Friedrich Kittler, the important media theorist and philosopher, has
passed away in Berlin aged 68. His theories, ideas and texts have
influenced a great number of artists working with new technologies and
media. With Kunstradio Friedrich Kittler has had tight connections ever
since its establishment, and he has participated in a couple of media
art and radio art projects organized by Transit, an association linked
with Kunstradio, throughout the 1990s.
In her obituary LINK (german only), Kunstradio founder Heidi Grundmann
remembers Kittlers participation in these complex projects, of which
“Besuch / Visite in S.” is probably the most unusual one. In June 1992
a dozen artists, sound engineers, radio editors, curators and theorists
– including Friedrich Kittler – were invited to travel to a mysterious
place in the West of France for a meeting. Upon arrival the
participants found out, that everything they said and did on this rainy
weekend in June, was being recorded, played back on site and later used
for exhibitions, a CD and broadcasts. This is an excerpt from a live
broadcast from Vienna’s Secession, mixed by the artists who initiated
and organized the entire project, Bruno Beusch and Tina Cassani, with
Friedrich Kittlers voice at the end.
Links:
in memoriam Friedrich Kittler (1943 – 2011)
Excerpt, Duration: 3 minutes
2) "23 ways to remember
silence, only one way to break it"
in 5.1
Surround Sound
Foto: Georg Weckwerth
„23 ways to remember silence, but only 1 way to break it”
David Moss
is a percussionist and vocalist, currently residing in Berlin. In
summer 2011 he was artist-in-residence of the organization TONSPUR at
Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. For the TONSPUR-Passage, a sound corridor
open to the public, he has produced the 8-channel sound installation
„23 ways to remember silence, but only 1 way to break it”
Foto: Georg Weckwerth
“Everything you hear is
filtered through your memories. No one puts the world together like you
and no one carries the same holographic recollection of time and place.
‘23 ways...‘ re-imagines the world with stories, songs and music that
may trigger or jiggle your memory banks. It’s a recollected
sound-history of my world: there’s a song that anyone can sing; a
parade of amateur singers on Karl-Marx Strasse in Berlin-Neukölln;
tortellini, mustard plants and galaxies; streams with boulders and
watercress; a Russian rhumba, and don’t forget the paradiddles.
The mini-short stories and “philosophical” digressions scattered
throughout act like neuron activators to build a theater for the sound,
or, maybe it’s the other way around!
Take a sonic stroll with 23 ways... to the edge of town where the
all-night pizza place was, and a parade begins; stop for ice-cream, the
smell of coffee, a rub behind a dog’s ear, a tumble down a grassy hill,
a father’s voice, momentary mysteries and simple songs. And
perhaps, in a day or week, one of these moments will return to your
thoughts and voice, transformed by your history.
This take-away service is free: it’s your memory!“
(David Moss, August 2011)
Interview with David Moss by Yannick Hofmann
Foto: Yannick Hofmann
Concept, original music, texts, voices, narration: David Moss
(including "Little Candy Story", unpublished duo piece by Hanno Leichtmann, music, and David Moss, voice/text).
Recordings and radio mix: Robert Pavlecka, ORF Kunstradio, 2011.
Thanks to: Elisabeth Zimmermann, Georg Weckwerth & Peter Szely
(TONSPUR), Robert Pavlecka, Michael Rodach, Hanno Leichtmann, Hannes
Strobl, Ken Jacobs, Neuköllner Oper, Denseland, Roy Moss.
Links:
http://www.davidmossmusic.com
http://www.mqw.at/de/programm/detail/?event_id=6630&page=14&order_by=date_asc
http://www.tonspur.at
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