Shows
ERA GELDESConcert & Interview on BBC WalesA live recording of my concert at Oriel Sychard Gallery Wrexham, Wales, UK.
With interview on BBC Science Cafe by Andrew Bolden.
You hear my texture "You will be the land" using voice, homweswinger (homebuild 12-string table top guitar), pebbles in water dispenser, manual modulation.
In collaboration with Amnoli Moriaty on ableton live.
2018-01-3106 min
ERA GELDESWindmaschine FYIEA preview of a track from the music-performance FYIE by berkenhoff/siegwald
www.berkenhoffsiegwald.com/fyie
Sounddesign by Philip Albus
2017-06-0801 min
ERA GELDESPOMMES! ELVIS´last cooking session live@TanzhausWestthe zoom recorded this live @tanzhausWest
LIVE concert of Matthias Meppelling aka Adolfina Fuck & Ana Berkenhoff aka Era Geldes on Elvis Presley´s most loved cooking recipes. For the final party of IMPLANTIEREN Festival Frankfurt at Tanzhaus West!
Following the performance F.Y.I.E (like find your inner Elvis) by www.berkenhoffsiegwald.de
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music
2017-01-1438 min
ERA GELDESPure Imagination// session at PAF music week 2016
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music
2016-11-0823 min
ERA GELDESSqare DanceTrack made in a composing collaboration with young Miss Sophia Vollnex.
It is the soundtrack to the shortfilm "Square dance"- a choreography in and responding to public space. It has been invited to the Youth Short Film Exhibition Wenzhou, China. To be seen on my video-channel
Now released on Gargarin Records: Demo Dandies Volume 3 by Felix Kubin and Felix Felix Raeithel.
https://vimeo.com/167705887
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music
2016-10-1602 min
ERA GELDESBrexitConcert @TheOthers LondonA cut of a recent live recording of work-in-progress concert experiment at "Propaganda" at The Others in Stoke Newington/ London. Just after Brexit announcement- this influenced. In use: some sounds of recent album by A.B.&Michael Holland/ playing the one-string guitar, Brexit word games from twitter, Einstein´s letter to his daughter, Ableton live, selfbuild 12-string guitar "homeswinger" (by Yuri Landmann)
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music
2016-09-3013 min
ERA GELDESMiss FlowerThe single out of the new album by Ana Berkenhoff and Michael Holland on Ono records Manchester.
Instruments: Little Bits, Plumbutter and distortion by Michael Holland. Mastering by Sam Weaver. Beats with Homeswinger, arrangement and voice by Ana Berkenhoff.
get it at http://jcdecaux.bandcamp.com/album/watch-close
more about my music: www.anaberkenhoff.com/music
on air at:
NTS radio London in the show Stigmergy Benefits by Laurent Faron, Radio BBC 3 in the show of Nick Luscombe, Radio futuremusic.fm in the show: TOWARDS THE MARGINS, at The Gravity Waves Show RADIO RESONANCE EXTRA, on Radio Wavefarm New York...
2015-09-2606 min
ERA GELDESMax KamTrack (unfinished) by Michael Holland & Ana Berkenhoff.
Recorded at Islington Mill/ Salford/ Manchester during sessions for the now released album "watch close"
2015-08-1304 min
ERA GELDESExzerpt >< OUR SONGS ><this is a 10 min. exerpt from a one-hour experimental-musical-radiodrama that I hope to put on vinyl sometime.
OUR SONGS
song >< experiment
I partly grew up at my german grandmother. She grew up between the two world wars and
spent her young adulthood in girl-camps helping on farms. Singing kept
her alive and able to deal with the hard work. She was called
"Singerle". The "Wandervogel" movement influenced her immense song
collection, as well as the chansons and hits of her time.
My songmaking is experimentation. As long as my grandmother lived I
thought I also should know songs. It took...
2015-07-2510 min
ERA GELDESBecome a perfect performer!...a performance presentation at Theatertreffen Berlin 2015
In 2014 I developed a durational performance-Installation for the Roskilde Festival/DK.
(A collaboration with Savage amusement/Melanie Jame Wolf)
Over 4 days the audience could walk through. For one and up to four people I would use some magic devices and true story telling for an amusing show on performing, presence and live portrait painting by old masters.
Followed by some visual tricks with a mini-projector :)
Here you hear a recording of a short sample of that work- which I performed at the Theatertreffen Berlin this year during a panel about theater and installation.
2015-06-0504 min
ERA GELDESLovescene with myself in the rainforestThis is an exerpt from an immersive theaterinstallation. Mastered in a stereo and OKM original head-microphone- version.
In the scene two member of audience meet in a small machineroom. Via the earphones they are given the voice of the performer while they look into each others faces....
"Waiting for the Barbarians"/"Warten auf die Barbaren" eine Grenzinstallation von Dominic Huber, music by Knut Jensen
2015-04-1703 min
ERA GELDESmamamaTrack made for the theaterplay "mothering" by Katrin Hylla, Theater Marburg January 2015
2015-04-1702 min
ERA GELDESthe number of the Beastin collaboration with the icelandic artist/dramaturg Símon Birgisson. done 2009 at ATW Gießen during the class with Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll
2015-04-1602 min
2015-04-1601 min
ERA GELDESBarbaren MonologueThis is a half texted/half improvised excerpt of a scene I developed for Dominic Huber´s immersive theaterplay "Waiting for the barbarians" which toured through swizzerland and germany in 2012 and 13.
2015-02-1003 min
ERA GELDESSonic Origami 1London (2013)- from a series of ultra short radioplays
this is from a series of "Sonic Origami". Ultra short radioplays following a rule. Each word of a phrase or sentence is recorded in a different public soundscape .....
words:
Here, with you, my friends, my friends, am, I, my man.
locations:
Bag in bus, Underground, Buckinghampalace, Hackney street at night, Beach of Brighton, library.
2014-05-1300 min
ERA GELDESHappyguitarHow bad can you play the guitar?
This is on a onestring-lapsteel-
soundexerpt from my music for "Birthday"
see videoexerpt: https://vimeo.com/channels/240384/71461831
Conzept/Artistic director: Andreas Liebmann.
Performance/Text: Andreas Liebmann, Ana Berkenhoff
Music: Hannes Strobl Ausstattung: Mai Gogishvili
Dramaturgy: Carolin Hochleichter
Technische Leitung: Tobias Klette
Artistic Collaboration: Beatrice Fleischlin
Assistance: Viktoria Popova, Neville Pfenninger, Eduard Schreiber
Production & ÖA: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro Support Produktion Schweiz: MAS, ARTS MANAGEMENT
Photo: Florian Krauss
With the kind support of: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Präsidialabteilung der Stadt Zürich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Georges und Jenny Bloch Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent.
A Produktion of Andr...
2014-05-1000 min
ERA GELDESCommodore, choir rehearsal"Commodore" recorded choir rehearsal for our music theatre show "île flottante", at theater Les Subsistances Lyon/france. -Atari inspired
with members of the band Les Emöidroides/ at CNMSD Conservatoire National Superieur Music et Dance Lyon, France
2014-03-2701 min
ERA GELDESgrossekunstfrom Ana´s walking-songs-series.
Following this rule:
walking, having a small melody you always have to hang on to and can develope from. you are not allowed to stop singing...
mixed+keyboard in collaboration with Mathias Moor, Frankfurt a.M. 2008 -not mastered
2014-03-2403 min
ERA GELDESBerlin I (teaser of a series of ten, unreleased)A series of smallest clips for a special german radioshow-
this one is- oh, wonder: about Berlin!
by Björn Deigner and Ana Berkenhoff
2014-03-2400 min
2013-10-1501 min
ERA GELDESChoirSong Music Band Projekt
an Icelandic-german Cooperation
played at:
ATW Gießen 2008/9
HAU Berlin Festival 100°
2013-10-1504 min
ERA GELDESWerkstattV2Das Hörstück Werkstatt ist ein Teil/eine Szene der immersiven Theaterinstallation "Warten auf die Barbaren" von Dominic Huber/blendwerk. Gessnerallee Zürich/HAU Berlin/Kaserne Basel/Theater Chur 2012/13
Soundproduktion Knut Jensen.
Ein Zuschauer kommt in eine kleine dunkle Werkstatt und hört....
..... im Anschluß empfielt sich Track: https://soundcloud.com/aha-birkeshof/lovescene-with-myself-in-the-rainforest
2013-08-2610 min
ERA GELDESThrowing it all awayGesang+Text+Mundharmonika Ana Berkenhoff, Musik+Production Knut Jensen
song from the immersive theatre installation "Warten auf die Barbaren"/waiting for the barbarians by Dominic Huber/ blendwerk.
Premiere Gessnerallee Zürich 2012. Tour HAU Berlin, Kaserne Basel, Theater Chur 2013.
2013-07-0103 min