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Sound & Music

As ERA GELDES rocking her very own version of dada postindustrial pop :: building instruments and hacking :: producing immersive concerts :: music for theatre :: directing scenic concerts for contemporary classical music :: NEWS: Special mention by WISWOS woman in sound :: ERA GELDES is on BBC introducing and Late Night Junction!

Ana performs regularly in both the UK and Germany and has made recent appearances on Radio 3’s Late Junction, BBC introducing, Radiophrenia Glasgow and received a special mention from WISWOS-woman in sound.
With homemade instruments like some Yuri Landmann versions (12-string table top & steel-on-foam), electrix repeater, samples & field recordings and voice she creates sonic song-landscapes. Witnessing the planets destruction and self empowerment is the main source of her music adventures. Last year these made her recording ice&snow, screwing together passion fruits, studying the relation of tomatoes to theories of Einstein, examining cooking recipes of E.Presley…

Sonic CV
After learning flute, Xylophone and Lyra in the school orchestra I learned classical guitar in my teens and started singing in theatre. Later during my studies in Gießen (what is it?) – where I worked on experimental radio, did music performance theatre in my collective and made an album with my Icelandic band project.
Мy Professor Heiner Goebbels often opened doors to work with crazy professionals like the contemporary music ensemble musikfabrik Köln or the Ensemble Modern who got me interested in contemporary classical music by directing scenic concerts for them. And especially since I found myself allowed to do whatever sonically happens when studying with Felix Kubin – the sonic thing got wheels of freedom and strolls beside me, forming blooming outcomes from time to time.
With quite some fuel I concentrate on my solo-project ERA GELDES at the moment.
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Union Chapel concert

In concert as the vocalist of the Hackoustic Orchestra for Daylight Music @Union Chapel, London

Avant-Garden

Performative and audiotive investigation of living room plants. What can the plants tell us? And how do we affect each other?

Era Geldes & The Party: Federal Fluxus

A solo concert performance with audience participation. Frankfurt LAB. ERA GELDES begibt sich in ihrem neuen musikalischen Projekt auf die Suche nach dem ideale

North, South, East, West

Szenische Konzerte mit der musikfabrik, Köln. Concerts in collaboration with musikfabrik ensemble.

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Ana Berkenhoff studierte angewandte Theaterwissenschaften in Gießen und als Gast am CNSMD Lyon zeitg. Tanz.
Ihre künstlerische Arbeit oszilliert zwischen den Genres und nutzt Körper, Sprache und Musik auf eigene Weise,
um Bühnen, Tonträger, Zelluloid und Galerien zu bespielen.

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September 21, 2021
26.09.21 | Solo Konzert ERA GELDES im Kultursommergarten, Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt
May 2, 2021
15.& 16.05.21 | Creator at Maker Music Festival, online
October 9, 2020
7.10.20 | 21h Konzert ERA GELDES, Anachronism. Schwankhalle, Bremen
September 7, 2020
6.10.20 | 21h Konzert ERA GELDES, Anachronism. MS Stubnitz, Hamburg
September 6, 2020
5.9.20 | 21h Konzert ERA GELDES, Implantieren Festival, Seilerbahn Frankfurt
August 29, 2020
20.8.-6.9.20 | Sound Installation at Implantieren Festival, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Offenbach
May 9, 2020
9.5.20 | In concert with EEEK, John Lyons Theatre London
March 17, 2020
Ongoing | Silent Moves Audiowalk Berlin
March 14, 2020
14.3.20 | In concert with The Hackoustics Orchestra, Stubbleman, Henrik Lindstrand, Union Chapel, London
March 7, 2020
7.3.20 | ERA GELDES unplugged at Five Years Gallery, London, Storytelling Festival

Media

“ Ana used her vocal abilities to create a bassy noise voice, one that went down the road to meet up in the middle to give the voluminous sound of a steamboat that would intertwine with the elegance of a mermaid. ”

- Toxic chicken Skronkfest

“ ...sounding a little like an Eccentronic Research Council meets Raymond Scott’s Mahattan Research Inc meets Cluster, this is a collection of poetry, electronics and improvisation woven together like a tapestry and drawing you in like a tense but beautifully shot thriller – a plethora of idents from an all manner of subversive stylings. This is brilliant! ”

- Piccadilly Records Manchester

“ Technologically ethereal, a totally unique performance. Leaves the logical mind floundering – creates an opening, a portal, to the inexplicable. ”

- Dada Festival London

“ Insubordinately Sublime ”

- Inigo Wilkins

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