Abican - Betonchilbi

Abican - Betonchilbi

Live Performance vom 23.1.21 im Kampus Südpol HSLU

“Betonchilbi” is an abstract film that deals with the structures and textures, the ugly and the beauty and the sound of the concrete-staircase in the new campus of the academy in Luzern (CH).

What you hear is a recorded live concert of me playing in and with the staircase and with the staircase’s special reverb-towers (no artificial reverb added). In preparation for the concert, I have spent a week in the building, absorbing the life of the school, the people walking around, their moods, the sound of the staircase, and then composed a loosely structured piece open to improvisation. The concert a conversation with the building itself, an immersive sound experience, which is hard to preserve in a recording. That’s why I decided to add a visual component to it, to present a further point of view.
So, what you see is partly the documentation from the concert, and partly additional filmed structures and textures of the staircase, contrasting and supporting the music, adding another layer and dimension

Musik und Konzept: Can Etterlin
Kameras: Eirik Sanner, Emilio Guim, Can Etterlin
Schnitt: Can Etterlin