Speicher V × festival for site-specific music

presented by bohemian drips

bohemian drips presents: Speicher V
festival for site-specific music
old water reservoirs of Berlin-Pankow
August 20–22 2021
Mazen Kerbaj & Ute Wassermann • Zinc & Copper • Els Vandeweyer & Rieko Okuda • Hiss & Viscera (Audrey Chen & Richard Scott) • Berke Can Özcan • Sicker Man & Kiki Bohemia • Marta de Pascalis • Die Milchstrasse Flockt mit Peter Pichler • Ian Medina
Speicher is a festival for site-specific music in the old water reservoirs of Berlin-Pankow, curated by bohemian drips since 2017. Since its beginning, the visitors could witness over 20 concerts and de-central performances, developed exclusively for the long-lasting reverberation of the tanks: With up to 18 seconds of reverb and eerie echo-effects these pieces were always guided by a similar conceptual approach that includes the space itself as a compositional dimension.
Speicher V will be held unter the idea of a "retrospective": bohemian drips invited artists who either played at a previous edition or are in close proximity to the label's activities, to (re)visit the tanks in different constellations or develop entirely new performances, incorporating the crew's experience within the acoustic scenery of the two reservoirs. The 2021 edition will also be the first to feature label-own works to be presented on the first of the three festival days in August.
*event with physical audience – please check our channels for updates and Covid-regulations
× programme (exact performance times to be announced)
_friday 20
MARTA DE PASCALIS | small tank
• synthesizer, tapes, electronics | Berlin
• http://www.martadepascalis.com/
DIE MILCHSTRASSE FLOCKT mit PETER PICHLER | small tank
• valve trautonium, obscure instruments, electroacoustic | Berlin, Munich
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XER_v0_B44
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_CsZh4u2c
IAN MEDINA | small tank
• electronics
• https://soundcloud.com/.../ian-medina-live-at-arkaoda-2018
_saturday 21
HISS & VISCERA (AUDREY CHEN & RICHARD SCOTT) | small tank
• modular synthesizer, voice | Berlin
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBztbeBzuU
BERKE CAN ÖZCAN (performs Mountains Are Mountains) | small tank
• percussion, drums | Istanbul
• https://bohemiandrips.bandcamp.com/.../mountains-are...
SICKER MAN & KIKI BOHEMIA | big tank
• drone | Berlin
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwttY764TU
_sunday 22
MAZEN KERBAJ & UTE WASSERMANN | big tank
• prepared trumpet, voice | Berlin
• https://vimeo.com/400085413
ZINC & COPPER (performing "PONS" by DUANE PITRE) | small tank
• microtonal tuba, trombone, french horn | Berlin
• https://www.zincandcopper.org/duane-pitre
ELS VANDEWEYER & RIEKO OKUDA (Metal Illusion) | big tank
• piano, vibraphone, puppets | Berlin
• https://www.elsvandeweyer.com/metal-illusion.html
× pre-sale, tickets & procedure
to be announced soon on our socials and via speicher.bohemiandrips.de
× address
Kleiner und großer Wasserspeicher, Prenzlauer Berg
access via Diedenhofer or Belforter Str., 10405 Berlin
maps: bit.ly/speicher_location
× information: speicher.bohemiandrips.de
× newsletter signup via: www.bohemiandrips.de
× funded by Musicboard Berlin & Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin: Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur, FB Kunst und Kultur
× supported by Förderband e. V.
× questions? write us: info@bohemiandrips.de
× idea, programme & production: Alexander Meurer, Fillipp Vingerhoets, Nikolaus Götz

Marta de Pascalis

Marta de Pascalis, Synthesizers & Tape Machines

Berlin based Italian synth & electronics performer debuts at bohemian drips annual "Speicher × festival for site-specific music" with a site-specific composition for the small reservoir, developed especially for this occasion.

Die Milchstraße flockt with Peter Pichler playing the Trautonium

Die Milchstraße flockt, Percussions & Electronics
Peter Pichler, Trautonium

Rare performance of the improvisation collective "Die Milchstraße flockt" featuring members of the bohemian drips label, collaborating for the first time with the Trautonium virtuoso Peter Pichler from Munich.

Ian Medina

Ian Medina, Synthesizers & Electronics

The Mexican producer & sound engineer Ian Medina will premiere a new piece composed for the acoustics of the small tank, using exact measurements of resonance & delay times, researched during the previous editions, as compositional parameters.