Giving a Baby a Chainsaw – The Hafler Trio: An Art Apart (trailer) from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo. Andrew McKenzie is a highly renowned British artist frequently associated with sound art and experimental music. With great perseverance and integrity, McKenzie has, since the late 1970s, produced a large body of work, predominantly in performances, records and writings under the name The Hafler Trio. Recently, he has developed a concept called complementary education, also known as “complemation”, which is presented in workshops where the participants work together in making a piece of music based on the previous workshops’ finished piece. In a way, this could be seen as a potentially endless work of art that doesn’t only touch upon the dynamics of sound and music in themselves, but to an equal degree the very process of creation and self development. This perspective of regarding creation as a learning process has become one of McKenzie’s trademarks...
Hafler Trio docu opens April 17th
GÖTEBORGS FRIA INTERVIEW
[The following is an interview with me posted in the Swedish online magazine Göteborgs Fria on March 25th, 2015. Photograph by Bella Lassker Wadling.] Kärleksfullt porträtt av Wadling Carl Abrahamsson och Freddie Wadling lärde känna varandra på 80-talet. De förenades av intresset för skräpkultur, ockultism, musik och framför allt film. Deras samtal och tre Blue For Two-låtar blev till filmen Love begins to write a book. 27 år senare återskapar Abrahamsson och Wadling det hela, med samma frågor och samma låtar. Författaren och filmaren Carl Abrahamsson hittade en super-8-film från 1988 där han intervjuar Freddie Wadling. Kortfilmen med titeln Love Begins To Write A Book innehöll även musik med Freddies dåvarande band Blue for two. Tjugosju år senare återskapar Carl Abrahamsson filmen genom att ställa samma frågor till Freddie som i den första filmen, dessutom spelar Blue for two samma musik, inspelad på Nefertiti i Göteborg förra sommaren. – När jag dammade av den gamla filmen...
A Wadling Screening in Gothenburg
On Saturday the 28th of March at 9 pm, my film “Ingenting är sant, allting är möjligt” will be shown at FOLK in Gothenburg. The screening will be introduced by me and Freddie Wadling. To book a ticket, please e-mail: joachim AT folkgbg.se For more information about the film, please go here! Thank you.