Otto Mötö on Air

Lawn mowers produce noise… but also music. The Iceland-born Berlin math teacher  Käthe Paulsdottir was a collegue of the legendary Finnish motor music composer Martti Mauri, who features as the main person of the radio show. Metal Machine Mowers! Here comes a snippet of her work. For more: Listen to the show.

On Air: Sonntag, 19. August, HR2, 14 Uhr

Tempest Session for Datscha Radio

On 6th of August I visited John Blue (his studio here) and Mimosa Pale. We spoke about tempests and rainstorms. John had actually recorded the storm which had struck down the Datscha garden fir 4 weeks earlier. As if it was by magic, the rain started pouring down again. And the two of them improvised on a stunning new piece for singing saw, cello and electronic samples.

Steinbrueck’s Garden

For more than 30 years the couple Steinbrueck has been cultivating lilies. Currently they rank among Germany’s most successful lily breeders. A broadcast with an interview with Gerhardt and Eva Steinbrueck is in preparation.

The pictures show the garden house of the Steinbruecks in the garden colony “Alte Baumschule” in Berlin-Pankow, some views of the garden, the kindergarden of this year’s lilies, a small selection of won certificates, photographs of Eva’s lily arrangements and the official catalogue of the Royal Horticultural Society, where new breeds must get registrated. A poetic peculiarity of the Steinbrueck breeds are their names: a local reference must be involved, be it the variety “Pankower Eleganz” (Elegance of Pankow) or the  “Brandenburger Revue”. Thus, Berlin can be found world-wide even in the shape of a lily!

A focus of attention is placed on the “OT-hybrids” originating from the orient and trumpet lilies. The pictures show the following jewels from the lily garden of the Steinbrueck’s:”Shocking”, “Arvandrund”, “Conca d’Or”, “Robert Swanson”, a still unbaptized lily  (Tetra Black Beauty x Journey’s End), the Asian hybrid “Hamamet” and “Juan de Fuga”.