In the third and final edition of ‘Petting a Cow’s Nose In A Pumpkin Patch’, my journey for Radio WORM to Meakusma, I interview the trio Robyn Schulkowsky and Andi and Hannes Teichmann, who perform together as the Gebrüder Teichmann. 

Robyn Schulkowksy is a legend of the avant-garde. Born in 1953, and committed to percussion, she quickly discovered that the classical interpretation of an orchestra bored her. Her complete joy, direction, and love for sound has guided her across the world, collaborating and performing with musicians across more genres and iterations of sound than you or I can fathom. 

Brothers Andi and Hannes Teichmann have long performed as a duo – the Gebrüder Teichmann. They are committed to cultural activism; in researching and experimenting with the boundaries of sound and have been firmly entrenched in the electronic milieu of Berlin since the 90s. 

We sit on the street-side terrace of a restaurant in Eupen, surrounded by the sounds of the city – cars, churchbells, chatter, and end up talking for nearly four hours. Our talk meanders, taking a walk through their respective childhoods to see how events in their life has shaped their journey with music. Ultimately, we ponder what music means to them – what it means to research, deconstruct different components of music, to improvise, to lose oneself in sound. We explore the nothingness and everything-ness of relenting oneself to something larger than us all: mother music.