Audio Poverty

The upheaval in the world of music has created a quandary. Although the degree to which music is now being made available and listened to is unprecedented, we are also seeing a process in which individual works are becoming increasingly interchangeable. The economically and artistically autonomous music culture that has functioned as a significant social corrective since the end of the 1970s is under threat. Music criticism, journalism and scholarship are losing their status as opinion leaders in the face of the flat and globalized hierarchy of cyberculture. The category of musical education is being undermined by a new detachment in the way music is spoken about. Opening the archives gives rise to a supra-historical access to the musical repertoire that does not demand a historical consciousness based on epochs, styles and categories.

With: Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Kode 9 (UK), Kodwo Eshun (UK), Mark Chung, Gudrun Gut, Achim Bergmann, Jay Rutledge, Joel Berger, DJ Rupture (USA), Awesometapesfromafrica (USA), Ensemble Zwischentöne, Ensemble Asamisimasa (NOR), Sabine Sanio, Ensemble Mosaik, Thomas Meadowcroft (AUS), Alan Hilario (PHI), Enno Poppe, Oyvind Torvund (NOR), Goodiepal (DK), Christine Lemke-Matwey, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Jonathan Fischer, Max Dax, Chris Bohn (UK), David Keenan (UK), Diedrich Diederichsen, Kai Fagaschinski, Werner Dafeldecker (AT), Barbara Romen (AT), Eva Reiter (AT), Manon-Liu Winter (AT), Josephine Foster (USA), Hair Police (USA), DJ Vamanos (UK), Alvin Curran (USA), Golo Föllmer, John Eden (UK), Hartmut Möller, Orm Finnendahl, Serge Baghdassarians, Brian Duffy (UK), Christiane Rösinger, Modified Toy Orchestra (UK), Quarta 330 (JAP).

Curators: Ekkehard Ehlers, Björn Gottstein.

Further information is available at www.audiopoverty.de

In cooperation with Wandering Star Association and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Audio Poverty is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation