EAT THE FROG is more than a collective of artists making music.
It is a vehicle driving our common search for meaning in unclear and constantly changing times, an artistic form of expression constantly in motion.
Sometimes revealed as a band, sometimes as curators. Sometimes as workshop-givers, sometimes as activists, often alongside many interdisciplinary artistic accomplices.
The intention is clear. In all the forms we choose to express ourselves, we strive for connection and exchange between people. Coming together in a space and feeling the collective connection that is constantly present but forgotten with increasing frequency in our social system, the focus lies on what connects, not on what separates us human beings: the feeling of collective energy and the resulting synergies, not intellectual but emotional.
It is political, it wants to emancipate and extract itself from existing social narratives - ones that create separation, ones that distort the focus on us as an interconnected community and prioritise instead the long outdated capitalist systems that do not place emphasis on people but on infinite growth and material ecstasy.
It manifests itself as an offer to bring people into contact with other, new narratives that are meant to create hope and courage in these times instead of further cultivating the opposite.
EAT THE FROG is more than a collective of artists making music.
It is an organism in constant motion for new collective, artistic, creative ideas and elaborations, for equal exchange and communication, in search of like-minded accomplices.
It is an organism that already carries the future in the very present.
BRACELETS
United by their love for improvisation, experimentation & songwriting, Bracelets sail through the vast sea of possibilities, hopping from one musical island to another. Together they keep discovering catchy and sometimes predetermined melodies that spring from ambient soundscapes. Magically they layer haunting vocals and sometimes dive into intense interplay.
In their powerful live shows Bracelets take the listener on an expedition where there is time to breathe and explore every incoming thought as a possibility for something new.
Helsinki-based Karin & Selma bring in Nordic melancholy with their emotive, twin-like vocals, electric guitar, synths and effect pedals while Tobias, with his human-sounding trombone, builds a majestic wall of sound alongside Stefan’s hypnotizing drumming and organic percussions. Both musicians are currently based in Berlin.
Bracelets strongly believe in the ethos where questions find their answers during the journey rather than at the final destination.
WORK IN PROGRESS is a hybrid event format. In addition to performance, the aim is to enable an equal exchange between artists and audience.
We understand art as a deeply human form of being; a deeply human form of communication that is directed at everyone, detached from knowledge and reason; it is a form of expression of existential themes and emotions.
concert series curated and hosted by EAT THE FROG (Tobias Link & Stefan Schneider)
WIP #12 Vincent Moon 20.11.2022
WIP #11 Lukas Lauermann 31.10.2022
WIP #10 Elis Noa 22.09.2022
WIP #9 Kami Malz 12.05.2022
WIP #8 Arthur Adam 25.03.2022
WIP #7 PEOPLE w/ Nadine & Tom Michelberger 06.03.2022
WIP #6 Marina Baranova & Brueder Selke 27.02.2022
WIP #5 Hey Nana, I’m Halym 26.11.2021
WIP #4 Jake Sherman 25.11.2021
WIP #3 OSKA 09.10.2021
WIP#2 Lau Noah 26.08.2021
WIP #1 Lukas Streich 21.05.2021
EXTEMPORIZE is a musical sign language by Danish artist Nana Pi Aabo Larsen that can be used in both educational and artistic contexts.
Together we create music in the moment, improvise and explore listening and communicating with each other. With the help of the signs, the participants are sensitised to noises and sounds and learn to perceive and listen in new ways. In this way, an orchestra is quickly created from a multitude of sounds.
The workshop is aimed at musicians of all levels who are open and curious to experience music in a new way.
Previous experience in improvisation is not necessary.