Off the back of her performance at the Kiezsalon, legendary German percussionist Limpe Fuchs sits down with music curator Heiko Hoffmann for a conversation and listening session exploring her artistic practice, storied career, and influences. This free event will be held in both English and German on Sunday, 19 July at After — a community space for audiophile listening in Kreuzberg close to Schlesisches Tor.
Join us in the lovely courtyard and meet Limpe for an intimate listening and Q&A session. Entry is free but limited, admittance is first come first serve. Wine and food will be provided.
Heiko Hoffmann is a music expert, editor, lecturer and curator. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and has just started a weekend-afternoon communal listening series called Filter. He served as editor-in-chief of Groove magazine for more than a decade and curated an exhibition, book and compilation series – No Photos On The Dancefloor! – at CO Berlin on the history of the city’s club culture.
Limpe Fuchs has been one of the most imaginative sound artists on the international experimental music scene for decades. Over her forty-year career she has continued experimenting with “no formalism” improvisational sound and visual performance using handmade instruments and sound sculptures. Her engaging performances are meant to be carefully listened to, requiring attention from the audience as she moves freely in space evoking her natural soundscapes while playing her viola woodhorn, pendulum string, a four-meter- steel constructed lithophone, sheet metal, pieces of wood and singing in her unique ephemeral bird-like style.
Fuchs has been accredited as a seminal influence on the “Krautrock” scene of the late ‘60s and ‘70s and later became an inspiration for the experimental psychedelic underground of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s (HNAS, Nurse with Wound, etc.) and for generations after.
