Music for Museums

BLACK OUT BRD 
For any combination of Instruments , 2017
Recording of the version for brass quintet, performed by Ensemble Schwerpunkt.

Concept
The piece is the “inverse” of the German National Anthem. 
For that the melody and accompaniment of the anthem were reduced to one voice and fitted in one octave. Then for every resulting chord in this voice all other notes are taken in the piece “Black Out BRD”. For example the beginning of the anthem is a Eb in the melody and the accompaniment is Eb, Bb and G. So the resulting inverse beginning is C, C#, D, E, F, F#, G#, A, B. That is the first chord of “Black Out BRD”.

Background
The initial idea for the piece is that it can be performed whenever the national anthem is played somewhere. It can then be played synchronously along to the anthem - resulting in blacking out the piece. Like that at every instance all chromatic notes will be heard - leading to a blackening out of the anthem. 
The result both cancels the national music out and also includes a block of notes that could possibly include any other music, anthem or whatever you like to include in it. 

It can also be performed individually and then is considered as an anti-statement against the national anthem and borders on its own. 

Score / Voices
The basic score is a progression of these inverted chords. 
Fitting voices for a given instrumentation can be generated on request. 
The notes can be transposed by every instrument to a comfortable octave.
The instruments to perform this piece need to be able to create up to 11 pitches at the same time. So either it is a very hard piano piece, or a very simple piece for 11 instruments, or a medium piece for 5 instruments by using double stops, multiphonics and so on.

http://www.alexanderschubert.net/works/Blackout.php

BLACK OUT BRD [Excerpt]

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Fourty white horses
On a red hill
First they jump
Then they stomp
Then they stand still.

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Late Turner and Ulsen hung out in the studio in the middle of the night. They connected their instruments and let the machines do their thing. Rather than playing the synth and beat machine they merely adjusted a few parameters throughout the length of the track. This is not your 3 minute 30 pop song. This is not even your 9 minute techno track. This is technology breathing down our necks in the dark.

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Av3ry is an AI program and a virtual persona, who is composing music, communicating with people and learning from interactions.

The main component is the on-demand conversation and art generation of the bot. The goal is to create unique pieces of music and art in the given moment - and based on the criteria of the user interaction.

In the idle process, when not communicating, the system generates random exports and creates a database of 10,000 music pieces. Furthermore the system running on its own creates a continuous audio stream broadcasted live 24/7. It is continuously evolving and changing musical progression.

AV3RY - 9071

Museum of No Art [Hamburg, DE] What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under the moniker Museum Of No Art, she has created an album that floats in a hazy lacuna between realities, rooted in propulsive and deep bass resonance, but also footloose, playfully deconstructing language and mixing in layers of echoing synthetic and organic tones. The fascinating result of these unfettered experiments resonate as an imaginary cadavre-exquis played by DJ Screw, Arthur Russell, Hiroshi Yoshimura, MJ Lallo, Poppy Nogood, and Laurie Anderson.

http://museumofnoart.com

Aufgenommen am 13.12.20
Hallo: Radiospiele, Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg-Hammerbrook

Photography: Antje Sauer
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Hallo: Radiospiele - Museum Of No Art - 13/12

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BLACK OUT BRD [Excerpt]

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