Neue Musik aus Berlin: Klangabtausch der Macht

D Ass der Sozialismus der Mäßigten Zone else sounds like the only one of the Tropics, known by the Sound Artist Nik Nowak in a 43-minute radio essay „A War of Decibels“ based on two Archivfunds: That is a day in Ostberlin, Hauptstadt der DDR, das Marschlied „Unsere Panzerdivision“. Dargeboten vom Erich-Weinert-Ensemble, Text Siegfried Berthold, Melodie Kurt Greiner-Pol, führt es in de nouvelle Jagdgründe.

Dagegen now has a German contact with Pierre Degeyter’s “Internationale” in a beach version of the In-House Reggae Group of the Workers’ Party of Jamaica. The Cubafreundlich Marxist-Leninist parties use the song with mobile sound systems in the Wahlkampf of the long term.

Das Ostberliner Hanger lief in de sechziger Jahren in de “Lautsprecherkrieg” in de Geschichtsbücher eingegaanen Schlagabtausch auf both Seiten der Mauer. Since it was not possible in the Diktion to understand that the GDR had an end in concrete terms, it was the Pyrrhussieg-heraussstelling sollte, which made the Jamaican Linke an insel-gewinnen wolllte.

“A War of Decibels” with the impulses of Jessica Edwards and Infinite Livez see the accompanying book of the theme of the installation “Schizo Sonics” during Nik Nowak 2020 for the KINDL – Center for Zeitgenössische kunst: politics, paranoia, sound like Waffe and a utopia, that day for the Hunde. Am Ende steht die Farce, as Donald Trump put it: “Wir were die Mauer bauen, Leute.”