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KLAUS HOLLINETZ
::: visitors ::: is a six channel electroacoustic environment, forming part of the "Gwenyambira - A tribute to Simon Mashoko" project, realized in 2001/2002 in honour and respect of the great master of the mbira. ::: visitors ::: It was a bit like coming and going, the way travellers meet each other. Here we have not only met, but arrived. Arriving at a place in balance. We were waiting, strolling carefully around the place, until we finally found our way into the house and sat down. Then the old master himself came. And he was starting to play. Too soon all the beer was finished, but the music will be in our ears and minds forever ... ::: visitors :::
is realized out of sounds from my recordings and also from material from
the soundtrack of the video by Michael Pilz, both recorded on location at
Simon Mashoko's house in Nyika, Zimbabwe, in July 1997 and in January 2002.
The idea for the sound installation emerged from listening also to the
ambient noise, other random sounds and musical bits as well as the music
itself.
It forms a musical framework and background, which can be listened to
through six small individual loudspeakers as more or less permanently
audible sound sources. Klaus Hollinetz, Traun/Austria, February 2002
SOUND FILE
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WERNER PUNTIGAM
A photographic installation based on images Werner Puntigam, Linz/Austria, January 2002
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MICHAEL PILZ
The video "Simon Mashoko Gwenyambira" is a compilation of different materials and different meetings (2002, 1997, 1996, 1974) with the charismatic person, musician and composer Simon Mashoko, who was born 1918 in Zimbabwe. In July 1997, I filmed a first short meeting at Simon's home near Masvingo and I was moved by his performance of his own compositions for voice and the mbira, the spiritual instrument of the Shona people. The film does not only show some of these documents from July 1997 and January 2002 but also a very moving meeting with Austrian musicians in February 1996 and parts of a beautiful cinematographic portrait from 1974 made by Andrew Tracey. This montage will intermingle with the sound installation by Klaus Hollinetz and the photo series by Werner Puntigam, portraying Simon Mashoko and his family when we met them in 1997 and 2002. Michael Pilz, Vienna/Austria, January 2002 |
