Broken Music Vol. 2_Live
40 Years
Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
BROKEN MUSIC Vol. 2_LIVE
April 20 – May 5, 2023
Concert program for the exhibition
Broken Music Vol. 2
70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
December 17, 2022 – May 5, 2023
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50/51, 10557 Berlin-Mitte
Broken Music Vol. 2_Live is pleased to present pioneering international artists Sven-Åke Johansson, Charlemagne Palestine, and Christian Marclay as well as emerging international artists Jessica Ekomane, Mieko Suzuki/Claudia Rohrmoser, Hassan Khan, and Emeka Ogboh, who now have a foothold in Berlin. Over the course of six evenings, the concert program rounds off the current exhibition commemorating more than 70 years of records and sound works by artists at the Hamburger Bahnhof (through May 14, 2023). These live performances in the exhibition space defy the boundary between art and music. The close of the series will be celebrated with a Broken Music Party at the Rieckhallen on May 5 – marking the 40thanniversary of Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
Sven-Åke Johansson and Charlemagne Palestine have been creating sonically, physically, psycho-acoustically, and conceptually powerful, auratic music performances since the 1970s. The focus of Christian Marclay’s work – a trailblazer in the field of “turntablism” – as well as that of Mieko Suzuki and Raed Yassin has been on records, record players, and “playing with records.” While Jessica Ekomane, Hassan Kahn, and Emeka Ogboh have dedicated themselves to live montage and live electronic processing of previously recorded materials, samples, and field recordings. What unites all of their works is the refusal of any strict demarcation between aesthetic genres like music, visual art, and performance.
Freunde Guter Musik has collaborated with the Hamburger Bahnhof since its opening in 1996, partnering for the exhibition series Works of Music by Visual Artists begun in 1999 with projects by, among others, Hanne Darboven, Lawrence Wiener, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Ryoji Ikeda, Susan Philipsz, and Cevdet Erek. With Broken Music Vol. 2_Live Freunde Guter Musik celebrate their 40th anniversary of promoting and presenting experimental, intermedial, and open musical and sound art forms. Ursula Block – whose collection of artists’ records, since acquired by Hamburger Bahnhof, serves as springboard for the current exhibition – was with her record gallery “gelbe MUSIK” a founding member of Freunde Guter Musik in 1983.
Artistic director: Ingrid Buschmann
Program: Ingrid Buschmann, Matthias Osterwold
An event series by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. in cooperation with Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Made possible by funding from Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Program
Thursday, 20.04.2023, 20:30
The Telephone Book Piece
for two yellow pages (1989)
Sven-Åke Johansson, West Berlin telephone books
Six Piano Pieces
in the Baroque Style (2021)
Simon James Phillips, piano
Concert for 10 + 1 Egg Slicers
for 11 Players (2020, premier)
Maulwerker & guests: Fernanda Farah, Seth Josel, Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Alexey Kokhanov, Chico Mello, Andrea Neumann, Silvia Ocougne, Katarina Rasinski, Derek Shirley, Steffi Weismann
Complete Catalog D
for 8 performers (2003)
Maulwerker & guests: Fernanda Farah, Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Alexey Kokhanov, Andrea Neumann, Katarina Rasinski, Derek Shirley, Steffi Weismann
Solo for 2 Hi-Hats (2020)
Sven-Åke Johansson, percussion
Complete Catalog D
for 8 performers (2003)
Maulwerker & guests
Saturday, 22.04.2023, 20:30
Jessica Ekomane
Multivocal
Quadraphonic Live Performance
Charlemagne Palestine
Strumming Music
Piano Solo
Thursday, 27.04.2023, 21:00
Hassan Khan
The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live!
Concert
Friday, 28.04.2023, 21:00
Emeka Ogboh
Lagos Sessions
Live Performance
Thursday, 04.05.2023, 20:30
Raed Yassin
Phantom Orchestra
Solo performance with 12 turntables and 42 records
Friday, 05.05.2023
20:30
Mieko Suzuki & Claudia Rohrmoser
Broken Vinyl
Audiovisual Performance
Christian Marclay
Record Players (1982)
Ensemble Performance with Records
Performer: Audrey Chen, Anna Clementi, Werner Durand, Mazen Kerbaj, Chico Mello, David Moss, Andrea Neumann, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Michael Vorfeld, Ute Wassermann, Christina Wheeler
22:00
Broken Music _ Djing
DJ-sets by Jessica Ekomane, Mazen Kerbaj, Mieko Suzuki
40 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin
Rieckhallen Underground
