Schneider TM & Lillevan (+ special guests krautfuzz & Ilpo Väisänen)

Echo Chamber UTOPIA (Audiovisual polyrhythms with Schneider TM & Lillevan + guests)

Video artist Lillevan and musician Schneider TM welcome their guests to the »Echo Chamber UTOPIA«. The two artists describe their concept as a »semi-cybernetic, audiovisual structure« in which traditional instruments such as guitar and bass as well as electronic drums, synthesisers, and, last but not least, vocals run through an interactive effect chain to randomly generate sound sequences.
Essential to the set-up is the high degree of creative freedom for everyone involved and the constant exchange with each other, a factor that applies not only to the music but also the interaction between sound and image. The Finnish musician Ilpo Väisänen (one half of PAN SONIC and one half of ANGEL) plays a central role in this Commissioned Work, operating an interface between audio and video with the help of a video synthesiser.
For some time now, Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) has been practising cross-temporal musical communication without a safety net in the improvisational neo-psych-rock band krautfuzz along with Japanese drummer Imari Kokubo and Canadian bassist Derek Shirley. In »Echo Chamber UTOPIA«, all of these artists and further guests will be exploring the question of whether the human species is capable of evolving and thus surviving, or whether the human project is doomed due to a lack of ability to adapt to the (meta-)physical realities of planet Earth. This artistic study of the future visually thematises the history of AI technology, among other things.
In this configuration, Schneider TM, Lillevan, and their guests create a futuristic party atmosphere in which audiovisual interactivity blurs the boundaries between performers and spectators.