Alex drives through Austria
As I drove through Austria some time ago, I saw a poster beside the street.
"Exposition of Music in Ried"
stood there in great letters.
And ever I read something about music, I had to know it concrete.
And as I carefully read the poster, I said to myself, this could be an interesting event.
I should have been right...
The exposition and the man with the golden voice
Well, so I drove to Ried.
The exposition hall wasn't very large, but had enough size for a lot of presentations.
As I walked slowly through the hall, I passed a man with a good sounding voice.
He stood in front of a keyboard and sang a well-known song.
The keyboard was a special one. It played the song by itself. There was a connection for
a microphone and a screne on whith the songtext was showed.
I intended to inspect the keyboard carefully later,
first I wanted to make an overview of the complete hall.
As I arrived the next hall, there was an extraordinary sound experience
I call it the Soundexperience of Ried
The Soundexperience of Ried
If there was something, could have let this exposition unforgettable,
it was the spectacular sound impression:
If you ever want to hear all styles of music at the same time,
you have to go to the exposition of music in Ried. Because there you can hear
popular music mixed with pop, rock and classical music.
All sellers of different music instruments were in the same hall,
and everyone demonstrated his instrument:
There were some accordions, electric guitars, trumpets and pianos playing their different music at the same time.
The time only an electric guitar can play amazing loudly seemed to be gone.
The modern accordion has a connection for amplifiers, too!
A little bit difficultier it was for the visitor, who tried the pianos.
But however he beat the pianos keys in such powerful way, that the expert could
hear out Mozart and Beethoven between the undefinable style-mix of all the other instruments.
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Crazy, crazy Instruments
"This is the craziest exposition I ever have seen", I thought by myself.
The next hall confirmed this impression.
There were the unusualest instruments, I ever have seen:
There was an easel, for example, prepared with electronic contacts. So if you walked on it you could play some music.
Or the coffee-mill, which was connectet to a computer and produced sounds - wireless, of course.
Very loudly was following crazy construction:
A guitar with a fan and a megaphone:
If you switched it on, the fan beat the guitars sides and produced loud noises.
If you switched the megaphone, too, it was no problem to drown all the other sounds of the complete hall!
Alex becomes chief-seller
After I had make a little overview of the halls, I decidet to go back to the man with the golden voice,
whos name was Ralf, and his interesting instrument, I wanted to inspect it carefully.
In deed my inspection was much carefully!
I sang some songs and people came around me and asked me about the keyboard.
The questions I couldn't answer I transmited to Ralf, who made a coffee-break with his partner,
because it seemed I could represent him well.
One customer I told, that I am not a seller, after he had asked me a lot of questions.
He was very shocked and excused himself for this mistake.
After that, I let such thoughtless remarks, and let me seem to be the expert of this keyboard,
I had become meanwhile in deed!
The job offerer
Suddenly Ralf came and asked me about my job - there was a man inconspicously looking
not far away from us, who was interested by my abilities as a songfile-programmer.
Well, because I didn't know about such abilities from me, so I had to say no to the
lucrative offer.
Maybe it was a little bit hasty, because my achievement to get a expert-seller in short time,
who knows, whitch abilities as a songfile-programmer there were sleeping in me ;-)
It was not easy to leave the keyboard, because meanwhile there wera a lot of little gils,
who want to have played Robbie Williams. But it was time for my entertainment.
Alex sings for the radio
An Austrian radio station reported about the music exposition.
There was a little stage, on which different presentations were showed.
Ralf presented there his keyboard, too. As a highlight the visitors were invited to come
to the stage and trie to sing to the sound of the keyboard.
You can imagine, that the visitors were not very interested to risc a disgrace,
nobody came the stage.
"No matter", I said to myself, "I cannot let a chance to sing go away!", and so I entered the stage.
Nearly a little amazed about my risky comming, the radios showmaster asked me about my name
and Ralf showed me the list of the songs, which could be sang.
Before I could choose on, Ralf already had choosed a song and gave me the microphone with a nice smile (thank you, Ralf, I will not forget this too fast ;-)
But what could I do, between the
expectant views of the showmaster and the audience, instead of sing the song?
Well, it wasn't one of my favourite songs, but it was a well-known (your luck, my dear Ralf!),
so I could sing it.
And it was a success! The people where enjoyed about my interpretation of
Frank Sinatras New York, New York.
And at the last
New Yoooooooooooooooooork, which I sang Sinatra-like,
the people became enthusiastic and gave much applause.
Puuh! Well done!
What a fortune! ;-)
The master of accordion
Well, such an entertainment from me, you can hardly beat ;-)
but the organizer did a good work and presented
the worlds master of accordion players
and that was an especially event, of course.
Forget all you have ever heard about accordions.
Not typical music, not typical player.
A young Italian man played the accordion in a high perfection (and high-speed, too)
He played modern, classics and popmusic in such amazing way,
the people nearly were falling down the chairs.
Falling down the chair!
Well, the visitors nearly fell down the chair, and the master by himself did in deed!
After a phantastic high-speed accordion play,
he get weak and fall down his chair!
With his nearly piano-sized accordion he get to the ground!
Unbelievable!
What a performance!
Respect, great respect!
The silly sellers
At last I visited a seller, who had an interesting equipment:
It could play a lot of different songs and was like a band for a solo entertainer.
Very interesting, but the seller seemed not to want to sell anything.
He didn't care about me.
After a while I asked him something. But he answered unfriendly, that he had no
more time and referd me to his colleague.
Well, this man hadn't any sensful knowledge about the tool,
and so I went away.
Such silly sellers can ruin any manufacturers!
If I look back, the exposition was a very interesting event!
I can recommend it truely!
But I don't know, if it can become such good as at the year I have visited it
- somehow I seeme to have a nose for such amazing events ;-)