To hear on Sunday 11, 18, 25 November and 2 December 2018, 2pm - 9pm:
(2018, Premiere)
by Knut Remond
The piece will change over the four Sundays.
Knut Remond on 'the black kite', november 2018:
i wastefully use the resources that destroy the lives of animals and plants. life is diversity. a balanced and functional environment is based on the diversity of ecosystems, genetic diversity and abundance of species in animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms.
if we want to prevent the collapse of human civilization, we need nothing less than a radical break in prevailing cultural patterns!
what our ears hear is only a fraction of the sound world that surrounds us in reality. many animals, on the other hand, can perceive and produce far more sounds. you do not see them, but fish have ears: impinging sound waves cause tiny lime stones to vibrate in the ear liquid.
elephants produce such deep sounds that they begin to vibrate. these vibrations are transmitted to the earth and are transformed into ground waves and can still be perceived by other species over ten kilometers away thanks to their particularly sensitive soles.
global warming is rising. the species stocks in the tropics have shrunk by 60 percent since 1970, and 70 percent of all fish stocks are threatened with overfishing. the ecological footprint is 1.5 times as large as it would be for natural consumption. the insecticide carbofuran is blamed for the deaths of 17 to 91 million birds each year in the US alone.
i am comfortable and use the airplane as well. flying pollutes the environment particularly heavily with pollutants and noise. flying is the most energy intensive way to travel. I am wasteful and participate in the throwaway society. i am a part of the energy consumption and the ongoing environmental destruction.
i continue to do so, i will consume two planets annually in 2030. the machinery of devouring capitalism eats away all that is alive.
that our earth, despite our lifestyles, has not completely collapsed yet, because i live at the expense of others and take away the habitat of the "black kite" (black milan) and produce noise and steal its food!
"get off the horse when you realize it is dying below you."
lakota
Knut Remond
Sound activist, composer, performer. Mixed media, hardcore, imagineering portable set, human science sound. Founder, artistic director and curator of the Soundgallery 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' in Berlin-Neukölln. Founder, director and mentor of the 'ohrenhoch_Rumori-Kids' – school or research center for electroacoustic music and sound installation for children from 5 to 14 years.
www.ohrenhoch.org
www.ohrenhoch.berlin