This fantastic four day event at Haus der Kulturen der Welt presents composition by machines, animals and created through chance.
With works by Berlin artists such as Alexander Hacke, Lillevan and Andrew Pekler plus a documentary about electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott and other installations this is well worth a look.
For some time now, the Western musical canon has been expanded by an interest in non-European music. But it is now time to go a step further: in the age of humanity, with “Unmenschliche Musik” (Inhuman Music) HKW will take a look at compositions by machines, animals, and chance.
Raymond Scott – Deconstructing Dad
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=ogJlnNqSHt0
Can only people make music? Do not birds and whales also sing? What remains of the most holy and intimate art form when software can create compositions that cannot be distinguished from the works of the great masters? Inhuman Music allows for innovative approaches to current issues, for example creativity and intellectual property, artificial intelligence and aleatorics, the chance technique in art, brutism as the art of noise, and other forms of the European avant-garde.
With Nicholas Bussmann, David Cope, Jerry Dammers` Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra, Ebba Durstewitz, Tamer Fahri, Alexander Hacke, Lillevan, Andrew Pekler, David Rothenberg, Nobukazu Takemura and others. Curated by Detlef Diederichsen, and Holger Schulze (Sound-Studies-Professor, Humboldt Universität Berlin).
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Unmenschliche Musik
presented by HKW
Thursday, 21.02. – Sunday, 24.02.2013
Haus der Kulturen der Welt | John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 | 10557 Berlin/Tiergarten
www.hkw.de
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