The Plasticflowerchildren are playing with all their electronic stuff
in the preserved moonlight, they are really raging themselves out and
at a later time, when the moon has already exploded and its guts have
rained down on the world 2.0, everyone is sitting around a black and
white campfire, holding marshmallows to the screen. Then – like
almost everybody knew - somebody gets sentimental again. Maybe because
the marshmallows just won’t get sticky, maybe because
that’s the way it always was. Somebody picks up a guitar to hold
up the mood and starts strumming with jagged movement. Basically, what
you are hearing now is said to sound like AndA. Folk collides with a
present, which is thoroughly medialised. Nothing really new, but at
least never heard this way.
Anda
uses means of media art to play with traditional stereotypes of a
popular music, which is loaded with romantic self-conceptions. As an
example of a mass medium this central topic is put in a more global
context referring to the sructures of modern communication in general.
For instance, one important question is if the emotions that are
connected with music are authentic, are already within the listener or
if these emotions are reclusively produced by the medium, making the
listener a passive consumer. But mostly the content stays abstract and
associative. Every produced mood of anda's music is short and fragile.
It is contradicted again and again until self-reflexive questions
appear behind the often melancholic kitsch within music, concerning the
basic character of popmusic and today's ways of communication.
With the help of various
radio sets on stage and live-sampling the current radiobroadcasting
becomes part of the music. The seemingly clear division of stage and
listenes gets cracked by carrying some programmed cassette recorders as
irritating sources of sound into the audience, by letting the circuits
and old tube radios cheer for the listeners. Far-reaching musical
crossings between and quotes from folk, breakbeat, hip Hop, military
marches, Noise, Mainstreampop, etc. refer to the immense spectrum as to
the relativity of popculture. Old telephones serve as microphones,
various digital freeware syntheziser from the WWW, dictation machines
and walkmen, a gong, walkie-talkies, an ukulele, toy-keyboards, a
harmonica, etc. serve to produce sound. In the end, you're supposed to
hear popmusic, which seems to be regularly sentimental at first
impression, but still is able to question itself and its widespread
context.
Others about AndA
"Anda
scheinen den Bogen
zwischen gewohntem Songwriter-Duktus und verstörend-faszinierender
Avantgarde, Mainstream, Lo-Fi, Pop und Medienkunst ausloten zu wollen.
Und es gelingt ihnen überaus
gut..."
-
www.frohfroh.de: We Like Dance Music From Leipzig
"Was bedeutet
es
eigentlich in einer Welt 2.0 zu leben und wie wirkt sich die zunehmende
Technologisierung unserer Umwelt auf die populäre
Musik aus? Andas Stil ist irgendwo in der Nähe
von Folk, Elektro und Experimental anzusiedeln, lässt
sich aber keiner bestimmten Musiksparte zuordnen. Nichts wirklich neues
und doch so noch nie gehört."
- Bremer: Das
Metropolen Magazin für den Nordwesten
