Seven Speakers | A listening environment

Alex Paulick, eine Hälfte von Coloma und Teilzeitkeyboarder bei Kreidler, bildet zusammen mit Min Stiller Narrow Bridges; die erste Platte des neuen Projekts erscheint im August. Davor organisieren die beiden eine Art temporären Sound-Room, in dem von heute an für einen Monat wöchentlich neue Tracks von Narrow Bridges wie von befreundeten Künstlern über – Achtung! – sieben Lautsprecher abgespielt werden. In diesem Acoustic Showroom gibt es ab jeweils Donnerstag wöchentlich zwei neue Aufnahmen zu hören von so tollen Künstlern wie Kreidler oder Efdemin. Und das alles für umme!

Das Programm

15. Juli: Kreidler / Narrow Bridges

22. Juli: Barbara Morgenstern & der Chor der Kulturen der Welt / Marcus Schmickler

29. Juli: Kante / Bacchus Marteau

05. August: Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin) / CFM

15.07. – 14.08.
Di-Sa 15.00-19.00
Gartenstudio Naunynstr. 53
10999 Berlin

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Text > Nadine Hartmann

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Mit der „Swag Leg“-Serie, die George Nelson für Hermann Miller entwarf und deren Home Desk von 1955 bei Vitra neuaufgelegt wurde, wollte der Gründer der Amerikanischen Moderne weniger eine Innovation entwerfen, als diese aus seinen Designkriterien entstehen lassen. Mit der Ausgangsfrage, ob es nicht wunderbar wäre, geformte Beine an einem Möbel zu haben, ohne dass sie aus Holz und handgedreht sein müssen, machte er sich an den Entwurf: Er begann mit dem Untergestell, dessen verchromte Metallbeine maschinell geformt werden. [Read more]

Sonic Youth | No Discipline | Part II

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Sonic Youth | No Discipline | Part I

Sonic Youth were never just whirring feedback and loads of distortion. For the past 27 years, this famous postpunk band was also a crystallization point for a network that goes from cool to artsy, from avant-garde to sectarianism, and is ambitious and multidisciplinary across all the arts. To shed light on the furthest reaches of this cosmos, an exhibition is currently touring through Europe: “Sonic Youth etc. – Sensational Fix.” We asked the curators and artists involved in the project for their own personal feedback. [Read more]

Distance | “My Demons”

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Franz Ferdinand

“Welcome to the Dada-Dancehall!”
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The Double Club | Congo and the West

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Mjunik Disco

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Justice & Oizo | Bang your Ed

 

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