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I’ve uploaded some pics from this performance I did as artist-in-residence at Sziget Festival, Art Agora, 2004. Go here Sziget Silk Fire to view.

Well I did it. I went running today through the slums of the 8th district and along the litter ridden Duna to the decadent Palace of Arts…and back. I plugged my nose, and closed my eyes and turned away from the lusty stares as I bounced along.
On the plus side, I ran through, […]

Raday Street Performance Delivers Hope and Forgiveness
HOPE: A collaborative effort
We wanted to perform the piece we have been working on Georgi, Andras and I, before I leave so, we gave a performance last night in a cafe on Raday utca. I was lucky to get a room at the last minute, several places we […]

AppleSeed, a work in progress, Making New Waves Festival workshop performance, February 2006, Photo:Kai Niggemann
View more photos of me in performance here
View more Kai Niggemann photos from the festival here.

Yes, it’s true! The Hungarian band Sziami broke the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest concert given by a band - they played, non-stop for 48 hours!
Non-stop: the rules permitted a 5 minutes break every hour, and if they played more than one hour, non-stop they could accumulate the minutes to take […]

I don’t have much writer in me these days even though I’ve been out and about and have things to write about. In fact, I have a CD that was given to me over a month ago that I haven’t written about. Not because I don’t like it; on the contrary - I love […]

Thank God for parties like the Junior Kelly party at Vienna’s WUK. …whilst in Vienna, I was slipped a promotional copy of Dubblestandart’s soon to be released CD Are You Experienced A double CD, disc 1 being a compilation featuring an assortment of voices, among them Ariup.

…that’s the name of the compilation CD I am on. My first CD. Now I have to join one of those songwriter’s associations so I can get my 50% of 1/13th of proceeds (after all the admin type people have taken their bite) from the sale of the CD. I need a manager […]

I performed at Labyrinth’s monthly reading on Friday night in Vienna to a packed house at Cafe Kafka. My poems were very well received. I performed: Wake up Time, Tribute to Ani, Easier Said and Bad Choices.
Rebecca Fromherz, an opera singer from Vienna, read some of her own poems during […]

Jasch gave me a copy of his CD after his performance last Thursday at Trafo, and I finally got a chance to listen to it Sunday morning at about 4:00 am. It was the perfect background music for a late-night/early-morning talk with one of the other workshop participants. With the exception of some […]