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van Bebber / Lemke
TAPES & VINYL
The Duo van Bebber / Lemke
started in 1986 after Claus van Bebber and Helmut Lemke had met in the artists group ‘Heinrich Mucken’ which they cofounded in 1982.
From
the beginning CvB and HL tried to combine their experiences in improvised music with the sounds of everydays life. So it was just natural that their first equipment not only consisted of their respective ‘traditional’ instruments (Claus van Bebber percussion and Helmut Lemke woodwind instruments) but included a wide variety of sound generating tools like toys, houshold stuff, water, peas etc..
Just before they started their collaboration Claus van
Bebber had started to work with prepared records and turntables while Helmut Lemke had build his 8 Tape-player desk and used his wide collection of sounds on more than 200 tapes.
All this instruments were used in concerts to create collages of sounds which could build huge walls of sounds as well as fragile, subtle cycles of sound.
This
stage of their collaboration is documented on the LP ‘van Bebber/Lemke’ released on edition el C. elc 12001 in 1989.
After that Claus van Bebber and Helmut Lemke concentrated more and more on the use of just records and tapes.
This instruments became also the focus of their respective solo concerts.
After a period from Jan 1996 to Oct. 2000 when Helmut lived and worked in Sheffield / GB and
in which their collaboration was reduced to occassional concerts in Germany and other countries of the European Mainland they revitalse their duo-work in 2001.
It is now
that their
longtime experiences with the respective instruments (records / tapes) in solo concerts as well as their longstanding co-operation with each other results in soundwork which prooves their great mutual understanding and leads to astonishing music.
Besides following their own carreers in improvised music Claus
van Bebber and Helmut Lemke both have a history of sound installation in the visual art world with a record of exhibitions in Museums and Galleries in Europe and foreign countries.
Their work is widely documented mainly on the Nur/Nicht/Nur label and on the label edition el C. both based Germany.:
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