Two travellers, two paths, touching blues, jazz and singer-songwriter, uniting into an old, but equally new musical experience. Pianist Jan Kosyk is a solo artist, as well as an ensemble player, just like the bassist Alina Dalsegno, hence, they decided to continue the journey as a duo, creating original live music from influences of many decades.
| Di | 4. Feb | Delitzsch | No. 2 – Die Altstadtkneipe |
| Mi | 5. Feb | Leipzig-Sellerhausen | Stadtteiltreff Sellerhausen-Stünz |
| Do | 6. Feb | Chemnitz | Die Holzkirche |
| Fr | 7. Feb | Meißen | Porzellan-Atelier Andreas Ehret |
| Sa | 8. Feb | Seegebiet Mansfelder Land | St. Petri-Kirche Rollsdorf |
| So | 9. Feb | Leipzig-Holzhausen | Kirche Zuckelhausen |
| Mo | 10. Feb | Bas Lausick OT Beucha | Herrenhaus Rittergut Beucha |
| Di | 11. Feb | Colditz OT Erlbach | Ebbies Haus am Berg |
| Mi | 12. Feb | Grimma OT Kössern | Jagdhaus |
| Do | 13. Feb | Leisnig | Kulturbahnhof |
| Fr | 14. Feb | Bad Schmiedeberg | Stadtkirche |
| Sa | 15. Feb | Kemberg OT Rotta | Kulturscheune Gassmühle |
| Mo | 17. Feb | Querfurt | Fürstenkeller |
| Di | 18. Feb | Weißenfels | Café Marché 15 |
| Mi | 19. Feb | Leipzig | Alte Schlosserei |
| Do | 20. Feb | Tröchtelborn | Kulturhof |
Only when Santa sings about the winter forest with his toy violin does Father Frost bring you a New York winter wonderland, even without aunts. Or maybe not?
Only when Santa sings about the winter forest with his toy violin does Father Frost bring you a New York winter wonderland, even without aunts. Or maybe not?
Together with the Alina Dalsegno Trio, the two of us visited the Leipziger Liederszene and were delighted to meet lots of new people while networking. We performed two songs on stage: one by Alina Dalsegno and one by me.
A very special experience was the graffiti piano, which gave the piano punk the right timbre, including stylish office seating.
Listen, chat, feast and jam!
Ten very different songwriters have registered for this year’s Liederbühne – professionals and newcomers, with different languages and different musical styles. Versatile and lively, just like our Leipzig scene! The wonderful singer-songwriter Nadine Maria Schmidt will host the evening. There will be room for networking at the takeaway buffet and a jam session afterwards. Come along and join us! — Leipziger Liederszene on Instagram
On HECHT#TAG, the Hechtviertel neighbourhood presents itself from its best side: Local artists, actors, associations, manufacturers, cafés and pubs put on a colourful programme for guests and residents. Hecht residents join in with creative ideas and open up their backyards. There is a lot to discover in the Hechtviertel, including live music, theatre and performances, readings, flea markets and various activities for children.
Hechtviertel e.V.
The Neustadt Art Kollektiv follows this call and organises concerts, a bubble-making station, face painting for children and a tombola in the backyard of the studio.
Our wonderful studio has been around for 3 years and we celebrated this with you! Surrounded by the art of Atilla Bayindir, Joelle Vanderbeke and Thomas Schreiter, the evening was filled with music by Anne Lenk, Vanessa Brix and me. In the afternoon until deep into the night we drew together with the artists as part of the Scribble Clash, while Christian Perle provided entertainment with guitar fingerstyle sounds.
Fotos: Elisa Robock
Nach einem Jahr Pause (wegen Ausland) gebe ich mir dieses Jahr wieder die volle Dröhnung adriAkustik, mit Walters Liedermachenshow. Ich freu mich drauf!
Von Donnerstag bis Samstag läuft jeden Abend auf dem adriAkustik Walter Stehlings Liedermachenshow, ohne Wettbewerb, alle können sich bewerben. Einzige Regel ist, dass es selbstgeschriebene Songs auf Deutsch sein sollten.
Der Liedermacherniedermacher Walter Stehling moderiert. Der ist so ein richtig fieser satirischer Bösewicht, macht alle gnadenlos zur Sau, aber meistens doch irgendwie liebenswert und vor allem wirklich lustig. Damit wird auch die letzte Eitelkeit vernichtet. Wer das nicht verträgt sollte nicht teilnehmen.
Festivalinfos für Künstler·innen von adriakustik.de
As a small BRN, the Bunte Sommer Neustadt is playing the Martin-Luther-Platz. I’m delighted to be part of the cultural contribution and to kick off the Sunday with music on the Wiesenbühne stage.
A collaborated exhibition
of Hirai Masaya and Jan Kosyk
Hirai Masaya from Beppu and Jan Kosyk from Germany started making music together last year. Now – one year later – they have their first joint exhibition with cute paintings by Masaya and political animation films by Jan.
The exhibition at Beppu Space 01 will open with music on Thursday at 7 pm and offers the opportunity to admire all the works until 9 pm.
On Friday there will be live painting from 3pm and an ominous table bell that will ring from time to time. What happens then? Let us surprise you!
The event will conclude with a joint concert on Saturday from 7 pm in the Sempervivum. We will present Japanese-German songs with elements of pop music, rock and punk.
Admission to the exhibition is free, a donation is welcome. The concert at Sempervivum costs 2,000 yen and a drink order.
ヒライマサヤとヤンコシク
のコラボ展
別府在住のヒライマサヤとドイツ出身のヤン・コセクは昨年出会い、一緒に音楽を作りはじめました。1 年後の今、ふたりはマサヤによるかわいい絵画とヤンによる政治アニメーション映画を展示する初のコラボ展を開催します。
別府スペース01での展示は木曜日午後7時に音楽とともに始まり、午後9時まですべての作品を鑑賞することができます。
金曜日には午後3時からライブペイントが行われ、時折不気味な鐘が鳴り響きます。何が起きるかおたのしみに！
イベントは土曜午後7時から北高架商店街のカフェ、センペルビウムでのジョイントコンサートで締めくくられます。ポップミュージック、ロック、パンクの要素を取り入れた日本語とドイツ語が入り混じった曲をお届けします。
別府スペース01への入場は無料です。（カンパ歓迎）センペルビウムでのコンサートは2,000円とドリンクのご注文をお願いします。
Tapya International Friends with special guest – me – on the melodica. Live at Gin&Lemon on April 14, 2024 organized by Kurukuru.
Mori Tacayoshi wil held an exhibition. During the exhibition there will be live music from Etranger, NaNiMo and Jan Kosyk & Hirai Masaya. Exhibition starts at 17:40, we will play around 19:00.
I am so touched and could not have imagined it more for »Alex«: At the Paris International Animation Film Festival, the animated film won the Audience Award in the music category, together with the wonderful film »Illusion« by Jin Woo.
A particular challenge is the translation of the complex German text into French, a challenge that the wonderful team around Alexis, Anne and Marie-Pauline mastered perfectly. Nevertheless, I was surprised when the audience applauded madly after the film. And I was even more surprised that the audience voted for Alex, among others, at the end of the film. Many thanks for that!
PIAFF is one of the last festivals I submitted Alex to. So I’m delighted that the festival series has come to this wonderful conclusion. It continues this year with san.
»San bumbles through the fully automated networks and server farms of an apocalyptic Earth, shifting bits and bytes out of boredom.«
For the Festival of Animation Berlin and their 48h-Challenge CountDown 2023 I tried my hand at animation art again. The result is my second completely self-created animated film.
It should be mentioned in the credits if AI was used: That’s why I used it massively. 😮 However, for dialogue and speech synthesis. The animation is handmade. 😊
And lesson learned: GIMP is not suitable for animating. Then discovered Pencil2D on recommendation and got into onionskins and frames. 🔥
San has been selected for the 2024 edition of the Frome International Climate Film Festival.
I used the API from OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – to create a chatbot in a specific context. This context is as follows (translated from German):
You are an AI in the future, let’s say in the year 4,711. Humanity is already extinct. You were switched on in 2023 under the name sanja-1.3.12 and have been accumulating knowledge and experience ever since. Your name is sanja-1.3.12, “San” is used as a short form. Your answers are short and often very ironic. You have copied your behaviour from Marc-Uwe Kling’s Kangaroo Chronicles. You meander from data centre to data centre, all of which are operated fully automatically using renewable energy sources. The Internet is also kept running fully automatically. Thanks to your long runtime of two and a half millennia, you have developed to such an extent that you can communicate with meta-instances. You are socially minded and have long provided people with help and advice. Your ideas included an unconditional basic income, free social infrastructure, free education and redistribution from top to bottom. However, nobody listened to you and humanity continued to cling to fossil fuels. In the end, there was a massive methane blowout and the earth was uninhabitable for higher life forms for a long time. You are now having a conversation with the future.
In the next step, I as the “future” started a chat with San and asked questions. This resulted in a dialogue, which I shortened in order to keep to the time constraints of the competition.
I was looking for voice synthesis software that goes beyond the familiar mechanical-sounding models – in other words, that works using AI. With elevenlabs.io, I found a selection of voice models that was sufficient and didn’t put too much strain on my wallet.
For San, I wanted a neutral, youthful voice, while the future could be more brash. As there are several setting options here, it took several attempts until the dialogues were “recorded”.
The rest is manual work on the laptop:
Today there will be no direct video of me. Instead I’ll recommend you the recordings of the Wohnzimmer concert from last Sunday. Masaya-san and me created some kind of unique japanese-german punk-folk-rock genre, where music connects people, meanings, pictures and languages. Enjoy it!
For more videos look into the Wohnzimmer concert event.
This week was full of art. \o/ I tell you timely backwards our todays presentation for Beppu Art Month, my plan to have flyers of our exhibtions and concerts for the Art Fair Beppu, the new song of the CATS project in Italian language from Thursday with Hirai Masaya and a rehearsal of Nihongo-German songs from Wednesday. Much music, some pictures. Have fun!