Das Bett

The pandemic has finally given us enough time to be able to develop creative ideas. As thepandemic progressed, my apartment increasingly became a music studio. On the red carpet in frontof the sofa, the instruments gathered and we tripped over cables.At some point Sonja had the idea of stretching wires across the apartment in order to elicit soundsfrom them, depending on their length, line and position. I didn't like the idea of no longer being ableto move freely through the apartment and possibly no longer be able to open doors. So at somepoint I came up with the idea of converting an unused metal bed into an instrument.Yuri Landman constructed a devise on which we stretched piano strings and run them directly into our amplifiers, which admittedly was quite tedious. More than once a string hissed, just past my face when it broke. But so far we have been able to survive the instrument and continue to wring interesting tones from it,while also using it for percussion.With a wide variet