documentations of live sets or extract of live sets

electronic improvisations with combinations of an analog modular bugbrand system, 1010 music's black and bluebox, oto effects, drolo pedals,...

live sets

various sounds

Solo bit of a concert at "Eschborn K"in Eschborn/Frankfurt, October 2021. 

(mixer recording) 

I play an electronic improvisation with my modular synth system by @bugbrand /Tom Bug and the 1010music sampler Blackbox. On the same evening I played two improvised pieces together with Michael Maierhof (extended techniques on cello) & Hannes Seidl (@hgs , electronics).

The evening was part of a series connected to our soundart exhibition "We are heroes" at the Basis, Frankfurt, 2021.

Live at Eschborn K - solo with modular synths + sampler

(220120 2247) improvisation with the set up on the picture. the trombone kind of sounds are made with the cross filter in the sends of the drm2 (that goes through a pt delay) all made by @bugbrand . So the beginning is really just one instrument.

dunklebeat (part 1 w. long intro)

5 min (medley) documentation of a 30min live set at Q-O2 in Brussels, december 2022

electronic improvisation with the analog modular bugbrand system and treated samples

Q - O2 - Liveset - solo - dec2022 - extract - 5 min medley

documentation of live impro set at Au Jus for uꪻꪖꪑoh ꪻhuꪑ0 7 
15 Nov 2024

I brought a Bugbrand sytsem and a 1010Music sampler for fieldrecordings of a walk through the Palais de Justice in Brussels, fireworks and a wok.

photo by Julien

LIVE at Au Jus in Brussels

for violin, clarinet, cello, guitar, piano
2005

original version

The piece was written with this exact church space in mind, that has an enormous reverb (up to 8 seconds). The composition took this into account. Enjoy the hall!

This recording is from a concert by the Plus-Minus Ensemble, 17 March 2005 at the St.Petri Dom, Bremen (Germany)

with 
Kirsten Le Strange - violin
Vicky Wright - clarinet
Tom Pauwels - guitar
Alex Waterman - cello
Roderick Chadwick - piano
Mark Knoop - conductor
Joanna Bailie & Matthew Shlomowitz - ensemble direction

If you like this piece, you might also like this piece:
https://soundcloud.com/david-helbich/tatwaffe

more info, score snippets and the program note from at the time:
http://davidhelbich.blogspot.com/2008/07/lauthalt.html

LAUTHALT - original version

This 1-minute teaser is the beginning of a 10-minute long conversation with a bird around 4.30am in the streets of Brussels in 2014. 

It is part of a two-speaker installation, one for the cool bird and one for drunk me.

I know, the bird really showed me up. That's why I left at some point...

Bird Talk (1min out of 10, teaser)

Some twisted fields in dark tones 
from the deepest of my archives 
of echo-ovations and synthesized waves.

Live set with own field-recordings and treatments 
and accentuations from the DRM2 (BugBrand) synthesizer.

For the series Time Krystal III at Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, Friday, 21/06/2019.

Echo-Ovations for incoming crowd at Kantine am Berghain, Berlin

Track 15 on OUTCUTS (2013, surfacenoise recordings)

This piece was part of the performances 'Keine-Spiele' (2001 with Shila Anaraki) and Stückbehauptungen some years ago. This simple cut&paste techniques were confronted with body compositions and slide-shows.

http://davidhelbich.blogspot.com/2007/06/keine-spiele-2004.html

papierstücke

01 Seitan

from the album Summer Hits
released on New York Haunted, Dec 2023

NYH342

https://newyorkhaunted.bandcamp.com/album/nyh342-helbich-summer-hits


bugsession 200821
machines: bugbrand (DRM2, PT delay, Chirper, CrossFilter), 1010Music BlackBox, Oto bam

NYH342 01 Seitan

David Helbich (1973 Berlin) Works since 2002 in Brussels as conceptual artist in the fields of composition, acoustics, performance, events, art books, public space interventions and installations.