The ‘Liverpool’ exhibition by Rineke Dijkstra opened its doors
Exhibition overview available at Gallery website
The Max Hetzler Gallery published installation views, film stills, the portraits and video excerpts on their website.
The installation presents three videos and four portraits, installed in the very spacious and generous environment of the gallery, which is located in a refurbished factory space in Berlin Wedding.
The picture shown to the left:
Nicki
Liverpool, England, January 19, 2009
© Rineke Dijkstra
Each video work has a dedicated room, which allows for each to be well separated from the surroundings. Eight of the newest projectors create sharp and vivid images in full HD between two and three meters wide. Especially for the ‘Krazyhouse’ the sound is set just at the right level to support the individual characters and merge with the images equally.
Related Links
- Rineke Dijkstra’s ‘Liverpool’ exhibition overview here»
Rineke Dijkstra’s new work to be premiered at the Max Hetzler Gallery Berlin
Exhibition starts 20th Feb 2010
The exhibition entitled ‘Liverpool’ will feature the two video installations (introduced here») as well as a series of new portraits taken by Dijkstra during the production period.
Dijkstra’s time in Liverpool, her second period after her first visit in 1996, has inspired her to work again with the youth of the city, including a video installation based on her work ‘The Buzz Club’.
The picture shown to the left:
Amy
Liverpool, England, December 23, 2008
© Rineke Dijkstra
Please visit the Max Hetzler Gallery website here» to read more about the gallery and program. The Max Hetzler Gallery has been representing Rineke Dijkstra for many years amongst other renowned artist.
Liverpool Session Orchestra with Shane Beales at Motor Museum
Liverpool based songwriter Shane Beales has chosen the Liverpool Session Orchestra to perform on his beautiful tracks Missiles.net and Burnt. LiSO provided a quartet to be recorded in the newly revamped Motor Museum Studio.
Both songs have previously been tracked at Evelyn Yard Studio, an EMI facility in London. Using a guide rough mix Christian Badzura arranged the string parts in close collaboration with Shane Beales. “I guess, once a song is written others can find space within that to express themselves. That’s exactly what Christian has done,” said Shane.
Liverpool Session Orchestra with Alice Klar
Live Session: Alice Klar and 11-piece band in the studio
Alice Klar recently performed live with all new arrangements of their songs – written and arranged by Alice Klar’s own Christian Badzura – in the Parr Street Studio in Liverpool. In time with the second single DSCO DANCE, the video is released online as well as the live and radio version of the song as audio only.
Can’t Start The Machine – Gorbachov Debut Album
Listen to the full album
Irish rock band Gorbachov has finally unleashed the debut album “Can’t start the Machine” onto the net-world stage. It can be listen to in full using the Soundcloud player above.
Hildebrand recorded, mixed and co-produced the record. “I’m really into all the sounds and ideas we’ve put onto the record. Keeping it straight forward, but every song has its nuances. My favorites are Friends, Mr Fahrenheit and People Skills, they make such a great middle section of the album. But the more you listen to the album the better all the tracks get. I also really like Brandan’s lyrics, which are all about places, people and situations,” comments Hildebrand.
Introduction to working with Rineke Dijkstra
From Sound Engineering to Videography
Four video stills: The Buzz Club
Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL 1996-1997
© Rineke Dijkstra
Hildebrand started working with renowned dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra in November 2008. Dijkstra was looking for a sound recordist at the time, to be working on a new video installation. A working relationship developed spanning much further than capturing the sound and a friendship emerged, that would see Hildebrand involved at the deep end of many of her ideas.
Interview (Page 1)
Hildebrand explains what mixing and welding have in common and why personality is important in creating a mix, in this interview with Film-maker Tim Brunsden. With Producer Christian Badzura, Hildebrand mixed the first Alice Klar album at Chairworks Studios near Leeds in United Kingdom.
Tim Brunsden: “Just tell me why we are here today?”
- Christian Hildebrand: “Alice Klar asked me to mix their album and we decided to go to the Miloco managed Chairworks Studios in Castleford, because they’ve got a really nice setup. I mixed an EP for Alice Klar before and frequently work with Christian Badzura on other projects as well.”
Interview (Page 2)
Tim Brunsden: “Summarise your style and vision.”
Hildebrand: “Well, with every the projects my vision is to pull it all together – combine it into one concept. Part of that is to mix it coherently and use the same styles across the record, yet still introduce different attitudes in the songs. That is my main aim.
Interview (Page 3)
Tim Brunsden: “There seems to be a lot of choices about all the detail. How do you make a decision on that, because there is so much to choose from?”
Hildebrand: “There is… the details you can dig into in an environment like Chairworks are immense and you can easily get distracted. So it is important to keep focussed on what was the sound originally, what did it intent to do and what can I make better out of it.
Liverpool Session Orchestra with DC Fontana at Parr Street
DC Fontana nurture their passion for classic psychedelic rock. The band asked Christian Badzura and the Liverpool Session Orchestra to arrange and record four tracks, one of which – the very tricky and demanding arrangement for the song Six Against Eight – is presented in this video. Living the rock star life, they locked themselves in the studio for months to create original music together with producer Donald Skinner (Placebo).
Mix on 4hero release ‘Extensions’
Hildebrand mixed the track Sophia of the eagerly awaited album 4hero presents Extensions, which can be heard below. The original track is from 4hero’s Play with the changes album. The Liverpool Session Orchestra performed the strings with Christian Badzura’s arrangement being dynamic and soulful, keeping the sweetness of the original but with a 1970’s funky disco groove driving the rhythm section.
Liverpool Session Orchestra with Erino Yumiki at Parr Street
The single Lost by Japanese artist Erino Yumiki, currently heard on a Japanese TV series, is featuring the Liverpool Session Orchestra with Christian Badzura’s arrangement. You can listen to the track further down the article.
Erino Yumki is a songwriter and guitarist who loves the songs and the sounds of the Beatles. So it was not too far-fetched to turn to the services of the Liverpool Session Orchestra to create the mixture of beatlesque and modern string parts Erino aimed for.
Gorbachov’s racing soundrack
This – I must say – I like. It’s coverage of the Wexican Motorsport crew testing their newly aquired Nissan Laurel before the third round of the Irish Prodrift Series in July 2009.
Hildebrand mixed and co-produced the debut album of Gorbachov in 2007/08, which is now the soundtrack to a loud and fast racing car sport.
The song “Come and Get It” seems to fit perfectly for this video and is part of a strong first album. You can listen to more in the Media Player, read the related post or visit Gorbachov’s Myspace.
So cool to hear the gear changes over the guitar parts…
Liverpool Session Orchestra with Nate James at Parr Street
The first Liverpool Session Orchestra VideoLog shows LiSO recording ‘Runaway’ performed by Nate James. This cover of the famous song by Loleatta Holloway was produced by David Brand for Nate’s recent cover album ‘Revival’ full of the best soul classics.
Live Sessions
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A taster: The Elephants’ Treehouse Session
TreehouseSessions.com shows artists being recorded live at Hildebrand’s former studio, called the Treehouse, which was located in a beautiful open-plan rooftop in Liverpool. Check out the Treehouse Sessions website to see and hear many more sessions of various artists.
TreehouseSessions.com features music from all over Britain and Europe and has grown the recognition for producing an online show, which captures the artists and their music wholeheartedly. A colourful mix of talents across all genres is presented assuring the viewer to find exciting music.
The videos from the Treehouse Sessions will be migrated to this blog and in future continued here.
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