A couple of days ago I attended a collection of performances and concerts, sewn together by INTERINTERINTER as guides and performers. There were a couple of high points, as well as some typical low points. One of the high points was the program:

The program was printed in stages (first red, then blue, then yellow) live using screen printing. The red and blue was printed before the concerts started, the yellow at a later stage. Unfortunately I had to leave before the last parts of the printing.

Before coming back to INTERINTERINTER let me first mention Christian Blom’s “al-khowarizmis mekaniske orkester” (al-khowarizmi’s mechanical orchestra), a wonderful contraption:

The orchestra was populated by several bells, a string controlled by a motor and a guitar vibrating thingy, a tin can and some lights. You activated the orchestra by pressing a push button that set in motion movement that generated sound/music. When it finished playing its piece, a lamp lit up by the push button, inviting further use. A nifty little thing.

Now, INTERINTERINTER did a couple of performances, something I’m usually quite skeptical about, but which I had no need to be this time. Both were intelligent comments on the nature of modern music:



First David Helbich’s “Vorspiel” (video from another event):


















and Matthew Shlomowitz’s “When is a door not a door?” (excerpts from another event):