Badenfahrt 2017

Now this took quite a while to post, didn't it?

One week ago, the "Badenfahrt" took place in my city. It's a  huge ten-day festival which only takes place every ten years! Because of this huge time gap, the party is always way bigger than anyone expects. This time approximately 1.2 million people have visited the small town! There were many awesome concerts every day and I played as well!

I've been editing these four recordings of our performance on the roof of a high tower for nearly a week now. I've tried to add video to them but it just didn't work out. So here are the audio tracks!

Besides the many concerts, there were a lot of other performances, many restaurants and bars, and even an open air cinema! All of these places were only built for the Badenfahrt and were recycled again afterwards.

At such a huge event were also a lot of people who helped for voluntarily. I also helped at the open air cinema, where I looked over the place, distributed headphones for the viewers and had a good time.

Here are some of my impressions of the Badenfahrt!

Kurze Stille in der Halle

"Short Silence in the Hall" was the name of the piece which our school theatre performed last week. I even went twice to watch it because it was that good! The second time I also took lots of pictures ;)

The whole piece was about rituals all around the world. The ones of our everyday lives compared to those in other cultures, countries and religions. We've learned a lot of facts that evening from marriages until deaths, but they also told and played many real short stories about everyday situations. Sometimes funny and sometimes really tragic!

But altogether it was an awesome performance with a lot of laughter and brilliant acting!

After the event, there was a party all night, because it was the last performance. And it was so much fun!

Monteverdi Concerts

The last week was so strenuous! Nearly every day we had many rehearsals, even until late at night. But it was totally worth the effort, because the concerts we had yesterday and the day before yesterday were amazing!

It was such a pleasure to finally perform the whole piece and to see the reactions of the listeners. One of my favourite moments was when one soloist went to the back of the hall and began singing there, every single head in the audience turned around trying to figure out where the sound was coming from.

It was a pleasure to sing Monteverdi, but now, after the many times we sung it, I am glad that we can move on to something else :)

Through the lens of an immigrant, Concert recording

This week was great!

On Wednesday I prepared a photography exhibition with Farhad. He's a Syrian photographer who now lives here in Switzerland for about one and a half years as an immigrant. We did a project a couple months back where we went onto the street with him, and he had to take some pictures. Later we analysed them together, and now I offered him the chance to present them at our school.

It was quite some work until we prepared it all! First, we had to get some more presenter-boards form another building, put the pictures on them nicely and help Ali make tea for the exhibition. Just on time everything was ready :D

There were a lot of people, more than I expected. At one time nearly the whole room was full!

Photo by Farhad Ala

My friends had a concert in a small cinema on Thursday, where they performed live music to a muted black & white film. It was really well done, they did a great job!

I was asked to record the whole thing, audio and video. And of course, I did! It took quite some time to set it up, with all the cameras and stuff. Now I still have to edit everything..!