♫ Laboratorium is a second profile of a well-known German experimental band (showing their group improvised music, working under a different flag)

This site is mainly about film music & improvised music.

Dschungelfestung (improvisation)

Live @ Blue Note, Amsterdam, 2013

Robert Frost:
„The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep
and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep“


7 To Keep

MICRONIE IV
The temple bell stops 
But the sound keeps coming
Out of the flowers.
Matusa Bashō

Haiku

music by Giovanni Sarani (http://micronie.net)
more info about Piano Day here: http://www.pianoday.org

Danza

I found Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Jesters just a bit to lacking in levity ... more like a march than a dance. So I felt I needed to play with it to make it more fitting for jesters. My jesters may be just a bit tipsy as they dance....

The High Off Key Orchestra - Jesting Drunk Dancers

Cosmische Verirrung

This piece starts with Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (itself inspired by Mallarme's poem "The Afternoon of a Faun"). I distorted this in various ways and added forest sounds and vocalizations of various sorts (including laughter), also distorted in various ways. Here is the result.

The Feral Faun Fandango Band - Afternoon Of The Orgy Of The Faun

I started this with a couple of tracks recorded from live belly dance performances, including both the music and audience response. I distorted these in various ways. I added further distorted vocalizations. Then I added a couple of tracks, deep in the background, of distorted bongo beats. Perfect for that secret beatnik experimental dance party ....

Hidden Beatnik Orgy - Belly Love

Hades: New piece by Versuchsanordnung (2019) 

Christoph Uhlhaas: Piano & composer of "Hades" 
Christian Barthold: Guitar & fretless bass
Martin Schubert: Drums

Cover image: Christian Barthold
https://www.behance.net/Christian-Barthold

IndieMag about Versuchsanordnung:

"VERSUCHSANORDNUNG (GERMANY)
Haunting. Cinematic. Evocative. Versuchsanordnung is more of a collective rather than a band. Forming in 2006, the group has evaded categorization with their particular brand of atmospheric improvisations. Their name itself means experimental arrangement in German and they definitely live up to their name. They have a list of goals that read like a mission statement, including ‘to create sound impressions full of atmosphere aiming to paint pictures in your head.’ Goal archieved. Whether it is a film score or a freeform song, this group lives in a land where no soundscape is ever played the same way twice. Well worth hunting down."

"Die Band um den Kölner Grafiker & Musiker Christian Barthold geht nicht den geraden Weg. Hier hört man jazziges, Progressiv-Elemente, Post-Rock-Tristesse und immer wieder ganz unerwartete Sounds, die dann, wie in PONYHOF, zu einem Moll-Surf-Instrumental führen, das sehr an die wunderbaren Atomic Swing erinnert. Gemeinsam mit Jörg Düpjohann (dr.), Markus Blatzheim (bs) und dem Pianisten Christoph Uhlhaas ist ein sehr eigenwilliges Album gelungen, das neben der Musik auch für sein Verpackungsdesign die absolute Höchstwertung bekommt."
- Gitarre&Bass / Lothar Trampert, CD-Review / Versuchsanordnung: "Urlaub am Saundstrand" (Oct 21, 2011)

Versuchsanordnung says: Please meet us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/versuchsanordnung

Final

Hades

Synapse Pt.1

Laboratorium is the 2nd profile of a well-known experimental band from Germany. 
The one you're on is about pure Improvisation.
Hope you enjoy this as much as we do!

If you want to watch Filmtrailers we did music for: please choose the links "Music for Movies 1 & 2"

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Versuchsanordnung // laboratorium players (from 2006 until today):

Christoph Uhlhaas: piano, electronics

Christian Barthold: guitar, live-looping, microkorg, bass-ukulele, fretless bass, live-electronics, theremin, kalimba, percussion, flutes

Martin Schubert: drums & percussion

Wilfried Hanrath: our new man on fretless bass & fretless bass-ukulele

Markus Blatzheim (2006-2014): fretless bass, bass-synth, selfmade flutes, synth

Jörg Düpjohann (2006-2010): electric & acoustic drums & percussion

Joe Becker (R.I.P. 2016): drums, percussion

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For concert offers, CD's or anything else:
please contact Christian Barthold (Manager)
mailto: weaverofyourdreams@gmx.de

Thank you for your open ears!