I have the honour to open for this wonderful concert on Saturday!

Alle Infos & Tickets hier:

http://spegtra.com/

Zabalera - original music for the play:

„Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum“

Chaostheater Aachen 2018

Schauspiel nach dem Roman von Heinrich Böll

Regie: Reza Jafari Musik: Pascal Fricke

Premiere 02. März 2018 um 20:00 Uhr

weitere Aufführungen: 07.03., 09.03., 11.03., 14.03., 16.03., 18.03., 21.03., 23.03., 25.03.

Beginn: Mi. und Fr. 20:00 h, So. 19:00 h

Aufführungsort: Bürgerzentrum St. Fronleichnam Schleswigstr. 15, 52068 Aachen

Info-Telefon: 0241-5802581

http://www.chaostheater.de/spielplan....

this is best watched in full screen ... enjoy!

I will have the pleasure to play with russian dance company DO-Theatre again next weekend at the 'Across the borders' Festival.
Catch us on friday, july 1, at The Space, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (6pm) and on saturday, july 2, at various locations inside Aquis Plaza (3pm).

"El Peixet de Bloomington" ( Feliu Gasull )

Marie Junke - Harfe
Pascal Fricke - Gitarre
Live at SPEGTRA  Aachen Guitar Festival,
Altes Kurhaus - Ballsaal, Aachen, 2.6.2016

video: Rebekka Krause-Paulus

Donnerstag, 02.06.16, 20:30 Uhr, Altes Kurhaus – Ballsaal

EL CANT DELS OCELLS (Der Gesang der Vögel)

Musiker der Region interpretieren Chor- und Kammermusik mit Gitarre von Feliu Gasull unter Mitwirkung des Chores ACcanto  

Sonntag, 05.06.16, 18 Uhr, Auferstehungskirche am Kupferofen

CORDOPHON X 

Projektorchester Aachener Gitarristen und Gäste

unter Mitwirkung des Aachener Kammerchores

spegtra.com

Tomorrow night, I'm going to be in one of the most beautiful movie theaters of Europe, watching "Driving with Selvi" on the big screen, with a little bit of my music in it ... quite a premiere!

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STRIDULATION


"The act of rubbing two body parts together to produce a sound.  Sounds are usually made when a scraper is rubbed across a finely ridged surface.  Most common in grasshoppers and crickets, but beetles, true bugs

and spiders also produce sound this way."


"Stridulations for the Good Luck Feast" is a collection of 13 percussion miniatures by Billy Martin.

In my adaption for guitar I tried to avoid the obvious golpe & drumming effects,

using mainly flageolets, pizzicato & palm muted notes instead.
In a way I feel like these sounds are somehow closer to the stridulating sounds of insects.
Sometimes the guitars are prepared with sticks, plastic clamps or aluminium foil.
None of the tracks or voices are looped, all is played in real time.
I also put the miniatures in a different order to make them work together as a whole.

Pascal Fricke, November 2015

(source: booklet text)

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"Nacht der Poesie und des Tanzes"
Wiederaufführung beim
22. Iranisches Theaterfestival - Köln
Dichter: Javad Talee
Sprecher: Mohammad-Ali Behboudi
Gitarre: Pascal Fricke
Tanz: Irina Kozlova
Sängerin: Lucy Schröder

I picked up this guitar yesterday after about a year of waiting time after I made the commission.

It's a replica of a pre-Torres guitar originally made by Vicente Arias in 1889.
Karel Dedain of Ghent did the restoration of the original instrument and this is the third copy he made of it.
To me, Arias guitars are kind of a missing link between 19th century romantic guitars like Panormo, Stauffer or Lacote; and the modern Torres design that we are used to nowadays.
Arias was kind of a free thinker, none of his existing guitars are the same; they are all quite different in construction, ornamentation and size, but all of them are rather small bodied guitars compared to modern instuments.

The first thrill comes when you pick up the guitar: It is unbelievably lightweight to an amount that seems nearly impossible. My guitar weights 1020 grams ... it is quite a miracle that it doesn't implode just like that!

The second thrill comes when you play the first notes. It immediately makes you smile and wonder "where the hell does all that sound come from???" The guitar is extremely resonant and warm sounding, even though it is brand new and needs a bit of time to be played in. I can't wait to see how it will develop over the next few months.
The sound is hard to describe but nothing I've heard or played before, very different from a regular classical guitar, very delicate and round, but still surprisingly loud ... it's just ... something different.

Beside of all that ... well, it's a real beauty, have a look...

Watch the trailer including my music here:

http://drivingwithselvi.com/

To learn more about Do-Theatre, please visit their website, or follow them on facebook.

September 5: performing with Do-Theatre:

28.08.2015: Chansonduo Lebherz

So 03.05.2015 bis So 14.06.2015
Ausstellung Deutsches Zollhaus "gemeinsames" – Roswitha Mauckner und Edeltrud Schmitz-Kerpen
Im ehemaligen deutschen Zollhaus, Eupener Straße 420, Aachen

http://www.kukukandergrenze.org/index.html

please click here for more info!

chaOSTheater Aachen presents:
American History X
Schauspiel nach der Vorlage von David McKenna
Buch: Reza Jafari und Leili Novi
Regie: Reza Jafari

Aufführungen im Bürgerzentrum St. Fronleichnam
Schleswigstraße 15, Aachen
Premiere: 24. Oktober 2014, 20:00 Uhr
weitere Aufführungen:
26.10. / 29.10. / 31.10 ./ 02.11. /
 05.11. / 19.11. / 21.11. / 23.11. /
jeweils um 20:00 Uhr
Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
http://www.chaostheater.de/spielplan.html

When God Is Gone:
(original music for the theater play )

Vocals: Lucy Schröder
Weissenborn slide: Pascal Fricke
Percussion: Thomas Hoffmann
Lyrics/Liedtexte: Rezvan Orangpoor

New Live Dates & Events coming soon!!!

with Ensemble Oirfia:

http://sunergia.be/2014/03/oirfia/

Charles Mingus: Good bye Porkpie Hat

arranged for solo guitar

two single birds left on the wire - improvised guitar

"the crowd flew away and left these two guys behind ... they kind of discussing their situation now..."

This morning, I found myself featured on one of my favourite guitar blogs, what a nice surprise!

http://preparedguitar.blogspot.de/

check it out, its a great site!

I made 3 new improvisations over photographies of the same topic: birds on the wire.

You can find the recordings along with basic tabs in the  free tabs section.

Enjoy,

Pascal

I'll be playing two shows in Hamburg, October 30 & 31, with dancer Mina Khani

to accompany her dance performance "Durch die Schatten".

Mut! Theater

Amandastr. 58, 20357 Hamburg

040 - 20 91 03 44

www.muttheater.de

for more details please click here!

welcome to my news blog!

I'll keep this blog in english, because many of my friends don't speak german.

You'll find news and updates about upcoming concerts and such on this page.

cheers, pascal

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