Stephane Leonard

Brandhorst

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:20:00 +0000

The weekend right after the Melt festival I felt like a religious man
paying a visit to my holy grail.
I went to Munich to check out the new Museum Brandhorst which hosts
the second largest collection on display of Cy Twombly´s work.
A whole floor for Twombly - definitely one of the best days in my
life. (the largest collection can be seen at the Menil Collection
Museum in Houston, Texas - which I have not yet been to)
Brandhorst has an amazing art collection including Warhol, Hirst,
Nauman, Richter, Katz, West ... (check out the whole list on the
website: http://www.museum-brandhorst.de/). The museum was especially
build for his collection and has just recently opened it´s doors.
Not only the art is worth a visit to Munich but the museum itself is
a piece of art. It was build by the Berlin architects Sauerbruch
Hutton who are famous for their very colorful buildings.
If you would like to know more you can find a lot on the website or
better go to Munich yourself and discover this fantastic museum and
collection.

Brandhorst not only ownes older pieces, he has also some of the
latest Twomblys from 2008 and the 12 paintings from the 2001 Venice
Biennale called "Lepanto". Moreover he ownes some of Twomblys
sculptures which have not been shown very often, yet.
I was overwhelmed by so much art from the man who´s work made me want
to become an artist about 15 years ago when I first saw a painting in
an ordinary school book for art class.
Eversince I have been following his work and I have only gotten more
and more inspiration from it.
Twombly revolutionised the way I look at art. He made me become so
much more insightful, more curious, more sensitive and more connected
to emotions within a drawing or painting, as well as any other
genre... When I look at his work I can see and feel things - I
understand how it talks to me because I can sense the connection
between the artist and his work. I mean it is not a secret - it is
all there - just look at his lines and scribbles and you will
experience how easy it can be to become attached to abstract art.
Twombly´s work is a mirror of himself, a direct insight into the mans
soul and thoughts.
Thank you for giving me and the world so much.

Melt

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:54:00 +0000

I went to the Melt festival - a music festival about 2 hours south of
Berlin close to the Bauhaus city Dessau.
I have never really been to a festival of that size and I was a bit
scared but I have to admit that I kind of liked it.
It never really seemed too crowded due to the 4 different stages the
people could go to.
The Melt festival is situated in the middle of an outdoor museum
about coal mining, cramped in between 6 or so monsterous machines.
The area is called "Ferropolis - Stadt aus Eisen" (Ferropolis - city
of steal) - a fantastic place to host a festival and highly
recommendable for a day trip.

I was there to film BODi BiLL.
BODi BiLL is a great, hot and upcoming band from Berlin who played a
superb show at the Melt.
They had a really good slot: friday 10.15PM - with the sun already
down and the machines illuminated by super strong and colorful light
beams, with the Klaxons who had just warmed up the crowd on the big
stage and the tiny bit of rain who finally decided to stop and rest
for a few hours. Although the smaller stage is not compareable to the
main stage in size and sound a few hundred people came to see BODi
BiLL to dance the whole set through.

Thanks again for such a great night and you people outthere watch out
for a new BODi BiLL video coming out later this year including
amazing footage from their show at the Melt.

back home

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Hello

I am back home in Berlin now.
I wanted to show you 2 links about the journey in case you can´t get
enough:

http://blog.bosch-stiftung.de/laptoporchester/

http://vimeo.com/user1539715

all the best

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Ruse in Bulgaria was the last city we played at on our journey.
Again everyone was super helpful and supportive throughout those 4
days of rehearsals and intense song writing.
The concert took place on thursday at the Canetti Haus - an old
building owned by the Canetti family. The space was very rough and
really cold. It was probably the smallest place we performed at
during the last 4 weeks but it was also something special and much
more exciting than a normal club.
About 50 people came to the show - a very mixed audience - 13 year
old music students and over 60 year olds who came out of curiosity
standing side by side listening to our one and a half hour set.
We had to learn four new pieces on this tour which we all performed
that night + 2 older pieces from our repertoire. For the first time
it really was quite stressful recalling all the things from the
compositions and I realized that I should have taken more notes
during rehearsals. We did some mistakes - a computer crashed, a cell
phone rang, someone started the wrong piece at the wrong time, a
mixer broke... but the audience was very friendly and we all had a
few laughs during the set and looking back now it actually was a
pretty good concert.
Afterwards we all went out for dinner and drinks and of course to
celebrate.

The next day was an official off day which some of us (including me)
used to rent a car to get out of Ruse and explore some more of Bulgaria.
We went to a wonderful monastery in the mountains, some ancient ruins
and a great little town called Veliko Tarnovo. We did some really
touristy stuff, had a fantastic lunch on a balcony overlooking the
whole city and walked and walked and walked.
On saturday our taxi from the future took us back to Bucarest from
where we took a plane back to Berlin.

Thanks to everyone who made this journey possible, thanks to the
Laptop Boys and thank you for following this little diary.

talk soon - Stephane

(in the photos: the old house surrounded by trees is not the venue
but the monastery)

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:39:00 +0000

South Romania from the train.
It´s not that I am particularly fond of mountains, I just haven´t
seen them in quite a while.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:27:00 +0000

hello everyone

I am sorry for the delay but the last few days were pretty busy and I
was too tired to blog.
The concert in Sibiu at the GONG theatre was probably our best so far
- hopefully we haven´t reached our peak on this tour now...
One more concert left and we are all very excited but also tired and
anxious to get back home again.

Sibiu was a beautiful city - unexpectedly pretty. On sunday we
finally had a day off and Olli and me went to an open air museum
about Romanian history and to the zoo next door. It felt good to
break our daily routine of rehearsing, eating and sleeping or sitting
in the bus for hours.
On monday we took the train to Bucarest. Unfortunately we didn´t get
the chance to take a look at the city. The very scenic train ride
took more than 6 hours and when we arrived it was already dark. We
were picked up by two Bulgarians in their future taxi bus. They had a
2000 watt bass system in the back, blue light underneath, a tv,
cameras on the back bumper, navigation system and other fancy things
they liked to show off. It was kind of strange to drive in such a
well equiped car and then take roads that hardly deserve to be called
a road. As soon as you leave the cities the standards change
drastically. The gap between rich and poor seems so much bigger than
I have ever seen before....
2 hours later, after crossing over the mighty Donau river we arrived
in Ruse, Bulgaria.
We checked in at the city art hotel, a quite luxurary hotel in the
middle of the center. Ruse is not that big (160 000 people) but has
everything you need except for food after 12pm.
On tuesday we started rehearsing right away. We still had to do some
work with the Romanian piece and we had to prepare ourselves for the
Bulgarian composition.
We rehearsed at the concert venue - the Canetti house - an old
building that belonged or still belongs to Canettis family. It is
empty and in bad shape now but the Bosch institut is allowed to use
it for cultural events.
Eventhough it is a very warm spring here the building was super cold
so that today we moved to a different rehearsal space.

I am not sure if we can do better than the 150 people in Sibiu but
everyone is trying their best.

- first pic was our hotel in Sibiu - next pics are impressions

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:30:00 +0000

here are a few random pics from Ollis camera
they sum up the trip so far

pictures from Sibiu follow soon

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:16:00 +0000

more pictures:

- our driver
- Romania
- first night in Sibiu

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:08:00 +0000

While we were sleeping our great hungarian driver Gabor took care of
the bus.
With a 2 hour delay we left Timisoara to go straight to Sibiu. We
have been warned before that it would be a long and bumpy trip
eventhough it is only 300km.
To be honest we all didn´t think that it would take us over 7 hours
to get to Sibiu. Sometimes there wasn´t even a real road and most of
the time only one lane was open so that we had to wait and wait and
wait. We did get to see a lot of landscape though and in the end even
snow covered mountains. We also drove through very authentic romanian
villages, industrial areas and beautiful nature while listening to
great romanian folk music.
When we reached the venue in Sibiu, the theatre GONG it was passed
6pm and a lot of press and other people were anxiously waiting for
us. We set up as fast as possible, did the shortest soundcheck ever,
gave a few interviews and then the show started at 7.30pm sharp.
The theatre was packed - Sophie from the Bosch institut in Sibiu has
done a great job promoting the event. Eventhough we practically
played without soundcheck and lightcheck it turned out to be a great
show. Everyone was happy and after over 1 hour of playing it was
definitely time for a drink.
We packed our stuff and went to the hotel to unpack the bus and then
we were invited to a very classy restaurant with original romanian food.
We said our good byes to our driver - THANK YOU very much Gabor - and
then went to bed to sleep a long and deep sleep.

The pictures are impressions from the road, the venue in Timisoara
and Timisoara by night - Sibiu follows soon.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Yesterday we drove all day. From Croatia back to Hungary and then
further east to Romania.
And while the landscape changed and became more and more southern we
got a feeling for the size of Europe.
With country music turned up to the max we crossed a tiny little
border into Romania and all of the sudden things rapidly changed.
The villages looked older, more run down, the roads were bumpy and in
desperate need of repair, some of the farms reminded me of the farm
in Nick Cave´s novel ´And the Ass saw the Angel´.
For the first time this felt kind of like what we expected from
Romania. Although some of the houses were freshly painted in the most
extrem colours possible I could see that we have found what we were
looking for - a real clash of cultures. Well, things didn´t stay like
this. When we reached the suburbs of Timisoara modern factories
started to grow out of the flat land - Cola, Metro, DHL ... - I was
disappointed.
Timisoara itself is also a very modern and lively city. The
architecture is old and beautiful but the shops, the peoples clothes,
the banks, the cars looked just like everywhere else we have been so
far.
We only had time for a quick meal and then rushed to the venue - a
club with a very powerful PA system in an old factory building
surrounded by more factories.
We soundchecked, went to the hotel, lay down for a second and then
went back to the club. There was a shortfilm screening before our
show which was very modern and up to date and by 9 PM we went on
stage to play a bit unsatisfying show because from where the stage
was we couldn´t really hear what was happening on the PA. Our
soundcheck was too fast and we had to pay the price for it. About 50
people showed up which was good but the club had capacity for a 150
more people.

After the show we quickly wanted to go back to the hotel because
today we are playing in Sibiu and it is a 6 hour drive there.
But our bus broke down. We hung out at the club for hours. People on
phones, everyone stressed out, we had no idea what to do. Around 1AM
we decided to go eat in a fast food places somewhere in the middle of
the student dorms not too far from the club. We walked through an
adventurous area and it seemed like our nightmares and not our dreams
became true.
Thanks to wonderful hosts and guides we had a great night and even
made it back to the hotel at about 3 in the morning. Thank you very
much you wonderful people who helped with the club and the car and
everything else.
Right now I am sitting in the hotel waiting for our bus to come back
from the repair place our hungarian driver took it to.
It is 9.30AM - I am tired - the tension between the musicians is
getting worse but the sky has a wonderful light blue, the sun warmth
my neck and I am pretty sure that this trip will not end here.

bye

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:42:00 +0000

So all the guys in my band (orchestra) gave their girlfriends or
wifes a link to my blog which means I have to leave out all the dirty
stories and details now : )
Just kidding. We are actually so busy with rehearsing, preparing for
the shows, fighting over pieces and ideas, photosessions and
interviews that our lifes seems somehow limited to the basics:
sleeping, waiting, working, eating (if we get something) and that is
all we do - no stories.
As you can see we are still eating super healthy and only local meat
- Croatians love meat.

Yesterday was our big night here in Osijek. It took all day to
soundcheck and to get our computers in sync that shortly before the show
we got so tired and our ears were so overloaded that we were scared
to fail.
It would be really awful to mess up one of those concerts - there are
so many people involved (a huge thank you to everyone) in our journey
and everyone works very hard.
For yesterdays show we had an amazing brand new soundsystem and a
super cool projection canvas - the room sounded fantastic and the
visual artists from Pécs we invited to project abstract paintings
onto our venue and the surrounding made this a very special night - a
real multimedia event.
About 60 people came to see us (every seat was taken) and the applaus
was one of the best we got so far - thank you very very much.
The area around the venue was full of these old rooms build into
little hills (old storage garages). Inside they were very disgusting
because the locals go there to have sex and then just throw their
condoms out of the car window but with the light show they looked pretty
mysterious. One of the rooms was cleaned out and turned into a bar.
The night ended with us dancing like crazy again (not me because I
still have a cold).

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:01:00 +0000

We continued the day with a walk through Osijek and took a brief look
at our venue for the concert on monday.
It is a really cool and big old barn right next to the river.
While wondering through town Nic found a funny sculpture and everyone took embarassing pictures.
Later that day we came across more signs of the war.
It is kind of scary to see all the holes even though they look old
and I still remember war damages on buildings in Berlin but somehow
history feels more alive here.

I have a real cold now which is why I am updating my blog while the
others are out checking the bar scene around our hotel on a sunday
night.
I hope to be in better shape tomorrow.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:47:00 +0000

Today we took the bus from Pécs in Hungary to Osijek in Croatia.
It was only a 2 hour trip which passed by pretty fast.
At the border of Croatia the border patrol made us wait for a little
bit because they needed an official invitation paper from Osijek
which we had but not printed out. After a few phone calls we were
alowed to pass with a new stamp in our passports but I would have
never thought that it is still so difficult to get into certain
countries.
It didn´t take long until we saw the first signs of the war between
Croatia and Serbia in 1991-1995.
The hotel we moved into is the most fancy we had so far. I have a
very spacious room and a huge bed and my view is fantastic, too.
The hotel is situated in a very old part of the town - a town within
the town.
From the outside the place looks pretty run down but on the inside
it is perfectly fixed up.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:25:00 +0000

more pictures

1) Pécs city center
2) love logs - we found walls covered with those logs - the logs have
the names of just married couples engraved - a symbol for there
everlasting relationship - my friend Leas and his wife have log like
this somewhere on an canarien island, too
3) our personal camerman doing what he does best : )
4) our manager took us out for dinner to a star restaurant - there
wasn´t much food on the plates and didn´t taste like much - I don´t
know what it is about all those exquisit restaurants and their fancy
cooks...
5) the venue during soundcheck
6) Nic and Olli happy after the show

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:11:00 +0000

Here are a few pics from Hungary:

1) in our little tour bus
2) somehow everywhere I go it looks like the USA
3) we ate them
4) this is the famous fish soup and beet salad
5) our room at the Lenau Haus
6) the Lenau Haus - german culture center in Pécs

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:01:00 +0000

Last wednesday we took the earliest plane possible to Budapest in
Hungary. There we met up with our driver and tourbus to go to Pecs -
a wonderful town about 3 hours away from Budapest. Pécs is going to
be one of the cultural capitals in 2010 which is one reason why we
are invited to play show here at the local art center.
We were driving along the river Donau and had a fantastic meal in one
of the famous fish restaurants - fish soup and fresh beet salad - yummy.
From the moment we arrived in Pécs until today we were rushed from
one meeting to the next, from rehearsal to soundcheck, from
interviews to press conferences.
Yesterday we met our local composer who presented us a very minimal
piece of piano music which we are practicing right now and we also
met some of the people who are responsible for the whole tour - our
booker and temporary manager who I haven´t met in real life before.
It´s difficult to be a promoter of german culture or culture in
general. I am never really sure how to behave - no, I mean what
people expect from me (I behave the best I can of course) - and I
have no idea what german culture is... we do drink beer and eat
sausages whenever we can but is our sound really german?
Today we played our show at the center of the arts. A bit boring room
with a lot of seats and a small sound system but I think we managed
to create a cool atmosphere with video projections and made the small
PA system sound like a big one. A lot of people showed up again -
thank you sooo much for coming!
Here is what some people said: "Sometimes I felt like a plane is
landing right in front of me.", "I didn´t know that I could go from
heaven to hell without creating a collapse in the middle.", "Bravo!"
- and we had to give our first autograph ever - yes.
I am not 100 percent convinced yet that our pieces really deserve so
much attention but I think most of our guests have never heard such a
weird mixture between experimental, electronic, field recording and
techno music ever - I haven´t - and maybe that is a fun thing to go
to and deffinetely something to talk about. We also have very loud
parts that make your seats shake and I think this also ads to the
experience...

We have 2 more days in Pécs to rehearse the minimal piece and then we
move on to Croatia.

I will post some pics tomorrow.

Lots of love from wonderful Hungary which has been treating us so
very nice.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:15:00 +0000

The show on monday was absolutely fabulous.
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us and thanks to all the
helpers and organisers in Ústí nad Labem for making this the best
tour start ever.

In the afternoon we weren´t so sure if people would come to our
concert. The venue: Amarturka is in the industrial area of the town -
it belongs to the local design school but we had no idea how much
advertising was going on and if the people would go out on a monday
night - it turns out they do.
Before the show a lot of preparation had to be done - installing a
huge canvas for video projections, cleaning out the room, set up a
PA, a stage and some stage light.
By the time soundcheck started we were all super nervous.
Marek had to do some more interviews with a TV station from Prague,
Hagen (our film guy) and me argued about the light situation, Oli and
Nic had trouble with their stomachs (too many knydliky for lunch).
Around 8 PM the first act started - Victor - an experimental musician
from Bilbao who we invited spontaneously. Slowly the room started to
fill up and by the time we went on stage over a hundred people had
showed up.
We played for about an hour and then left. We had to ignore the
"encore" screams because we hadn´t prepared more pieces.
After us there was a DJ set + visuals by prof. Neutrino (the musician
we worked with the days before) and after that we had 2 local drum´n
´bass DJ´s + visuals to turn this night into one big party.
We all danced like crazy until the police came and then went home
exhausted and wasted.

We have a few off days now which we have to use for more rehearsals
and recordings.

This blog will take a short break and then continue with part 2 of
our journey around april 15th.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:16:00 +0000

We spent another long long day at the rehearsal chateau.
During lunch break Nic and Marek did an interview with a local TV
station while we ordered pizza, not yet knowing that this would
almost be the last meal of the day.
After the sessions we rewarded ourselves by taking the number 11 bus
to the very last stop and right into Ústís largest supermarket, open
every day until 12pm - one of the biggest attractions around. We
walked through aisles and aisles of food, bought new tooth brushes
and some beer for the long way back into town. We didn´t bother to
get any food because we were longing for a proper czech meal in a
nice little restaurant.
Around 9.30pm we made it back into the city center and started our
quest for a restaurant that would serve us something to eat.
Absolutely impossible - not even cookies or some chips - nothing. We
slowly started to fade and decided to have more and more beer to
forget how hungry we were. We really are so spoiled and had to laugh
at ourselves realizing how panicy we became after just a few hours
without food. Shintaro actually almost freaked out - luckily he had
some sausages stored away from the day before.
The night ended at a student cocktail bar where we got some warmed up
hot wings and more beer while listening to a "concert" by DJ Tiesto -
apparently the worlds most famous Eurodance DJ.

Today is the day of our big concert. I have to leave for the
soundcheck now. Let´s hope some people show up - the city seems
unbelievably empty after the sun goes down...

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:56:00 +0000

Today we spent the whole day at a rehearsal studio to work on our
pieces and the piece by Prof. Neutrino.
The studio was set up at the recording studio of the local radio
station which happens to be situated in the most beautiful mansion /
villa of the city.
A gorgeous house with a fantastic garden, wood covered floors, walls
and ceilings.
The house is up on a hill and overlooks the whole city - a wonderful
place to work on music.
After the studio we to took a walk through Ústì nad Labem by night.
The socialist architecture reminds me of home. A great mixture
between an outdated socialist and a very futuristic look, except that
most of it really is quite old and run down and only pretty by night.
We ended up in a local bar called circus and had a few beer listening
to hard tance and acid music straight from the 90s.
On our way home Shintaro and me had sausages which seem to be very
popular over here. We even got sausages (Wiener Würstchen) for
breakfast. It was either that or awfully sweet jam and cardboard bread.

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noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:47:00 +0000

Today I took off to go on a journey through middle and eastern Europe.
I am with the Endlichen Automaten - Laptop Orchester Berlin (http://
endliche-automaten.de/) and we are going to visit 6 or 7 cities in 5
countries to meet up with local musicians and composers to write a
composition or a develop a piece of music together. In each city we
will stay for a couple of days to rehearse the piece, then we play a
concert performing the pieces we have learned so far and then we move
on to the next city with a new composition in our repertoire.
This tour is sponsored by various cultural institutions (otherwise I
couldn´t afford to take a whole month off from Berlin) which is why
our journey takes us to small and medium sized towns - the places our
sponsors have some sort of involvement with... I guess cities like
Prague or Budapest also already have enough going on and maybe even
their own Laptop Orchestras.

Our first stop is Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. A wonderful
small town right behind the german border.
We didn´t do a lot today except for checking out the venue - an old
factory on the outskirts, had a typical czech lunch and walked for a
couple of hours to find a nice cafe somewhere along the river Elbe
(Labem), which was impossible... I guess they just don´t like to sit
by the river and have a cool beer (pivo) in the warm spring sun.
Tomorrow we are going to meet our local musician - Prof. Neutrino - a
hip hop producer and then rehearse for 2 days in a row.
The concert will be on monday.

Stay tuned - I will try to keep you posted as often as possible.

movement

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:32:00 +0000

I have been absent for some time now.
The days just pass so fast when you are caught up in work and live a
life outside of the internet.

Here are some impressions from Leipzig.
The book fair, a museum for printing machines which I love very much
(especially the sounds they make), a couple of nature shots from
south of Leipzig and a small collage by a very good friend of mine.

I will be on tour very soon - so expect more frequent updates to come!

Vernissage / opening > Ubiquitous oscillations

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:06:00 +0000

Here are a few pictures from the opening of the show "Ubiquitous oscillations".
A very nice group show about sound related art.
I have 4 pieces in that show: 2 photocopy drawings, a film and a 6 CD player sound piece.
The show is still open - go check it out if you get a chance.

General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin (U-Bhf Senefelder Platz)
open until January 16th - daily from 2pm - 6.30pm
http://ubiquitous-oscillations.com

Vernissage

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:10:00 +0000

A few photos from the opening at the Museum Weserburg in Bremen.

(thanks to Herwig for the pictures)

Museum Weserburg

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:28:00 +0000

This is me shortly before the opening of my show at the Museum Weserburg in Bremen.
In the middle pictures I am doing an interview with a local TV station. You can see my 3 channel video / sound installation in the back.
Thanks to Aram Bartholl who took these funny pictures.
(more pictures soon)

OWSUM

noreply@blogger.com (Stephane Leonard) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:39:00 +0000

Here are a few pictures from my last opening at the Owsum Gallery /
Artshop in Groningen, Netherlands.
I had a wonderful time during my annual visit to Groningen.
I played a show at Vera - a legendary music club and I got to show a
few of my drawings in a small exhibition.

At the moment I am preparing the videos for my little show at the
Weserburg in Bremen.
The opening will be on december 5th - please stop by when you are in
the neighbourhood.

Berlin got cold - luckily my new apartment is warm.