The vocal duo transalpin is engaged in ethnic music from different cultural backgrounds. Using their special technique of synchronised singing the duo’s work focuses on the fusion and penetration of the different musical pieces while maintaining its own cultural character.
The songs raise, cross each other, separate and meet again. Through this -
literally - singing together of songs from different cultural origins, new strange sound universes are created: new musical ethnical worlds arise.
transalpin is a good choice for
● Festivals open air and in special spaces (factories, tunnels, churches) ● intercultural events ● venue and shop openings, book presentations, corporate events ● concerts on big and small stages and also venues that are not primarily dedicated to theatre and concert
Projects
● leittoenen 1 & 2 ● Oh You mei Austria! ● going yodel
transalpin: going yodel!
In their new programme transalpin present improvisations of yodelling - based on yodels from the alps as well as from the African rainforest - and vocal shepherds’ music from Eastern Europe. Some specialities are the “compilation of shepherds’ callings from the High Tatra” and the “Zwiefache” from Oberpfalz.
As exotic as their music are the percussion instruments the duo uses:
mexican nuts, goat’s toes, brooms, cymbals of the harness, spoons, washboard are further tools to explore the background of vocal traditions and to cast a new light on fading traditions.
Ingrid Hammer – vocal and percussion
Sigurd Bemme – vocal and percussion