BIOGRAPHIE---HALLE K---1984-2004

Halle K, CH-9565 Schmidshof, Tel CH-(0)71 651 18 26, hallek@hallek.org

HALLE K was founded in 1984, in the empty factory hall "K" in Bürglen, close to the "lake of Konstanz", in Switzerland. Musicians and artists from Zürich (CH) to Düsseldorf (D), developed the idea "performances for all senses". We work as a team on projects with a varying cast of musicians and artists to act with multimedia-projections and sound in live-performances. Today HALLE K is Hamstar, Thomas Comiotto, Roman Hollenstein, Beat Solèr, St. Alexander, Maria Bischof, Marcel Hollenstein and Karl Steffen. HALLE K performs Noise Music to Pop Sound, Experimental Sound from sampler to harmonium and music with conventional and self constructed instruments. Video-, film- and dia projections, overhead projector, light, perfume and pyrotechnic are part of the actions with musicians and performers.

PERFORMANCES:
First action in the art exhibition "Bellevue" 1984, in Kreuzlingen. 1984-87, musical performances in Zürich - Bern - Weinfelden - Basel - Konstanz - Düsseldorf - Köln - Solothurn - Frauenfeld. Music productions in galleries, in churches or recreation areas. Performances with the cabaret "Götterspass", for the "Theater Off" Genf, Open Air concert "Ereignis - Liesberg". Performance during the art exhibition "Alles und noch viel mehr", Art Museum Bern. Political productions for Nicaragua, for autonomous culture places, against new Highways. 1988-99 performances at the "Noisestruktur Festival" Ravensburg, in the galleries de Fabriek Eindhoven, "Alexander Hodel" Zürich, "Shedhalle" Frauenfeld, "Macelleria d`Arte", "Kunsthalle", " medialounge" and "AnStadt98" in St. Gallen, "Artroom" Kreuzlingen, "eg@l" electronical art depot and "Neue Boerse" in Zürich (as examples). Some TV stations broadcasted "HALLE K", "Fri-son" 1988 from "SF1", "Kunsthalle" 1995 from "Züri 1" and "media lounge" 1997 from "Star TV".

SOUND PRODUCTIONS:
CASSETTES:
1984 "Glas und Metall", self production.
1985 "Green Gold", product "ddd" Bonn BRD. 1986 "Heartbeat" self production.
1987 "The Sampling Sampler" Synthetic sounds from Switzerland, "Lux Noise" production.
1989 "Schall und Wahn", 1992 "triggered" and 1993 "lemonsand" in self production.
Vinyl-RECORDS and CDs:
1987 "1990" Sampler against new prisons.
1988 "HALLE K", record from Ex Libris records.
1997 "SKAMPLER 3" international sampler from phonag records.

VIDEO PPRODUCTIONS:
(Betacam, U-matic, VHS)
1985 "Glas und Metall", live video "Halle K", from "Videoton" ETH Zürich.
1986 "Halle K"-performance "Alles und noch viel mehr" in the Art Museum Bern,
from "Petson Video" Bürglen.
1990 "Schall und Wahn" performances, from "Magic Camera" Zürich.
1992 "MurkArt", 1993 "lemonsand", 1994 "Klang und Kleid", 1995 "guinea-pig" and 1997 "interface", "Halle K" - performance videos in self production.

The latest project of HALLE K was a CD-ROM production.
We released this CD-ROM with an additional CD-audio track.

VIPER 2000, the INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
showed our CD-ROM in the Competition Programm for Film, Video and New Media.
MORE INFORMATION with VIPER: http://www.viper.ch