The The Long-Stringed Skomvær Lighthouse, played by me, the instrument developed  by Marie Kaada Hovden and me, during a 14- day experimental co-lab on site-specific art. Røst Artist-In-Residence at Skomvær Fyr Lighthouse, Lofoten. I had a 3 day workshop in experimental instrument building for all the participants, as an introduction to the Co-Lab co-organized with sound- and movement artist Marie Kaada Hovden. Recording with my not very good mobile phone.
Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergmark/sets/72157649502871965/
Film clips:
https://vimeo.com/113391356
https://www.facebook.com/events/1483996008479121/
http://rostair.com/workshop-seminar/
https://www.facebook.com/Rostartistinresidency


Skomvær Lighthouse Long String mobile recording

Con la cara pintada con las llantas incendiadas por la música de voltaje.
Con las marcas de una marea en fuga.
Casi sin aliento por la corrida.
Persiste la velocidad del festejo. Del deseo. La lava en las gargantas.
Una nueva tensión en el arco de la lucha.

*(Libaciones #1)

Casamiento con animal

GBG Wax Trax #131 med Christian Pallin

criadero en seres . marionetas de la belleza

criadero en seres - sabia de hembra ebria

Criadero en seres - roce de rama tiritante

los huemules se han refugiado en el océano de arándalos frotados
pero los bastiones de guardia nocturna son demasiado sobrios, incluso en sueños
cabalgan las manos sobre los huesos de esos secuestros
hay miradas únicas en su filo

quien pueda devolverlo, agitado sobre la mesa
aquí tiene su recompensa

los almacenes son los almanaques
entre las piernas
piezas de un juego invisible

claro que también está la máquina de decir y su pupilo amuleto
que sabe dónde agigantar lo que otros perdieron en sus sequías
con las medallas de sus queridas cabalgando sobre sus campos

un paso más atrás y serán ceniza
por eso blande ese dédalo
ningún perro podrá comerlo
saldrán los azares y fregaremos los horizontes

-deténgase usted
-claro, claro. Ahora también habla un ruiseñor
-la señora ya lo ha dicho, es el calmante que la ha tenido así.

no tenemos dudas, el fruto de esas tranquilidades y estos vituperios es un aceite cruel para sus muslos
quién lo haya adivinado tendrá el encanto para nombrar y arrollar esas manos

el frote estudioso de las cabezas de piedra enanas
o las distintas virtudes cultivadas sin descanso
no hacen estremecer un apetito golpeado por el bálsamo regular
de este escrito

hacen falta sacudidas, rifles y paladares intensos



01 - arándalos frotados

https://mobcorechicagorecords.bandcamp.com/album/x-cksecks-den-ledes-kosmonaut-mcr-016

[WiP] XÄCKSECKS - DEN LEDES KOSMONAUT [Out Now on Mobcore Chicago]

Alicia bebiendo Raki

Disparo felino de un sombrero eléctrico

Fjær og jern

Bergmark's Ridge

Improvised musical performance art with amplified objects and instrument inventions.

Johannes Bergmark makes, among many other things, surrealist musical object theatre with an evolutionary meta-instrument or amplified stage called the Platform. With his main activity as an improvising musician, experimental musical instruments, sound sculptures/-installations/-environments maker and electroacoustic- and text-sound-composer, he has developed over butoh, jester theatre and performance art into a kind of audiovisual object theatre performed as a concert but with a setting as a surrealist puppet play of toys, tools, kitchen utensils, materials, weird and kitch decorative things and junk found on streets and flea markets. The objects bring their history and connotations as well as their often microscopic sound potentials on the little stage, made from a cupboard door with a hidden contact microphone under the floor (usually amplification without any electronic treatments), suspended over the table with a clamp like a springboard into a poor man's utopia where the junk dances the funk on its own terms!
JB has been an increasingly touring free lance musician since he graduated as a piano builder 1996. He also lectures, makes pedagogical projects and workshops, usually focusing on untraditional acoustics, traditional crafts and basic sound technology, hoping to unfold a world where knowledge, skill, inspiration and surprise can meet and develop together and to inspire people to create their own poor man's utopias out of available resources.

In his attitude a skeptic as well as a surrealist, not an artist.

He resides in Stockholm, where he is active in the association for radical and experimental art, Fylkingen (chairman twice), at the Electronic Music Studio, in the swedish skeptics' association Vetenskap och Folkbildning and The Surrealist Group in Stockholm.

Check out my web site for a proper presentation, with texts of all kinds, lots of pictures, film and sound, and all other info that doesn't fit into the format here.

Skomvær Lighthouse Long String mobile recording

Johannes Bergmark

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