Stuttgart Nachts (Fried Dhn + Helios SQ, 2006)

ideo: Fried Dähn Music: HELIOS String Quartet November 2006 (Ulrike Stortz and Felix Borel, violins; Gareth Lubbe, viola and overtone singing; Scott Roller, cello). The 90-minute film STUTTGART NACHTS (Stuttgart by night), a very minimal film made by the cellist, sound-designer and multi-media artist Fried Dähn () in which, after a very snowy day in Stuttgart, he drives slowly around the city at 3 a.m., filming out the window with a high-contrast black and white camera. The Helios String Quartet (of which I was the cellist) improvised freely to the video in the Stuttgart “Wagenhallen” in November 2006 – the individual pieces are structured by stops of the car at lights. These free improvisations (here unedited) were performed live by the Helios Quartet whilst entirely focused on the video and/or one another.