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What follows is shameless self-promotion:

Yesterday, the Hoerde Torch photos presented in the Falling Down gallery and various other shots of the same steel mill have been presented live during a performance at the Artspace Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, USA. The area band Tulsa Drone used video beamers to accompany their bass hammered dulcimer music performed during the release party of their new CD No Wake.

Erik Grotz, Tulsa Drone's guitarist, came across the Falling Down series (possibly via the kind mentioning at Coudal Partners) and instantly thought about connecting it with their live music. He approached me on AIM, it evolved into a longer conversation on the industrial heritages of our regions, and with compatible ideas on our minds, we qickly reached an agreement.

From documentation to art
Though the photo package I assembled also included a small Torch primer (PDF, 26 kB), the event did not focus on the Torch. The Torch is dead, so is the mill, and so is the region's steel industry. It focused on connections. On connecting the moods generated by Tulsa Drone's music and my photos, and on connecting the East Coast there with the Deep West here: two regions that both saw massive de-industrialization, that rapidly changed faces and that deal with it their ways (or not). Playing a bass hammered dulcimer, guitar, bass guitar, drums and percussion, Tulsa Drone creates a cinematic sound that might not make it into mainstream (MP3 samples), but that connects to the photography of Industrial Night and Magic quite well. Wish I could have attended the performance :-)

Gallery
Tulsa Drone live in Richmond VA >

Related
No Wake - Stylus Magazine album review >

Licensing
If you want to use my photos in your own works - print products, web projects, art performances et cetera - you can acquire a license. My photos focus on the industrial heritage of Germany's former economic heartland, the now closed down steel mills, blast furnaces and coke plants of the Ruhr Area. Most have been taken "off the beaten tracks", and with some exceptions, there is no coverage of sites of industrial heritage that have been converted into points of public attraction. If you tell me about your project, I can provide you with photo samples and licensing details - just use one of the various ways to get in touch. Special arrangements for non-profit organizations can be met.