Listening is a core issue of sound studies. The plasticity of listening situations, listening practices and listening discourses has recurrently been discussed in this interdisciplinary research field. On thursday November 19, 2015 …Continue reading
Der KlangSehApparat
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2015, eröffnet eine neue Ausstellung im Grimmzentrum der HU-Berlin: KlangSehen (Dauer: bis 27. November 2015). Aus dem Basisprojekt Analogspeicher und seinen Kollaborateuren, Research Fellows und Gästen hervorgegangen, präsentiert …Continue reading
On the Discourse Community of Electronic Music III.
To continue the previous posts, I want to elaborate the fourth statement in my list, namely: 4. The discourse community of electronic music has more genres in the communicative furtherance, e.g. Internet …Continue reading
Bassapparat
Über „Wow“ von Carl Schilde (erschienen in: TEXTE ZUR KUNST 22 (2012), H. 88: The Question of Value, S. 142-145) „WOW“ von Carl Schilde ist eine minimalistische Schallplatte. Auf beiden Seiten des …Continue reading
Passive Movement
To move or to be moved? To act or being acted upon? Passivity is known as the unloved and ill sister of activity. Activity is productive, constructive, attrative, lucartive – in short: …Continue reading
Erinnerung: Was erzählt Pop?
Pop erzählt in Popromanen und Songs, in Interviews und Bilderserien. Doch was erzählt Pop nun eigentlich genau? Erzählt Pop vom täglichen Leben oder von glamourösen Begegnungen? Erzählt Pop von niederdrückendem Alltagsleben oder …Continue reading
A new interdisciplinary laboratory at Humboldt-Universität
Last friday, by decision of a wide range of international and German researchers, the German Research Foundation DFG has decided to fund – besides many other projects all over Germany – also …Continue reading
The Klingon Opera
Is there such a thing as non- or even inhuman music? A music that has been created by animals, machines, aliens or mere accidents? And if not: Could we even imagine to …Continue reading
The Vocaloids of Kraftwerk
Reviewing the latest series of 8 concerts of Kraftwerk at the MoMa New York I wondered: Why did Kraftwerk actually stop using their showroom dummies – and why did they return (as …Continue reading