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    Das Hören des Anderen

    Zur Ästhetik des Realen in experimenteller Musik und Klangkunst

    Institute for Music Research (IMR)

    Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Forschungsprojektes stehen die konzeptionellen Innovationen der Experimentellen Musik und Klangkunst seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre radikale Forderung, neue Materialien und Medien zu erforschen, stellt die traditionellen Strategien der europäischen Kunstmusik in Frage. Zusammen mit modifizierten Konzepten zu Performance-Setting, Raum und kompositorischen Materialien werden Fragen nach der Rolle technischer Medien in der Musikproduktion und -wahrnehmung thematisiert.

    The conceptual innovations of Experimental Music and Sound Art since the middle of the 20th century are at the center of the research project at hand. Their radical demand to explore new material and media questions the traditional strategies of European art music. Together with modified concepts regarding performance setting, space and compositional materials, questions concerning the role of technical media in music production and perception become prominent. In the course of this evolution, everyday life and public space became places for artistic concepts and aesthetic experience. Today the avant-garde, often criticized as elitist, is exploring elementary and often very sensual phenomena. As a consequence, the concept of artwork loses its importance. Central points of focus are now phenomena of hearing which demand a concept of aesthetic experience. The research project responds to these developments and aims to analyze them utilizing a new theoretical perspective. For that we intend to establish a Musical Aesthetics of the Real. The starting point traces back to Lacans description of the psychological system by means of the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary. Whereas in the arts symbolization and imagination stand for the position of production aesthetics, the Real that according to Lacan eludes symbolization as well as imagination refers to aesthetic experience. According to the theory, the various currents in the arts are distinguished by the Real, with which they set out to come to terms and which is discussed in aesthetic theory as the unutterable which cannot be said, or as the unrepresentable.In this project the musical concepts we aim to analyze expose the perspective of hearing. First, in this perspective, sound is the other which defies distinct identification and can be interpreted as a Real in music: a complex inter-modal phenomenon with acoustic as well as visual and haptic qualities which exceed the hearing perspective. Furthermore, the actual revaluation of space changes the performance situation and the reception process. Lastly, media-reflexive strategies take on a crucial role within the framework of an artistic survey of the Real, because they account for the audible as well as the inaudible as discursive disciplinings in media-technological dispositions. We intend to develop this new approach to listening in experimental music and sound art with reference to the aesthetics of the Real and the Event and map out the relations of Lacans concept to American pragmatism and German idealism.With these investigations we aim to break ground for better understanding of contemporary music and sound art. For this reason, our research project is interdisciplinarily conceived and reflects the viewpoints of musicology, media and performance studies as well as philosophy. The study is subdivided into the following topics: Musical Construction of the Real, Musical Media Reflexivity (Media Music), and Aesthetics of the Sonic Real.

    Details

    • Applicant
      • Sabine Sanio (Universität der Künste Berlin)
      • Jörn Peter Hiekel (IMR)
    • Team
      • Bernhard Rietbrock (IMR)
      • Jan Thoben (Universität der Künste Berlin)
    • Cooperations
      • Dieter Mersch, ith (bis 2019)
    • Duration

      01.04.2019 – 31.05.2024

    • Financing
      • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF (01.04.2019 – 30.09.2023)
    • Research Approaches
      • Applied research
      • Artistic-scientific research
    • Disciplines

      Music

    • Keywords

      Mediumspecifity, Specificity, Media Music, Mediaspecific Music, The Real, Sound Art, Experimental Music

    Output

    • Dissertationen

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): Alvin Lucier's Reflexive Experimental Aesthetics. Experimental Music. Hofheim: Wolke. Online unter: https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/bernhard-rietbrock-alvin-luciers-reflexive-experimental-aesthetics/.

    • Dissertationen

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): Alvin Luciers reflexive Experimentalästhetik. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag. Online unter: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7137299.

    • Aufsätze in Sammelbänden, Ausstellungskatalogen, Buchbeiträge

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): «Alvin Lucier and the Real of Sound». In: Schröder, Julia H. & Straebel, Volker (Hg.): Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 79–98. Online unter: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7646494.

    • Aufsätze in Sammelbänden, Ausstellungskatalogen, Buchbeiträge

      Rietbrock, Bernhard & Thoben, Jan (2021): «Sounds Better Half: Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room». In: Rietbrock, Bernhard / Thoben, Jan & Saint, Trevor (Hg.): Alvin Lucier, I am sitting in a room - Archival Recordings 1969-2019. Physical Boxed Set: 3 LPs + 2 CDs + Book (limited edition). Berlin: Sound on Paper Editions, 5–23. Online unter: https://soundonpapereditions.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-sitting-in-a-room-archival-recordings-1969-2019.

    • Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): «Eine Kontroverse zwischen Alvin Lucier und Pierre Boulez». MusikTexte. 172. 72–73. Online unter: https://musiktexte.de/epages/dc91cfee-4fdc-41fe-82da-0c2b88528c1e.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/dc91cfee-4fdc-41fe-82da-0c2b88528c1e/Products/MT-172.

    • Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): «What's Next». MusikTexte. 172. 61–62. Online unter: https://musiktexte.de/epages/dc91cfee-4fdc-41fe-82da-0c2b88528c1e.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/dc91cfee-4fdc-41fe-82da-0c2b88528c1e/Products/MT-172.

    • Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften

      Rietbrock, Bernhard & Thoben, Jan (2021): «Jeder Raum hat seine eigene Melodie. Alvin Luciers "I am sitting in a room"». MusikTexte. 171. 41–48. Online unter: https://musiktexte.de/epages/dc91cfee-4fdc-41fe-82da-0c2b88528c1e.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/dc91cfee-4fdc-41fe-82da-0c2b88528c1e/Products/MT-171.

    • Herausgeberschaft

      Rietbrock, Bernhard / Thoben, Jan & Saint, Trevor (Hg.) (2021): Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room - Archival Recordings 1969-2019. Physical Boxed Set: 3 LPs + 2 CDs + Book (limited edition). Berlin: Sound on Paper Editions. Online unter: https://soundonpapereditions.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-sitting-in-a-room-archival-recordings-1969-2019.

    • Software-Veröffentlichungen

      Rietbrock, Bernhard; Sargent, Matthew (2021): «Alvin Lucier Performance Helper 2.0».

    • Audio-Datei

      Lucier, Alvin (2020): «Alvin Lucier Works for the Ever Present Orchestra». Online unter: https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/works-for-the-ever-present-orchestra.

    • Ausstellungen, Konzerte, Aufführungen, Filmpräsentationen etc.

      Ever Present Orchestra/Cashmere Radio (2022): «Maerz Musik. A Garden of Forking Paths - Finale: Ever Present Orchestra». Berlin Memory Space. Experimental Music. Ambarchi, Oren/Hamann, Judith/Ogawa, Michiko/ Thoben, Jan. 26.03.2022–26.03.2022. Cashmere Radio Studio, Berlin. Online unter: https://cashmereradio.com/episode/cashmere-specials-a-garden-of-forking-paths-finale-the-ever-present-orchestra/.

    • Ausstellungen, Konzerte, Aufführungen, Filmpräsentationen etc.

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): «Tribute to Alvin Lucier». Werke von Alvin Lucier: "Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra“ for solo triangle (1988) „Arrigoni Bridge“ for violin, alto saxophone, cello and three electric guitars (2019) „Bird and Person Dyning“ for performer with microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers a. American Experimental Music. Robyn Schulkowsky, The Ever Present Orchestra, Nicolas Collins, Michael Moser. 22.05.2022–22.05.2022. St. Elisabeth, Berlin, Berlin. Online unter: https://www.elisabeth.berlin/de/kulturkalender/tribute-alvin-lucier.

    • Ausstellungen, Konzerte, Aufführungen, Filmpräsentationen etc.

      Rietbrock, Bernhard/ Saint, Trevor/ Issue Project Room (2022): «Alvin Lucier Memorial». Alvin Lucier Memorial. Memorial. Wendy Stokes & Amanda Lucier, David Behrman, Susan Foster, and James Fei as well as performances of his work from Charles Curtis and the Ever Present Orchestra. 19.06.2022–19.06.2022. Issue Project Room, New York, NY, New York. Online unter: https://issueprojectroom.org/event/alvin-lucier-memorial-livestream.

    • Ausstellungen, Konzerte, Aufführungen, Filmpräsentationen etc.

      ZKM Karlsruhe; Rietbrock, Bernhard (2021): «Alvin Lucier - The Poet of Experimental Music - Celebrating Alvin Lucier’s 90th Birthday». Karlsruhe/Online, Karslruhe/Online. Online unter: https://zkm.de/de/veranstaltung/2021/05/the-poet-of-experimental-music.

    • Konzept, Organisation und Durchführung

      Rietbrock, Bernhard; Sanio, Sabine; Thoben, Jan (2021): «The Sonic Real». 24.09.2021–25.09.2021. Online, Berlin/online. Online unter: https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/courses/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/news/24-25-september-2021-the-sonic-real/the-sonic-real-conference/.

    • Vorträge, Referate

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2021): «Das Hören des Anderen». GfM 2020/21 Musikwissenschaft nach Beethoven 28.9.-1.10. 2021. 28.09.2021–11.10.2021. Bonn.

    • Andere aktive Teilnahmen (Podiumsteilnahme, Posterpräsentation etc.)

      ZKM Karsluhe (2021): «ZKM Karlsruhe Gespräch »Über Schlüsselkonzepte von Alvin Luciers musikalischem Denken«». 14.05.2021. ZKM / Online, Karlsruhe/Online. Online unter: https://zkm.de/de/veranstaltung/2021/05/the-poet-of-experimental-music.

    • Startup, Spin-Off

      Rietbrock, Bernhard; Thoben, Jan (2021): Sound on Paper Editions, GbR. Berlin. Handelsregistereintrag: https://soundonpapereditions.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-sitting-in-a-room-archival-recordings-1969-2019.

    • Medienresonanz

      O'Brien, Kerry (2021): «A Piece of Music will Speak Once More for 26 Hours.. "I am sitting in a room" Alvin Lucier's classic work of sound art will be performed by 90 artists in honor of his 90th birthday». New York Times, 11.05.2021. Zeitungsbericht. New York; NY: Besprechung von: A Piece of Music will Speak Once More for 26 Hours.. Zeitungsartikel. O'Brien, Kerry. Online unter: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/arts/music/alvin-lucier-sitting-in-a-room.html.

    • Medienresonanz

      Tom Daun (2021): «WDR 3 Ton Art». 09.09.2021. WDR West Deutscher RundfunkBesprechung von: Interview Tonart Radiosenung. Tom Daun.

    • Medienresonanz

      Künstlerischer Leiter Ever Present Orchestra: Bernhard Riebtrock (2020): «Chartpatzierung Alvin Lucier Works for the Ever Present Orchestra American Classical Crossover Album Billboard Charts (Verkaufszahlenbasiert) Platz 15». In: Billboard (Hg.): Billboardcharts.Besprechung von: Alvin Lucier Works for the Ever Present Orchestra. Lucier, Alvin. Online unter: https://www.billboard.com/charts/classical-crossover-albums/2020-07-18.

    • Medienresonanz

      Künstlerischer Leiter Ever Present Orchestra: Bernhard Riebtrock (2020): «Chartpatzierung Alvin Lucier Works for the Ever Present Orchestra American Classical Crossover Album Billboard Charts (Verkaufszahlenbasiert) Platz 15». In: Billboard (Hg.): Billboardcharts.Besprechung von: Alvin Lucier Works for the Ever Present Orchestra. Lucier, Alvin. Online unter: https://www.billboard.com/charts/classical-crossover-albums/2020-07-18.

    • Medienresonanz

      Peter Margasak (2020): «Alvin Lucier Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Rezension». Besprechung von: Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical Albums of 2020. Peter Margasak. Online unter: https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2020/the-best-contemporary-classical-albums-of-2020.

    • Lehrveranstaltungen / Weiterbildungsangebote

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2022): «Alvin Luciers Werk und Ästhetik». Seminar. Universität der Künste Berlin / Fakultät Musik. Erstdurchführung: 28.05.2022. 28.05.2022–16.07.2022, FS 2022.

    • Lehrveranstaltungen / Weiterbildungsangebote

      Rietbrock, Bernhard (2021): «The Sonic Real in American Experimental Music». Seminar. Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin. Erstdurchführung: 21.04.2021. 21.04.2021–30.06.2021, FS 2021.