KNM’s last concert in the series reading music – the season is an homage to the exciting and experimental decade between 1965 and 1975. At that time, creative voices from the Fluxus movement, performance art and the installation scene had a profound influence on the understanding of what music could be and how it could be written.
Music was also notated by means of texts or, conversely, texts were read as music. Where does language end and music begin? REPEAT! invites you to experience how music can unfold from succinct sentences, Google Maps data, instructions and poetry. With works by Jonathan Heilbron, Christopher Hobbs, Bumki Kim, Wei-Chih Liu, Pia Palme and Klaus Rinke.
The series »reading music – the season« dedicates itself to the relationship between music and (written) language in three parts. »Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.« This sentence by Henry David Thoreau is not just a radical demand on readers and a call for a new relationship between author and audience. It also brings the element of time into the reception of a work. Here is where music comes into play: Isn’t the slow, interpretative reading of texts, signs and symbols an intrinsic power of music and its protagonists? Can’t the notation of music be understood as compressed time and condensed space?
Following the opening at Berghain in June 2024 and the double concert at Radialsystem, this is the third edition of »reading music – the season«.
REPEAT! / reading music – the season by KNM
Saturday, 30.11.2024 | Doors 19:30 | Starts 20:00 CET
FAHRBEREITSCHAFT – teilelager | Herzbergstraße 40-43 in 10365 Berlin
