organising and press work for legendary Club W71 in Weikersheim until 2002.
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RealPlayer: genderfuck (2003): pioneering videoportrait documentary about women in electronic music, with Kaffe Mathews, Sachiko M, Hanin Elias, Marina Rosenfeld, Kevin Blechdom and more.
Directors: Tobias Hassels + Christina Ertl
Shown as an installation at Berlin Biennale 2004, screening at Museum Ludwig Köln, Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Ladyfests, and various other mainly European places.
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since 2004 been organiser producer and curator of the famed Berlin venue ausland.
countless single events, production of new series in the fields of hip hop, electronic music, echtzeitmusik, queer events, early dubstep (‚way of the dub‘ with bossy) and invention of new interdisciplinary formats at ausland with a focus on confronting music, sound installation, performance and art. (juke joint/astroturf homegrown, see there)
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raudio aasland – live broadcasts and radio plays on reboot.fm
conception and production of radio features and radio shows in the studio at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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since 2006 a series of interdisciplinary events hitting away boundaries between music, sound installation, art, performance, culinary delights and club night, by transforming the location into an one night only living participatory sculpture.
Astroturf Homegrown consists of Torsten Schlopsnies and Tobias Hassels who had been responsible for the opening night of the Dein Wort In Gottes Ohr Festival at ausland in 2008, ‚The Return Of John Frum‘, the closing night and ausland anniversary gala of the CC N.1 Festival in 2012, among other Astroturf events.
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part of the production team of the festivals ‚Dein Wort In Gottes Ohr, Sololala, CC N.1, supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, and more
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series curated and organised by Big Daddy Mugglestone and Tobias Hassels contrasting experimental music electronic sounds with pop and danceable music in a long night of live performances.
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‚An audio-visual retrospective of the noughties‘
This 2011 installation by the artists Tobias Hassels and Mario Michel was an audio-visual retrospective of the last decade and invited the audience to reflect about those years once again. And also to finally wave goodbye to the music industry as we knew it.
The intricate installation transformed the space into a labyrinth of ringtone sounds, for getting from the start to the end the audience had to make their way through tunnels with more then 20 different mp3 players and speakers playing loops of ringtones continously and at the same time.
While passing the different speakers the closer you came to a speaker the better you understood what it was about, leading to disbelieve and shock.
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Framed by two living sculptures and ringtone videos screened on the walls, Death Through Ringtones confronted the audience with the sheer madness of the ringtone industry generating a shrill loud cathartic soundscape of ubiquitous sounds that surprisingly kept people inside the room for hours, getting more and more sucked into listening to the ringtone loops as an unique piece of new music.
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http://www.ausland-berlin.de/death-through-ringtones-1
http://www.ausland-berlin.de/death-through-ringtones-gallery
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artistic director and producer of the series Out Of Verlorenort in 2012. with photographer Ralf Hofmann, 4 nights of music and performance in the audio-visual setting of the photographs and videos by Ralf Hofmann around the theme of experiences with or in ‚lost places‘ with concerts and performances by Mugglestone Revue feat. Margareth Kammerer (US/IT), Andrea Ermke, Anaïs Tuerlinckx (BE), Apocryphal Productions, Chakana And The Violets, Die Laser Titten Djs.
‚Out Of Verlorenort‘ was funded by Senatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegeheiten Berlin.
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