During the second Long Night of Music, the Edith-Russ-Haus will also be taking part and presenting works by media artists who were guests at the Edith-Russ-Haus in the Edith-Russ-Haus seminar room.
Program:
Ulrike Haage – IN:FINITUM
Solo concert for grand piano and electronics
March 09, 2013
Few artists live change as consistently as the composer and pianist Ulrike Haage. With her current solo album in:finitum and as part of a scholarship in the Leuphana Arts Program (LAP) at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, she presents her specific approach in concert at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art. It requires only a few notes that stand out from the usual sounds, that concentrate, repeat and become independent in the repetition in order to find themselves. It is both exciting and fascinating how much Ulrike Haage has to say – and how little she needs to express it. For her, it is only logical to give the sound in its clear, undisguised form
In cooperation with the Leuphana Arts Program (LAP) of Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
The performance and concert program presents artists with whom Jens Brand, who was a fellow at the Edith-Rus-Haus for Media Art in 2007, feels closely connected both personally and in his work and thinking. The invited musicians each view and create music using different methods: it is invented, dissected, microscoped, prevented, destroyed, bent or transformed and ultimately meets eyes and ears in order to be created.
With contributions from:
Sukandar Kartadinata: Die By The Sword (2007)
Music for 2 computer systems, video game, forced feedback joystick and live electronics
Phill Niblock: Hurdy Hurry (1999)
hurdy gurdy, recorded samples by Jim O’Rourke
Harm (2003)
for cello, recorded samples by Arne Deforce
Zrost (2004)
soprano saxophone, recorded samples by Martin Zrost
Sethwork (2003)
acoustic guitars played with E-bow, recorded samples by Seth Josel
David Berhman: Long Throw and Freeze Dip
Nicolas Collins: Salvage (Guiyu Blues)
Maria Blondeel: A40RUHReMIX
BMBcon: Fliegerhorstprojekt
Richard Lerman
The MUSIC project was curated by Jens Brand and took place as part of klangpol.
Paul DeMarinis
9 Installations 1973 – 2010
Exhibition view; September 11 – November 7, 2010 at the ERH
With Paul DeMarinis Formen, Spuren, Löschungen, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art presented his first retrospective in Germany. In his objects and complex installations, he deals with scientific phenomena and technical devices and innovations, both known and unknown, which he reinterprets in his own way by using them critically, humorously and poetically for his own inventions and re-inventions.
At the center of the exhibition was the installation The Edison Effect (1993), which consists of nine independent arrangements representing unusual audio players. Some have a specific reference to Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventiveness is paid a slightly ironic homage in this work. In the dark exhibition space, lasers scan old gramophone records, wax cylinders, holograms, rollers, plates and records made of lacquer or beeswax. The light reflections are converted into electrical signals that are reproduced by loudspeakers. The light from the lasers is controlled and altered by an old television, goldfish or the exhibition visitors themselves.
The exhibition “Paul deMarinis: Forms, Traces, Erasures. 9 Installations 1973 – 2010” was curated by Carsten Seiffarth.
Pawel Ziemilski: Rogalik
Short film (2012)
A Polish village is the setting for this short film by Pawel Zeimilski. Long tracking shots roam the village, penetrating the homes and documenting their inhabitants. The people appear unreal, as if in a mixture of photographic portrait and tableaux vivant, they represent the lifeless figures of the scenario. The Polish documentary film school from which Pawel Ziemilski hails is transformed into allegorical images of a time that seems lost. The only way out of the claustrophobic rooms is provided by the media, radio, television, CDs, games consoles, which can be seen in almost every tracking shot. Acoustics play a major role, although it is not communication with one another that contributes to mutual understanding.
The film premiered in Germany on May 3, 2013 at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen and received an honorable mention from the International Jury.