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Dave Dempsey

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27. 8. 2010 - 11:37

Today's Webtip: Mimu Merz

making the best thing about St. Pölten just a little bit better.

My summer highlight has to have been the Parque del Sol at LAMES. Sun, and weather, and workshops, and music, and lectures...

And I got to meet lots of interesting people too.

But the highlight of the highlight came on the very last day. Like the Spanish Inquisition, I wasn't expecting it. Everyone who was still around had collected in the front courtyard, and I was sitting with my daughter and some friends trying to get myself to head home.

And then a woman walked into the courtyard and started playing.
And singing.

Everyone slowly stopped whatever it was they had been doing and just listened. I think it was the first time I have ever seen a group of people who were literally transfixed. The woman was Mimu Merz, and when she finished her song and asked us to follow her for more, I felt like one of the children of Hamelin. It would have been impossible not to follow her.

la musique et sun - lames 2010: Performance von Mimu Merz from Max H on Vimeo.

I can only hope the rest of the performance goes online as well.

And I just got some more info.
You can find out more about Mimu on her labels site.
And you can here some more of her work on soundcloud

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  • divination | vor 532 Tagen, 19 Stunden, 28 Minuten

    true

    i do judo she does vodoo

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  • laotzu | vor 535 Tagen, 7 Minuten

    don't know how she does it and I've seen her performing 5-6 times so far but "Everyone slowly stopped whatever it was they had been doing and just listened" is what astonished me each and every time. it's some kind of voice-activated voodoo I tell ya.

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    • kewagi | vor 534 Tagen, 22 Stunden, 2 Minuten

      yes. yes it is.

      we have a piano in the atelier part of our class - every time she comes in and starts playing, the whole room just... stops. conversations and actions are completely on hold until she has played the last note. it's miraculous.

      the performance in st. pölten was a collaborative effort of mimu merz, werner kitzmüller, matthias frey/"sweet sweet moon" and david schweighart/"tupolev", by the way.

    • daddyd | vor 534 Tagen, 3 Minuten

      thanks for the info.
      Up for a TDC anytime soon?

  • kewagi | vor 535 Tagen, 1 Stunde, 36 Minuten

    heilige phenylalaninquelle, batman!

    mit dieser erscheinung studier ich!
    zum heulen schön. danke, dave :)

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  • bigbadjohn | vor 535 Tagen, 2 Stunden,

    Erster

    because it`s war, baby

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    • daddyd | vor 535 Tagen, 1 Stunde, 51 Minuten

      Yeah. Huh.

      What is it good for?

    • bigbadjohn | vor 534 Tagen, 20 Stunden, 45 Minuten

      absolutely nuthin`