SYNOPSIS

A collective film by
Lucía Palacios
Dietmar Post
Tomoko Nakasato
Michael Beckett
Claas Großzeit
Dirk Dresselhaus
Damo Suzuki
Ilpo Väisänen

The live performance by Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers was filmed on November 24th, 2011 at Marie-Antoinette in Berlin (Germany). The band performed one song of 122 minutes. The film was shot in one continuous 122 minutes long take. Neither the filmmakers nor the band members knew what was going to happen. Music and filming was entirely improvised. The filming melted together with the freely and spontaneously composed music. Damo Suzuki is the former lead singer of the seminal German avant-garde band CAN. “One song filmed in one long take. Rarely has the avant-garde presented itself so beautifully. A radical audio and film painting one wishes to see hanging in a museum.” (James R. of LA Taste Magazine after seeing the film at a private screening)

STATEMENT BY THE MUSIC WORKERS (text by Dirk Dresselhaus / Schneider TM)
I find it fairly difficult to say something about how the music in this concert came about, cause we didn't plan or rehearse anything and hardly were able to hear each other on stage. Wherever it came from, the energy and course of this concert is very much based on group dynamics and an almost telepathic sort of communication, like a swarm of fish. When I mixed the sound later on in the studio I discovered a lot of weird things on the separate tracks: for example Kptmichigan's guitar signal is changing level for about +/- 30 dB once in a while which is a lot and was probably caused by a broken microphone cable. Luckily the fucked up parts made the sound even heavier and more distorted instead of destroying it.

CONCEPT BEHIND THE PLAY LOUD! (LIVE) MUSIC SERIES

The "play loud! (live) music series" has been initiated by filmmakers Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios (responsible for monks – the transatlantic feedback, Reverend Billy, Klangbad, Franco’s Settlers). The series parts from three ideas, Alan Lomax's work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel's BBC radio sessions and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as, Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn and Pennebaker. Filming live shows meant not to do it in a TV style but in a very personal, intuitive and adventurous style – nothing is staged for filming. You go along as it happens. Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot without any edits. Some critics have labeled it as "filmed paintings/painted films".

play loud!’s music films have been called: “raw”, “rough”, “canny”, “straightforward”, “adventurous”, “witty”, “insightful”, “direct”, “non-tricksy”, “economic”, “minimal”, “unpretentious handheld camera work”, "artful film paintings" …

play loud!’s intention is to furthermore create an extensive archive of interesting popular music that includes also the possibility to screen/stream material that comes from other sources.

PLAY LOUD! (LIVE) MUSIC SERIES
001 Floating di Morel
002 Doc Schoko
003 FM Einheit + Irmler
004 Faust
005 Gebrüder Teichmann
006 Christy & Emily
007 Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers
008 Camera feat. Rother & Moebius
009 Friedman + Liebezeit
010 Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit

Up-coming:
Atari Teenage Riot, Limpe Fuchs, Barbara Manning, and many more.