“… A well hypnotic, intense and time dissolving effect. Proper good, this.”
— Nitestyles (NL)
“… Hier entwickelt sich ein seltsam manisches und betörendes Stück minimalistischen Klanges. Ein irgendwie reizvolles Stück Klangkunst, das man entweder nach zwei Minuten entnervt ausschaltet oder einen erbarmungslos einsaugt.”
— Musikansich (DE)
Stefan Römer performs quotations from cultural or musical theoreticians commenting on performances by two iconic musicians, Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler.
The quote functions as an instruction for the sound performance. Stefan Römer explicitly attempts to reach a similar psychedelic state of mind to that of the referenced artists, using an LSD substitute. The performative staging of textual citation, instrumentation comparable to the historical events, musical performance, and altered state of consciousness works to deconstruct conventional understandings of music.
credits
released December 4, 2020
Idea, performance and production: Stefan Römer 2018/2020
Recorded live 28. Jan 2018 18:00 at CTM Festival,
Kunstquartier Studio 1, Kunstraum Kreuzberg,Berlin by: Thomas Meier
Post-production: Alexander Paulick
Vinyl mastering and cut: Schnittstelle
Graphic design: Dirk Lebahn
Supported by
Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme/gkfd
The Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Thanks
Kathrin Busch, Timm Ringewaldt, Wolfgang Seidel and the Archive of Conrad Schnitzler, Thomas Meier, Daniel Door, Matthias Schellenberg, Birgit Herbst, Clemens Krümmel, Rafael Cardoso, Joseph Young, Jan Rohlf and the team of CTM Festival Berlin, and for the panel discussion: Ivo Gurschler and Henrik Jungaberle
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