Just returned from a little 3 week tour -- performances in Stockholm @ Fylkingen, Berlin @ Zentrale Rantlage, & Venice @ Rivolta. Really different venues, and cities, with populations having very different aesthetics.
Berlin, especially former east Berlin, is a special place right now, having a sort of renaissance due to lots of inexpensive flats and squats (though these are going away and gentrification is already well under way) -- a huge amount of creative work happening there, with a local dynamic spiralling around de-centalized noise improv. A very knowledgable audience, who will sit and pay rapt attention to high decibel minimal noise. The proprietors Xenia and Rene at Zentrale Rantlage are dedicated to promoting the leading edge as they see it.
Just outside of Venice, Rivolta is itself a former squat -- a factory taken over and turned into libertine music space, run by volunteers, who use the facilty in the winter to provide housing for the homeless, and where the police are not permitted, anything goes, the music does not begin until midnight, and when we strolled away after a satisfying performance at 4:30 A.M. the music was still going strong, and the birds were waking up. The place has a very different vibe than Zentrale Rantlage, and playing here was a very different sort of experiment.
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I was there too. Actually Rivolta is quite a sophisticated night club as well with more than 4 bars and great food (hand thrown pizzas all night long). There were over 1500 people there on Saturday night (based on ticket sales at the door). The first train stop off the island of Venice it's a great performance space run by friendly, accomodating folks. Massimo did a fabulous job running the NWEAMO room where Todd & Joe (SWARMIUS) performed - some listeners got up and danced to Labyrinth ...
Great find - Massimo!
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