An Artist Talks with John Blue, 18.08.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin.

John Blue is an American musician living and working in Berlin since 4 years. He likes the feeling of the city and is lucky to work for film production and theater for whom he produces music.

Tim and John Blue in the Kunsthaus Tacheles

He likes to work in a team essentially with his brother Tim. "Working and composition together is one of most intimate relationships", he says. He is self-taugh and can brillantly play the cello and so many other intruments that I cannot name them all. He is curious and likes to explore always new intruments from other countries and cultures, and works with them until he can master them perfectly.

 He produces and plays live sets of experimental music and is extremely creative. He has a very charming personality. He is joyfull and knows that he is fortunate to be living from his music production. He is extremely hard working and likes to create and push his work to perfection. He searches, goes back and forth, turns things upside down, he uses electronic sounds of course, but does not define his production as electronic music.

Tim, John and Axel

One of his first sound tracks took almost ten year to finalize, so he is patient and can be very dedicated to a project, if he believes in it.
He produced sound for films directed by Paul Rowley, the film title is "As Latháir". And John has also worked for the director Wilhelm Hein for his movie "Material Film", for instance.


He likes to play live also for theater production, of course this type of work is slightly different.
He is  working with the Arsenal and it is an ongoing project named 'Living Archive' that will be a performance and music composition using samples from early sound films.
John Blue has experience and has mature vision of his work. He enjoys sharing his passion for music and seems very excited to be a musician. He is not focusing at the moment on distributing his music. So curiously he has no label or albums released. He is in another dimension.

Axel

 He played live downstairs in the Kunstkonsum with his brother Tim and invited a friend Axel to join in a second part. Many people gathered and listen with pleasure to the set. We really shared a nice moment.

www.arsenal-berlin.de/kino-arsenal
www.myspace.com/johnbluemusic