"Closed enough" by Staalplaat Soundsystem
I went to Graz to do an interview with Justin Bennett and to see him perform with BMB con. as part of "Closed Enough" by Staalplaat Soundsystem at Steirischer Herbst 2007 / Musikprotokoll.
BMB con. delt with nature and human in their opening performance which stood opposite to the Staalplaat Soundsystem performance driven by machines from the tool shop expanded with a flying helicoper, car-hifi, race car, trains and truck. What shall I say: "Excellent lights, stunning sounds, a perfect floorplan and organic structure of the timeline: A hymn to a 100-year tradition of noise-making machines."
A performance without stage using the whole space of the large List-Halle made the audience moving around. So everyone cruised around for best sound-experience and visual impression. I did the same, but I focused on doing nice video-recordings not that much in doing perfect audio-recordings.
But by luck my mp3-player/recorder iRiver T20 did a great job with my Soundman OKM mics. Carsten and Geert-Jan gave me the permission to present parts of the recordings at BikeMike thanks a lot!
rec.1 is quite at the beginning of "Closed enough" with a focus on trains and train-sounds - the Austrian railway-company ÖBB took part at this performance. Then adapeted machines from the tool-shop started the percussive-part ending with sirenes.
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