Make a new O Tannenbaum soundproof!
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As you all know neighbors are the No 1 threat to happiness in bars. Bars are the No 1 threat to happiness of households located close to bars, so it seems.</p>
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<em>O Tannenbaum closed it's doors on June 12 th 2015 on the Sonnenallee 27. The search for a new place took a bit more than half a year, but now we're very happy to announce we're going to open a new OTB this summer on The Karl Marx Strasse 28. </em></p>
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<em>That is basically just around the corner of the old one. </em></p>
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<em><strong>The most important part of getting the new Baum ready is making it soundproof. Because we do like a bit of sound! </strong></em></p>
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There is a way of tackling the main problem, noise, and it's easy, but it's quite expensive!</p>
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<strong><em>Most of you already know kinda what we did the last 8/9 years, but for those who don't:</em></strong></p>
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<em>O Tannenbaum started 8,5 years ago in the Pfügerstrasse 79 <em>(OTB#1) </em>as a small project space that was open twice a week for mainly concerts, but as well film nights, performances, readings and a lot of weird stuff that doesn't have a name. We had Heatsick, Asmus Tietchens, Harry Merry and many many more playing there.</em></p>
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<em>Afterwards we had no Space, but continued to organize events on location with for example (our personal highlight): 'Night of the Clowns' in cooperation with Ada van Hoorebeke.</em></p>
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We worked some years with CTM where we among other things organized a night at the Maria with Princess Dragonmon, Blectum from Blechdom, Kornreiniger and more, and in Holland, for example a night at the Two Days Art festival in The Hague.</p>
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The Second Tannenbaum on the Sonnenallee 27 <em>(OTB #2) </em>was a pretty amazing experience with loads of amazing artists (Justin Yeldham, Felix Kubin, Dolphins into the Future, Container, Dracula Lewis, Harmony Molina to name a few) and visitors of whom many became friends, we had dance nights, films, concerts, karaoke, special food nights, a superdelux bartender team (!!), and god knows what else.</p>
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Oh, actually, Belgian beer.</p>
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You know we like to play music in our bar, sometimes on a decent level to provoke movement, and we like to have live music on stage. Also films and crowds of people could create quite a level of noise that is annoying for the neighbors above.</p>
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We would like to avoid that with insulating the ceiling, like in the old OTB, but better, and this time also some of the walls, because they carry a lot of the noise upwards too.</p>
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There is a basement in the new O Tannenbaum as well, and need to insulate that too to make it a place for little dance parties and events OTB style.</p>
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This will all be possible with your support!</p>
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O Tannenbaum can't really exist without music. We have a deep love for it, and we know a lot of you feel pretty much the same. Almost every bar has the same famous problem, noise complaints, and we'd really like to minimize that!</p>
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To make a real O Tannenbaum, we need a bit of your involvement through financial support, so that we can have a good old Belgian-or-whatever-beer <em>with</em> some weird loud music on the foreground soon. This summer.</p>
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The total costs of making a new OTB are about 30.000. With our own saved money plus some money from family and friends we have a total of roughly 20.000. Of course this already takes us a long way furnishing (incl. smoke ventilation, p.a., fridges, lamps etc) and building the bar itself, but to do a basic job of sound insulation, we are approx. 10.000 short.</p>
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Insulating is a highly specialized job, and only the measurements needed cost up to 1200 euro.</p>
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The biggest costs though, is the material. One of the materials that will be used is called Green Glue. It is a highly sound absorbing paste, that you put between layers of plaster. If you want to know how it all will be done precisely, you can have a look on this website http://www.greengluecompany.com/ </p>
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We used it before on only one wall (the back wall) in the old OTB and it helped in one day to stop the complaints from a neighbor living at the backside.</p>
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For 10.000 euro we can do the necessary basics of insulation. This will make the bar work. Any more money is welcome though; It will be used to make it 'basic +'. That means more layers of drywall and more sound absorbing paste (it can go up to taking away 90% of all sound). Also the basement needs extra soundproofing plus a special air system, that is necessary when you do insulation. So don't be shy with donating if we reached the 10.000, you will make it a better multi functional place!</p>
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