Programme

Audio Poverty
Musik und Armut
A weekend of Discussions and Lectures, Concerts and Parties, Performances and Experiments
February 6–8, 2009
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Curators: Ekkehard Ehlers and Björn Gottstein
NOTE: Audio files of most panels/concerts/lectures/dj-sets can be viewed/listened to/downloaded on the Archive Page
Programme Overview:
Friday, Feb. 6th 2009: Beyond the Long Tail
17.00 Opening
Bernd Scherer (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and Ekkehard Ehlers (Wandering Star e. V.) Salutation
Serge Baghdassarians Sound Installations
18.00-18.30h Preamble
Heinz-Klaus Metzger (Berlin): Musical Autonomies
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18.30-18.45h Introduction
Björn Gottstein (Berlin): Audio Poverty - Musik und Armut
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18.45-20.00h Beyond The Long Tail
Lecture Kodwo Eshun & Kode9 (London): Beyond The Long Tail
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20.30-22.00h No markets, no goods, no future?
Panel Discussion Gudrun Gut (Monika, Berlin) Achim Bergmann (Trikont, Munich) Jay Rutledge (Outhere, Munich), Dieter Gorny (Berlin), Mark Chung (Freibank, Hamburg), Moderation: Christian Finkbeiner (Berlin)
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22.00 Mudd Up! Concert & DJ-Set
DJ/Rupture (New York) & Brian Shimkovitz (aka Awesome Tapes From Africa) (New York)
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Saturday, Feb. 7th 2009: Criticizing Critique
12.00-13.00h Artist Talk
DJ/Rupture (New York), Brian Shimkovitz (aka Awesome Tapes From Africa) (New York), John Eden (London), Kodwo Eshun (London)
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13.00-13.30h Beyond History
Lecture Sabine Sanio (Berlin): Musikalische Armut
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13.45-16.30h Naked in the Wind
Concert Ensemble Mosaik (Berlin) & Goodiepal (Kopenhagen) with works by Ferruccio Busoni/Erwin Stein, Alan Hilario (UA/AW), Thomas Meadowcroft (UA/AW), Enno Poppe, Steve Reich, Goodiepal, Salvatore Sciarrino, Olivier Messiaen
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17.30-18.30h Vergleichen, Konkurrieren, Tauschen – Entfremdungsgewinne und
Authentizitätsverluste
Lecture Diedrich Diederichsen (Berlin) I fought the law, and the law won
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18.30-19.30h Guerilla Media
Lecture David Keenan (Glasgow) Guerrilla Media
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19.45-21.15h Critizising Critique
Panel discussion Christine Lemke-Matwey (Tagesspiegel, Berlin), Helga de la Motte-Haber (TU, Berlin), Jonathan Fischer (Süddeutsche Zeitung, München), Max Dax (Spex, Berlin), Chris Bohn (Wire, London), Olaf Karnik (Köln), Moderation: Björn Gottstein (Berlin)
21.30-23.30h Hunger
Concert Werner Dafeldecker (Berlin), Kai Fagaschinski (Berlin), Barbara Romen (Innsbruck), Eva Reiter (Wien), Manon-Liu Winter (Wien) play Karlheinz Stockhausen - Goldstaub
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Josephine Foster & Victor Herrero (Barcelona)
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Hair Police (Detroit/Lexington)
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23.30 DJ-Set DJ Vamanos (Brixton)
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Sunday, Feb. 8th 2009: Fashion and Despair
12.30-14.30 Lecture
Bernd Fesel (Berlin) Auswirkungen der Weltwirtschaftskrise auf die Szene der Neuen Musik (Open Hour der Gesellschaft für Neue Musik)
15.00-16.00h ENDANGERED SPECIES - the economics of appropriation
Concert Alvin Curran (Rome)
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16.00-17.00h Lecture
Hartmut Möller (Rostock) Künstlerexistenzen
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17.15-18.15h Two short lectures
Golo Föllmer (Halle) Musik zusammen allein & John Eden (London) Misadventures in music blogging
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19.00-20.30h All we have is noise Panel discussion
Alvin Curran (Rome), Orm Finnendahl (Freiburg), Serge Baghdassarians (Berlin), Gustav (Vienna), Sister Fa (Dakar/Berlin), Moderation: Christiane Rösinger (Berlin)
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20.30-22.30h Concert Modified Toy Orchestra (Birmingham), Quarta 330 (Tokio)
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22.30 DJ-Set John Eden (London) & Olaf Karnik (Cologne)
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Supporting Programme
Serge Bagdassarians (Berlin) downbeat (2008), kritische masse (2008) & tape delay (2007) Installations
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Oyvind Torvund (Oslo) Bandrom Haus (2009) 3 Situationen für 9 Musiker (UA/AW) - Anna Lindal (S) - Violin, Ensemble Asamisimasa (Oslo), Ensemble Zwischentöne (Berlin)
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Thomas Meadowcroft (Berlin) Medley - Yamaha Home Organ
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