<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/art/8132427/15-3-2014-ART-OF-VOICE-im-Munster-Monchengladbach" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE</a>
15.3. / 26.4. / 28.6. 
Krypta St. Vitus, Mönchengladbach
19:15 – 21:15 Uhr 

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<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/art/8178711/27-4-2014-offenes-Circlesinging-in-St-Kunigund-Koln" target="_blank">CIRCLESINGING</a> 
16.3. / 29.6. – St. Kunigund, Köln, 15 Uhr
6.6. – St. Kunigund, Köln, 20 Uhr
25.7. – St. Michael, Köln, 19 Uhr

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<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/art/8131743/1-10-5-2014-THREE-TO-ONE-Konzerte" target="_blank">THREE TO ONE</a> 
1.5. – Kapelle Gerkerath, 17 Uhr
10.5. – Münster St. Vitus, 22 Uhr

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<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-14-2-kuni" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 14/2 kunigunde</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-studio-14-1" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 14/1 studio</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-2013-kryptB" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 13/4 krypta</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-2013-krypt" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 13/3 krypta</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-2013winter" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 13/2 winter</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-2013" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 13/1 summer</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – 12/1 winter</a>
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/art-of-voice" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – Best of</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/art-of-voice-presamples" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – Repertoire Presamples</a>
<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/page/1955627/ART-OF-VOICE" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – Branding</a>
<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/" target="_blank">Circlesinging Workshops</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE51QqVQoe4&feature=share&list=PLICv0Jj2ccphnu_UrspC7DyCiX6y6ln_G" target="_blank">Videos</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/circlesinging-4" target="_blank">Circlesinging 4</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/circlesinging3" target="_blank">Circlesinging 3</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/circlesinging" target="_blank">Circlesinging 2</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/ebelingart" target="_blank">Circlesinging 1</a>
conception & direction: 
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/frank-ebeling-2013" target="_blank">Frank Ebeling – Hand In Hand (2013)</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/frank-ebeling" target="_blank">Frank Ebeling – Both Sides (2012)</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/frankebeling2" target="_blank">Frank Ebeling – If (2011)</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/mueller-ebeling-01/sets/cologne-east/" target="_blank">müller / ebeling – EAST WEST (2014)</a>

Everything you hear was recorded live without any overdubing or post-multitracking — only with use of loop-machines and delays.

<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/page/1955627/ART-OF-VOICE" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – LABOR</a>  is a circle of voice teachers, professional and ambitious selected singers from Cologne, Dusseldorf, Lower Rhine and Ruhrgebiet meets once a month for structured vocal improvisations. 

<a href="http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/page/1955627/ART-OF-VOICE" target="_blank">ART OF VOICE – ENSEMBLE</a> members have their roots in different countries of Eastern and Western Europe and are influenced and inspired by 

— contemporary jazz, latin, folk, classical music, chamber music, minimal music, avantgarde, experimental and improvised music, the nordic joik, the pygmy yelli and other manifold tunes and rhythms of our world, …

— and the music of Bobby McFerrin, Arvo Pärt, Vince Mendoza, Ralph Towner and Oregon, Nik Bärtsch, Claus Ogerman, Pat Metheny, Roger Treece, Kerry Marsh, Ola Gjeilo, John Tavener, Thomas Tallis, Vocal Line, King's Singers, Voces8, Hilliard Ensemble, Real Group, Juan Garcia, Oliver Gies, Burt Bacharach, Maria Schneider, Bela Bartok, Bernat Vivancos, Björk, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Bang on a Can, Brian Eno, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Gabriele Hasler, Wolfgang Mitterer, Django Bates, Bill Bruford, Peter Erskine, Kip Hanrahan, Miles Davis, Joe Zavinul, Michael Brecker, Don Grolnick, Chick Corea, Avishai Cohen, John Scofield, Nguyen Le, Dhafer Youssef, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Henriksen, Christian Wallumrød, Paolo Fresu, Markus Stockhausen, Frank Zappa, Johann Sebastian Bach, …

For more Information, please contact <a href="mailto:FrankEbeling@online.de">FrankEbeling@online.de</a>

Jan Klug is a composer, musician and media designer with extensive experience in the use of computers and programming as creative tools for live interactive performances. He started as a musician, and graduated in 1999 in jazz saxophone at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen.
As a musician, composer and media designer, Jan has worked on several projects in dance, theater and film. He created numerous performances and concerts, blending acoustic and electronic music, video and programming. Starting in 1996 as a permanent member of the popular Dutch group "Poets from Epibreren", Jan specialized in the musical accompaniment of poetry and literature, continued up to today through concerts with Dutch writer Christine Otten.   
Since 2008, Jan is core teacher of the master study "Interactive Media and Environments" (MFA IME) at the Frank Mohr Institute (FMI) of Academy Minerva in Groningen, an interdisciplinary programme of advanced education in computer-related media art and experimental art research.

The fifteen year old totally inexperienced and still completely unknown Phil Lips recorded from about 1973 to 1978 his favorite tunes by overdubbing every selfsung voice and selfplayed instrument with a  "Philips N4506" taperecorder down in his dark and lonely hobby cellar. 

After every further overdubbing, the noise increased. And it was very important to clean  the heads of the recorder very often in these years, because of tape abrasion ! 

Phil Lips laid the first foundations of his later musical career in pre-school age during nightly up-and-down-singing of Burt B. songs and former television themes under his bedcover. „For his age, still very playful“ it said in his first school report.

As a teenager, the native of the Lower Rhine Area spent days, weeks and months by reproducing several Beatles and Zappa pieces meticulously on a Philips N4506 tape machine by overdubbing, using a homemade fake guitar from a roofbatten, papiermâché and flowerwire, a simple nylon acoustic guitar, a white Ricky-King-Herticaster, several tin cans, cleaning buckets, neighborhood kids, an oscillator from the electronics-experimental-kit, father’s homeorgan and tenthousands kilometers of motorhighway, which gave Phil an intensive study of percussion and drumming to CD-playbacks of Bill B., Peter E. and Vince M. 

The steering wheel of his Daihatsu Charade had an excellent Snarresound because of lack of airbags.

https://soundcloud.com/phil-lips-greatest-hits/sets

Tobias Klein (*Saarbrücken, Germany, 1967) moved to Amsterdam in 1990 and studied  saxophone and bass clarinet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with, among others, Jasper Blom and Harry Sparnaay. 
As a performing musician, his focus lies mainly on improvised music and contemporary jazz, enriched by his studies of contemporary composed music, live-electronics and techniques derived from African, Eastern European and Asian music. He currently (co-)leads the groups Spinifex, Lackritz, Maw Sit Sit and the duo Oguz Buyukberber/Tobias Klein.
Tobias composes for both contemporary jazz groups and for chamber music ensembles. His work as a composer is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
In 2010, he was awarded the North Sea Jazz Composition Commission. 
Tobias has toured or recorded with many great musicians such as Jasper Blom, Joost Buis, Oguz Buyukberber, Andrew Claes, Damien Cluzel, Esra Dalfidan, Benoît Delbecq, Marc Ducret, Jozef Dumoulin, Kristina Fuchs, Oene van Geel, Onno Govaert, Mark Haanstra, Sylvia de Hartog, Gerri Jaeger, Gijs Levelt, B.C. Manjunath, Lothar Ohlmeier, Timuçin Sahin, Emmanuel Scarpa, Chris Speed, Jasper Stadhouders, Raphael Vanoli and Teun Verbruggen.  

Dedicated to the expansion of repertoire for women’s voices, Lorelei Ensemble works to expose lesser-known early music from the Medieval through Baroque periods, while collaborating with living composers to produce innovative programming that speaks to a wider audience.

Die Musik von Sono Eksperimento entsteht intuitiv. Der Begriff der Intuitiven Musik wurde in den 1960er Jahren von Karlheinz Stockhausen geprägt und von dessen Sohn Markus Stockhausen weiterentwickelt.Es entsteht eine Musik, die sich jenseits fester Stilrichtungen bewegt, sich aber auch keinem Genre verweigert. Sie legt alle Verantwortung in die Hand der MusikerInnen und gibt ihnen maximale Ausdrucksmöglichkeit.Die hier vorgestellten Hörbeispiele dokumentieren lediglich Ausschnitte aus dem Schaffensprozess von Sono Eksperimento, bzw. seiner Teilbesetzungen, und sind nach persönlichem Ermessen von Frank Ebeling, dem Administrator dieser Webseite, benannt und zusammengestellt worden.Die MitspielerInnen des Ensembles kommen aus ganz unterschiedlichen musikalischen Richtungen wie z.B. Klassik, Neue Musik, Jazz, Weltmusik.

Anne Krickeberg – Cello
Anja Lautermann – Flöten
Dorit Schäffler – Klarinetten
Frank Ebeling – Gesang, Elektronik
Karsten Gaul – Flöte, Saxophon
Ishu Lohmann – Saxophon
Thomas Becker – Klavier
Vanessa Vieto – Gesang
Valerie Kohlmetz – Perkussion
Volkmar Müller – Keyboards, Elektronik

Fotos: Viramo Lim

Django Novo creates music in different genres and has been presented as a solo artist at several arenas and festivals in Norway including the Oslo Jazz Festival, Hortenfestivalen, Alta Blues & Soul Festival, and byLarm. In 2022 Django Novo - together with long-time collaborator Tov Ramstad - landed a contract with NXN Records (Naxos) and released the album "The Distance" on CD/digital format in March 2023.

Reviews:
★★★★★★★★ 8/10 - Eclipsed Rock Magazin (Germany):
«Django Novo and Tov Ramstad's duo project is more intellectual art than crude pop music. Ramstad's deep cello provides a delightful contrast to Novo's clear voice.»

★★★★ 4/5 - Ivan Rod - journalist, critic, author, and editor (Denmark):
«The lyrics are well-written, and the vocals and accompaniment are clearly intended as a whole - almost a performance. For the same reason, I could easily imagine a VJ having a central role in the live performances. It is very fascinating.

Top track: Let Nothing Happen.»

Jazz-fun.de - Magazin für Jazz Musik (Germany):
"An intriguing narrative and excellent compositions make this album a listening pleasure."

UKVIBE (United Kingdom) 
«A beguiling combination of dreamy, atmospheric soundscapes and original songs are the order of the day for this latest release from Norwegian label NXN Recordings. Created by fellow countrymen Django Novo and Tov Ramstad, “The Distance” is a series of wistful compositions that combine a whole host of musical influences – from pop to blues to world to folk to jazz to cinematic to classical and back again – all wrapped up in a blanket of comforting ambience.

The thing I love about this kind of music is how easy it is to let the imagination run wild. It’s like listening to a make-believe film score, one where I can create my own characters and plot, through visual ideas and emotional input. To this end, I get the feeling that Novo and Ramstad are natural storytellers themselves, with their music incorporating all the key elements needed to let my imagination run free.

Django Novo performs vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, and percussion, with Tov Ramstad playing cello, double bass, electric bass, piano, keyboards, and percussion.
To further expand their sound and vision, the duo invited a selection of musicians to add trumpet, keyboards, harmonica, lap steel guitar, accordion, flute, strings, piano, percussion, and even therevox custom instrument. Samples and electronic treatments also play a part in this dreamy offering. Everything is pieced together with skilful aplomb, resulting in an intriguing offering for lovers of ambient / song-writing music.

Making music such as this is an artful craft in itself. It does however sometimes detract from a necessary prerequisite; that the compositions have an innate strength to them. In the case of “The Distance”, it’s a bit of a mixed bag to be honest. There are moments of brilliance – the fiercely distinctive “The Screen You Look Upon” and “Time Travel” being two cases in point – mixed with a sometimes slightly confusing set of songs/tunes. For me personally, the vocals work well on some tracks but leave me wishing they weren’t there on others. Overall though, the combinations of instruments and ideas work well together, and I can only tip my hat in appreciation to the two eclectic musicians who have put this album together.»

Mike Gates

Lyrics on the album "The Distance" written by DN. Songs on "The Distance" composed by DN and TR, except 1,3,4 and 8 by DN. 

At the present time, DN is focusing mainly on studio work - mostly solo with the occasional collaboration - venturing into dramatic, scenographic pop, and electronic music.

Lives and works in Oslo and Mjøsa, Norway.

Oslo, March 2023.

Circlesinging II is following