'{{Multiple issues| {{coi|date=August 2024}} {{Third-party|date=August 2024}} {{Self-published|date=August 2024}} }} '''KlangHaus''' is a British artistic partnership formed in 2008 between Sal Pittman (artist and filmmaker) and the Neutrinos (musicians / sound artists). Many of its early projects were responses to the buildings and architecture in which they were staged. The company has developed a form of immersive promenade theatre that responds to the buildings - original experimental songs, films and narratives are derived from complex research of each new space drawing on the architecture, psychogeography and history alongside evolving concepts embracing climate, community and human-centred themes.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} KlangHaus shows are bespoke presentations. A consistent feature across all projects is the lack of a stage or any other separation between audience and performers. It won a Three Weeks award in [[Edinburgh]] in 2014<ref>{{Cite web |title=ThreeWeeks Editors’ Awards 2014 presented {{!}} ThreeWeeks Edinburgh |url=https://threeweeksedinburgh.com/article/threeweeks-editors-awards-2014-presented/ |access-date=2024-08-03}}</ref> and a Norfolk Arts Award for Music in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-01-11 |title=2017 Award Winners and Nominees {{!}} Norfolk Arts Awards |url=https://norfolkartsawards.org/2017-archive/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |language=en-US}}</ref> == Members == [[File:KlangHaus Photo-Erin Patel.jpg|frameless|center|800px]] * '''Sal Pittman''' - artist and filmmaker. * '''Mark Howe''' - guitarist, vocals, host. * '''Karen Reilly''' - vocals, movement and saw playing. * '''Jon Baker''' - vocals, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer. * '''Jeron Gundersen''' - percussion. == Performances == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Project !Location |- |2008 |[[#Butcher_of_Common_Sense|Butcher of Common Sense]] |Berlin, Funkhaus |- |2012 |[[#Butcher_of_Common_Sense|Butcher of Common Sense]] |London, The Horse Hospital |- |2013 |Stories from the Basement |Norfolk & Norwich Festival |- |2014 |[[#KlangHaus|KlangHaus]] |Edinburgh Fringe, Summerhall (The Small Animal Hospital) |- |2015 |Lower Ground |London, Somerset House |- | rowspan="3" |2016 |[[#On_Air|On Air]] |London, Southbank Centre |- |[[#Alight_Here|Alight Here]] |Colchester, Bus Depot |- |[[#Four_Storeys|Four Storeys]] |Norwich, St. George's Works |- |2017 |[[#800_Breaths|800 Breaths]] |London, Royal Festival Hall |- |2018 |[[#Concrete_Dreams|Concrete Dreams]] |London, Southbank Centre |- |2020 |[[#Floodlight_&amp;_LightHaus|Floodlight]] |Norwich, Love Light Festival |- |2021 |[[#Darkroom|Darkroom]] |Glasgow, COP26 Norwich, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |- | rowspan="2" |2022 |[[#Floodlight_&amp;_LightHaus|LightHaus]] |Norwich, Love Light Festival |- |[[#InHaus|InHaus]] |Norwich, KlangHaus HQ |- |2023 |[[#InHaus|InHaus]] & [[#Darkroom|Darkroom]] |Edinburgh Fringe, Summerhall (Lower Church) Norwich, KlangHaus HQ |} == Major projects == === Butcher of Common Sense === Developed over a three year period, The Butcher of Common Sense began with ten days in a then-defunct Berlin radio station (Funkhaus Berlin) in 2008. It was a collaboration between The Neutrinos, Jonny Cole, Sal Pittman, BK and Dad, Roz Colman and Dan Tombs, with later additions from Jason Dixon, Dan Richards and Jay Barsby.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Butcher Of Common Sense |url=https://butcherofcommonsense.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=The Butcher Of Common Sense |language=en}}</ref> From the collaboration, a 10" vinyl, CD album and 340 pp. artbook were produced as a signed edition of 150 alongside an exhibition with the following embedded performances in 2012: * The Horse Hospital (London) * The Undercroft Gallery (Norwich) The Butcher of Common Sense led The Neutrinos and Sal Pittman to create KlangHaus.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} In 2013 KlangHaus returned to Berlin to promote the artbook in bookshops and art galleries. During the trip they met with [[Gerhard Steinke]] - the original tonmeister from Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastrasse.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} In 2015, the project featured in a book<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richards |first=Dan |url=https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-beechwood-airship-interviews-dan-richards?variant=40027852406862 |title=THE BEECHWOOD AIRSHIP INTERVIEWS |date=2015-07-30 |publisher=William The 4th |isbn=978-0-00-810521-1 |edition=UK ed. edition |language=English}}</ref> by Dan Richards about the work of some of Britain's most unique artists. === KlangHaus === The first public iteration of the KlangHaus format was a promenade gig through a multiple- roomed small animal hospital - an ex-University of Edinburgh veterinary school in Summerhall drawing upon the ghosts and history of the building, the acoustics and the architecture, performing multiple shows a day for small audiences. Encouraged to be part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 by Norwich Arts Centre's Director, Pasco-Q Kevlin, this model of working proved viable and engaging. Show concept was inspired by consciousness and anaesthesia, confinement and freedom{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}. The show contained 12 songs by The Neutrinos including Song of the Small Animals, Mother’s Mother Tongue and Brothers In Milk and a series of films, animations and hand-crafted super-graphic slide projected installations by Sal Pittman{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}. KlangHaus 2014 was a 42-show residency.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Needham |first=Alex |date=2014-08-20 |title=KlangHaus: a revolutionary new way of staging live music |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/20/klanghaus-a-revolutionary-new-way-of-staging-live-music |access-date=2024-05-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-14 |title=KlangHaus - Theatre - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/klanghaus-review |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Time Out London |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=KlangHaus: Site responsive sounds {{!}} ThreeWeeks Edinburgh |url=https://threeweeksedinburgh.com/article/klanghaus-site-responsive-sounds/ |access-date=2024-05-25}}</ref> === On Air === Devised and performed during July 2016 as part of the Southbank Centre's "Festival of Love", On AIr resided in the roof space of Royal Festival Hall. The show took over the normally restricted plant rooms, specifically Plant Room 74 which housed the original air circulation and ventilation machinery. The promenade performance took the audience through the whole of the Festival Hall’s ceiling space concluding with the show’s exit onto the roof itself.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} The concept of the show evolved from the Thameside location and architectural innovation of RFH including material drawn directly from personal interviews with Jean Symons (the only woman working onsite during the construction of RFH).<ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Dee |last2=Gillilan |first2=Lesley |date=2001-04-15 |title=Festival of Britain: Jean Symons |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/apr/15/features.magazine107 |access-date=2024-08-03 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> The show contained 12 songs by The Neutrinos including Sonic Police, Gills n Buoys, and On Air. The films by Sal Pittman had themes of ‘awakening and resuscitation’ alongside super-graphic slides made from abstractions of views from the South Bank of the Thames.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} KlangHaus OnAir was a 41-show residency.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-07-12 |title=The art of noise: KlangHaus makes the South Bank shake - in pictures |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2016/jul/12/klanghaus-on-air-south-bank-in-pictures |access-date=2024-05-17 |work=the Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-12 |title=90 Seconds With: KlangHaus: On Air |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/klanghaus-on-air-royal-festival-hall-southbank_41280.html/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Immersive adventures on the South Bank: Klanghaus review |url=https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/theatre/klanghaus_immersive_theatre_southbank/7398 |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Culture Whisper |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-13 |title=KlangHaus: On Air (Southbank Centre) |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/klanghaus-on-air-southbank-centre_41282.html/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |language=en-US}}</ref> === Alight Here === Created in September 2016, Alight Here occupied a former bus depot in Queen Street, Colchester - a high-roofed garage with maintenance facilities including a bus washing area, inspection pits and suspended air lines. The show took place in the inspection pit, in and around a working Routemaster bus and in corners of the garage. Moving and still images were projected within the garage and surrounding corridors as well as multiple and still images in the office-space settings.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/194166225 |title=KlangHaus . Alight Here |date=2016-12-03 |last=pittman |first=sal |access-date=2024-05-17 |via=Vimeo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-04 |title=Alight Here |url=https://klanghaus.co/2016/12/04/klanghaus-alight-here-2/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=KlangHaus |language=en}}</ref> The show was based on the history of the building and the politics of public transport alongside narratives linked to the Victorian Theatre Royal (it burnt down in 1918) that formed the foundations of the depot.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} The show contained 12 songs by The Neutrinos including, Sitting on a Little World, Swing Ain’t Right, and Blocked By Stars and super-graphic slide installations, overhead projection, and a film series underpinned by the research narratives by Sal Pittman.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} KlangHaus Alight Here was a 7 show residency.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} === Four Storeys === Four Storeys was devised and performed in December 2016 in a former furniture depository in Muspole Street, Norwich (also known as St. George's Works); a four storey building which had been empty for eight years.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/292924637 |title=4 Storeys |date=2018-10-02 |last=pittman |first=sal |access-date=2024-05-17 |via=Vimeo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=KlangHaus: Four Storeys |url=http://www.outlineonline.co.uk//content/klanghaus-four-storeys/live-reviews-/111978/2486 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Outline Magazine}}</ref> The show’s themes derived from a sense of place and displacement - and the meaning of home. The audience were free to roam through the high-ceilinged spaces, in which light and film accompanied site responsive installations. Birch tree trunks were installed upright in a half-height room to create a forest. Furniture, given the appearance of having been sunk through the floor, was positioned throughout multiple rooms alongside scale-play and illusion in interior offices and a heated piano store.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} The show contained 12 songs by The Neutrinos including, Family Circle, Clump, and Turning In and a film series within site responsive installations focussed on ‘transience and security’ and hand-crafted super-graphic slide projections to rescale the rooms, by Sal Pittman.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Four Storeys was an 8 show residency.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} === 800 Breaths === 800 Breaths at the [[Royal Festival Hall]] in June / July 2017 was supported by the PRS Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Klanghaus: The Open Fund for Music Creators |url=https://prsfoundation.com/grantees/open-fund-klanghaus/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=PRS for Music Foundation |language=en-GB}}</ref> A new show written for Plant Room 74. 800 human breaths was the average length of the show. The concept underpinned the content which included researching assisted breathing and artificial life while paying reference to the building's air circulation system which were the machines housed in the performance space. The audience left the show walking across the roof, this time into a bespoke 800 Breaths garden.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} The show contained 12 songs by The Neutrinos including, Graphene Queen, Pulse Addict, and Who’s Counting and a film series derived from the show research including found footage of physics experimentation on electricity, soundwaves, flight simulators and breathing apparatus alongside super-graphic slide projection installation works.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} 800 Breaths was a 42 show residency.<ref>{{Cite web |last=karenneutrino |date=2017-07-06 |title=800 Breaths: KlangHaus RFH |url=https://klanghaus.co/2017/07/06/800-breaths-2/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=KlangHaus |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_vCyd4-ipk |title=KlangHaus: 800 Breaths Audience Feedback |date=2017-08-03 |last=KlangHaus |access-date=2024-05-17 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Review: KlangHaus: 800 Breaths at the Southbank Centre |url=https://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-klanghaus-at-the-southbank-centre/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Exeunt Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Balfour-Oatts |first=Josephine |date=2017-07-15 |title=Review: KlangHaus: 800 Breaths, Southbank Centre |url=https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-klanghaus-800-breaths-southbank-centre/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=A Younger Theatre |language=en-GB}}</ref> === Concrete Dreams === In April 2018, KlangHaus were engaged as exhibition designers for the re-opening of the brutalist parts of the Southbank Centre (the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]], [[Purcell Room]] and [[Hayward Gallery|Hayward Gallery)]], after a major refurbishment. They had access to archive materials related to the centre, going back to it's opening in 1967 and curated a one hour tour designed for an audience of 15.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wiegand |first=Chris |date=2018-04-09 |title=Concrete Dreams: new show celebrates Southbank's history of performance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/apr/09/concrete-dreams-new-show-celebrates-southbanks-history-of-performance |access-date=2024-05-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The audience was guided through dressing rooms, bathrooms and other backstage areas where films of notable shows were projected and programmes, set-lists, details of performances and ticket sales and the original plans for the centre were displayed. The tour ended with a performance in the Purcell Room, combining footage of dance, music and poetry on two translucent, auditorium width screens by Sal Pittman with live performance from a Kathak dancer over the seating area whilst the audience sat onstage. The dancer's finale was a spin onstage that the audience could feel through the stage.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} The multiple daily tours ran for 20 days from April 10th-29th 2018.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} === Floodlight and LightHaus === Floodlight and LightHaus were both developed for the Love Light festival in Norwich. Floodlight was performed in February 2020 at [[St Andrew's and Blackfriars' Hall, Norwich|The Halls]], using the cloisters and undercroft, and supported by Vital Spark - a choir of male voices. LightHaus, a show with climate themes, was performed in February 2022 at the Blake Studio, [[Norwich School]]. The audience walked into an 4m x 6m illuminated box of saturated colour and haze with sound design around the outside of the box. Once inside the box the audience could only see and experience coloured light and sounds. A falling reveal-wall of the illuminated box fell in the finale to unveil a live band, The Neutrinos, playing loudly. This was the first project specifically designed for a family audience. The team worked with consultants with lived experience to make the show fully accessible.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Floodlight was a 3 show residency February 15th 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trail Map |url=https://www.lovelightnorwich.co.uk/about-love-light-norwich/love-light-norwich-2020/whats-on/trail-map/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Love Light Norwich |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview with Karen Reilly from The Neutrinos |url=https://www.visitnorwich.co.uk/article/interview-with-karen-reilly-from-the-neutrinos/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Visit Norwich |language=en-US}}</ref> LightHaus was a 24 show residency across three days February 17th-19th 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LightHaus |url=https://www.lovelightnorwich.co.uk/art-and-events/events/lighthaus/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Love Light Norwich |language=en-GB}}</ref> === Darkroom === The work was developed in collaboration with the [[Tyndall Centre|Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research]] and The Barn Arts Centre in Aberdeenshire as a response to climate change, Darkroom is a sound installation, delivered live to an audience of one in complete darkness.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darkroom |url=https://darkroom.work/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=Darkroom |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Akbar |first=Arifa |date=2023-08-05 |title=Klanghaus: Inhaus / Darkroom review – in-your-face raves, with a sudden change of climate |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/aug/05/klanghaus-inhaus-darkroom-review-summerhall-edinburgh-the-neutrinos |access-date=2024-05-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wild |first=Stephi |title=KLANGHAUS: DARKROOM Comes to Edinburgh Fringe in August |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/scotland/article/KLANGHAUS-DARKROOM-Comes-to-Edinburgh-Fringe-in-August-20230627 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Travels |first=Theatre |date=2023-08-05 |title=Review: KLANGHAUS: DARKROOM at Summerhall, Lower Church Basement - Ed Fringe |url=https://www.theatretravels.org/post/review-klanghaus-darkroom-at-summerhall-lower-church-basement-ed-fringe |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Theatre Travels |language=en}}</ref> Darkroom was trialled at the Tyndall Centre in September 2021, before taking it to [[2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference|COP26 Glasgow]] in November 2021. It was rewritten and updated for performance at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2023 (Summerhall, Lower Church Basement).{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Attention given to the pre-show and after-show ‘care’ enabled the team to create a sonically extreme experience.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Darkroom won the 'Keep It Fringe Fund' 2023,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Street |first=180 High |last2=Edinburgh |last3=Eh1 1qs |last4=Kingdom +44131 226 0026 |first4=United |title=How the Keep It Fringe fund helped artists in 2023 |url=https://www.edfringe.com/learn/news-and-events/how-the-keep-it-fringe-fund-helped-artists-in-2023-1#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Keep%20It,to%20the%20Fringe%20in%202023. |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Edinburgh Festival Fringe |language=en}}</ref> championed by [[Phoebe Waller-Bridge]]. === InHaus === InHaus was devised for an intimate, domestic setting as if it were the last remaining house on earth. Trialled in the KlangHaus members’ house in Norwich city centre Dec 2022, It was performed in August 2023 as part of the Edinburgh Fringe at Summerhall, Lower Church, designed to look like a maximalist living room, and was described as a cross between a rock concert, house party and an art installation.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Admin |title=Klanghaus: InHaus – Edinburgh Festival Fringe {{!}} Musical Theatre Review |url=https://musicaltheatrereview.com/klanghaus-inhaus-edinburgh-festival-fringe/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Meloni |first=Marianna |date=2023-08-17 |title=Review: KlangHaus: InHaus, EdFringe |url=https://everything-theatre.co.uk/2023/08/review-klanghaus-inhaus-edfringe/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Everything Theatre |language=en-GB}}</ref> The show contained 12 songs by The Neutrinos including, You Can’t Hum Your Way Out of This One, Ghost and Love is in the Bullet and a film series made to maximise spatial and scale perception within vignette site responsive installations by Sal Pittman. InHaus Edinburgh Fringe 2023 was a 67 show residency. == References == {{reflist}} {{uncategorised|date=August 2024}}'