Event Nights - Ecstatic Mutations
Saturday, October 17 2009 / 21:00 Theater Kikker, Main Hall
Saturday, October 17 2009 “Below the level of sounds and rhythms, music acts upon a primitive terrain, which is the physiological time of the listener. (…) Because of the internal organization of the musical work, the act of listening to it immobilizes passing time; it catches and enfolds it as one catches and enfolds a cloth flapping in the wind.” - Claude Lévi-Strauss As Lévi-Strauss suggested, music is registered throughout the body, it is not simply a matter of mental cognition. Compared to forms of visual communication, music possesses a visceral quality, relying for its effects not only on the neural registration of light waves but on the resonance of sound waves throughout the organs and the body tissues. It’s safe to say that music has a degree of materiality which other forms of communication - apart from physical touch - do not have. For Lévi-Strauss, music has something in common with myth in that they’re both “languages which, in their different ways transcend articulate expression, while at the same time requiring a temporal dimension in which to unfold. But this relation to time is of a rather special nature: it is as music and mythology needed time in order to deny it. Both, indeed, are instruments for the obliteration of time”. The acts in this programme explore rhythmic structures built of vibration and pitch, material expressions of raw movement of sound that tear us away from conventional time. Music as a pulsing line of flight, a surface affect expressed through rhythm.  Oren Ambarchi uses the electro-acoustic transformation of his guitar as a laboratory for tonal research. The result is an abstract and fragile world of sound ...  Thomas Brinkmann is one of the foremost fgures of the minimal techno movement, which has infuenced contemporary music production since the 1990s. His fascination for ...  The musical quest of Dreyblatt, a student of the frst generation of New York minimalist composers, is driven by an inclination for rhythmic complexity built ... |
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