hello DEAR Nippers,

I just returned from my performance at Isaac’s academie/residence in Stuttgart.
Had to perform on the yearly expo /summerfestival overthere.
It went realy great. nice audience and a Isaac ”’dancing”’. haha
I took some realy old German Turntable testing records from 70’s with me and sampled those live, I also used the ‘usual’ rest of my setup. went nice!!! And filmed!!
I notice more and more often how important my concentration and state of mind is for my performance.
That is kind of obvious but sometimes it is hard to find this concentration or for some reason the best spark isnt there. Although you do try to concentrate and spark.
This can make or break my performance everytime.
I know this is also a good conclusion because it indicates the liveness and fragility of my performance. Wich I like a lot. But it is not nice to present a less performance to the audience.
(If you kind of get what I mean!??!)haha
Luckily Stuttgart went great but that is no garantee that next time is good too.

Soo, I suggest NIP yoga lessons!!!!
I’ve got some nasty oldschool yoga Zen records. With free aerobic instructions.
We should get some NIP stretchy cat suites (with sensores!!??) and do a group performance!!
Who is in for it??!! (haha, sorry I let my fantasy go wild there for a moment) (would be cool though!!haha).
I made this performance once with other classmates some years ago.
We were al dressed up realy stretchy/nasty. I made an aerobic record skip this one groof.
Soo after you heard the intro and cosy adrenaline pumping speach of the presentor SALLY the record kept on repeating:”lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg…”.
So thats what we did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOOD!

I thought Andre G’s performance at Steim was also very Zen. Been thinking about it.
The contrast between the innocense of a balloon and hardware is very nice.
I am currious what would happen when you’d run that ballon through an Andre G Max patch.
sound and video. for an even greater contrast. Im sure you/Andre G thought about this already for a 1000 times yourself but I just have been thinking thinking about it.
But it’s also NICE the way it is now!! Dont get me wrong Andre!!haha
Nice piece.

Greetings,
Toktek Tom

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