MUSIC II - Interaktivität mit Maschinen

David Behrman: Long Throw und Freeze Dip

Nicolas Collins: Salvage (Guiyu Blues)

MUSIC II explores various approaches to the interactive in contemporary music. The series is curated by Jens Brand, media artist, composer, musician and 2008 grant holder at the Edith Russ House for Media Art. As part of his fellowship, he curated concert evenings of new music under the title MUSIC. MUSIC II kicks off with a concert evening featuring two important artists from the field of electronic music.

Composer, artist and musician David Behrman (*1937), who has worked with John Cage and others since the 1960s and composed pieces for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (including Long Throw, 2007), is considered a pioneer of interactive electronic music. His works are programs that allow the respective piece to emerge in interaction with a musician. By means of compositional aspects, he opens up a precisely calculated field for dialogue with machines.

Nicolas Collins (*1954) follows an opposite path: as a pioneer of hardware hacking, sampling and resampling, his approach is rather deconstructivist. Collins understands how to disable a technical device in such a way that music can "happen". The musician acts with machines that produce unpredictable reactions on the verge of collapse, which on the one hand deprive him of control, but which on the other hand he uses for the development of the music.

The project "MUSIC II" takes place within the framework of KLANGPOL.