The Savage Voice
Aside from being a club, we conceive Noble Savage as a media platform to shed light on all sorts of cultural phenomena, local and international, both pertinent to our mission in Tbilisi, related if only in a roundabout way or totally irrelevant – yet interesting and noteworthy. The Savage Voice is something in between a notepad and a journal. It's a natural voice resource. Expect here interviews with the artists, thinkers and activists we encounter in the club and around the city; coverage of side events, references to and comments on films, books and music we live by; our area discoveries and destination tips, links to other projects we dig in the neighborhood, our confused ruminations on the meaning of life... After all, Noble Savage is cumulatively a real person, diverse in backgrounds and experiences, with many different interests and often holding widely divergent views. You may want to know this combo character in all its wonderful and paradoxical fullness. In other words, stay tuned.
Attention street artists!
If you have ever walked the underpass crossing First Republic Square from/to Radisson Blu Iveria, you probably remember the weird and vibrant graffiti lining floor-to-ceiling the walls of the tunnel. In a seamless eye-popping sequence, they transport you, bedazzled, to the far corner where you find the entrance to Noble Savage, if so lucky. So inconspicuous is the entrance, with the street art overcoating the gates almost to the point of their total indiscernibility, that you are most likely to pass by without noticing it. Brought up in the Berlin underground club scene to appreciate some secrecy, that's precisely how we like our portal, indeed. Or as Oskar Wilde once put it: "The most ordinary thing is delightful if only one hides it." It is just that we want to give our obscurity a touch of style that, while paying homage to the raw aesthetics that envelops the club outside, would reflect our inner cultural mission.
Noble Savage bills itself as an Arts & Social Club, International. So far, it's been more "Social" than "Arts" and now we feel it's time to balance these two aspects. We embark on this task by transforming the entrance into a public display window tо showcase select works of local street artists, supported by proper curatorial practices and promotional activities on the international level, with the prospect of auctioning the pieces one day to the material benefit of the artists.
If you have ever walked the underpass crossing First Republic Square from/to Radisson Blu Iveria, you probably remember the weird and vibrant graffiti lining floor-to-ceiling the walls of the tunnel. In a seamless eye-popping sequence, they transport you, bedazzled, to the far corner where you find the entrance to Noble Savage, if so lucky. So inconspicuous is the entrance, with the street art overcoating the gates almost to the point of their total indiscernibility, that you are most likely to pass by without noticing it. Brought up in the Berlin underground club scene to appreciate some secrecy, that's precisely how we like our portal, indeed. Or as Oskar Wilde once put it: "The most ordinary thing is delightful if only one hides it." It is just that we want to give our obscurity a touch of style that, while paying homage to the raw aesthetics that envelops the club outside, would reflect our inner cultural mission.
Noble Savage bills itself as an Arts & Social Club, International. So far, it's been more "Social" than "Arts" and now we feel it's time to balance these two aspects. We embark on this task by transforming the entrance into a public display window tо showcase select works of local street artists, supported by proper curatorial practices and promotional activities on the international level, with the prospect of auctioning the pieces one day to the material benefit of the artists.
Noble Causes is a series of special events at Noble Savage, with their main purpose to raise awareness for the issues we consider generally important and to facilitate the exchange of ideas we deem worth sharing. As many such good ideas find their expression in art and inspire the works of genuine artists, they quite naturally in this form and status fit the bill of a club conceived somewhat apart from the entertainment industry – as rather a sociocultural entity.
Wednesday October 2nd, we were welcoming a group of international artists who combine their diverse extraordinary talents to make a powerful audiovisual statement in support of our fragile environment – it is what we all have in common. The Gletschermusik project has been traveling around the Great Caucasus capturing the sounds and images of melting glaciers and reworking the collected samples into a showcase which is as aesthetically impressive as it is topically unsettling: The climate change has led to a drastic retreat of ice, thus negatively impacting the nature and economy of the region.
Given its significance and urgency, we were especially pleased to see Robert Lippok in this project, suspecting his genius must be that vital impetus which has been driving this concept for years – an avant-garde German composer who has been a prominent and influential figure on Berlin's ever thriving experimental music scene since the early 1980's; and whose name today is intimately associated with the singular and paradigmatic Raster-Noton imprint, blessed and illuminated by its shining resident deities such as Alva Noto, AtomTM, Byetone, Ryoji Ikeda, William Basinski, Wolfgang Voigt, Ryuichi Sakamoto, to name a few.
Wednesday October 2nd, we were welcoming a group of international artists who combine their diverse extraordinary talents to make a powerful audiovisual statement in support of our fragile environment – it is what we all have in common. The Gletschermusik project has been traveling around the Great Caucasus capturing the sounds and images of melting glaciers and reworking the collected samples into a showcase which is as aesthetically impressive as it is topically unsettling: The climate change has led to a drastic retreat of ice, thus negatively impacting the nature and economy of the region.
Given its significance and urgency, we were especially pleased to see Robert Lippok in this project, suspecting his genius must be that vital impetus which has been driving this concept for years – an avant-garde German composer who has been a prominent and influential figure on Berlin's ever thriving experimental music scene since the early 1980's; and whose name today is intimately associated with the singular and paradigmatic Raster-Noton imprint, blessed and illuminated by its shining resident deities such as Alva Noto, AtomTM, Byetone, Ryoji Ikeda, William Basinski, Wolfgang Voigt, Ryuichi Sakamoto, to name a few.
Health of the Nations... To be measured by beats per weekend – definitely our kind of science and therapy.
NME: Over 3.7 million British people over the age of 45 go raving once a week, a new study has revealed. 24% of those who took part [in the survey] said that they rave after 40 more than when they were much younger. Clubs closing – with more than 50% of venues in London shut down between 2005 and 2015 – is no hindrance as the number of illegal raves doubles in one single year.
Photo: Komet Bernhard, also known as Techno Grandpa, is a true legend of Berlin's night life.
NME: Over 3.7 million British people over the age of 45 go raving once a week, a new study has revealed. 24% of those who took part [in the survey] said that they rave after 40 more than when they were much younger. Clubs closing – with more than 50% of venues in London shut down between 2005 and 2015 – is no hindrance as the number of illegal raves doubles in one single year.
Photo: Komet Bernhard, also known as Techno Grandpa, is a true legend of Berlin's night life.
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