To hear on Sunday 9, 16, 23, 30 December 2018, and 6 January 2019, 2pm - 9pm:
Lifetime project
by Neo Hülcker and Elsabeth R. Hager
Curator, loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond
Elisabeth R. Hager and Neo Hülcker on 'TAGE':
"ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen" has been presenting already four times since 2013 the lifetime project "TAGE" by Neo Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager.
Neo Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager bound themselves by contract with each other on the 25.5.2011 to pronounce the date every day making a sound recording of this act up to their death. Over the days, months, years, the lifetime project "TAGE" creates soundtraces of two friendly lives. TAGE is a study on the aging process of the voice and - in the most general sense - an audibilisation of lived time.
At the presentations on 9, 16, 23, 30 December 2018 and 6 January 2019, all the vocally retained TAGE (DAYS) until now will sound in the ohrenhoch cellar over a special loudspeaker installation.
On Sunday 9 December at 6pm there will be an Artist Talk with Neo Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager in which the two will perform the text "Die Zeit ist mehr so ein Kuckuck" by Elisabeth R. Hager. The recorded text will be heard through headphone on the ohrenhoch Sundays 16, 23, 30 December 2018 and 6 January 2019.
Audio Field Report no.21:
Interview or 12 minutes are a DAY.
Side A: "12 minutes are a day" by Elisabeth R. Hager
Side B: "12 minutes" by Neele Hülcker
December 2014
by Knut Remond, limited edition MC cassette, 8 copies numbered.
To hear through headphones in the ohrenhoch archive space.
Neo Hülcker
Neo Hülcker is a composer performer whose work focuses on music as anthropological research in everyday life environments. Their compositions evolve as situations, performance-installations, actions and interventions, and deal with digital subculture (like ASMR), childhood, human-animal-relations, queer practice and cultural hacking.
Hülcker studied composition with Dieter Mack and Harald Muenz at Musikhochschule Lübeck and with Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
They founded the youtube channel feminist ASMR (in collaboration with Stellan Veloce and Katie Lee Dunbar), as well as the channel ASMR studio berlin (in collaboration with mam.manufaktur für aktuelle Musik).
Hülcker performs as the ASMR artist Thousand Tingles and is a part of the agency ASMR yourself with whom they performed at HAU Berlin, PACT Zollverein, Akademie der Künste Berlin and Münchner Kammerspiele.
Neo Hülcker is a part of the Y-E-S collective, who publishes music dealing with performativity, temporality, sound as physical experience and the cultural frames of concerts (y-e-s.org).
They created compositions and installations such as „ear action“ (2016) with Stellan Veloce, „crackles“ (2016) and „good dog“ (2017) for MOCREP, „gib Pfötchen“ (2017) for Maulwerker and „Da war ich noch nie in meinem ganzen Leben“ (2017), „Musik für tote Tiere“ (since 2017) and „tentaculus ohri“ (2018) with Antonia Baehr.
Hülckers work has been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble ascolta, Ensemble Radar, mam. Manufaktur für aktuelle Musik, Ensemble Garage, Maulwerker and decoder ensemble, MOCREP among others. They have collaborated with Antonia Baehr, Henry Wilde, Mario de Vega, Tomomi Adachi, The Agency, Stellan Veloce, Lucie Vitkova, Johnny Chang, Andy Ingamells, Elisabeth R. Hager, Matthias Kaul, Eva Zöllner, Bill Dietz and Jennifer Torrence. Hülcker`s compositions have been performed at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (DE), Wien Modern (A), Warschauer Herbst (PL), London Contemporary Music Festival (GB), Münchener Biennale (DE), Blurred Edges (Hamburg, DE), Frontiers Festival (Birmingham, GB), Sound Acts (Athen, GR), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (DE), Klangwerkstatt (Berlin, DE), Dark Music Days (Reykjavik, IS), Moving Music Festival (DE), SSSS! (Chicago) and elswhere.
Elisabeth R. Hager,
*1981 in Austria, is a writer, sound & radio artist, living in Berlin, New Zealand & Tirol.
She studied Comparative Literature, German, Christian Philosophy & Applied Literature in Innsbruck, Marseille & Berlin. After multiple journeys into other creative fields, since 2009 she is mainly focusses on writing. 2012 her first novel „Kometen“ was published by Milena Verlag Vienna. 2014 the radio drama „Der Knochen“ followed, that premiered on Dlf Kultur. 2017 she started directing short films for the radio station of DLF Kultur. 2018 she finished her second Novel „5 Tage im Mai“, who won her the Innsbruck prize for literature in 2018. The novel „5 Tage im Mai“ will be published in February 2019 by Klett-Cotta Publishing House.
She has received various scholarships & prices for her work, most recent are the Projektstipendium 2017/2018 from the Austrian ministry of culture & the Hilde-Zach- Literature Stipendium of the City of Innsbruck in 2018.