Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the third prelude to the concept album “anti düsseldorf,” an experimental journey from classical sounds to granular destruction and synthesis — a conceptual project that explores the boundaries and the questionable nature of the decades-long hegemony of sequential music.
paul christian erntges of hauch records asked peter michael witt to remix a track by the cologne-based ambient duo oehlmann rix. the track „ganymed flyby #2 (oonard krautelectronic remix)“ was released on may 1 on „patronage v“, a compilation album from the label. Patronage V by Oehlmann Rix
The work „5 grams“ presents a gold tooth next to gold jewellery in a showcase. it does not address the victim himself, but the coldness of a system that sought profit even in death. the showcase, a symbol of desire and museum distance, makes the unspeakable visible and at the same time unbearable. the gold…
in ausschwitz birkenau i photographed the ruins of crematorium iii in the light of the setting sun. the scene reminded me strongly of caspar david friedrich and the fact that hitler and speer planned their buildings in such a way that they would still have made an imposing impression after a thousand years. admittedly, rather…
‘who owns the machine?’ is a conversation between peter michael witt and the ai system claude (anthropic) about a gap in the current discourse: the public debate on artificial intelligence revolves almost exclusively around threat scenarios – mass unemployment, concentration of power, the erosion of democracy – without ever asking an obvious question: if the…
when i first encountered postmodern thinking as a student (paul feyerabend, wider den methodenzwang), i was fascinated by the fact that it expressed my discomfort with academia and seemed to provide an answer to how the stubborn and boring, downright hostile progress in knowledge could be revitalised. but later i saw the fatal consequences of postmodern…
i kept asking myself how one could imagine the unimaginable amount of 6 million people killed. but you can visualise it: if you line up 6 million people, you get a human chain of incredible 3,500 kilometres. this corresponds to the distance bordeaux – moscow. my new work tries to show the systematic killing of…