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THE NEXT FREE www.rikkis.co.za WE’LL TAKE YOU PLACES! Rikkis is Cape Town’s premium door-to-door cab service. 4YOUR FREE8 GUIDE TOh YOUR FREEO TIME ÷ 16U September - 22R September 2016S ÷ Issue 641 Your free guide to your free time BOOK A TAXI / SHUTTLE 021 447 3559 | [email protected] Arno Carstens releases first Afrikaans album – page 4 Drifter supreme to leave his mark at Grandwest – page 5 - Page 3 Conrad Koch expands his “entourage” Items to delight Homemakers at CTICC – page 11 Follow us online: @48hrsincapetown • www.facebook.com/next48hours • www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS • Socials The sixth annual Music Exchange at GrandWest featured Music Industry heavyweights sharing knowledge in an attempt to bolster the local market The Next 48hOURS is published by EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial address Editorial ContributorS Rani Communications. Every effort has Managing Editor: Naushad Khan Postal: P.O. 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This is what Then there is the manner in which Wendy Lesser articulates this pe- for research on a book about David I mean about the importance of not your body gets laid to eternal rest… culiar power of music. Lesser, who Hume but had somehow found her- understanding. If I had known this at Encore the language that is used; whether doesn’t consider herself ‘a particu- self at the auditory oasis of the Berlin the time, I might have stiffened my there is more of a happy celebration larly musical person,’ contemplates philharmonic, recounts: ‘I had been atheist spine and resisted. But instead By Rafiek Mammon of your life, or a sad mourning of the way in which music bypasses the carrying around Lenny’s death in a of taking in what the German words [email protected] your passing; the degree of correla- intellect and speaks straight to the locked package up till then, a locked, meant, I just allowed them to echo tion between your principles (and the unguarded heart: frozen package that I couldn’t get at through my body: I felt them, quite I am at the age where it feels as way you lived your life) versus the way The springs of our reaction to mu- but couldn’t throw away, either. As literally, instead of understanding though I am attending more funerals the ones that are alive choose to “dis- sic lie deeper than thought…Part of long as I was afraid to look inside them. And the reverie I fell into as I than parties. Close friends are losing pose” of you. what music allows me is the freedom the package, it maintained its terrify- listened to Brahms’s music was not their battles with cancer, or some- And then there is the grieving pro- to drift off into a reverie of my own, ing hold over me: it frightened and about God triumphing over death, thing equally destructive and inva- cess, about which a friend sent me stimulated but not constrained by the depressed me, or would have done, but about music and death grappling sive. And as one sits at these funerals, the following. It is research on how inventions of the composer. And part if I had allowed myself to have even with each other. one can’t help but (selfishly) consider music can assist with grief: of what I love about music is the way those feelings instead of their shad- Death was chasing me, and I was one’s own fragility. And, in doing so, “Scientists now believe that lan- it relaxes the usual need to under- owy half-versions. fleeing from it, and it was pounding one also begins to reflect on those guage and music co-evolved to stand. Sometimes the pleasure of an It wasn’t just Lenny that had toward me; it was pounding in the loved ones that have passed; on the simulate the most abiding truths of artwork comes from not knowing, not been frozen; I had, too. But as I sat music, but the music was also what different ways we deal with grief. nature. Indeed, for as long as we’ve understanding, not recognising. in the Berlin Philharmonic hall and was helping me to flee. And, as in And I know much has been writ- been able to articulate the human ex- Nothing befuddles our elemental listened to the choral voices singing a myth or a fairy tale, I sensed that ten about this and much research perience, we’ve made music about the need for understanding more effec- their incomprehensible words, some- what would enable me to escape – has been done on it. Still, nothing most inarticulable parts of it and then tively than death, the great unknown thing warmed and softened in me. I not forever, because all such escapes really prepares one for the actual used language to extol music’s power and ultimate unknowable. Music, became, for the first time in months, are temporary, but to escape just this happening. It is one of those things – nowhere more beautifully than in Lesser suggests, offers a gateway able to feel strongly again.’ once – would be if I looked death, that one can play out a million times Aldous Huxley’s 1931 meditation on not to understanding death in an Revisiting the question of not Lenny’s death, in the face: if I turned in one’s mind, but when it happens, how music stirs the soul, in which he intellectual way but to befriending understanding, or what Thoreau cel- back and looked at it as clearly and when you are standing there, bent asserted that music’s greatest potency its mystery in that Rilkean sense — ebrated as the transcendent humil- sustainedly as I could bear.’” over your deceased loved one’s body lies in expressing the inexpressible. something she realised in a surpris- ity of not-knowing, she adds: ‘Later, What is it they say about reading? about to be laid to the earth forever This, perhaps, is why music is so ing encounter with music shortly af- when I looked at the words in the We often do it to know we are not and ever…knowing you will never sublime a solace when it comes to the ter her dear friend, Leonard’s death, programme, I saw that the choral alone… see them again, ever…it is quite a most inexpressible of human emo- which she hadn’t let herself mourn. voices had been singing about the tri- Conrad Koch ready to unleash more of the bizarre characters in his head outh Africa’s comedic ven- House who churn out jokes con- Can you remember your first show, triloquist Conrad Koch will be stantly. and what the response was? heading to the Baxter Theatre I started performing when I was 10 with his latest comedy show, How long does it take for a fully years old through the incredible Col- S‘Puppet Guy’, for two performances fledged show to come together? lege of Magic in Claremont. I remem- only on September 23 and 24 at A fair amount of time, because I aim ber it being odd, but well received. 8.15pm. (Tickets are R100 and book- for political nuance, which means But when it’s just your mom clap- ings are open through Computicket trial and error in the writing process ping, who can’t really tell? right now.) Following the success of and the ventriloquism adds dimen- comedy acts such as ‘Puppet Asylum’, sions that stand up comedians don’t Who are some of your comedy he- ‘The Chester Missing Roadshow’, and have: puppetry, a dialogue versus just roes? ‘Missing’, ‘Puppet Guy’ showcases talking, and of course having to do Des Van Rooyen, Baleka Mbete and the guy behind the puppets with a it all without moving my lips. This Blade Nzimande. Satirical geniuses. unique take on ventriloquism. Audi- Conrad Koch with a few of his creations show experiments with angles com- ences will be introduced to a host of - Picture credit Sarah Isaacs pletely different from anything I’ve Which one of your puppets carries new characters as Koch gets back to done before. the most of your personality? the silly side of ventriloquism - talk- Chester Missing is the one everyone ing to himself and the variety of odd seen him perform locally and abroad, ventriloquism like you have never What’s the most nervous you’ve knows from TV, radio and newspa- puppet people that live in his head. In where he’s been featured on radio seen before: puppets made from ever been on stage? pers. The dude wrote a book, I have the production he discovers that his and television stations. found objects; feather dusters; a pa- Doing a TV shoot last year at the Just checked into hotel rooms booked in puppets have all gone missing.