Lange Nacht der Musik

During the second Long Night of Music, the Edith Russ House will also participate and present works by media artists who were guests at the Edith Russ House in the seminar room of the Edith Russ House.

Program:

Ulrike Haage - IN:FINITUM
Solo concert for grand piano and electronics
March 09, 2013

Few artists live change as consistently as the composer and pianist Ulrike Haage. With her current solo album in:finitum and as part of a scholarship in the Leuphana Arts Program (LAP) at Leuphana Universtität in Lüneburg, she presents her specific approach in concert at the Edith Russ House for Media Art. In it, only a few tones are needed that stand out from the usual sounds, that concentrate, repeat and become independent in the repetition in order to find themselves. It is both exciting and fascinating how much Ulrike Haage has to say - and how little she needs to express it. For her, it is only logical to give the tone in its clear, undisguised form a lot of space: "You can say everything with a single tone. Of all instruments, that is perhaps most possible with the grand piano."

In cooperation with the Leuphana Arts Program (LAP) of Leuphana Universtität, Lüneburg.

Jens Brand - MUSIC I, II, III
2008 until 2011

The performance and concert program presents artists with whom Jens Brand, who was a fellow at the Edith Rus House for Media Art in 2007, feels closely connected, both personally and in his work and thinking. The invited musicians each look at and create music with different methods: it is invented, dissected, microscoped, prevented, destroyed, bent or transformed and ultimately meets eyes and ears to emerge.

With contributions by:

Sukandar Kartadinata: Die By The Sword (2007).
Music for 2 computer systems, video game, forced feedback joystick and live electronics

Phill Niblock: Hurdy Hurry (1999)
hurdy gurdy, recorded samples by Jim O'Rourke
Harm (2003)
for cello, recorded samples by Arne Deforce
Zrost (2004)
soprano saxophone, recorded samples by Martin Zrost
Sethwork (2003)
acoustic guitars played with E-bow, recorded samples by Seth Josel

David Berhman: Long Throw and Freeze Dip

Nicolas Collins: Salvage (Guiyu Blues)

Maria Blondeel: A40RUHReMIX

BMBcon: Airbase project

Richard Lerman

The MUSIC project was curated by Jens Brand and took place in the framework of klangpol.

Paul DeMarinis
9 installations 1973 - 2010
Exhibition view; September 11 - November 07, 2010 at the ERH

With Paul DeMarini's Formen, Spuren, Löschungen, the Edith Russ House for Media Art presented his first retrospective in Germany. In his objects and complex installations, he deals with scientific phenomena and technical devices and innovations, both well-known and unknown, which he reinterprets in his own way, using them critically, humorously and poetically for his own inventions and re-inventions.
At the center of the exhibition was the installation The Edison Effect (1993), which consists of nine self-contained arranges ments representing unusual audio playback devices. Some have a specific reference to Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventiveness is paid a slightly ironic homage in this work. In the dark exhibition space, lasers scan old gramophone records, wax cylinders, holograms, rollers, plates, and records made of lacquer or beeswax. The light reflections are converted into electrical signals that are reproduced by loudspeakers. The light from the lasers is controlled and changed by, among other things, an old television set, goldfish or the exhibition visitors themselves.

The exhibition "Paul deMarinis: Forms, Traces, Erasures. 9 installations 1973 - 2010" was curated by Carsten Seiffarth.

Pawel Ziemilski: Rogalik
short film (2012)

A Polish village is the setting for this short film by Pawel Zeimilski. Long tracking shots roam the village, penetrating homes and documenting their inhabitants. The people appear unreal, as if in a mixture of photographic portrait and tableaux vivant they represent inanimate figures of the scenario. The Polish documentary school, from which Pawel Ziemilski comes, is transformed into allegorical images of a time that seems lost. The only escape from the claustrophobic spaces is offered by the media, radio, television, CDs, game consoles, which can be seen in almost all camera movements. Acoustics play a major role, although it is not communication with each other that contributes to mutual understanding.

In Germany, the film premiered on May 3, 2013 at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen and received an honorable mention from the International Jury.