To hear on Sunday 28 August und 4 September 2011,
2pm - 9pm
defeat.
audiodrama or
psychosonic? (2011, UA)
by Knut Remond
Knut Remond on 'defeat.' [17:56]:
The material are mobile phone video recordings by US soldiers educating Iraqi children with, for instance, footballs, chocolate and soft toys.
I TOOK OFF THE SOUNDTRACK FROM THE PICTURES AND CUT IT UP
"The devil has power to assume a pleasing shape"
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
defeat. is an attempt for ohrenhoch to prepare the future of the audio drama.
Knut Remond
Composer in the literal sense, performer_multimedia.
Founder, artistic director and curator of the sound gallery 'ohrenhoch, the Noise Shop' in Berlin-Neukölln.
Founder and director of the 'ohrenhoch-Kids', award-winning school for electroacoustic music and sound installation for children and young teenagers of age 5-14.
He studied electronic music with David Johnson (assistant of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage) and percussion with Siegfried Kutterer. He is an autodidact with conviction!
Knut Remond is renowned in contemporary, experimental and improvised music, as a composer, performer and sound-space installer.
Knut Remond was co-founder of the formations M.I.T., TV-Totem, 16/17, Westblock, and played some years with Voice Crack and Borbetomagus.
1992-2003 he lived and worked in the Binn Valley, Valaisan Alps, Switzerland, where he produced the open air spectacle "Marriage of Heaven & Hell", adapted from William Blake, on 1700 metres above sea level.
He created numerous musical and multimedia works - electroacoustic, instrumental and for voices - including the trilogy COSMICS Vol.1-3, 1992-2000; commissions by X-Quartett and Ensemble Phoenix Basel 2006 and 2009; "Erhebe Deine Stimme" 2010, oratorio for the 20th anniversary of the German Unity, developed and performed with pupils from Berlin, premiered at Philharmonie Berlin, awarded with 'junge ohren preis' 2010.
Knut Remond - ohrenhoch