ECHO FROM THE CUT
you invite people to enter a sound space with you, whose exit is open and not defined in detail. 
Visual attendance is very important: you take the audience with you to follow you, your body, your voice. In doing so, you produce images that manifest themselves in front of the audience, in an ephemeral nature, which at the same time produce a sound space. For me, the acoustic pleasure of listening to you in this setting is only brilliant when I can see you or follow your movements and objects. An exciting revolution takes place in my head: you make everyday, small, inconspicuous things sound, which normally have no acoustic voice and are not called resonating bodies. But in cooperation with your movements and your body, it becomes a collaboration, a dialogue, music. This has something very poetic, subtle, fragile. 

The echo takes place afterwards in my head (listener within the set, the performance): 
The images of the visually soundless connotations of the objects reappear and I remember their song, their sound that you coaxed out of them. This poetic process in my head, called memory, makes me perceive your acoustic and visual performance as a whole, which reappears again and again in the form of echo intervals - In my case as a visual artist, first the image, then the sound. 

Olivier Wiederkehr 2022

SCHNITT Simon Berz live at Staalblaat Berlin 24.3.2022

Autobass 1 Simon Berz

Pieces of wood, PC cooler, japanese grate,  baking sheet, drums, Hohner Rhythm Machine

Sound Archeology study 1

Kitchen Sink with A.J. Rodrigue on WWOZ Radiostation New Orleans.
Simon Berz playes his music as guest DJ on WWOZ and he talks about ROCKING DESK and the experience with his new instrument.

INTERVIEW Simon Berz WWOZ A.J. 160127 WWOZ

Instant Opus 20170501 New Orleans Nikki Glaspie (dr) Simon Berz (dr/efx)

FELL At Allways Lounge New Orleans 20170511

Justin Peake git, b, efx
Simon Berz dr, efx

PEAKE BERZ SIDEBAR 2017

SO 21 Show 2018 LIQUID LAND

The radio show SO21 Radio Lora Zürich talks about the experimental rock electronic duo FELL with Tom Verbruggen and Simon Berz.
You listen to a FELL live concert September 15 in Den Bosch Holland. Also in the show, there is the first prelistening song DIAGONAL JESUS from the new record PEIDEN. Release of the album ist 26.01.2019 on UNIT RECORDS.

SO 21 Show 20180923 FELL Live In Den Bosch 20180916

The two-part radio show features a solo concert by Simon Berz and an interview with environmental lawyer Pete Harrison.

ROCKING DESK SImon Berz SOLO at  SIDEBAR NEW ORLEANS 2018 11 17

Tom Verbruggen and Simon Berz talking about the new recording PEIDEN with Justin Peke in New Orleans.

FELL INTERVIEW BY JUSTIN PEAKE April 2018 New Orleans about the new record PEIDEN

Drums and Soundart

Simon Berz is a drummer and sound artist. He is strongly engaged in the development of his own instruments and the possibilities of the drums with the use of electronics.
In his research of sound, he makes use of analog electronics and feedbacks. Besides an electrified drum set, he also works intensely with stones, amplifying and distorting their natural sound electronically.
As a drummer/electronic musician, Simon Berz has toured solo and with other musicians throughout Japan, China, Cuba, Iceland, the US, Russia and Europe. He played with Skúli Sverrisson, Rob Mazurek, Kirk Joseph, Jason Marsalis, Mars Williams, Bettina Boller, Mauro Pawlowski (dEUS), Lee “Scratch“ Perry, Niels Petter Molvear, Damo Suzuki (CAN), Jojo Mayer, Jimi Tenor, Apparat, James Turell, Hans Koch, Johanna Borchert, Paul Lowens... With Dutch electronic musician and artist toktek, he formed the band FELL, with whom he toured extensively and released
records on the Swiss label Hula Honeys mixed by Roli Mosimann.

Simon Berz is a drummer and sound artist. Sins several years he develops his own instruments and searches for new possibilities of working with the drum set and percussion. He worked intensly on creating an electrified drumset, using analog electronics and feedbacks, as well as an amplified lithophon, built with stones he found in the Alps.
Simon is also the initiator of the artist platform  and transdiscilinary musicscool BADABUM. Taking improvised music as a basis, the label brings together different artforms, from film and dance to performance and fine arts. Since it was founded in 2001, BADABUM has served as a platform for more than 100 musicians and artists from all over the world.
As a drummer and electronic musician, Simon Berz has toured solo and in different formations through Europe, USA, Japan and China. He creates music and soundscapes for theatre and film and recently composed and conducted a soundtrack to the silent film Metropolis for screenings in Switzerland and China.

Lithophon
When Swiss drummer and sound artist Simon Berz rode his bike across a field of stone in the French Alps, he was immediately taken by the sounds the stones produced. He took some of them home to create a lithophon, which he then amplified and manipulated with electronic effects. As he scratches and strokes them or uses different sticks and materials to hit them percussively, he creates a dense and unique performance. For installation purposes, he lets water drop from infusion bags in various speeds, creating a complex and meditative sound piece.

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