This is “a three day art event in the Lützowstraße/Potsdammer Straße in Berlin. 45 international artists were invited to show their work in four different places, spread on over 450m².” More infos on the participating artists, exhibition places and opening hours at: http://data.rescue.slash-tmp.de

Three compositions of mine will be presented there: Die PodcastOper (as video), Graphic Study (as sound installation) and a new one. Please feel free to come.

Trevithick – a piece of electronic music I composed in 2005 – was exposed as an installation last night in a blitz-exhibition of the medien.projekt.raum.tmp in Berlin. Thanks to Mathieu Dagorn – the curator of the exhibition – for making it happening.

Trevithick can be heard in the section about Contemporary Music.

The homepage of the german photographer Oliver Schuemers features three songs of mine as a soundtrack: check it out at www.oliverschuemers.de

As an anecdote, the song “And she said …” is initially a comission from him.

This new song is the “stand-alone” version of the third act of “20 Minuten – Die PodcastOper”. If you haven’t done it yet, maybe you should take a look at www.podcastopera.net and listen to the whole opera.

I’ve made a new song called “And she said… (we’ve got such a nice friendship)” produced by Christian Müller aka Rellüm and you’ll just have to love it. Just click on “my music”.

Hello and happy new year to everyone.

I’ve been quite silent on this website for a few months. The reason was I was working day and night on a project I spoke about a few months ago: 2O Minutes – The Podcast Opera. The premiere took place on the 14th of December in Berlin and you can now download it (for free) at www.PodcastOpera.net

20 Minutes – The Podcast Opera is an Opera that lasts 20 minutes and can be downloaded as a podcast and thus be listened to everywhere and not only in Opera Houses. For those who have an Ipod with a videoscreen or a computer, Mathieu Dagorn has made what can be considered as a video-staging of the opera. Since the website is in german (an english and a french version should be online soon), here are some direct links:

• the opera alone (.mp3 – around 22 Mo)
• the opera with video-staging (.avi – around 72 Mo)

20 Minutes – The Podcast Opera will hopefully be the first part of a long serie and allows contemporary music to come closer to people.

Since there was no new song here since last summer, I thought it was time to make one as soon as possible, just to keep the groove going. It has been a good opportunity to stick again to my old philosophy: one song in one day. The outcome is a funky cover of John Coltrane’s Impression that can be listened to in the My Music section.

I’ll appear tomorrow around 9 pm as a background musician for Rosenstolz. They will perform the song Auch Im Regen.

I was background guitarist for the band Rosenstolz during a TV show last week-end in Mannheim. The show is a Music-award ceremony called “Die goldene Stimmgabel” and will be broadcast on ZDF next Sunday’s evening. That was a lot of fun and good opportunity to have a close look at a very “interesting” world!

Great news everyone! A project I’ve submitted to the german Federal
Cultural Foundation has been accepted and sponsored. The frame is 100.000 EURO JOB, a project which consists in supporting a few young artists to make projects that express their vision of work.

The piece is called 20 Minutes – The Podcast Opera (in German 20 Minuten – Die Podcast Oper). It’s an opera that will be available online as a podcast. The project is very ambitious: there will be a webpage, a video made by another youg artist – Mathieu Dagorn (www.mathieu.dagorn.com) – for live perfomances and the premiere will take place in December 2006 in Zagreus, a great gallery in Berlin.

Here’s an extract of a text I’ve written about the project:

2O minutes! That’s the name of a magazine handed out every morning in London, Paris or Stockholm underground stations. Why 20 Minutes? Because it’s the average free time the average worker has during an average morning journey to work. In today’s world, that’s often the only time of the day when one can have a little time by oneself.

My project is a Podcast Opera about this situation. It’s avant-garde piece of music taking place in a wagon where people take the most of this precious idle time to think about their lives. And it will lasts 20 minutes so one can just upload it on their Mp3 player and listen to it en route, hence the name Podcast Opera (a podcast is a show that’s not broadcasted but available to download – for further informations, see here).

On stage, the opera can be either performed by musicians or just played trough speakers, as Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry or even Karlheinz Stockhausen started to do in the 1950’s, when they were inventing Electronic Music. […]

One of the purposes of this project is to find a path between the workers and modern art.

© 2006 justin lepany