To hear on Sunday 11 and 18 September 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
Dead or Ice Cream
Sound installation (2016)
by Knut Remond
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
William Shakespeare
(Expulsion, hunger, poverty, nationalism, racism.)
The sound installation oscillates between 9/11 and the so-called "refugee crisis".
He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
William Shakespeare
I refer to the sentence in "soundactivism 2016":
REPRESSIVE TOLERANCE = FAITH, HOPE, FUTURE
The sound installation is made of a 33:35 minutes loop in mono.
The installation with the so-called piece in 3 parts was made in the cellar of ohrenhoch.
It is played in two rooms with a loudspeaker in each of them.
A moving light control over a built-in microphone is part of the instrumentation.
The piece is structured in three parts with the titles:
1. „alarm“ Time: 13:09 min
2. „attack“ Time: 8:16 min
3. „sea“ Time: 12:10 min
Total time: 33:35 min
Audio Field Report no. 52 / Sound activism 31: Interview or talk with Milan Tomic by Knut Remond. The talk is about the war and the chaotic situation at present in his native country, former Yugoslavia. The interview was a spontaneous decision, namely in the context of "Dead or Ice Cream" I wanted to see somebody who speaks of his destroyed country and the resultant damaged culture.
Audio Field Reports nos. 1-51 / Soundactivism 1-30:
Interviews since January 2014 with the artists. Concept, questions, design by Knut Remond.
Limited editions audio cassettes, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).
LABORATORY OF HEARING
Convey your thoughts relating to hearing and your experiences in the presentations of 'ohrenhoch Sundays' with the theme 'sound activism'!
With this action the Laboratory of Hearing starts on the occasion of "Dead or Ice Cream".
A sheet of paper is ready for you to write down your thoughts, questions or answers. Your statements remain in the Soundgallery and thus will be readable for all visitors and sound activists.
'ohrenhoch' is a place that tries to intensify its activities on both sides, with the artists on the one hand and the visitors on the other hand, who of course are active, too, and who can contribute to finally spur on together a social, Enlightenment discourse.
ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop | Sept. 2016
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.