The myth of the individual artist hero, of the brilliant idea springing forth from the personified mastermind, survives obstinately despite the fact that creative production in science, economics and the fine arts has in the meantime developed into something more context-related, something originating in teamwork....
Radical plurality published in the german new music magazine Positionen ( #43 ) Concept: Instead of a search for consensus which ultimately ends in uniformity, discord and radical plurality are the ingredients that determine the group. What matters is not a struggle for unity, but the creation...
see video here I perceive the outside world surrounding me as an unforeseen self-motion of the "projection surface: world"; Perceptions as results of thinking, consciousness or interpretation not as their prerequisite. Signs as reduction and attempt of objectification in a generally flowing movement. As a consequence of this thought...
The Montaigne Project boundary crossings - an approach to an essayistic music (listen to audio here) An observer is separated from the observed objects; individuals are separated from one another: the barrier. The observer affects the observed object with his attributes and conditions: a transition. There is nothing left if the attributes...
Michael Renkel: strings & percussion Burkhard Beins: percussion & strings Over the course of 25 years Activity Center has developed a unique style of musical performance. Their distinctive way to "create spontaneous compositional structures" has been referred to as "improvised sound art" as well as "hand-played musique...
Sven Åke Johansson, Michael Renkel : Kalte Welle 102, 13 Fragmente, Kning Disc (Sweden) Drummer Sven Åke Johansson has written elsewhere about the aesthetics of renouncement, about leaving out rather than putting in. This is a man who - for all the theatricality of some of...
Burkhard Beins: percussion, Johanne Braun: oboe, Gesine Conrad: cello, Volker Grewe: vibraphone, Bettina Junge: flute, Annette von der Mark: guitar, Sybille Ott-Kohm: piano Albas was written during a one year residence 1995 in France in Narbonne near the small village of Albas. The titel of the composition refers...