6th Liquid Sound Festival.
9th-11th November 2007,
An underwater and ‘overwater’ concert,
Bathe and dream in sound, light and the stars.
Three locations, day and night
Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
For the 6th time in succession and as unique as ever. The International Liquid Sound Festival presents waterworlds for all the senses, round the clock, day and night. Multimedia presentations on dry land and performances in the water, in sound, light and stars – this year for the first time in co-operation with the Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena. With one ticket you can visit all three festival locations: a delight for lovers of music and bathing from near and far – and deep nights are free!
Bathing in the Gesamtkunstwerk
Ever since the New York Times recounted their visit to the “water-filled concert halls”, the Toskana Therme thermal baths in Bad Sulza and Bad Schandau and the Liquid Sound concept have acquired international fame. And since the installation of the laser-dome projection in the Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, visitors have been enthralled by the projections of outer space. A perfect opportunity to celebrate underwater worlds and outer space in a joint festival. The sixth Liquid Sound Festival invites its visitors to immerse themselves in a Gesamtkunstwerk of sound and performance, underwater and under the stars.
Fließende Sinne – Flowing Senses
On Friday, 9th November at 3 p.m. an informative event on the festival and related activities will take place in the Conference Center at the Toskana Therme Bad Sulza, featuring research into art and sound in water, and scientific and therapeutic aspects of “flowing senses”. Entrance is free. www.liquidsound.com
Festival times
Toskana Therme: Friday, 9th November, 7 p.m. non-stop until Sunday 11th November, 12 noon.
Planetarium Jena: Saturday, 10th November, 7 p.m. non-stop until Sunday 11th November, 6 a.m.
Festival ticket
The festival ticket is available for 30 €
from all three locations and entitles ticket-holders to three separate visits in any of the three locations. Alternatively spend all weekend in one location!
> Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
> Planetarium Jena
> Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
The Whenever I Feel Like It Ticket for the Toskana Therme
Regular entrance fee, whenever you feel like it, at no extra cost (day ticket valid until midnight).
The Deep-Night Freebie Ticket.
Between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. – come and bathe for two hours for free!
Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
Wunderwaldstraße. 2a
D-99518 Bad Sulza
Tel. +49 (0) 36461-91085
badsulza@toskana-therme.de
www.toskana-therme.de
Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
Rudolf-Sendig-Straße 8a
D-01814 Bad Schandau
Tel. +49 (0) 35022-54610
badschandau@toskana-therme.de
www.toskanaworld.net
Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
Sternevent GmbH
Am Planetarium 5
D-07743 Jena
Tel. +49 (0) 3641-885441
order@sternevent.com
www.planetarium-jena.de
Programme – Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
Friday, 9th November 2007, 3.00 p.m., Conference Center
“Fließende Sinne – Flowing Senses”. Information, Discussion, Presentation. Introduction to the speakers, participants and festival programme. Art and sound in and under water, scientific and therapeutic aspects. Moderated by Micky Remann
Jan Zehn: “SpaceSoundShip and 3-D Visuals”. presentation, lecture. www.cymasonics.uwee-foto.de
Elfi Six: “Acutonics”. Presentation and lecture on an effective sound therapy approach by the German-American Elfi Six. www.acutonics.com, www.CosmicResonance.com
Andreas Mascha: “Gesamtkunstwerk and Synaesthesia” – Lecture and introduction to the “Michel Montecrossa and his Lightsound Orchestra” and his Liquid Sound Festival appearance on Saturday. www.MiraPower.com.
Walter Seyfart: “Klastchnass an die Staffelei – dripping wet at the easel”. An introduction to painting activities and Liquid Sound Bathing, together with a gallery of images created in this way.
“Fließende Sinne – Flowing Senses” is an invitation to learn more about the manifold interactions between sound, light, healing and water. Bathing in Light and Music with Liquid Sound® – which originates from Bad Sulza – has opened up many new perspectives which themselves are worthy of greater consideration. The event provides an open forum for discussing how light and sound, on their own and in combination, affect our sense of well-being, our senses and health as well as the aesthetic opportunities they offer. At the same time, the ‘dry’ lectures are an introduction to the water-borne festival programme and offer guests the opportunity to get to know the artists, practitioners and speakers themselves.
Friday, 9th November 2007, from 7.30 p.m. – Day 1 / Night 1
Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
19.30 Opening concert
Against the background of a spectacular globe-projection by Volkhard Stürzbecher www.stuerzbecher.de, the live programme begins with an alternating sequence of gentle and dynamic rhythms and a walking act across the levels of the Toskana Therme. Bathing guests lie half dreaming half dancing in the body-temperature warm waters.
The concert opens with music by Táu www.tau-music.de. With their siren song and magic violin, they are among those heroes whose music seems to stream directly from the water. The press have sung their praises: “Táu combine mediterannean and indian folklore with electronically generated rhythms and soundscapes. They impress with their carefully orchestrated vocals and stage show.”
Alternating with Trio Táu, the drummers from Samba de Sol www.samba-de-sol.de bring Brazilian flair and dynamic to the opening concert, accompanied by the fashion theatre group, Gnadenlos Schick www.gnadenlos-schick.de who circulate throughout the Therme with their inimitable sense of style.
This evening‘s video projections in the Therme are masterminded by VJ Dequid from Weimar.
~ 22.00 Broekhuis / Keller / Schönwälder. Electronic dream time.
The Dutch-German trio are one of the mothers of underwater music. In numerous sessions and Liquid Sound CDs they discover ever new sequences for journeying electronic dreamtime in water, on land and beneath the stars. www.manikin.de
24.00 Midnight Special. Táu & Broekhuis / Keller / Schönwälder.
Projections by DJ Dequid
~ 02.00 DJ / VJ night session with Jan Zehn, SpaceSoundShip and 3-D Visuals. www.cymasonics.uwee-foto.de
Xaver Yod Zain (aka Jan10), a young soundspace designer from Jena, seduces the ears with a journey into fractal sound space: enveloped and propelled onward by changing and structurally flowing soundscape-fields, we glide through tumbling spheres of sub and super harmonics, innermost atom-orbitals and planet systems of the finest sound, never before seen with ears. Visually enriched with a graphic animation based on the famous “particle systems” screensaver by Andreas Kardin (CH).
from 04.00 Dreams, sounds and images for mermen and mermaids
Saturday, 10th November 2007 – Day 2 / Night 2
Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
Against the background of a spectacular globe-projection by Volkhard Stürzbecher www.stuerzbecher.de, the live programme continues into its second festival night, featuring multimedia highlights with a strong italo-international colour. Bathing guests lie half dreaming half dancing in the body-temperature warm waters.
19.30 A visual concert from Rome: Roberto Laneri (music, saxophone, vocals), Betty Lo Sciuto (dance). Multivision by Alberto Tessore / Mauro Scaramella www.robertolaneri.net
Soul-stirring sounds, song and dance pieces, with overtone harmonics and rainforest sounds, saxaphone solo pieces and multivision images. Subtitled “neither composition nor improvisation”, the visual concert assembles musical traces form Australia to South America, setting them to dancing movements and images.
21.00 DJ Noxlay / VJN Juladi
22.00 Michel Montecrossa and his Lightsound Orchestra. A Sound & Soulworld Cybersymphony concert. www.mirapower.com, www.Michel-Newsletter.com
The musicians in Michel Montecrossa's 'Sound & Soulworld' concert play a contemplative succession of modern-classical electronica with vocal interludes which bring together sound and poetry to form a relaxing and inspiring whole. Michel Montecrossa and his extensive ouvre of vocal and orchestral work count among one of the most important artists in the field of meditative and futurist music.
24.00 Midnight poolside special: “Klatschnass an die Staffelei – dripping wet at the easel”. The artist and educator Walter Seyfart from Weimar invites bathing guests to apply the fresh sonal and visual inspiration gathered over the evening to artistic experimentation. As the clock strikes midnight, go dripping wet to the easel.
~ 01.00 Late Night Special: “Dancing in Liquid LightSound” -
Aqua-FlowDance performance with Andreas Mascha & Claudia Berger
www.NSP-online.org/Aqua-FlowDance.html, www.flowDance.com
~ 02.00 DJ Noxlay / VJN Juladi
04.00 onwards Dreams, sounds and images for mermen and mermaids
08.00 Liquid Sound Temple – “AquaWellness Special”
Glide into the dawn with Musia Heike Bus from the Institute for Aqua Wellness. An Aqua Wellness session has to be one of the most special experiences to be had in the Liquid Sound Temple. AquaWellness is the ideal seamless transition from festival night to festival day. A wonderful opportunity to get to know Aqua Wellness. www.aquawellness.com
Sunday, 11th November 2007 – Day 3
Toskana Therme Bad Sulza
10.00 Concert matinée with Táu. www.tau-music.de.
As the end of the three day festival nears its end, the festival guest are lured back into the water by Táu’s siren song and magic violin carrying them gently on into Sunday.
11.00 The culmination of the festival: Prize-winning young musicians from the Bad Sulza Music Days present their talents.
- Friederike Merkel (*1992); Blockflöte (Göttingen)
- Rustam Yuzbaschow (* 1990); Gitarre (Merseburg)
- Kristina Otto (* 1989); Akkordeon (Jena)
www.bad-sulza.de/de/event/2007/11/06/day
*** “Immer Welle))ness – switch on to switch off” – Bad Sulza Special Programme:
Experimental radio conceived and featuring Nathalie Singer and students from the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Underwater radio snippets are strewn in throughout the festival. The project is a joint cooperation between DeutschlandRadio Kultur, the Toskana Therme Bad Sulza and other thermal baths and features artistic concepts for the acoustic design of a variety of bathing, sauna and relaxation areas, specially adapted to the historic and specific characteristics of baths and bathing.
Programme – Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
Friday, 9th November 2007, from 7.30 p.m. – Day 1 / Night 1
Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
19.30 Opening concert.
Enveloped in new light and video projections by Tina Zimmermann www.tinaz.net the live-programme begins with an “Opera To Relax” www.the-opera-to-relax.com. The Opera To Relax (OTR) lives up to its name and the OTR is an ensemble with a flair of their own. Martin Hoemberg and Veronika Langguth, the heart of Opera To Relax, are masters of subtle soundscapes. Subtle grooves, ambient moods and jazzy elements are mixed with environmental sounds for your intensive meditative pleasure. Their music is ideal for movement, dreaming or chilling alike.
~ 22.00 Inicial 01 – ambient music from inannia. www.inannia.net
The Jena artist invites the bathing audience to immerse themselves in sound structures attuned to underwater worlds. The music is an arrangement of different ambient tracks and sound scapes, optically enriched with video projections.
24.00 Midnight Special. Opera To Relax
PProjections by Tina Zimmermann & guests www.tinaz.net
~ 02.00 DJ / VJ night session. Inannia Ambient / Visual Mix www.inannia.net
04.00 onwards Dreams, sounds and images for mermen and mermaids
Saturday, 10th November 2007 – Day 2 / Night 2
Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
Enveloped in new light and video projections by Tina Zimmermann www.tinaz.net the live-programme continues with masters of underwater music.
19.30 Wolfram Der Spyra and friends. www.derspyra.de
As creative and classy as ever, the internationally renowned musician leads us from far-out electronic, to melodious dance music and mysterious oracle-sounds.
21.00 Alf Schmieder, Mystical Strings. www.alfonium.de
Alf Schmieder lives in the midst of the Lausitzer lakes as a musician and educator. He expresses his passion for magical places through his guitar and musical cosmopolitanism. He weaves his way from classical via jazz and rock to world music sounds, reminiscent of the sounds of traditional string instruments such as the Persian lute or sitar.
24.00 Midnight Special: DJ Arnö
One look at his MySpace profile is enough to convince anyone of Arnö‘s credentials as the man for contemporary midnight music: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?
fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=175486184
~ 02.00 Session with Spyra, Schmieder and friends
04.00 onwards Dreams, sounds and images for mermen and mermaids
08.00 “AquaWellness Special for all”
Glide into the dawn with Isabella Katrin Schober from the Institute for Aqua Wellness. An Aqua Wellness session has to be one of the most special experiences to be had in the Liquid Sound Temple. AquaWellness is the ideal seamless transition from festival night to festival day. A wonderful opportunity to get to know Aqua Wellness. www.aquawellness.com
Sunday, 11th November 2007 – Day 3
Toskana Therme Bad Schandau
10.00 To conclude the three days of Liquid Sound festivities, bathing guests are treated to the magic of Alf Schmieder’s mystical strings, carrying one over and on into Sunday. www.alfonium.de
Programme – Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
Saturday, 10th November. 20.00
For the first time ever, Liquid Sounds artists take to the stars in the Planetarium in Jena for a Night of Cosmic travel from 8 p.m. on Saturday to 8 a.m. on Sunday. Beneath the spectacular laser dome projection (ADLIP) the viewers comfort is guaranteed: cleared of seating, the audience can lie back and follow the programme from the floor. Views and dreams ascend into the artificial skies, with fantastic panoramic scenarios and video images for water, worlds and stars, enriched with live appearances, DJs and VJs into the early hours of the dawn.
20.00 Táu www.tau-music.de Siren song and magic violin.
The fashion theatre www.gnadenlos-schick.de with their inimitable style, dome projections by DJ Dequid. Sensory fulfilment.
~ 22.00 Broekhuis / Keller / Schönwälder. Electronic dreamtime.
The Dutch-German trio are one of the mothers of underwater music. In numerous sessions and Liquid Sound CDs they discover ever new sequences for journeying electronic dreamtime in water, on land and beneath the stars. www.manikin.de
24.00 Midnight Special. Opera To Relax, OTR, www.the-opera-to-relax.com
The Opera To Relax (OTR) lives up to its name and the OTR is an ensemble with a flair of their own. Martin Hoemberg and Veronika Langguth, the heart of Opera To Relax, are masters of subtle soundscapes. Subtle grooves, ambient moods and jazzy elements are mixed with environmental sounds for your intensive meditative pleasure. Their music is ideal for movement, dreaming or chilling alike. Tried and tested in planetaria across the land.
~ 02.00 Night session, Jan Zehn, SpaceSoundShip and 3-D Visuals EAR OF GOLD. www.cymasonics.uwee-foto.de
Xaver Yod Zain (aka Jan10), a young soundspace designer from Jena, seduces the ears with a journey into fractal sound space: enveloped and propelled onward by changing and structurally flowing soundscape-fields, we glide with the EAR OF GOLD through tumbling spherics of sub and super harmonics, innermost atom-orbitals and planet systems of the finest sound particles. The EAR OF GOLD takes us into galaxies never before seen with ears. The soundscape performance is visually enriched by a real-time graphic animation based on the famous “particle systems” screensaver by Andreas Kardin (CH), mixed with images from the 3D computer graphics series “ON: HOLY OPTICs” (JX 2006).
from 04.00 Sounds and Images for cosmo-nymphs and cosmonauts.
Life in the stars and under water is different. What are the consequences for music, for the senses and for imagery?
