\n<\/strong>Performance | Composition<\/p>\n
Live program for the exhibition
\n\u00bbHere Comes Everybody\u00ab by Cory Arcangel
\nNovember 30, 2010 \u2013 May 1, 2011<\/p>\n
On November 28th<\/sup>, the New York artist and musician Cory Arcangel will give his first live performance in Berlin as part of the \u00bbWorks of Music by Visual Artists\u00ab <\/strong>series, which has been produced since 1999 by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. in collaboration with the Nationalgalerie and other partners. That evening, the artist will present his composition \u00bbMusic for<\/strong> Stereos\u00ab<\/strong>, compiled from a group of pop songs with Lil Wayne\u2019s \u00bbKnockout\u00ab as the starting point; the action on stage involves elaborately designed low-end stereo systems.<\/p>\n The performance is the prelude to Arcangel\u2019s exhibition \u00bbHere Comes Everybody\u00ab<\/strong> at Hamburger Bahnhof. The heart of the show is the video installation \u00bba couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould\u00ab from 2007. In this double projection, Cory Arcangel interprets a classical score using found material: The piece consists of various video clips that Arcangel took from the Internet, processed with self-designed software, and assembled into an astounding video version of \u00bbVariation No. 1\u00ab from the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. Images \u2013 1106 to be exact \u2013 of various persons playing one note of the piece on different instruments flash by at breathtaking speed. Cutting and pasting excerpts from different takes \u2013 a possibility that pianist Glenn Gould had already used in his recordings \u2013 is here humorously taken to an absurd extreme.<\/p>\n In his works, Cory Arcangel<\/strong> (born 1978 in Buffalo, NY) deals with the practices and myths of Internet culture, pop music and experimental music. He uses and modifies existing computer programs and develops his own programs for processing visual and sound material. He is interested in the latest trends in the entertainment industry and the everyday use of the Internet, and also in pondering how technologies and codes rapidly become obsolete. His works, which include video installations, sculptural works, Internet projects and music performances, have been shown at numerous international art institutions since 2002.<\/p>\n Having graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio in 2000, Arcangel first came to the art world\u2019s attention in 2002 with his video piece \u00bbSuper Mario Clouds\u00ab, made by removing the program chip from the classic 1980s computer game and replacing it with his own custom-built chip to endlessly scroll only the clouds from the game.<\/p>\n Since 2006 Cory Arcangel has also been using techniques of musical composition dating from the 1960s to work chiefly with found images and sound: \u00bbUntitled (After Lucier)\u00ab (2006) features the digital video loop of a legendary televised Beatles performance. With a tip of the hat to the famous work \u00bbI am sitting in a room\u2026\u00ab by Alvin Lucier, Arcangel\u2019s program gradually compresses the image into total abstraction. And in the video work \u00bbSweet 16\u00ab from the same year, the source material \u2013 in this case two brief segments from the Guns N\u2019 Roses video \u00bbSweet Child O\u2019 Mine\u00ab \u2013 also is altered via technical intervention with the composition. In this double projection, Arcangel makes use of Steve Reich\u2019s phasing<\/em> technique, so that the two looped video sequences play in and out of sync with each other.<\/p>\n In his exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Cory Arcangel applies the principle of phasing<\/em> to kinetic sculptures, making a simple shelving system dance. Two other video works also are on view in the show: one using material from You Tube films edited into an Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg music video, and another exposing a Jimi Hendrix video clip to commercial computer software with Auto-Tune<\/em> function.<\/p>\n Curators:<\/strong> A project by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. in collaboration with\u00a0Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin.\u00a0Funded by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V. With support from\u00a0Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris\/Salzburg.<\/p>\n Further Information:<\/strong> 28.11.2010 Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin Music for Stereos Performance | Composition Live program for the exhibition \u00bbHere Comes Everybody\u00ab by Cory Arcangel November 30, 2010 \u2013 May 1, 2011 On November 28th, the New York artist and musician Cory Arcangel will give his first live performance in Berlin as part of the \u00bbWorks of Music by Visual Artists\u00ab series, which has been produced since 1999 by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. in collaboration with the Nationalgalerie and other partners. That evening, the artist will present his composition \u00bbMusic for Stereos\u00ab, compiled from a group of pop songs with Lil Wayne\u2019s \u00bbKnockout\u00ab as the starting point; the action on stage involves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,19],"tags":[76,34,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGK3600.jpg\" "\\"IMGK3600\\"")
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\nIngrid Buschmann, Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
\nGabriele Knapstein, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof<\/p>\n
\nwww.musikwerke-bildender-kuenstler.de<\/a>
\nwww.coryarcangel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"