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Brian Eno, Slop Shop, and Holger Czukay

Bonn, Kunsthalle

Music For Eye-witness -- The EnoWeb has received the following report from Ulrich "Bommel" Bomnüter, who was lucky enough to get an invitation to Sushi! Roti! Reibekuchen!:

"It was amazingly good! They were joined by Holger Czukay (former member of Can), who added his tapes of short-wave radio recordings to the music. Slop Shop consisted of 3 guys (synthesizer, bass, drums). Eno played his good old DX-7, but also spent a long time at a computer, where he constructed brilliant drums tracks from scratch, and at the mixing device where he manipulated what he had just created with filters, loop devices and suchlike. While the invitation for the party said something like "incidental" music, they actually played all night long, nearly 3 hours. They did a sort of jam session, with sections where they built up soundscapes, and other more rhythmic sections. Eno seemed to be the driving force: more than once it was him who entered the stage first after a break and started beckoning the others to join in.

The installation: The music comes from 2 CDs plus a computer (running Koan). There were instrumental tracks (seemingly he made extensive use of the DX-7 machine) as well as little stories/poems spoken by Eno. The CD tracks were combined at random, while Koan supplied sort of string soundscapes. There was just one small room totally darkened with a few light objects slowly changing and music (specially recorded for this event) playing. The light objects consisted mainly of a screen where slides hand-painted by Eno were projected over another, slowly fading in and out. Although there was only a limited number different slides (about 30), there was a great number of different combinations, so even after an hour or so you weren't able to recognize a recurring pattern. Even more so, since they were chosen at random. All in all a very meditative thing where I could easily spend an hour or more..."