Vienna, second indoor session at WERK

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

FA TECH at WERK, Vienna

FA TECH at WERK, Vienna

FA TECH at WERK, 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.

FA TECH at Amerlinghaus

FA TECH at Amerlinghaus

FA TECH at Amerlinghaus

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

Prag3

Prag3

Prag 3

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

Prague, Day 2, Lennon Wall

Prag2

Prag2

FA TECH performing live at the Lennon Wall in Prague, 2011

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

Prague, Day 2, under a CCTV installation

Prag2

Prag

Fa Tech in Prague

Prague

Fa Tech in Prague

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.

Prag1

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.

Prag1

Photos and video footage by Carmen Feichtinger

FA TECH feat. Václav Polivka on violin, performing live on a pedestrian bridge in Prague, 2011
http://polivka.biz/cz/

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

now/here

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.

cables from and to nowhere

Markus sampling

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).

Heygate Estate explained

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

Gardening on the Heygate Estate

Fa Tech @ Heygate Estate

After the session, sampling pipes near the estate:

sampling pipes

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

Heygate Estate

Markus after the rain

Sky

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

heygate estate session at night

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!

we go beyond trash

car park

nada + gear

Fa Tech Session in London, Shoreditch

fa tech in london, shoreditch 2

markus + nada

nada + pascal

Fa

shoreditch session

London, Day 8

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

rainy days...

London, Day 7

On our 7th 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.

South Bank map

about love at south bank

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…

07 experimenters wanted

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…

07 improvising thames

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.

Photo by Patrick Dodds

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!

spitter joining in

Clarissa's shoes and Fa Tech

After our session in front of the Tate Modern

Thames evening