ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen presents to the theme „soundactivism“
Sunday 4 and 11 October 2015, 2pm - 9pm
25th anniversary of German Unity
Bring on the Magic of Coca Cola
for Tape
(2010 / 2015)
by Knut Remond (Germany)
For the presentation at 'ohrenhoch' the tape is played on a stereo reel to reel tape recorder AKAI X-201D with auto reverse.
'Bring on the Magic of Coca-Cola' is a sound-documentary work (doc.sound) dealing with politics and music in the context of the turnaround in 1989/90.
'Bring on the Magic of Coca-Cola' was created as the core and timeline of Knut Remond's oratorio 'Erhebe Deine Stimme' (Raise your Voice) for double choir, pupils and tape' (2010). Other parts of the oratorio are sequences of 7 minutes composed and conducted by the pupils themselves. The oratorio was premiered on October 3rd 2010 at Philharmonie Berlin, with the choirs Berliner Cappella and Deutscher Jugendkammerchor, and pupils of Berlin schools.
'Bring on the Magic of Coca-Cola' is presented separately for the first time, in a slightly processed version specially for 'ohrenhoch'.
The tape composition 'Bring on the Magic of Coca Cola' is based on words and sentences of politicians and forms a conglomerate of speech or speech acts that are informed in particular by ritual, emotionality and social foreign domination. Speech and the speech act as a weapon of the rulers points in its performativity on individuals who as a quintessence form a silent crowd, and leads to uncontradicted acceptance of authority and specific oppression. (Knut Remond, October 2015)
"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language." Ludwig Wittgenstein