Karma Orkest Karma Orchestra
A workshop and performance commissioned by Mister Motley magazine, during the Lowlands pop festival in 2007. Large-scale pop festivals, even ‘Live Earth’, produce considerable quantities of rubbish: plastic beakers, plates and so on. Karma Orchestra is the working title of a series of workshops and performances at which this waste is metamorphosed into music. During the daytime workshops, festival rubbish was transformed into musical instruments that were used to perform concerts in the evening.For example, a live soundtrack accompanied a recycled image from pop history: footage of Beatles fans on a ‘pilgrimage’ to Abbey Road in 2005-2007.
Concept for the Karma Orchestra & footage of the Abbey Road crossing: Saskia Janssen. Live band and workshop in association with David Hollestelle and Ruud Englebert. Lowlands Festival, Biddinkhuizen, 17 – 18 – 19 augustus, 2007