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'ohrenhoch, the Noise Shop' presents on the theme 'sound activism'
on Sunday 24 May 2015, 2pm - 9pm:
defeat
audiodrama or psychosonic?
(2011)?
by Knut Remond
With exhibition of the score
Knut Remond on 'defeat':
The so-called compositional technique originates in a spiderweb or a conjunction of digital new media and music composition software. Working as an artist today with a laptop as a tool one is quasi immediately or simultaneously in a digital flood of news, moving in a cluster of (mass) information. I find it interesting that today as a composer or artist, with digital technique one consciously, unconsciously or automatically is in a journalistic, researching context. The question is: are we informed better, more extensively, and in a more enlightened way in this digital era?
I describe "defeat" as "doc. sound" (documentary sound).
From a mixture of rage and experiment the digital (copy and paste) piece "defeat" resulted in 2011. It was a research on the Iraq War instigated by the USA and the coalition of the willing, and on the procedure of American soldiers in Iraq with children in particular. The embargo imposed on Iraq particularly struck children. Also the napalm derivative M-77 was used.
In hindsight, different scientists in the USA investigated the behavior of the US media during the Iraq War. Sobering result: While critics of the US war practically couldn't get a word in edgewise, the US media uncritically for the most part took on the contents given by the Pentagon.
The documentary material for "defeat" 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.
ohrenhoch archive 'Potato':
'Audio Field Reports' nos.1-30 (since January 2014): Interviews with the composers by Knut Remond. Ltd. Ed. audio cassette, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard there on headphones).?
Booklets 2012 - 2013: Interviews with the composers and illustrations by Knut Remond, program notes, biographies, Ltd. Ed. each about 10 copies, accessible at the ohrenhoch archive 'potato'. Single booklets still available.
Knut Remond
Composer, performer, multimedia artist. Founder, artistic director and curator of the soundgallery 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' in Berlin-Neukölln – a presentation form of electronic and electroacoustic music, in combination with a sound-architectural space concept. Founder, director and mentor of the 'ohrenhoch-Kids' – school or research center for electroacoustic music and sound installation for children from 5 to 14 years.
Knut Remond has been active internationally in contemporary, experimental and improvised music, as composer, performer, and sound installer. He created numerous musical and multimedia works, electroacoustic, instrumental and for voices, including:'
Menschenhauttrommel' (1985); "Siegfried" by Richard Wagner (1989) Installation/Performance; the trilogy COSMICS Vol.1-3 (1992-2000); "Physische Körper" for Tanzensemble Cathy Sharp (2000); compositions commissioned by X-Quartett and Ensemble Phoenix Basel (2006, 2009); "Erhebe Deine Stimme", oratorio to the German Unity (2010), developed and performed with young students from Berlin schools, premiered at Philharmonie Berlin; 'defeat' (2011), audiodrama or psychosonic?; "deil's apartment" (2012), Soundroom design; "Hören+Kunst=Revolution" (2013), spoken presentations with an electroacoustic mix of quotations from Eric Satie to Allan Kaprow; "killAmor" (2014); "Holy Bunny" (2014).
He is inventor, designer and director of the workshop-app-soundinstallation project "Social Sound Organism" commissioned by Theater St. Gallen (2015).
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