:Dirk HuelsTrunk:
Live Performance

"Examples of Sample Poetry/Analfabet"
Electronic Soundpoetry for voice, samples and Air FX Effects
Producing poetry with a sampling machine. Rhythmicly pounding words, meditative mumbling, electronicly twisted speechsounds. Trying to generate meaning through repetition.Techno poetry meets Dada. Just like a DJ the Sample Poet works behind his machines, mixing, streching, compressing the words to find the magic moment, which might only be the moment of absolute non-sense.

Videoexamples (without effects): Nie & ArBeiTe, live in Trier, 2006 (c) Stiftung Kunst und Recht

New: Antikoerper/Antibodies
bilingual (germ/engl.) bookpresentation & Multimedia Performance

Dirk Huelstrunk - text, voice, loops, elektronic effects
Brandstifter - visuals, casio sk1, voice

A funky performance. Soundpoet & author Dirk Huelstrunk and Fluxus/Happening-artist "Brandstifter" will bring collages and cut-up texts from medical books to live. the text will be whispered, spoken, screamed, looped and sung in german and english. Bodyparts and thoughts will be connected in a new way. Fleshlegos flash through the rooms. In addition Huelstrunk and Brandstifter will play an improvised musical set with sampling keybords, toys and effects.

The set can be combined with a soundpoetry set by Dirk Huelstrunk and a musical Set by Brandstifter.

Antikoerper/Antibodies was first performed at Flux Factory and Bookart galery "Central Booking" in New York, Nov. 2009.


"Wer ist Erwin?"
electro-acoustic soap-fragments, avant-trivial mix for voices, samples and handmade modulations.
"Wer ist Erwin?"("Who is Erwin?) are a series of hypertrivial, absurd and losely connected miniscripts for imaginary Soap-Operas. Sometimes romantic, sometimes as hard as live can be, often confused. People coming and going, meeting and parting. What have Marlene, Iris, the man with the hat, Kurt, Jrgen, Manfred, Ursula to do with each other. And who is Erwin? A lot will happen. But why?The sampler repeats the bare bones of conversation without emotion. The poets recites, screams, whispers from the depth of his heart. All this seen in a distorted multi-effect mirror.

"Sounds Like Poetry"
Jazz-Poetry-Performance
Dirk HuelsTrunk - voice, samples, effects,
Esther Maria Sack - sax,
Werner Smolinski - bass

Researching the border-regions of music, sound and language. Influenced by Dada, Bebop, Beat, Avantgarde-Jazz you will see powerfull voice performances interacting with bass and saxophon and electronic devices. Absurd wordplays, soundpoetry, shamanistic meditations, swing, walz, bebop, free jazz, trashpoetry mixing into an explosive soundcocktail.