sounding ways of being 2

The performance by turntableist Joke Lanz and vocal artist Ute Wassermann takes the audience on a rollercoaster of vocal, physical and electronic actions. A tour de force of technoid rhythms, cartoonish fragments of speech, twisted melody fragments, stop-and-go grooves and loops. The duo has performed at numerous international festivals since 2016. In 2025, their concert in London was released on the Otoroku label by Café Oto.

The concert series sounding ways of being 2, curated by Ute Wassermann, is about sound affinities, mixtures and interactions of voice, electronics, instruments, objects and the element of water, inspired by the research of artist James Bridle: Humans are closely intertwined with an intelligent environment that encompasses the intelligence of animals, plants and machines. The second edition of this series is dedicated to the artistic exploration of the complex subject of ‘field recordings’, which serve as inspiration or starting point.

... The listening experience may leave you shocked but guarantees tons of fun. If you can imagine rare, colourful birds, with a flair for Dadaist mischief, dancing along to anarchistic techno grooves that threaten to melt your brain, you may get closer to what happened in this outstanding performance...
(Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective, April 2021)