STROMSPAZIERGANG

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

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

Flyer/ graphics: Kanade Hamawaki

Fous de toi

Summer concert in Boxberg on June 10, 2017

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!

Hope

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!
At a workshop by andpartnersincrime as part of the Impulse Theater Festival 2023, Ringlokschuppen/ Mülheim an der Ruhr. Many thanks to FestivalFriends!

Cinema Romantics

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

Sheikha Latifa

Sheikha Latifa
song # dance # video
by
we should all be feminists

In 2018, Princess Latifa Al Maktum escaped from Dubai.
She was forcibly returned from international waters.

Funded by GEMA in the frame of Neustart Kultur 2022

OSTEINGANG

Oliver Bedorf & Julia Horn: OSTEINGANG
Theaterperformance mit Archiv

26.11.2021, 20.00 Uhr
27.11.2021, 20.00 Uhr
28.11.2021, 18.00 Uhr

Ort: Alte Feuerwache Köln (Halle), Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Köln
Tickets: https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/osteingang, 16 / 10 €

Der Osteingang des E.v.B.-Gymnasiums in Wipperfürth/ NRW war Pausenraum und Rückzugsort gleichermaßen. Dort wurde während der Achtziger Jahre in jeder Pause schnell eine Zigarette geraucht, bevor es mit dem Unterricht weiter ging. Dieser Ort ist Ausgangspunkt für eine Erinnerungs- und Theaterarbeit. Der Schauspieler/Musiker Oliver Bedorf und die Fotografin Julia Horn besuchen im Sommer 2021 zehn ehemalige Mitschüler*innen. Sie porträtieren diese Menschen in ihrem jetzigen Lebensumfeld und führen Interviews. Im Nachspüren aus heutiger Sicht geht es um die Sehnsüchte, Ideen und Träume von damals – und darum, was daraus geworden ist. Mit den gesammelten Bildern und Tonaufnahmen entsteht auf der Bühne ein neuer Osteingang in Form eines Archivs. Vier Tänzer*innen und Schauspieler*innen entwickeln Szenen zu dem Erinnerungsmaterial. Während des Theaterabends wechseln sich Szenen mit „Schulpausen“ ab, in denen die ZuschauerInnen selbst im Osteingang-Archiv stöbern dürfen.

ZERO SOLARIS hat das Thema auch musikalisch bearbeitet – entstanden ist die Vinyl-Single OSTEINGANG, die im Anschluss an die Theaterperformance am 26.11. veröffentlicht wird.

Konzept & Interviews: Oliver Bedorf, Julia Horn
Fotos & Ausstellung: Julia Horn
Bühne & Ausstattung: Cordula Körber
Produktionsassistenz: Genoveva Wieland
Mit Rike Joeinig, Adrián Castelló, Malin Gebken und Oliver Bedorf

Förderer: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln

 

Installation in Lutherturm Cologne from 03.03.21 – 06.03.21 as part of SOIRÉE SONIQUE with texts from the performance WASCHEN SCHNEIDEN HÖREN by Oliver Bedorf and Philine Herrlein. WASCHEN SCHNEIDEN HÖREN was funded in 2019 by Musikfonds e.V. and Kulturamt Köln.