Conzert für klavier und gespräch
Ernst Caramelle
1974
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Self-published in 1974, this 16-page booklet accompanying Ernst Caramelle’s eponymous experimental live performance at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau on 1 June 1974, is considered the artist’s first printed artwork.   Conceived less as a conventional record ...
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Conzert für klavier und gespräch
Ernst Caramelle
1974
Groß-Gerau: INITIATIVE-GG
Unpaginated [12 pages]
21 × 15 cm

Self-published in 1974, this 16-page booklet accompanying Ernst Caramelle’s eponymous experimental live performance at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau on 1 June 1974, is considered the artist’s first printed artwork.


 


Conceived less as a conventional record of the performance than as an integral part of it, the booklet takes the form of a score for a participatory happening. It unfolds as a narrative sequence of names of artists, musicians, philosophers, and figures from popular culture, whose accumulation becomes both a form of documentation and a concrete poem.


 


The extended enumeration was intended to be read aloud by the audience, transforming the printed pages into a choral performance. The logic of the work is further articulated in the instructions printed on the back cover, here loosely translated from the German:


 


“Working concept: creating a meditative effect through the reduction of tone sequences ‘brim barawariwara bamm bamm bamm+++brimbarawariwara bamm bamm bamm’ and generating theatrical situations through dance and gesture. The audience reads the catalogue text aloud.”

Groß-Gerau: INITIATIVE-GG
Unpaginated [12 pages]
21 × 15 cm

Self-published in 1974, this 16-page booklet accompanying Ernst Caramelle’s eponymous experimental live performance at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau on 1 June 1974, is considered the artist’s first printed artwork.

 

Conceived less as a conventional record of the performance than as an integral part of it, the booklet takes the form of a score for a participatory happening. It unfolds as a narrative sequence of names of artists, musicians, philosophers, and figures from popular culture, whose accumulation becomes both a form of documentation and a concrete poem.

 

The extended enumeration was intended to be read aloud by the audience, transforming the printed pages into a choral performance. The logic of the work is further articulated in the instructions printed on the back cover, here loosely translated from the German:

 

“Working concept: creating a meditative effect through the reduction of tone sequences ‘brim barawariwara bamm bamm bamm+++brimbarawariwara bamm bamm bamm’ and generating theatrical situations through dance and gesture. The audience reads the catalogue text aloud.”

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Self-published in 1974, this 16-page booklet accompanying Ernst Caramelle’s eponymous experimental live performance at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau on 1 June 1974, is considered the artist’s first printed artwork.

 

Conceived less as a conventional record of the performance than as an integral part of it, the booklet takes the form of a score for a participatory happening. It unfolds as a narrative sequence of names of artists, musicians, philosophers, and figures from popular culture, whose accumulation becomes both a form of documentation and a concrete poem.

 

The extended enumeration was intended to be read aloud by the audience, transforming the printed pages into a choral performance. The logic of the work is further articulated in the instructions printed on the back cover, here loosely translated from the German:

 

“Working concept: creating a meditative effect through the reduction of tone sequences ‘brim barawariwara bamm bamm bamm+++brimbarawariwara bamm bamm bamm’ and generating theatrical situations through dance and gesture. The audience reads the catalogue text aloud.”

Groß-Gerau: INITIATIVE-GG
Unpaginated [12 pages]
21 × 15 cm

Self-published in 1974, this 16-page booklet accompanying Ernst Caramelle’s eponymous experimental live performance at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau on 1 June 1974, is considered the artist’s first printed artwork.

 

Conceived less as a conventional record of the performance than as an integral part of it, the booklet takes the form of a score for a participatory happening. It unfolds as a narrative sequence of names of artists, musicians, philosophers, and figures from popular culture, whose accumulation becomes both a form of documentation and a concrete poem.

 

The extended enumeration was intended to be read aloud by the audience, transforming the printed pages into a choral performance. The logic of the work is further articulated in the instructions printed on the back cover, here loosely translated from the German:

 

“Working concept: creating a meditative effect through the reduction of tone sequences ‘brim barawariwara bamm bamm bamm+++brimbarawariwara bamm bamm bamm’ and generating theatrical situations through dance and gesture. The audience reads the catalogue text aloud.”

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Self-published in 1974, this 16-page booklet accompanying Ernst Caramelle’s eponymous experimental live performance at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau on 1 June 1974, is considered the artist’s first printed artwork.

 

Conceived less as a conventional record of the performance than as an integral part of it, the booklet takes the form of a score for a participatory happening. It unfolds as a narrative sequence of names of artists, musicians, philosophers, and figures from popular culture, whose accumulation becomes both a form of documentation and a concrete poem.

 

The extended enumeration was intended to be read aloud by the audience, transforming the printed pages into a choral performance. The logic of the work is further articulated in the instructions printed on the back cover, here loosely translated from the German:

 

“Working concept: creating a meditative effect through the reduction of tone sequences ‘brim barawariwara bamm bamm bamm+++brimbarawariwara bamm bamm bamm’ and generating theatrical situations through dance and gesture. The audience reads the catalogue text aloud.”

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