Pick Up Sticks (Wells & Schneider & Whitehead & Morgenstern)

Format: MiniAlbum (CD & LP)
Label: Leaf
Distribution: Morr Music

Die erste Zusammenarbeit des englischen Komponisten Bill Wells mit Barbara Morgenstern, Robert Wyatts langjähriger musikalischer Begleiterin Annie Whitehead und To Rococos Stefan Schneider. Die Tracks sind (trotz Mehrspurtechnik) frei improvisiert, klingen sehr warm, intim, melodisch und angenehm Soundtrack-artig.

Tracklist:

01 Pick Up Sticks
02 Three Line Prayer (Pt. 1)
03 Three Line Player (Pt. 2)
04 Family Sighs
05 Perfect Window
06 A Soldiers Shoulder
07 The Dust Of Months

Biographie

2018	Release "Unschuld & Verwüstung" @Staatsakt/ Oct. 2018 + shows, theater work: composition for children´s choir "Do´s & Dont´s" - Rimini Protokoll, HAU Berlin, Essen Pact, Kamnagel Hamburg, Shottish National Theater Glasgow/ Paisley, Venedig Biennale
2017	Recording of "Unschuld & Verwüstung", theater work "Truck Tracks/ Essen/ Ruhrtriennale"/ Rimini Protokoll
2016	Choir work "Lautarchiv" with A.Benjamin Meyers & Hauschka/ HKW, thater composition "brain projects" by Rimini Protokoll, Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2015	Finishing "Doppelstern", Choir Work "Fragen an das Licht" for the Zero retrospective/ Martin Gropius Bau + Atonal Festival Berlin
2014	Recordings for "Doppelstern", Musical Direction Radioplay "Qualitätskonrolle" by Rimini Protokoll, Production of "Stille Vann" - female Bandproject by barner 16
2013	Musical direction for "Qualitätskontrolle" by Rimini Protokoll, Staatstheater Stuttgart
2013	Choir work ("California"/HKW, "Virtuosity"/Kammermusiksaal Berliner Philharmonie, etc.)
2012	Release of the album "Sweet Silence" and live shows
2012	Musical direction and choir work for "Lagos Business Angels" by Rimini Protokoll, HAU 1, Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

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2011	Project "only my pen tolerates my choices"; live performance of poems written by afghan women, published at the "Afghan Women Writing Project" (http://awwproject.org) in Amsterdam, directed by Krystian Lada (Visuals: Lida Wilkosz) Choir work for "Das Bergwerk", by Michal Walczak, at the Grillo Theater in Essen, Germany
2010	Release of my "best-of" album "Fan No. 2" on Monika Enterprise & touring
2008	Release of "bm" on Monika Enterprise & live shows
2007	Choir conductor at the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" (House of World Cultures), Berlin Recording of "Paper of Pins" and concerts with Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead and Stefan Schneider
2006	USA Tour with The Mountain Goats
2005-2006	More releases on Monika, e.g. with Robert Lippok and September Collective
2003-2004	World Tour with Maximilian Hecker - organized by the German Goethe Institut, 34 concerts worldwide (Journal 1, Journal 2)
2002	Recording with Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot) Foundation of September Collective - an electronic improvisation project with Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot) and Paul Wirkus
1999-2002	Touring in Europe, partially with To Rococo Rot and Blumfeld More releases on Monika (s. discography)
1998	Release of "Vermona ET6-1" - my first record on Monika Enterprise, Berlin
1996	First solo recordings
1994	Move to Berlin, first solo performances in the so called Berlin "livingroom-scene", founded by Joe Tabu. The concerts took place in his living room in Prenzlauer Berg, which was the beginning of a whole "livingroom-movement"
1992	Formation of my first band Ooze Formation of Nautic United - a network of 9 musicians, where everyone played in at least two different bands; release of a selfdistributed compilation; various shows in Germany
1991-1992	Founder of the Hamburg based Accapella-Band Just 4
1991	Popmusic-Course at the University for Music and Fine Arts in Hamburg
1971	born on the 19th of March in Hagen/Westfalen, Germany

Albums

In anderem Licht 2024	Unschuld und Verwüstung 2018	Doppelstern 2015
Sweet Silence 2012	Fan No. 2 2010	BM 2008
The Grass Is Always Greener 2006	Nichts Muss 2003	Fjorden 2000
Vermona ET6-1 1998

Singles & EP's

In anderem Licht 2023	Beide 2015	Silence Sweater EP 2012
Fan No. 3 Remixes 2011	Come To Berlin Mixes 2008	The Operator 2006
Fan No. 1 Remixes 2004	Himmel Mixe 2003	Eine Verabredung 2001
Malaria! vs. Chicks on Speed & Barbara Morgenstern Remixes 2000	Plastikreport 1997

Collaborations

Monika Werkstatt (AGF, Beate Bartel, Danielle De Picciotto, Gudrun Gut, Islaja, Lucrecia Dalt, Natalie Beridze, Pilocka Krach, Sonae, BM) 2017	Paper Of Pins (Wells & Schneider & Whitehead & Morgenstern) 2009	All The Birds Were Anarchists (September Collective) 2007
Goldstein Variationen #1 (Station17 & BM) 2007	Tesri (Robert Lippok & BM) 2005	September Collective (September Collective) 2004
Seasons (Robert Lippok & BM) 2002