Participants:
Pondskater (music, live)
Katja Stuke (coverart and films, prefabricated)
Public support:
Supported by an artist scholarship
within the framework of NRW, Germany Corona Aid
In cooperation with:
Toplap Düsseldorf
Label: Hauch Records HR022
Distribution: (Vinyl) A-Musik, Köln / (Digital) Bandcamp Genre: Experimental Erratic Downbeat

Pondskater - live @ FFT Duesseldorf, Germany 26-04-2023

Grim! Grim! Grim!

Grimberg - live at Ekko, Utrecht, Netherlands 20-04-2023

The Controls

Pondskater live @ Arkaoda Berlin 01-11-2023

Part #1 of a collcection of sounds of photographic devices, courtesy of Oliver Sieber, Düsseldorf. Germany

»For Sale« Sounds of photographic devices pt. 1 : Hasselblad 500 C/M with f3.5/100mm T*

About Pondskater
Since 2019, the Düsseldorf musician Pondskater aka Axel Ganz has been working with live coding, a technique that focuses on writing source code and interactive programming in improvised form. An elementary part of his performance is to make the writing process of the source code visible to the audience through a spatial projection of his monitor. In addition, there will be further visual layers designed by the Düsseldorf artist Katja Stuke.

The recent Pondskater programme documents a wide variety of electronic music. Complex yet grooving rhythms are the foundation of Pondskater's sometimes dark downbeat. On the other hand, melodic elements refer to African and Asian influences. Without touching the dance floor, overlapping patterns of acoustic percussion and synthesizers get caught in the branches of erratic voices. The transmitters remain unrecognized.

Biographical
The musician Axel Ganz was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1965. Since the 1980s he has been involved in various musical projects and bands. He produced film music for short and experimental films and worked for the theatre (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Theater Oberhausen, HAU Berlin, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich).
Since 2009 he has been experimenting with algorithmic music production techniques and publishing experimental electronic music under the pseudonym Pondskater. In 2018, together with Markus van Well, he founded "Toplap Düsseldorf", initially a local network for generative art, algorithmic music and sound art in digital space, which networks artists and organizes concerts and workshops. Axel Ganz lives in Düsseldorf and Telavi in Georgia.

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