Lenhart Tapes & Tijana Stanković RS
Lenhart Tapes is a cassette and tape manipulator and is best known for his live, striking, and unforgettable live performances. Yes, walkmans are his musical instruments and, in addition to original rhythmic loops, he creates a live mix of selected material from his collection of cassettes. As music experts say, what Lenhart Tapes does is a sophisticated and wild music genre of world-noise-ethno-industrial-folk zombie. He has long been an avid collector of audio cassettes. Field recordings, rare folk music, audio propaganda, spoken word, albums of various genres. Later he started recording and using voice samples of Tijana Stanković, and so their collaboration began.
Tijana Stanković graduated as an ethnomusicologist and she grew up with traditional songs from the Balkans. She developed a taste for rough, abstract improvisation, which shaped her current repertoire. Her key instruments—violin and vocals / traditional and contemporary music—are also part of every band, orchestra or free formation she participates in. Her work is characterized by the spontaneity of traditional folklore, the search for new expressive possibilities through free improvisation, and the connection of the worlds of extensive vocal and violin techniques.