This is Hauschka, real name Volker Bertelmann, from Düsseldorf, Germany. When he performs he sits behind a piano. But what he does to this instrument does not even come close to what you think of when you imagine someone simply 'playing' a piano. His piano's are prepared. This means he upgrades the instrument using anything from pingpong balls to aluminum foil, getting all kinds of alien sounds out of it. Combining his prepared piano's with electronic music, expect anything but your average piano soundtrack to accompany the selected works shown this at this Friday's installment of Cinesonic.
Check out this video of Hauschka performing for Dutch broadcasting company NPR.
Hauschka VS Mono No Aware & Desire. This Friday, May 31, 8:30 PM, Goethe Institute Amsterdam.
