KLANGKRACHDUO STACHE/SCHNEIDER: ENDLICH ENDLOS ATMEN

A play between violin and singing handcart

"Weird cosmos of higher nonsense and deeper wisdom (...) bizarre, bizarre, surreal - or simply crazy." (LVZ)

The two country machine symphonists Erwin Stache and Henry Schneider, who can be seen every year at the "Stelzenfestspiele Bei Reuth", once again present their acclaimed joint program at the Schaubühne, in which all possible and impossible instruments can be heard. A sewing machine breathes, paper rustles, air pumps resound through the room. Rare instruments such as the nyckelharpa or nail violin are combined with their own electronic constructions. Lots of action, lots of sound and music - a symphony of machines with traditional roots. And in the end, a person himself becomes the source of the sound. His pulse, his breathing, his chewing are accompanying voices to the melody of the violin, until the organ pipes, which were just the voices of six cuckoo clocks, fly upwards coupled to balloons.

Erwin Stache is a musician, composer, sound artist and object maker. He has performed at many important festivals with installations, concerts and performances. His installations combine sound and music with visual art elements and are mostly based on a humorous alienation of everyday circumstances. He invents new musical instruments, realizes permanent installations in public spaces and builds audio playgrounds where playground equipment becomes sound objects.

Henry Schneider studied viola at the Weimar University of Music. He has been a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1979. In 1993 he founded the "Stelzenfestspiele Bei Reuth".