'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' presents on Sunday 28 February and 6 March 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
smash cars, and LOVE
Soundtrack (uncut) with mobile loudspeaker installation (2016)
by Knut Remond
"The revolution is great, everything else is bullshit"
Rosa Luxemburg
'smash cars, and LOVE' is a protest song, out of urgency and in relation with the questions to all interested people with alert ears, questions which together with Isabella Zamboni I realised with the new Words 'SOUNDACTIVISM 2016' (available in printed form at ohrenhoch).
'smash cars and LOVE' contains the questions: „Impact beyond sound“ and "Sounds of the present = the aesthetical into the political".
'smash cars, and LOVE' also originates from the current incidents with warmongers, neoliberals, racists and fire raisers operating with the most stupid language and dictating and spreading the discourse.
From this I conclude that weapons are more important than humans, or that for many politicians and media representatives humans who come crossing the sea are more dangerous than e.g. the seas being trashstrewn with plastic and atomic waste.
Honey, shoot me to hell.
We are flooded by cars, not by humans.
'smash cars, and LOVE' also refers to the car, which to me represents the most idiotic vehicle the humanity ever invented, and to the fact that the number of the toxic, destructive sheet metal bombs is continuously increasing.
I put love and revolution on the same level.
Sweety, give me intelligent words!
We urgently need courage to a new solidary more experimental coexistence, and in my opinion it is urgently required to raise our awareness on how threatening the situation is of the world as a whole, and what else will we allow that reveals as apocalyptic.
Being an artist means to incorporate in one's performance the social and political things. Everything else is bullshit.
Knut Remond, February 2016
Audio Field Report no. 42 / Sound activism 21: Interview with Knut Remond by Isabella Zamboni. Limited Edition Audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' (and can be heard there on headphone in the archive space).
Knut Remond
Composer, performer, multimedia artist. Founder, artistic director and curator of the soundgallery 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' in Berlin-Neukölln – an electronic and electroacoustic music presentation form, 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.