Thanks

by Bill on Dezember 15, 2010

Week 5 End

After 5 loud, snowy weeks, we just wanted to say thanks to everyone who followed the series, and to everyone who participated and made I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I AM SAYING IT possible.
The megaphoning will continue in 2011 in Hamburg! Stay tuned for details…

Until then, take a peak at the complete list of participants after the jump and be well!

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Week 5 – Grand Finale

by Bill on Dezember 15, 2010

Photos & Credits after the jump

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Week 4 – Anna Bromley & Philip Corner

by Bill on Dezember 6, 2010

Photos & Credits after the jump

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Week 3 – Introduction to the “Philosophy of New Music”

by Bill on November 30, 2010


Photos & Credits after the jump

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Week 2 – Marina Rosenfeld’s “Self Portrait/Self Portrait with Material”

by Bill on November 23, 2010

Photos & Credits after the jump

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Week 1 – Opening Jamboree

by Bill on November 16, 2010

The short version:

After the jump, the long version, credits, and photos.

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Newspaper Announcement of the Series

by Bill on November 14, 2010

Ha Ha Hans W. Koch!“

(Photos & Videos from the First Peformance coming soon)

Preparations for the First Performance

by Bill on November 13, 2010

Picket

NEW New Music

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I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I AM SAYING IT

by Bill on Oktober 28, 2010

Flyer

COMING SOON:

TONSPUR_in between
Ensemble Zwischentöne + the 35 Megaphones of the „Orchester für direkte Demokratie“ presents
I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I AM SAYING IT*
Samstagsdemonstrationen Neuer Musik
*John Cage

13.11. • 20.11. • 27.11. • 04.12. • 11.12. • every week at 15 Uhr

Schloßplatz Berlin/Mitte • in front of the Benches between the Berliner Dom and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
[near the Humboldt-Box]

In retrospect, we might say that one of the defining characteristics of 20th century
avant-garde music was the gap between its real existence in concert pieces,
installations, etc., and its programmatic existence as a challenge to the relationship
between art and life. Though some might describe this gap as failure, it was
undoubtedly one of the primary motors of 20th century music’s incredible
productivity and innovation.
Nowadays, such quasi-messianistic ambition is harder and harder to find in the
professionalized “niche” existence of “new” and “experimental” musics.
By combining the rhetoric of the avant-garde with the (equally reified) form of the
public demonstration, we hope to regain something of the unbridled spirit made
possible by this particular historical gap. Thus, each week brings together
programmatic texts of 20th-century music and new compositions written especially
for this series via the vocabulary of a demonstration (megaphones, pickets,
banners, flyers).

Concept & Organisation: Bill Dietz
Megaphones: Otto Beck / Orchester für direkte Demokratie
Production: Ensemble Zwischentöne & „TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum“
With thanks to: Initiative Neue Musik Berlin, Otto Beck, Georg Weckwerth, Christiane Grüß / 7hours, and Sebastian Biskup

Info • berlin.tonspur.atwww.ensemble-zwischentoene.de

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