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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.

Guilherme Rodrigues 

Guilherme Rodrigues is a cellist, improviser, sound explorer and composer from Lisboa, Portugal.

He was born in 1988 in Lisboa and started to learn cello and trumpet when he was seven at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and later in Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory until his twenty-three. 

With an intuitive approach to improvisation and exploration of the timbres, 
using both classical and extensive techniques, his music is exciting, polyrhythmic and full of contrasts. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film. 

Has been following a professional career in music since 1997 and performs in concerts and workshops around Europe and Asia. Currently living in Berlin.

Currently member of Reanimation Orchestra and active as composer and improviser in the scene sharing the stage with musicians like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Tristan Honsinger, Axel Doerner, Sei Miguel,, Harri Sjostrom, Michel Doneda, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Mia Dyberg, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Blaise Siwula, Gino Robair, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Gabriel Paiuk, Tom Djll, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Matthias Bauer, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim, Vasco Trilla, among others.

Released more than 40 albums of his own projects.

Discography: ...  from 2017 until now:
golden towers and electric frictions - CS 386 Lisbon 2017 Porto Covo - CS 418 Lisbon 2017 Ornithorhynchus anatinus - CS 416 Lisbon 2017 Urze - CS 426 Lisbon 2017 Temperature Difference - CS 420 Lisbon 2017 Sacred Noise - CS 422 Lisbon 2017 Plane, line segments, rays and some dissipations - CS 425 Lisbon 2017 Llop - CS 423 Lisbon 2017 Xenon - CS 430 Lisbon 2017 Blattwerk - CS 436 Lisbon 2017 L'Ennui - CS 446 Lisbon 2017 Infinite Series - CS 440 Lisbon 2017 Heptaphonies - CS 455 Lisbon 2017 Underwater Music - CS 450 Lisbon 2017 Micrographía - CS 477 Lisbon 2017 The Afterlife of Trees - CS 471 Lisbon 2017
As We Read Along... - CS 484 Lisbon 2017
Apteryx mantelli - CS 492 Lisbon 2017
Laura - CS 502 Lisbon 2018
Zweige - CS 497 Lisbon 2018
Spiric Sections - CS 498 Lisbon 2018
Synchronous Rotation- CS 499 Lisbon 2018
Crane Cries - CS 503 Lisbon 2018
Tellurium - CS 500 Lisbon 2018
Ma'adim Vallis - CS 494 Lisbon 2018
Hollow Wood - CS 487 Lisbon 2018
Meandros e Vertentes - CS 510 Lisbon 2018
0 minutes 0 seconds - CS 524 Lisbon 2018
Lithos - CS 526 Lisbon 2018
Barium - CS 519 Lisbon 2018
Jardin Carré - CS 533 Lisbon 2018
Sul - CS 534 Lisbon 2018
The distant sound within - CS 535 Lisbon 2018
RRR - CS 544 Lisbon 2018
We Still Have Bodies - CS 541 Lisbon 2018
Ignis Fatuus - CS 552 Lisbon 2018
dis/con/sent - CS 563 Lisbon 2018
Penedo - CS 516 Lisbon 2018
Eris - CS 558 Lisbon 2018
3 Phases (III) BLACK - CS 516 Lisbon 2018
Ljubljana - CS 558 Lisbon 2018
Hymn - CS 562 Lisbon 2018

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