Trans Industrial Toy Orchestra (TITO)

We founded the TITO during winter 2001 / 2002 as a platform for TI-performances. The basic idea was to use all these toys which make noises and which are thrown away by parents when their children become older. But TI artists never get older, definitely they like all these childish games. Very soon we had a wonderful and big collection of strange & noisy toys, and after two rehearsals in Amsterdam and Hamburg we had our first public performance in January 2003 at ZAAL100/Amsterdam. Since then TITO performed at various venues placed at Hamburg, Amsterdam, Bremen, Tokyo but also in villages and landscapes like Veenhuizen/NL, Visbek/D or Narrendera/Victoria, AUS. From some of these performances and studio recordings are also CDs and a vinyl LP available.

Important part of TITO is also the collaboration with guest artists:
TITO performed with DJ Sasaki Takashi and VJ TOOWA II and visual artist Shojo no Tomo, and made recordings by using sound material of RLW (Ralf Wehowsky) and Kommissar Hjuler und Frau.
The pieces which TITO play are some historic FLUXUS pieces or written by the members of TITO.

You can hear and download some recordings of TITO:

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2003

the Amsterdam / Hamburg / Bremen / Hamburg performances

2004

the Amsterdam / Visbek / Hamburg / Amsterdam performances

2005

the Tokyo / Amsterdam / Hamburg performances

2007

the Narrandera, VIC (with live transmission to Dresden) performance

2008

the Hamburg / Amsterdam performances

2009

the minden performance and the Hamburg funeral* performance

2010

the groningen / veenhuizen / hamburg altonale performances

2011

the oldenburg performance

to be continued

*the hamburg member peter kastner and ti-artist paolo moretto
together with tito-members jan van wissen and ine ophof from amsterdam declared the end of the transindustrial movement and performed a funeral gig at former atelierhaus kronsaalsweg place – but obviously TI and TI*TO are alive and kicking.