********************************************************** RATIONAL REC presents WE'LL COUNT YOU!
You are invited to the 7th thrilling instalment of Rational Rec, the monthly inter-art social occasion, incorporating sound, music, text, performance, film and psychological experiments. Come along and be artistically, intellectually and alcoholically stimulated. Tuesday, 4th April 2006 Bethnal Green Working Men's Club 44 Pollard Row, London E2 (5 mins from Bethnal Green tube) £5 on the door DOORS OPEN AT 7PM. ********************************************************** WE'LL COUNT YOU! instrumental and body compositions on the theme of numbers Performed by Pauwels/Anaraki/Helbich - The Calculators (Belgium) First Would you keep your countanance, if you were counted up by three counts, who counters every counterfeit with country-songs? Not us. We count on you. Second: What we will do for you - 'Counting Song' by Fluxus artist Emmett Wiliams. - 'Go Guitars' by Lois V Vierk for 1 electric guitar & 4 electric guitars on tape - 'Foxfire Eins "Natriumpentothal"' for guitar by Helmut Oehring - Pieces for guitar and air-guitar by David Helbich. - '12! Ein Zahlengedicht' by experimental poet Gerhard Rühm - 'aldinorm' and 'aldidivers' for toy piano & tape by David Helbich Third: What you will have to do yourself - feel invited - remember or invent your favourite number - guess what's next - win our favorite number! - find the way home after... THE CALCULATORS DANCER Shila Anaraki (Germany, b.1976) works as a dancer and actress; her favourite directors inlcude Wanda Golonka (Frankfurt), Sophie Kokaj (Brussels) and Armel Roussel (Brussels). GUITARIST Tom Pauwels (Belgium, b.1974) is an artistic advisor of Ictus, and also plays with Plus-Minus, Black Jackets Company and Elastic 3. He teaches at the Conservatory of Gent. COMPOSER David Helbich (1973, Berlin) studied composition with Mathias Spahlinger in Freiburg. As a composer he has worked with groups such as Ensemble Modern, Black Jackets Company, Cornelius Cardew Ensemble, +- and Maulwerker. Rational Rec is organised by Russell Martin, Cecilia Wee and Matthew Shlomowitz. www.rationalrec.org.uk
