Relevante Musik
19 – 21 July 2013 Villa Elisabeth, St. Elisabeth-Kirche and events in public space Festival of political media art, performance and music In recent years, discussion in the field of contemporary music has been dominated by the question of how to promote it. Dealing with the music itself has seemed secondary to the “goal [of] strengthening the presence of new music in cultural life, so as to increase public awareness and reach a new audience” (New Music Network). With the festival Relevante Musik, we kick the ball back to the artists and ask about the social and political relevance of their works. In comparison to contemporary visual art, with its social-analytic or political-structural focus, contemporary…
Relevante Musik – installations
19 July 2013 / 7 p.m. – opening Villa Elisabeth installations on view: 20 – 21 July 2013, 5 – 10 p.m. Gerhard Schultz: Care Of Merchandising (2013) with Lucrecia Dalt, who is working on her new album for Care Of Editions: www.careof.co An installative presentation of the conceptual record label that subverts the music industry’s current business model. Online record store and live production of a new release. Realized with the support of the Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin and the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, co-funded by Einstein Foundation Berlin. Matt Rogalsky & George W. Bush: Two Minutes Fifty Seconds Silence for the USA (2004) The sound installation is based on…
The Argument of the Street
19 July 2013 / 8:30 p.m. Villa Elisabeth opening concert Lothar Voigtländer: Maikäfer flieg (1985) – stereo playback Lothar Voigtländer, live diffusion Bob Ostertag: All the Rage (1993) – string quartet and playback string quartet of the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin Hiwa K.: This Lemon Tastes of Apple (2011) – video (sound) Frederic Rzewski: Lost and Found (1985) for solo percussionist Matthias Kaul, performance The opening concert explores the theme of the terrors of war in Lothar Voigtländer’s tape composition, which was controversial in the GDR, based on the children’s song Maikäfer flieg, dein Vater ist im Krieg, and in a physically violent performance evoking memories of the Vietnam War (Frederic Rzewski). In a video,…
Giuliano Obici
19 July 2013 / from 9 p.m. Villa Elisabeth Giuliano Obici: Buy Auri (2006) – performance for street vendors with audio files Giuliano Obici and Fernanda Farah, performance The performance deals with the illegal street sale of bootlegged CDs in Sao Paulo and subverts the music industry business model by turning the consumer into a paid listener. Additional dates: 21 July 2013 / 5 – 7 p.m. and 9 – 10 p.m. Villa Elisabeth
Robin Minard
19 July 2013 / 10 p.m. St. Elisabeth-Kirche tape concert Robin Minard: The Qikiqtaaluk Deep Map (2013, premiere/commission) – 4-channel playback Robin Minard, live diffusion Robin Minard’s multi-channel composition is based on field recordings and interviews done in northern Canada whose theme is the social situation of the Inuit and the threats endangering their language and culture. Commissioned by WDR 3 open: Studio Akustische Kunst, Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and Freunde Guter Musik Berlin / Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
20 July 2013 / 11 a.m. city walk meeting point: Villa Elisabeth !Mediengruppe Bitnik: CCTV – A Trail of Images (2009/13) During a city walk, radio signals from surveillance cameras will be hacked and under surveillance themselves. Open reconnaissance of urban space with video sniffers. Additional date: 21 July 2013 / 11 a.m. meeting point: Villa Elisabeth
Georg Klein
20 July 2013 / noon Spreeufer / plaza in front of the Bundespresseamt opening of the permanent work Georg Klein: toposonie : : spree (2013) topographic composition for an urban space participative soundwalk along the Spree in Berlin-Mitte The soundwalk, a self-guided experience available via smartphone, acoustically unfolds a separate reality in the government district, where fields of sound arise from the invisible voices behind political operations: the whisperings of lobbyists. Participants need a smartphone (Android/iPhone) with headphones; to start the soundwalk download the radio aporee – app. Information at: www.toposonie.info A presentation by KlangQuadrat – büro für klang- und medienkunst with support from the Initiative Neue Musik Berlin and the Bezirksamt Berlin-Mitte. Additional date:…
Richard Teitelbaum
20 July 2013 / 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Volkspark am Weinberg / Rosengarten Kulturpavillon concert in public space in the event of rain, only at 5 p.m. at Villa Elisabeth (information: tel. 030-4404 8609) Richard Teitelbaum: Threshold Music (1973) / Threshold in Berlin (2013) Richard Teitelbaum (electronics) and the ensemble Konzert Minimal The musicians in Teitelbaum’s Threshold Music have carefully studied the soundscape of the performance venue in preparation for the performance, so as to be able to subtly improvise with the ambient sounds whose rhythms they’ve learned to anticipate. Additional dates: 21 July 2013 / 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Volkspark am Weinberg / Rosengarten Kulturpavillon cancelled in the event of rain (information:…
Avant-garde and/as Politics – panel discussion I
20 July 2013 / 7 p.m. Villa Elisabeth panel discussion I with Boris Filanovsky, Erhard Grosskopf, Georg Katzer, Bob Ostertag and Frederic Rzewski moderation: Matthias Osterwold
Avant-garde and/as Politics – concert
20 July 2013 / 8:30 p.m. St. Elisabeth-Kirche concert with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin Christian Wolff: Changing the System (1973) Erhard Grosskopf: Lied für Bassklarinette und Streichquartett (1977) Theo Nabicht, bass clarinet and string quartet, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin Georg Katzer: Bevor Ariadne kommt (Rondo) 1976 – stereo playback Boris Filanovsky: Collectivision (2011) for seven harmonicas and button accordion Sergej Tchirkov, accordion and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin Fedor Lednev, conductor Two works from the heated political atmosphere of East and West Berlin in the 1970s (Katzer and Grosskopf) avoid direct confrontation but take a stand through non-verbal associations. Christian Wolff’s Changing the System is a classic of the politicized avant-garde of that era, in which…
Avant-garde and/as Politics – tape concert
20 July 2013 / 10 p.m. St. Elisabeth-Kirche tape concert Johannes Fritsch: Modulation IV (1968) – 4-channel playback Richard Barrett & Kees Tazelaar: Equale (2013, premiere/commission) – 8-channel playback Richard Barrett and Kees Tazelaar, live diffusion Commissioned by the Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin. Mazen Kerbaj: Starry Night (2006) – stereo playback The evening’s premiere refers to the political dimension of Luigi Nono’s oeuvre and confronts it with the praxis of collective composition. In his tape composition, Johannes Fritsch addresses the problem of the coherence of opposing (and contradictory) individual moments, whereas the trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj reacts by recording an improvisation while the Israeli air force bombed Beirut.
Media Attacks and Interventions – panel discussion II
21 July 2013 / 7 p.m. Villa Elisabeth panel discussion II with Hiwa K., Richard Barrett and Kees Tazelaar, Robin Minard, Giuliano Obici, Gerhard Schultz and Richard Teitelbaum moderation: Björn Gottstein
Media Attacks and Interventions – video concert
21 July 2013 / 8:30 p.m. Villa Elisabeth video concert and live installation Manami N.: The L and R Problem (2013, premiere) – video, electronics and voice Manami N., performance !Mediengruppe Bitnik: CCTV – A Trail of Images (2009/13) Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo, live installation Since Japanese have an “L and R problem”, the words for “light” and “right” sound the same to them. Manami N. relates this to Japan’s dependence as an industrial nation on electrical energy and to the economic interests that – even after Fukushima – stand behind the use of atomic energy. !Mediengruppe Bitnik presents the results of its hacking of surveillance cameras in Berlin during the festival.
A relevant satellite
14 July 2013 / 5 p.m. Sowieso, Weisestr. 24, 12049 Berlin Richard Teitelbaum @ Certain Sundays Richard Teitelbaum (electronics) A presentation by Certain Sundays / Sowieso in conjunction with Relevante Musik. www.certainsundays.org
