Max Kam

The single out of the new album by Ana Berkenhoff and Michael Holland on Ono records Manchester.
Instruments: Little Bits, Plumbutter and distortion by Michael Holland. Mastering by Sam Weaver. Beats with Homeswinger, arrangement and voice by Ana Berkenhoff.

get it at http://jcdecaux.bandcamp.com/album/watch-close
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music

on air at:
NTS radio London in the show Stigmergy Benefits by Laurent Faron, Radio BBC 3 in the show of Nick Luscombe, Radio futuremusic.fm in the show: TOWARDS THE MARGINS, at The Gravity Waves Show RADIO RESONANCE EXTRA, on Radio Wavefarm New York, in Ralph Lewis`Show and at Tilde Music and Soundart Festival Melbourne.

boomkat writes: **Dadaist poetry and music from German artist Ana Berkenhoff and ONO capo Michael Holland ov Islington Mill, Salford. In tribute to Kurt Schwitters - a core influence on the ONO label - Ana riffs on his parody of a love poem, 'An Anna Blume' set to wobbly lower case electronics in six parts. Between them, they blur the lines between poetry and tone poem, with Manchester's answer to Peter Pan coaxing out a gauzy spectrum of eccentric small sounds, lopped beats and radiophonic quarks matched for quirkiness by Ana's contributions; from glossolalic rambles to English translations of the Schwitters' text, because "it is unbearably cheesy in my mother tongue…" according to the artist herself." http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/AnaBerkenhoffMichaelHolland-WatchClose-Ono-105513.html
picadilly records writes: Loyal Piccadilly Records customers will be familiar with Ono by now, if you're not I suggest you read some of the reviews on our website of their releases to date. Put simply, Ono is the North West's and possibly England's greatest DIY label / art project. A labour of love by Michael Holland, it's been the platform for many low-key artists hidden in the shadows and without it, it could be argued, the world would be a much more miserable place! Anyway, with great excitement I glanced at the latest release Sounding a little like an Eccentronic Research Council meets Raymond Scott's Mahattan Research Inc meets Cluster, this is a collection of poetry, electronics and improvisation woven together like a tapestry and drawing you in like a tense but beautifully shot thriller. Clangers-esque theramin sine tones, ethnic percussion, multi-lingual poetry, mangled strings - a plethora of idents from an all manner of subversive stylings. Recorded over many days March - April 2015 W/ Roland 303 Groovebox, Zoom H4 Fostex 160 Multitracker, Samplr, Trichord, Plumbutter, Steel on Foam and Littlebits. This is brilliant! I'd thoroughly recommended more reading. &listening. here: http://diskono.jimdo.com/ono-shop/

watch-close

Miss Flower

A cut of a recent live recording of work-in-progress concert experiment at "Propaganda" at The Others in Stoke Newington/ London. Just after Brexit announcement- this influenced. In use: some sounds of recent album by A.B.&Michael Holland/ playing the one-string guitar, Brexit word games from twitter, Einstein´s letter to his daughter, Ableton live, selfbuild 12-string guitar "homeswinger" (by Yuri Landmann)

more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music

BrexitConcert @TheOthers London

Track made in a composing collaboration with young Miss Sophia Vollnex. 

It is the soundtrack to the shortfilm "Square dance"- a choreography in and responding to public space. It has been invited to the Youth Short Film Exhibition Wenzhou, China. To be seen on my video-channel  

Now released on Gargarin Records: Demo Dandies Volume 3 by Felix Kubin and Felix Felix Raeithel. 

https://vimeo.com/167705887
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music

Sqare Dance

// session at PAF music week 2016
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music

Pure Imagination

the zoom recorded this live @tanzhausWest
LIVE concert of Matthias Meppelling aka Adolfina Fuck & Ana Berkenhoff aka Era Geldes on Elvis Presley´s most loved cooking recipes. For the final party of IMPLANTIEREN Festival Frankfurt at Tanzhaus West!
Following the performance F.Y.I.E (like find your inner Elvis) by www.berkenhoffsiegwald.de

more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music

POMMES! ELVIS´last cooking session live@TanzhausWest

A preview of a track from the music-performance FYIE by berkenhoff/siegwald  
www.berkenhoffsiegwald.com/fyie

Sounddesign by Philip Albus

Windmaschine FYIE

A live recording of my concert at Oriel Sychard Gallery Wrexham, Wales, UK. 

With interview on BBC Science Cafe by Andrew Bolden. 

You hear my texture "You will be the land" using voice, homweswinger (homebuild 12-string table top guitar), pebbles in water dispenser, manual modulation. 
In collaboration with Amnoli Moriaty on ableton live.

Concert & Interview on BBC Wales

Gesang+Text+Mundharmonika Ana Berkenhoff, Musik+Production Knut Jensen

song from the immersive theatre installation "Warten auf die Barbaren"/waiting for the barbarians by Dominic Huber/ blendwerk. 
Premiere Gessnerallee Zürich 2012. Tour HAU Berlin, Kaserne Basel, Theater Chur 2013.


Throwing it all away

Whats up: 
6.,7.,8.3.2025 Sound & songs for theatre at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden 
2024 Artist Stipend NRW for ERA GELDES new set development
...
26.09.2021 4-6pm concert at Theater Landungsbrücken Frankfurt/ it’s election day! 
6.10.2020 9pm concert ERA GELDES at anachronism, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg
7.10.2020 9pm concert and live stream ERA GELDES at anachronism, Theater Schwankhalle Bremen
Release: charity album with Hackoustic for Club Iklectik
14.3. 12pm: UNION CHAPEL, London: vocalist in the Hackoustics Orchestra.
“Insubordinately Sublime” -Inigo Wilkins about recent concerts
Here you find songs, sounds and radiofeatures I arrange and produce myself and some I speak and sing for. Situated between postindustrial, sonic jokes and experimental pop-punk.
***ALBUM: https://jcdecaux.bandcamp.com/album/watch-close  ***

I am an artist living and working between London and Berlin and on tour.
Studied post-dramatic theatre and theory/philosophy with a focus on soundart: at ATW Gießen at Heiner Goebbels, Felix Kubin u.o. and as a guest contemporary dance&choreography at CNSMD Lyon.
I love words and sounds, write for theater and run a theatre company putting up music performances. I work with electronic and analog sounds, homemade instruments, voice(s) and fieldrecording. I direct contemporary classical concerts, live radioplays, music for theatre and soundinstallations.
Here on soundcloud you can find some tracks, sketches and experiments.  
 enjoy listening-

When you click on the songtitles you can see more infos about the pieces.
below are links to CV etc. feel free to have a look around, see you in real life.

pictures & sounds copyright @AnaBerkenhoff if not otherwise quoted. 

about the album "Watch Close":
picadilly records writes: "...sounding a little like an Eccentronic Research Council meets Raymond Scott’s Mahattan Research Inc meets Cluster, this is a collection of poetry, electronics and improvisation woven together like a tapestry and drawing you in like a tense but beautifully shot thriller. Clangers-esque theramin sine tones, ethnic percussion, multi-lingual poetry, mangled strings – a plethora of idents from an all manner of subversive stylings. This is brilliant!"

boomcat writes: "...blur the lines between poetry and tone poem, with Manchester’s answer to Peter Pan coaxing out a gauzy spectrum of eccentric small sounds, lopped beats and radiophonic quarks.."

In 2016 my work was played at Tilde Festival for soundart Melbourne, Radio NY, live concert&interview on BBC Wales, concerts at Oriel-Sycharth Wales, New River Studios London, The Others London, Sonic Arts Forum London, Radio futuresound.fm.
speaking at Focus Wales Festival // Digital Innovations Day: Panel 3: THE SPACE RACE: How embracing the digital revolution can give you the edge

ERA GELDES

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