arts birthday

art.birthday 1.000.059 / YOUR VOICE – YOUR WORD

Today is the day for some magic and art, created by our word-donors and Pomodoro Bolzano. We started streaming the process of composing and arrangement in realtime at 8:00 PM CET on Youtube.

YOUR VOICE – YOUR WORD 

Dear artlovers,

Pomodoro Bolzano is happy to invite you to be part of art.birthday one million and fifty-nine.
This year it’s about a choice of words. 
Send us your word with your voice as a present for a piece of music which will be created on January 17th, 2022.

Procedure:

To take part is as easy as it can get.
Please send us your word recorded with your own voice.
If you can’t decide on only one word you may send up to three words in different soundfiles (one word per file).
Send us your single word(s) as a speech message via SMS to +49 160 8445253
or send us an email and attach your soundfile(s) to voice@artbirthday.com.

Thank you for your voice!

live recorded and mastered final piece of the performance in a better sound-quality as to experience in our youtube livestream above.

It was a pleasure to come together with a spontaneous network of artists and art lovers to celebrate art's birthday 1.000.059 – the incoming words were beautiful gifts, sounding memories, spelled wishes in various languages ... so much relationship, connected with the voices of their creators.

YOUR VOICE – YOUR WORD participants:: Barbara Rosenthal, Claudio Scardino, Bill Creston, Bob Lens, Lula Valletta, Mr. Pelham, Leonor Faber-Jonker, Erwin de Hart, Jordan Uwins, Brenda Hutchinson, Birgit Szuba, Alina Buga, Flick Harrison, Boris Michalski, Gabelor, Tina Pearson, Bernd Rohloff, Harald Muenz, Gema Fernandez, Biagio Francia with children, Insa Wiese, Giot Berger, Carla Pletinckx, Frieda Korda, Max D. Well, Johannes Riedmann, Chris Wittkowsky, Mike, Irmi, Janna, Ben, Julius, Birgit, Gecko, Angela Saw, Kristina and Borro.
Sounds and voices: Jori Tokyo, Chris Wittkowsky
Loc.: Studio Jori Tokyo, 2022-01-17
Concept: © Pomodoro Bolzano, 2021

Between the Years – What´s going on?

Time between Christmas and New Years Eve became rather silent here at my studio excepting some jams with Chris and visits from my family. School is in holidays and they were pretty needed by me for relaxing, regeneration and new thoughts.

New instruments like Microfreak from Arturia and Digitakt from Elektron were my Christmas goodies for this year and i am using the cocooned winter time for welcoming them in a stately way.

It will need some time to get fully inside this mighty instruments which brings a lot of fun, spice and joy into the studio workflow.

Also we are planning and sketching up the upcoming Art´s Birthday in January 2022, celebrated by Pomodoro Bolzano as every year since a long time now.

This shows our invitation card for the voice calls. And here comes the original invitation from Max´s official art-mail:

art.birthday 1.000.059

YOUR VOICE – YOUR WORD 

Dear artlovers,

Pomodoro Bolzano is happy to invite you to be part of art.birthday one million and fifty-nine.

This year it’s about a choice of words. 

Send us your word with your voice as a present for a piece of music 

which will be created on january 17th, 2022.

Procedure:

To take part is as easy as it can get.

Please send us your word recorded with your own voice.

If you can’t decide on only one word you may send up to three words 

in different soundfiles (one word per file).

Send us your single word(s) as a speech message via SMS to +49 160 8445253

or send us an email and attach your soundfile(s) to voice@artbirthday.com.

Thank you for your voice!

And of course, Chris and me recorded a set of ambient and downbeat tracks during December.

Get in touch with all new released tracks here below.

Next week, on January 3, we will further prepare our Art´s Birthday celebration schedules and do more experiments on sounds and instruments. Creativity and art is continuous in flow here and we will see more of all that in 2022. Now i am wishing you all a great new years eve and floating smoothly into the next year of wonders and experiences.

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This years Art´s Birthday “OPERA BILITY” was entirely virtual performed and realized. Location for the event was our parcel at Odyssey in Second Life. A meeting room on Zoom offered another access to the party.

Frieda Kuterna aka Frieda Korda built a wonderful workshop replique at Odyssey and created a colorful cozy location for the birthday celebration.

The evening started relaxed and mostly quiet before artist SaveMe Oh showed up and rocked our party there for hours.

SaveMe Oh did a great show with all her visuals and breathtaking particles which filled the entire space.

The zoom-conference was streamed directly on a screen which was placed inside the workshop in Second Life. So the participants in-world were able to see what was ongoing in zoom at Real Life.

Our crowd of people was a pretty nice assortment of longtime residents from the virtual world and very appreciated at the party location.

Chris Wittkowsky aka Paco Mariani, Maxxo Klaar and Frieda Korda did gladly this wonderful screenshots during the entertaining event. In the meanwhile i was too busy by guiding the camera for our video-stream.

As last happening on this colorful, groovy evening, Blaise de La France performed a great synthesizer-performance for us, which gave the final blast to this art´s birthday.