Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the first 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.
after lengthy deliberations on how to contextualise the 6 million ai-generated portraits so that their relation to mass destruction becomes visible, i finally came up with a solution. with that, the conceptual preparations are complete, now it’s time to programme and find a place for the installation.
we will give a concert at the kassette, düsseldorf. we hope to see you there.
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…
Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the second 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.
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…