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Totalartwork spınetL an Experiment on Gesamtkunstwerk Totalartwork Thursday–Friday October 21–22, 2004 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art www.birgitramsauer.net/spinet 21 October 22 October Panel Discussion 6–7pm Panel Discussion 6–7pm Contemporary artists and an The Gesamtkunstwerk (Totalartwork) historical instrument in the 21st century Moderator: Moderator: Christopher McIntyre Christopher McIntyre Associate Music Curator, The Kitchen Associate Music Curator, The Kitchen Participants include: Jens Barnieck, pianist Participants include: Enrico Cocco, composer Jens Barnieck, pianist Gearoid Dolan, artist Enrico Cocco, composer Kyle Gann, composer, critic Gearoid Dolan, artist Thea Herold, word performer Thea Herold, word performer Charlie Morrow, composer Charlie Morrow, composer Aloisia Moser, philosopher Wolf-Dieter Neupert, company Wolf-Dieter Neupert, company for historical instruments for historical instruments Georg Nussbaumer, composer Georg Nussbaumer, composer Birgit Ramsauer, artist Birgit Ramsauer, artist Kartharina Rosenberger, Katharina Rosenberger, composer composer David Grahame Shane, architect, urbanist, author Concert 8pm Gerd Stern, poet and artist Gloria Coates Abraham Lincoln’s Performance 8pm Cooper Union Address* Frieder Butzmann Stefano Giannotti Soirée pour double solitaires * L’Arte des Paesaggio Charlie Morrow, alive I was silent Horst Lohse, Birgit’s Toy* and in death I do sing* Intermission Enrico Cocco, The Scene of Crime* Heinrich Hartl, Cemballissimo Aldo Brizzi, The Rosa Shocking* Katharina Rosenberger, Echo* Gerd Stern, Charlie Morrow, Spinett* Intermission pianist: Jens Barnieck Actor, Kyle Gann Gloria Coates, Birgit Ramsauer Performers: Thea Herold, Gerd Entering the Unknown* Stern, Katharina Rosenberger; Thea Herold, non papers* Dancers: Jeremy Nelson Georg Nussbaumer, Birding Guide* and Luis Lara Malvacias Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara Malvacías and Marc Nasdor, Final Call* *World Premiere Jens Barnieck L Biography German pianist Jens Barnieck has Centennial Celebration Festival at the received a grant for the Cité Inter- University Buffalo. 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(For Spinet and sewing machine with on Lake Constance In spring 2000 he co-produced the scissors), World Premiere 2004 He collects sound and noise double album “cristal” of Alados 1st movement (Boredom): The spinet impressions. Biography Namorados (EMI), which recieved player is bored. (May be frustrated). the “Golden Disc” in Portugal. For the most part he does not know He plays slowly and concentratedly, He was the principal conductor of whether he should create classical country Brasil, Italy bio student of look carefully to the score. He plays “Ensemble for Ferienkurse” in Darm- music or film music, lectures, radio Leonard Bernstein. His music is as if exercising. The sewing machine stadt (1990–1994) and conducted plays or even operas. He spreads, played among others, by the Strings player is a bit disturbing the spinet the Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra sorts, and transposes analogue and of the Berlin Philharmonie, the player´s play. 2nd movement (Work): of Rome, the strings of the Berliner digital sound recordings until they European Union Youth Orchestra, Both are playing perfectly: like a Philharmoniker, the Bamberger are unrecognizable. He presents Bamberger Symphoniker, Baden- (sewing) machine. At high speed. Symphoniker, Ensemble Recherche of them to the astonished audience, Baden Radio Symphonieorchester, The spinet player need not sing in a Freiburg, Ensemble Itineraire of Paris, whenever they are willing to listen. Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio belcanto manner. He´s singing loud, etc. He has consulted and worked He has exhibited in international fes- France, Arditti String Quartett, etc. with a thoughtful expression. He with Ennio Morricone, John Cage tivals and museums as Musée He opened the World Music Days in sings for himself. 3rd movement and Giacinto Scelsi. He was awarded National d’Art Moderne (Biennale), ’93 with a concert on Teotihuacan (Love): variable speed, running after the Prize of the “Venezia Opera Paris; Kitchen, New York, Berlin; Pyramids, Mexico. The multimedia the sewing machine, as a male after Prima” in Venice 1981, the prize Museum of Modern Art, New York; concert “The Labyrinths Trial” a female pigeon. The movement at the “European Year of the Music, Amsterdam Elektron Musik Festivalen; (music, dance, video, lights design) stops immediately, when each spinet 1985” in Paris, Cologne, Venice, Kunsthalle Wien; Saale Polivalente, was directed by the composer in note has been played. Rom, Madrid, Aqui Terme, Bruxelles, the “Franco Evangeliste” in 1986 Ferrara; Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Ars Porto, Salvador Bahia, Sao Paulo in Rome and the prize of the Electronica, Linz; Haus de Stilj, Oslo; among other places from 1998–2000. “Junge Komponisten Forum 1989” Kunsthalle, Nürnberg; etc. in Cologne. He composed stage music for www.friederbutzmann.de “Le frigo” (Prix Moliere) and for www.aldobrizzi.net “Les Bonnes” by Jean Genet at the Ulrich Clewing The first art theorist who used the At that time, but also centuries later only to emphasize their differences after his discharge from the term Gesamtkunstwerk (total work with Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk more explicitly. The scores of Düsseldorf art academy in 1972: of art) was Richard Wagner. In his was subject to strict rules and, so contemporary composers sometimes A Gesamtkunstwerk, according to essay “The Art Of The Future,” to speak, characterized by stringent look more like drawings or color Beuys, is only possible in a societal published in 1871, he describes what goal-orientation. The goal was signals than traditional sheets of space. Every person will be a he feels is the highest level of artistic always to express a certain content, music. They do not use traditional necessary co-creator of it in a creation: the combination of all to tell a certain predefined story, scales and notes, instead they build social architecture. arts—music, literature, painting, either to legitimate and glorify the their compositions with elements sculpture, architecture, and acting— regency of a potentate or to that must correctly be called noises Beuys was obviously thinking of making one complete work of art, construct other, seemingly more and sounds. emancipatory, socio-political the Gesamtkunstwerk. In his opinion depersonalised, but no less outdated developments in society at large, in this Gesamtkunstwerk could ideally mythological world views. This, of This list could be continued endlessly. which art
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