FA TECH

Vienna, second indoor session at WERK

FA TECH’s second indoor performance at “Der rote Schaden” pres. by PRATATATAAAH *STERN @ WERK in Vienna.

Photos by “Michi”

Video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

Vienna, first indoor session at Amerlinghaus

We had our first indoor session at Amerlinghaus in Vienna in the context of Cultural Frames.

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger and “Michi”

Vienna, reclaim the streets

We finally went out in the streets of Vienna, a reclaim the streets party in front of the Museumsquartier seemed to be the perfect place to do our first session in this city. 

We weren’t alone with our amps, there was this incredible mobile soundsystem installed on two modified bikes playing Techno energetic and fast, we tried to fit in with soundscapes, vocal samples, sampling sounds recorded whilst walking around the area.

Photos and video footage of FA TECH by Carmen Feichtinger

The “Amerlinghaus Bleibt” demo started right after the reclaim the streets party.

Forced to cancel our trip to Berlin!

We woke up in our hostel room today finding one laptop, a mobile and two wallets missing. Apparently, someone must have stolen it while we were sleeping. 
Therefore we are sorry to say that our trip to Berlin has to be cancelled.

Thank you to all the people who have been helping us and making us feel that those events are just an exception. 
”Fuck off human - better make some music”, was what we read on the wall of Discentrum yesterday… However, our journey will continue, that’s for sure. FAR OUT FA TECH

Prague, Day 3, at a Warehouse Complex

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

Prague, Day 2, Lennon Wall

Prague, Day 2, under a CCTV installation

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

Prague, Day 1

What a warm welcome in Praha. FA TECH is out in the streets again, unfortunately without Nada, who got sick just two days before our departure.

After arriving in the afternoon, we immediately went on a sampling trip towards the city center. Our first hike ended at the beautiful river Moldau. We were looking for a place to jam there, but then we decided to go back to the bridge over the railways. This place seemed perfect for playing our first jam in this wonderful city.

Eventually, it turned out to be the right place just at the right time. Amongst the people passing by and stopping for a moment to check out what we were doing, there was Václav, who immediately joined in with his violin. What a great session, we forgot everything around us, we didn’t even realise that two policemen were standing in front of us, enjoying the “concert”, taking one of our stickers and filming us.

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

FA TECH SWARMING OUT AGAIN - PRAGUE/BERLIN

After the ten-day intervention in London FA TECH is restless and will swarm out again. FA TECH will be playing sessions in the streets of Prague from the 06th till the 08th of September and Berlin from the 09th till the 14th of September. 

If you are in Prague or Berlin and want to collaborate or check out the jams, or know a good place, wanna book one of their sessions for your venue, write here: markus@wiregloberecordings.com 

London, Day 10

Instead of visiting St. Paul’s Cathedral today, we got off the bus at Elephant & Castle to explore the abandoned estate we drove by many times while going by bus in London. After finding out where to get in, we found ourselves in the middle of the amazing Heygate Estate.

Right before deciding on a place where we would play, we met Guy Mannes-Abbott from the Elephant and Castle Urban Forest, who explained to us the story of the Heygate Estate (this article from 2010 counts 20 households - meanwhile only 6 are left).

There is also a project of mobile gardeners on the estate (click on the photo for their website):

After the session, sampling pipes near the estate:

Back to Heygate estate after our coffee break, shortly before it began to rain:

Before accepting the invitation to a little party on the estate, we played another session while it got dark.

For more info on the activities on the Heygate Estate, see:

Elephant and Castle Urban Forest

Mobile Elephant Gardeners

Live From the Heygate (Blog)

London, Day 9

In Shoreditch today!

London, Day 8

We took a day off today since it rained heavily and we all needed a little break!

London, Day 7

On our 7^th day in London, we went to South Bank and recorded sounds of the goings-on and the people ambling along the riverside, like an escape artist and skateboarders again.

Attracted by a sign next to a closed off area which said “Experimenters wanted” we tried to talk the people at the entry into letting us perform on their stage, but they were actually looking for people to experiment with drinks, not sounds…

After another while at South Bank we decided to leave the pier to play next to the Thames in front of the Tate Modern. From time to time, sprinkles of water from waves hitting the pier would splash on us, which was quite refreshing on this hot day…

During our session, quite a lot of nice people passed by. Some sat down on the stairs behind us to listen, hang out and talk about our project. Some took photos, and one of them, Patrick, even took some more after we had asked him if he could send them to us.

Clarissa came by after work to visit us as well. Thanks to her, there are even more pictures of all three of us, which had rather been a problem at other times. Eventually, some guy (he left before having told us his name) joined in to rap to our music and to some Hip Hop beat Pascal played for him afterwards. We really enjoyed this spontaneous interaction, thank you!