Piano sleep

Sleepy tour @Atelier Ksr, Berlin 2014 
Nicolas Puyjalon‘s exhibition "Happy house"
Elbow in C
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh4dIPyHjII&index=1&list=PLKEDarX94aHqDOoPkWaLD7zWBjIKzV_XU
A piece performed while falling asleep at the piano.
For Zabo Chabiland, live performance induces an almost hypnotic state. Narcolepsy is not something she normally suffers from, until she sits at a piano. Her ambition has never been to play the instrument, rather to ride it, surfing the waves of sound. By shifting the pressure of her elbows along the keyboard, a musical dream can be heard playing in the distance, somewhere deep in her imagination. When she finally wakes up the piece is over, and as with waking from any long nap, she feels thoroughly relaxed, well-rested, squinting from the light, wondering what it was she just dreamt.

What the audience makes of it is much like what a bunch of strangers would experience gathered around a bed to watch someone sleep, only to hear the curious music of the subconscious mind coming from under a pillow. And what sort of music would that be? A gently flowing reverie? Or the screams of your worst nightmare. Ken Shakin

ELBOW IN C LIVE

Nicolas Moulin's Hotel Kosmos @ Hochparterre Berlin Nov. 17/19 2017

Hotel Kosmos: Cessation of Hostilities with 48 hours non stop in orbit. Sleeping cure for cryonics space dreams. Asteroïds animist cult and mental music. Delicious drinks and food. Live music with Zabo Chabiland, Günter Schickert, Ren Gønke and Nicolas Metall. Drawings and portrait of Ibnhawqal. Records playing. The last one shut the light off.

For Zabo Chabiland, live performance induces an almost hypnotic state. Narcolepsy is not something she normally suffers from, until she sits at a piano. Her ambition has never been to play the instrument, rather to ride it, surfing the waves of sound. By shifting the pressure of her elbows along the keyboard, a musical dream can be heard playing in the distance, somewhere deep in her imagination. When she finally wakes up the piece is over, and as with waking from any long nap, she feels thoroughly relaxed, well-rested, squinting from the light, wondering what it was she just dreamt.

Sleeping Odyssey is the cosmic version of Elbow in C, developed especially for the new division of Grautag Records: Sunatra

SLEEPING ODYSSEY @ HOTEL KOSMOS

A weekend dedicated to noise and sound art on the former radar station on Teufelsberg.

artists:
stefan roeslmair
aze007: the pale alex
akatana & leiris
daniel craig
zabo chabiland
maurin donneaud
die elektromods
jpech
gregorio fontén
valentin ginies
siegfried kärcher
kobakant
fabian lehmann
daniel matz
marilyn mouradian
polyplay
aline raphael
rco
lasse marc riek
konstantin rosenkranz
pit ruge
amalia valdes
& the romantic horse
+others
a colaboration of dots gallery, plusnull e.v.
and teufelsberg crew.

more info and schedule:
www.noiselab.org



Elbow in C
A piece performed while falling asleep at the piano.

For Zabo Chabiland, live performance induces an almost hypnotic state. Narcolepsy is not something she normally suffers from, until she sits at a piano. Her ambition has never been to play the instrument, rather to ride it, surfing the waves of sound. By shifting the pressure of her elbows along the keyboard, a musical dream can be heard playing in the distance, somewhere deep in her imagination. When she finally wakes up the piece is over, and as with waking from any long nap, she feels thoroughly relaxed, well-rested, squinting from the light, wondering what it was she just dreamt.

Sleeping Odyssey is the cosmic version of Elbow in C, developed especially for the new division of Grautag Records: Sunatra

Thank you Jemek Jemowit for the great live sound level monitoring!
Picture  by Velerie Leray & Karine Bonneval

Teufelsberg ready2

Sleeping Odyssey at Stützpunkt Teufelsberg  NoiseLAB Festival 5/5/2018

27/10/2018
Forum Factory. Berlin

Existential Slap
An evening curated by Mina Büker
Invited by Stefan Höppe

The moment where all expectations, foreshadowings of the future and preconceptions of past breaks down by an external force.

With this exhibition students from UDK, international and local artists come together to show works of performance, paintings, music and more. All artist will share their way of capturing and creating a moment by being in the now. No matter how exhilarating, uncomfortable, static or in pain the moment can be, it is possible to find the freedom to be in it; The freedom of stripping oneself from worries of future and weight of past to attain the power to handle existential slaps.

I had a Brazilian nightmare on my new keyboard the night before the sinister  elections.

Sleeping Odyssey at Stützpunkt Teufelsberg NoiseLAB Festival 5/5/2018

ZABO CHABILAND