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CAmberwell then

10/8/2018

 
Another delightful little collab with J. Worms. I recently met a French woman in a squat in Switzerland who had lived in south-east London in the 90's. The wide-eyed energy with which she spoke about her time there made me feel slightly vindicated in my sense of nostalgia for a particular type of, now relatively marginalised subculture of exploratory and/or free music that I tried, through the lens of Edwardian romanticism, to evoke with this soundtrack. And which, whether successfully evoked or not, was some kind of inspiration.

I'm sure London is still very exciting if your in the right situation. And it still has lots of lovely parks.

hand developed 16mm rushes of a park | 3' | 2018 | Sound: Benjamin Whitehill

"An experiment in hand developing 100ft of 16mm film in my flat. Just a collection of shots of Ruskin Park in Camberwell... The real action is on the soundtrack, which I asked Benjamin Whitehill to construct. He wanted to draw out the aesthetics of the city which surrounds the tranquil Edwardian Park, as well as evoke a sense of the musical history of the area - ‘exploratory music, improv, avant rock post punk kinda stuff’.

Ben finishes: ‘So that was a vague consideration in terms of, I suppose, 'musical aesthetic.' In a very loose sense I was trying to create a kind of lament for this stuff and a related atmosphere of London which seems to be lost but is also largely imaginary to me... A nostalgic view on a somewhat mythical past of the sort that cities always seem to possess after they reach some kind of 'development' critical mass. In the case of London, one which seems to have remained fairly intact right up until the point when I was old enough to really appreciate the city. Boo!’"


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    DATES:

    09/08/19 - Berlin //
    Whitehill x Sollo x Mottel // @ Schrererstr. 8 // + Mesecina, V V R N G D N G, Ybutteroy, JD Zazie, Cri aka Bonnie Parker, Ryosuke Kiyasu //

    26/06/19 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk feat. kriton b // @ Loophole // + Inutile Témoin, Buckelman x Busato x Davila x Mengersen, Textet //

    23/06/19 - Berlin // Whitehill x Yurdel Caglar // Multiversal x A.I.D @ Loophole // + Busato x Erdem x Tenenbaum, Apoteke, Odio //

    22/06/19 - Berlin // Whitehill x Timoth
    ée Quost // Sad Fridge Fest 3000 @ World Wide Window // + Narvel Orquesta, Quentin Coppalla, Mi Ho, Yr Lovely Dead Moon, Jet Pack Dog, DJ Pax Kivi //

    28/05/19 - Berlin // Whitehill x Busato //  Starling Murmuration #33 // @ Loophole // + Andreucci x Tavil, Drasler x2, The Rambo, Lubys Schick //

    09/05/19 - Denmark // B. Whitehill // Third Space issue II launch party // @ 7e Space, Kopenhagen //

    08/05/19 - Denmark // B. Whitehill // @ Makvärket // + Dicht //

    20/03/19 - Berlin // FDBK EXPT w/ Alexei Borisov @ Kuhlspot Social Club // + NATHAN L. & SAD ED //

    28/02/19 - Berlin // B. Whitehill // Sonic Krause #14 // @ Hauskonzert // + Hannes Buder, Johannes Zins //

    14/02/19 - Berlin // Whitehill x Autr // AV Soli Noise Bar // @ Ratiborstrasse WagenPlatz // + Hemant Sreekumar //

    09/02/19 - Berlin // B. Whitehill // 'i am trying to reach you' Vol. 1 @ Gelegenheiten // + Hannes Buder //

    25/01/19 - Berlin // FDBK EXPT (Whtehill x Kriton Beyer) w/ Norbert Stammburger // @ Geyger Gallery + Quasi Stella, Semiotic Primate //

    10/11/18 - Bern // Scree Fucking Junk // @ Schwob Haus // + Naked in the Zoo //

    09/11/18 - Lyon // Scree Fucking Junk // @ Bimbo // + Naked in the Zoo //

    08/11/18 - Basel // Scree Fucking Junk // @ Off Bar // + Naked in the Zoo //

    07/11/18 - Wesserling // Naked Junk in the Scree Fucking Zoo // @ château d'Eau  // +  Timothee Quost //

    06/11/18 - Besançon // Scree Fucking Junk // @ L'Atelier de l'Etoile // + Naked in the Zoo, Timothee Quost //

    03/11/18 - Innsbruck // Scree Fucking Junk // @ Cafe DeCentral // + Naked in the Zoo //

    02/11/18 - Feldkirch // Scree Fucking Junk // @ Chybulski // + Naked in the Zoo //

    01/11/18 - Biel/Bienne // Scree Fucking Junk // 'Noise & Poetry' @ Labiu // + Naked in the Zoo //

    13/10/18 - Berlin // Whitehill x Bastian Hagedorn // 'Ohne Vorschlag' @ Geyger Gallery // + Simon Rose x Joshua Weitzel, Marcelo Cabral //

    10/10/18 - Berlin // Whitehill x Busato // @ Loophole // + Lorenzo Colocci x Thiebault Imm x Ole Mofjell, Anil Eraslan x Ruben Tannenbaum //


    04/10/18 - Berlin // Whitehill x Marcello Busato // Redox Reaction @ West Germany // + Kriton b x Simon Rose, Sink //

    23/09/18 - Bologna // Whitehill x Giulia Valenti (Unprofessional) // Discomfort Dispatch @ Mikasa // + Bomi Kim x Jacopo Mittino, Laura Agnusdei x Diego D'agata x Fra Zedde, Guajetern, Heaven, Self Toxification, Carlo Marrone x Paulo Gaiba Riva //

    22/09/18 - Civitanova Marche // Whitehiil x Alessandro Funari // MULTIMACE_micro @ Jolly Roger // + Gangbang, DJ Balli, Unprofessional, Guajo Eterno, Self Toxication, Heaven //


    07/09/18 - Berlin // Ystlum Gwyn // Session #101# @ Geyger Gallery // + -ASTO-, Alex Moran, Bruno Kretz //

    28/08/18 - Berlin // Whitehill x Erika Sofia Sollo // Starling Murmuration @ Loophole // + Marcello Busato x
    Frank Szardenings x Antti Virtaranta, Simon Rose x Nicola Hein //

    03/08/18 - Berlin // Ystlum Gwyn // @ Loophole // + SN50, Samin Son x Skuv, Seth Frightening, Cozmik Onion Express, Madamo, MIIN, 93N3R4TΩR x Natarajan, ORCH-OR x Alexandra Maciá, Vincent de Quiram, Jeroen x Boris //

    25/07/18 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whitehill/Ray) // @ Loophole // + Palm Squirrel, Zhenja Oks

    24/07/18 - Berlin // Whitehill x f:rar x Royston-Ward // Starling Murmuration @ Loophole // + Kalashnikov x Lanzo x Tavillah, NEXUS / OKUDA //

    29/06/18 - Berlin //
    ​B. Whitehill + Issac Ray // @
    Kék Ló //

    23/06/18 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whitehill/Ray) // @ Geyger Gallery // + Naked in The Zoo, Santa Binder //

    24/04/18 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whithill/Ray) // @ Loophole // + Laura Boer, Zhenja Oks //


    18/04/18 - Berlin //
    ​B. Whitehill // @
    Kék Ló //

    27/04/18 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whitehill/Ray/Maria-Adam) // Patchworkin' @ Bei Ruth // + Technosekte, Rudolph/Ennsen/Klotz, Viscerale, Esura, Gtuk //

    27/01/18 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whithill/Ray) // Backwards Face Bash @ Hauskonzert // + Ugly Object //

    10/01/18 - Berlin //
    ​B. Whitehill // @ T, Berlin // + Hannes Buder //

    07/01/18 - Berlin //
    B. Whitehill // Sonic Krause#10 @ Hauskonzert // + Hannes Buder / Marie Takahashi //


    17/11/17 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whitehill/Ray/Maria-Adam) // @ West Germany // + Blevin Blectum, Bridget Feral // 

    06/11/17 - Berlin // Scree Fucking Junk (Whitehill/Ray/Maria-Adam) // @ T, Berlin // + Bird People //

    24/07/17 - Berlin // Dead Lifts (Whitehill /Ray/Maria-Adam) // 'Experimontag' @ Madame Claude // + Torba //

    14/07/17 - Berlin // Douglas Firs (Whitehill /Ray/Maria-Adam) // 'ICH HÖR DAUERND HÜHNER' @ Bei Ruth // + Electric Anthillman, Duvel Brothers, Adel Akram, DJ Ansgar Wilken //

    1/07/17 - Oranienburg // B. Whitehill /
    I. Ray // Grabowsee abandoned sanatorium //

    04/06/17 - Wiesbaden / B. Whitehill [guitar solo] // Albdrunck und sommerfrisch vernissage
    @ Fragment //

    03/06/17 - Köln //
    B. Whitehill [guitar solo] // @ ChaCha & Tantra // + Roland Wendling //

    01/06/17 - Berlin //
    B. Whitehill [guitar solo] // @ T, Berlin // + JP. Carter, Tyson Naylor //

    19/05/17 - Vilnius // B. Whitehill [guitar solo] // 'Sound Ideas' @ Ideas Block // + Roberto Baccera //

    23/03/17 - Berlin //
    B. Whitehill [percussion solo] // 'Ornaments'#2 @ T, Berlin // + Yorgos Dimitriadis, Bastian Hagedorn

    22/03/17 - Berlin //
    B. Whitehill /
    M. Johnson // 'Infinite Pest'#3 @ Yodel // 
    + Isaac Ray //
    ​
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    12/02/17 - Berlin // 
    B. Whitehill [guitar solo] // Sonic Krause#5 @ Hauskonzert // + Hannes Buder & Brianne Curan, Ulf Mengersen //

    ​10/02/17 - Berlin // 
    B. Whitehill [guitar solo] // 'Infinite Pest'#2 @ Gelegenheiten // + Johnson //

    12/12/16 - Berlin // M/S/M/S // 'Experimontag' @ Madame Claude // + Matias Brunacci & Juan Orozco // 

    12/11/16 - Manchester // Ystlum Gwyn // 'Liberate yourself from my vice like grip' @ Islington Mill // + Mother, ILL, 
    The Yossarians, 
    Shield Pattern,
    Andy or Jenny //
    ​

    06/10/16 - Berlin //
    B. whitehill /
    M. Johnson / B. Lloyd // Ornaments#1 @ t-Berlin // + Jon Collin, Ansgar Wilken //

    22/09/16 - Berlin // M/S/M/S // @ t-Berlin // + Zeta, Hunllef, Bruxa Cosa, Oscar der Winzige //

    ​08/08/16 - Berlin // M/S/M/S // 'Experimontag' @ Madame Claude // + Conure //

    ​28/07/16 - Berlin // I. Ray / B. Whitehill // @ t-Berlin // + FITH + Bruxa | Cosa //

    16/07/16 - Poland //
    B. Whitehill [percussion solo] // 'The Palace Arts' Festival

    25/06/16 - Berlin //
    B. Whitehill [percussion solo] + Isaac Ray [reading] // 'Voll Verkabelt Kunst Kiosk #2' as part of '48hours Neukölln' @ Obst & Gemüse //

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