At Avanto festival we gave an instrument workshop for children aged 9 to 12 at the Ateneum Art Museum. The result of the workshop was performed by SSS together with the young participants of the workshop at the Kiasma Theatre under the title Staalplaat Soundsystem & The Helsinki Filharmechanic Youth Orchestra. The orchestra was conducted on a simply number-based system, the kid’s used flash lights on the half dark stage to switch on and of their instruments while iluminating them. For this we prepared light sensitive switching boxes for the single instruments. The performance was a part of Kids’ Avanto.

Staalplaat Soundsystem & The Helsinki Filharmechanic Youth Orchestra at Kiasma Theatre on Sunday, November 20th at 19:30.

For Avanto 2005 we played a YOKOMONO live set with especially for this occasion made new vinyl. Mika Vainio, was commissioned to produce a seven-minute composition. Petri Kuljuntausta from Helsinki was, in turn, asked to provide a composition of an equal length responding to Vainio’s piece. The sound material to used for the compositions, field recordings from the turn of the 1960s and 1970s made at the Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, was discovered in the special effects archive of YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company. Both track were cutted parallel on one side of the record.
Side two of the record presents Alexei Borisov, Andrey Kiritchenko, Blixa Bargeld, Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Jason Forrest, Main, Merzbow, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Un Caddie Renversé Dans l’Herbe and Zbigniew Karkowski with five loops from each featured artist and their own sound environment. Avanto is the co-producer of this unique release.

In Bremen we played a YOKOMONO within the concerts series organised for the exhibition “Vinyl”

Ignaz Schick - rotating surfaces, objects (Berlin, Zarek/Staalplaat)
Radboud Mens - turntables (Amsterdam, ERS/Staalplaat)
Staalplaat Soundsystem Yokomono - vinyl killers, fm transmitters (Berlin, Staalplaat)
Philip Jeck - turntables (Liverpool, Touch)

YOKOMONO at Vinyl Museum Weserburg, Bremen 2005
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