how // to become will be performed at Rhythms beside Regions.
Abican - this is Can Etterlin - sound- and visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser, partly based in Bern (CH) and Tallinn (EE). Abican cleverly dances along stylistic habits and artistic boundaries, merges supposedly conflictive things into something of his own and, in doing so, creates something experimentally new. Whether on the piano or on the synth, on the drums or on the PC, in improvisation or composition, in installations or in performances – Abican only knows one way: forward. Drifting, forward, always forward, in the mind and in the body. Through his distinct playing, his flair for rhythm and mediation of emotions, he moves - sometimes smoothly, sometimes with tension - in the interplay between acoustic and electronic music. His activities span a wide variety of projects between performance, punk, and free improvisation.
how // to become
"I arrived from Istanbul to Ställbergs Gruva – from a megacity to a home of trees and an abandoned mine. Swapping the sea's breath and city exhaust for fresh forest air and mine dust, I started to become.
With every breath of old dust from the mine,
I began to inhale the history, slowly embodying its present and becoming its future.
I began to assemble objects that used to have a purpose.
I began to gather bones from animals that didn’t make the hard winter.
I began to collect fieldrecordings, making parts of the mine become alive again.
I began to film videos of the abandoned structures and of me becoming part of them.
I began to become, and I invite you to become too."