On an audio walk through Düsseldorf Oberbilk with Kanade Hamawaki and Oliver Bedorf, we’ll experience the city in a new way and hear the electromagnetic fields of streetlights, vending machines, and electrical boxes. Participants can write down the sounds using printed, free notation systems, letting their imaginations run wild.
Dates:
18.10.2025 um 16:00
19.10.2025 um 16:00
Duration: Approximately 50 minutes
The exact meeting point will be communicated after registration at dabei@stromspaziergang.comFunded by: Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf Kulturamt Musikfonds Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
This is a song about the 1990s television series Twin Peaks and Dale Cooper’s passion for coffee. Cooper is one of the series’ main characters, played by Kyle MacLachlan. The song is also a tribute to film-director David Lynch, who, in addition to his enthusiasm for the dark side, also had a sense of humor, which is particularly evident in Twin Peaks. For the video clip, we asked friends and relatives to send us coffee selfies from their vacations. Drinking coffee becomes a collective event in the video. Additional footage was shot in southern Sweden.
Klang Begegnung Boxberg/NRW on July 5, 2025, with Zolà x M (ambient pop) and Affi & Iu (No-Fi)
Electronic soundscapes in the resonance chamber of nature. Modular synthesizers and filter effects intertwine with vocals, natural sounds, and the sound of a Philicorda organ. Composed song structures alternate with improvised music and sound experiments. Voices become sound fields. The listeners sit or lie in the grass. The backdrop for the small music stage is the wide valley behind the property, which we look down upon. Klang Begegnung is an open space for the imagination.
“Two Six One” is a song about Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to ever officially run a marathon. Madalena Graça plays bass, Oliver Bedorf sings, Johanna Klein mixes the music, and the artwork is created by Rosanna D’Ortona. In addition to a release on streaming platforms, “Two Six One” will be pressed together with the song “Sheikha Latifa” as a vinyl single + cover print. To play, watch, display, hold in your hand, give as a gift, and listen to. Analog and in the present.
Order the single and donate a free amount at Startnext.
It’s the right time to go out. We’ll experience Cologne in autumn on a walk through the district together. And we’ll hear the familiar places in a new way. Using a receiver that can make electromagnetic fields audible, the flow of electricity from the power boxes, parking meters and street lamps becomes a new soundscape in the city. It’s noise that’s reminiscent of electronic music. If you like that kind of thing or just want to have a new, exciting experience, this is the right place for you. Participants also receive sheets of paper with printed notation systems developed by Hamawaki. During the walk, they can write down what they hear and let their imagination run wild. The walk through Nippes, led by Kanade and Oliver, is a free experiment.
Stromspaziergang by Kanade Hamawaki & Oliver Bedorf
Organizational and technical support: Margareta Bartelmeß, Robert Rickli and Peter Simon
Dates in Köln Nippes:
Friday, 18.10.24 at 18:00
Saturday, 19.10.24 at 14:00
Duration: Circa 50 minutes
Free entry
The exact meeting point will be announced by email after registration The number of participants is limited
Register here: dabei@stromspaziergang.com
Supported by IFM e.V. | Initiative Freie Musik in Köln, funded by Stadt Köln, Kulturamt.Funded by Bezirksvertretung Köln Nippes
Tobias Schmücking edited a video for my song “Fous De Toi”. He also filmed the concert , where I played the song. „Fous De Toi“ was written in 1988 for my then girlfriend Ila Stuckenberg. Jule Bedorf , my sister, who spoke French a little better than me, translated the lyrics. I composed the music for “Fous De Toi” while jamming with Antonio Fernandez de Medina in 1988. Clémence Bosselut revised the lyrics for the 2017 version. In 2017, I gave a concert for friends and family in Riki and Wolfgang’s spacious garden – with coffee and Swedish cinnamon rolls. Matthias Knopp and Wolfgang Bedorf provided photos for the video. Thanks to you all!
Electronic soundscapes with MFB Kraftzwerg synthesizer for the dance performance “Hope” by Chikako Kaido on October 27th, 28th and 29th, Concrete Zone 1, Düsseldorf. Photo: Kanade Hamawaki
At a workshop by andpartnersincrime as part of the Impulse Theater Festival 2023, Ringlokschuppen/ Mülheim an der Ruhr. Many thanks to FestivalFriends!
CINEMA ROMANTICS Release concert and reading Saturday, February 11, 2023, 5 p.m. Cinema Lichtspiele Kalk/ Cologne
The idea for Cinema Romantics came up a few years ago in a Berlin bar. Zero Solaris and Graf Tati scribbled the names of their favorite actresses on their beer mats – film divas they would like to make songs about. Maybe all would have been forgotten by the next morning, but the coasters reappeared and the two began songwriting.
With the support of Kulturamt Köln, Cinema Romantics recorded their debut album and had it pressed on vinyl. In February 2023 the album was released on streaming platforms. Lucas Croon mixed the music and Italian photographer Cristina Coral provided one of the magnificent pictures for the record cover. Cécile Dupaquier and Miss Django provided spoken word for the recording.
Cinema Romantics present their film songs in front of the screen of the Lichtspiele Kalk. Between the musical performances, Miss Django reads texts about the movie actresses. The audience sits in the cinema seats, listens to the music, remembers film scenes and cinema experiences. Cinema Romantics is a homage to the cinema.
A concert with songs about Romy Schneider, Isabella Rossellini, Jeanne Moreau, Marlene Dietrich, Charlotte Rampling, Maggie Cheung, Pam Grier, Marilyn Monroe and other cinema actresses & actors
Vocals und keys: Zero Solaris Vocals und guitar: Graf Tati Reading: Miss Django Public relation: Rosanna D´Ortona
Photo Record-Cover: Making architecture series (2018) Cristina Coral
Cinema Romantics has been supported by Kulturamt Köln