Soundscape as an aesthetic category
(Sunday November 21st, 17.00 h)
Combining personal experience and theoretical thought the author
questiones the semantic value of sound (as opposed to that of
photography). He proclaims that a soundscape composer who advocates the
principles of acoustic ecology is a contradiction in terms - he should
applaud rather than complain about the mechanical age because it has
provided him with a broad spectrum of sound. The author is convinced
that once you accept the Cage´ian idea that noise can be music, you are
caught in a trap. You hear noise with a musical ear, whether you are
recording it or not. His conclusion: Listening to the real world is the act
of aestheticism in which we follow Hemingway, for whom we do not deserve to
live in this world if we do not perceive it.
CONCERT (Sunday November 21st, 20.00 h)
Selection from 'Roma - a soundscape remix' (1998)
Michael Rüsenberg 'Roma Modulare' 15:26
David Toop 'City on Fire' 4:31
Francisco López 'Untitled # 80' 4:44
Christoph Korn 'Ritornell' 5:20
Lisa Kucharski 'This is: Rah Rah Rah' 6:03
Michael Rüsenberg: Excerpt from 'Cologne Bridges Symphony' (1999)
Michael Rüsenberg
born 1948,
freelance radio- and tv-journalist in Cologne,
(Adolf-Grimme-Preis 1989); books on the sociology of music;
soundscape works on CD:
'Roma - a soundscape remix' (1998)
'Cologne Bridges Symphony' (to be released in 1999)
with Hans U Werner:
'Lisboa - a soundscape portrait' (1994)
'Madrid - a soundscape collective' (1995)
'La Palma - a soundscape excursion' (1997)
with Norbert Stein´s PataMasters:
'PataMaroc' (1999)
with Peter Hölscher (visual artist):
'Maghrebinia' (1999)
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