How Noisy Are The Rooms?
Can music cause whiplash? Let’s set aside this question for the moment. How Noisy Are The Rooms takes an extremely provocative view on creative anarchy. The concentrated energy from three constantly clashing components puts the listener in the state of a ball in a pinball machine, which is ruthlessly tossed back and forth without ever resting and is always at all points simultaneously.
Behind How Noisy Are The Rooms are Almut Kühne, a Berlin-based vocal visionary, Joke Lanz, a Swiss turntable wizard equally living in Berlin, and Alfred Vogel, a multitasking drummer from the Vorarlberg. For many years, Vogel has been running an Open Ear festival named Bezau Beatz, where unexpected collisions and encounters can and should happen. The meeting between Vogel and Lanz results from one of these collisions. The two extremists immediately hit it off and said yes to a joint project. But that alone was not enough for Vogel; since he had long wanted to ask Almut Kühne to dance anyway, the project became a threesome.
Once again: can music cause whiplash? Yes, it can – if it exposes our sensory centre to a meteoric shower of impressions and perceptions. At a time when we accept the permanent re-evaluation of all values as normality, Almut Kühne, Joke Lanz, and Alfred Vogel succeed, for the first time in recent human history, in giving a positive connotation to the notion of excessive demands, thanks to their post-musical hidden-object-image “How Noisy Are The Rooms”. You can’t get more revolutionary than that!
| Almut Kühne Joke Lanz Alfred Vogel |
voc turntables dr, perc |
