summer's kiss is over baby.

In actuality it never started up, did it. We had like 4 summery days this summer, and I think I was locked in a rehearsal studio for 3 of them. Total bullshit.

At least it's not like I have to switch back into work mode or anything now: we never stopped. But I'm not really complaining: August in Berlin was unsurprisingly fun and rewarding: our hosts at Podewil/sommer.bar/Tanz Im August were perfectly great, and our modifications to hardly resulted in something quite hallucinogenic and exhausting (in a good way), it was my favorite thing I've ever done onstage. We did three loops over two hours, the video above is loop 1 plus 7 minutes of loop 2. I'm really hoping we get a chance to do this again somewhere so we can try more loops...right now we imagine that 5 in a row (3.5 hours) could be possible.

Currently enjoying the luxury of a whole week off, and then it's back into the studio to get some work done on WAFTUG before we take this is hardly an invitation to Milano in October.

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we need a reason to get drunk on a tuesday.

I wish I could say that my non-stop working this summer was a calculated response to the relentlessly shitty summer weather we've been having (think 60F and rainy), but no...it's just a sort of mollifying coincidence, actually being inside when the weather makes you want to be anyway.

After the wildly successful Julidans/ILTWT excerpt/premiere of WE'RE ALL FOR THE UNDERGROUND (ok, it was at least "successful"), we took a whole week off, and now we're back in the studio (above) working on an adaptation of this is hardly an invitation for the Tanz im August festival in Berlin (tentatively titled this is hardly an installation, ha ha) wherein we transform the procession sequence into a live installation that destroys the stage and then cleans itself up and restarts as many times in a row as we can do it.

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i like to watch too.

This is what's happening now.

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double quartet.

This Friday, 10 June, a potentially provocative assemblage of improvisors band together to share a bill with Talibam! at OCCII.

DOUBLE QUARTET (NYC/TRONDHEIM/BERLIN/AMSTERDAM)
Ab Baars + Louise Jensen (NYC): reeds
Mark Morse + Jasper Stadhouders: guitar
Tom Blancarte (NYC) + Wilbert De Joode: bass
Luca Marini (Berlin) + Tollef Østvang (Trondheim): drums

www.stichtingwig.com/abBaars/AbBaars.html
www.myspace.com/louisejensen
www.morsanek.blogspot.com/
www.jasperstadhouders.wordpress.com
www.tomblancarte.com
www.wilbertdejoode.com
www.myspace.com/lucamarini
www.myspace.com/tollefostvang

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GLDMOG 2.0.

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Sleep Gunner is at OT301 with Duke Garwood this Wednesday (1 June)...please come on out if you're not doing one of the other 17 things that are going on that night.

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