Maxim Starcke musician, composer & sound artist

CAPE DIMENSIONS TRIO

Frank Mallows - vibraphone, bows, cymbals
Brydon Bolton - double bass, effects
Maxim Starcke - alto saxophone, electronics, field recordings, sound design

Solo and ensemble electro-acoustic soundscape performance utilising samples of the various Western Cape biosphere and city sounds.

Cape Dimensions - Maxim Starcke

Cover painting by Helmut Starcke

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LISA BAUER’S MOON SONG

“…Her set was a study in focused emotional dissection, her voice as clear and pure as mountain rainwater.”
Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times

“Lisa Bauer’s music is full of joy. It is also full of soulfulness and sorrow, but her voice is packed with such delicacy that even woe sings like a plucked string… Understated yet urgent, her vocals are spangled with the improvisational essence of jazz, the heartfelt essence of the blues and gospel and mystical riffs.”
Myles Keylock, Mail & Guardian

Inspired by her connection to the moon cycles, the divine feminine, new life and the power of vocalisation, the performance will feature her composition Moon Suite - live for the first time in its entirety. The set will also include tunes by some of Bauer’s favourite, unique American jazz artists. She will be joined by rising jazz guitarist on the Cape Town music scene Keenan Chas Ahrends and multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Maxim Starcke on electric bass.

Lisa Bauer - vocals/composition
Mark Fransman - saxophones
Andrew Lilley - piano/Nord
Max Starcke - electric bass
Andre Swartz - drums

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KAROO DISCLOSURE

Disclosure

An audio extension of the film installation screened at the Karoo Disclosure exhibitions and several other art events, this album was recorded and produced by Maxim Starcke. Lisa Bauer composed and performed the melodic themes with Starcke arranging and digitally creating the soundscape.

All sounds were recorded on-site at Doornberg Farm near Nieu-Bethesda in the Karoo.

The album incorporates Bauer’s voice, violin, scrap metal- and found-object percussion with Starcke’s field-recordings of the natural soundscape of the area. It also features the voice of Deborah Weber, personifying the Diviner character in opposition to Bauer’s violin representing the alien and gold-ornamented Prospector - the duality of industrialism vs nature conservation, the struggle against environmental destruction and other aspects in the exhibition’s narrative.

Karoo Disclosure: Soundscapes / Volume 1, credits:

Maxim Starcke - field recordings, music production, digital arrangements/treatment, mixing, mastering, cover design/photography
Lisa Bauer - violin, vocals, scrap metal & organic percussion, fence, etc
Deborah Weber - voice
Damien Schumann - metal sheet

Produced by Maxim Starcke

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Karoo Disclosure multi-media exhibition and video art recently exhibited at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein (see poster below for details) | Karoo Disclosure: Soundscapes / Volume 1 (by Maxim Starcke and Lisa Bauer) was launched on 6 April at the exhibition opening with a launch performance and workshop/talks.

Karoo Disclosure is a collaborative art project, video installation and exhibition that investigates the highly contentious issue of fracking in the Karoo region of South Africa.

Set in the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa, the project looks at the effects of shale gas exploration (fracking) on land, people and the environment through the use of performance, photography, costume, sound and video.

The collaborating South African artists and specialists are:

Deborah Weber, Elgin Rust, Gina Waldmann, Margaret Stone, Lisa Bauer, Maxim Starcke, Damien Schumann, Michelle Liao & Tom Glenn.

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