Concerts, Performances, Installations
The Long Now
Curated by Berno Odo Polzer, Laurens von Oswald and Harry Glass
“The Long Now”, Kraftwerk Berlin © Camille Blake
“The Long Now” is a place for the enduring present. A space in which time itself can unfold and the sense of time can take uncharted paths. With a duration of more than 30 hours, the project invites visitors to detach from the clocked pace of the present and indulge in the chronosphere of “The Long Now”.
“The Long Now” is the grand closing event of MaerzMusik − Festival for Time Issues 2017. Surrounded by the monumental setting of Kraftwerk Berlin, the project assembles concerts, performances, electronic live-acts, sound and video installations to form a composition in time and space. Embracing musical worlds from early Renaissance polyphony to the musical avant-garde, experimental electronics, Ambient and Noise, this third edition of “The Long Now” allows for sonic and bodily experiences of an exceptional kind. Visitors are welcome to spend the entire duration in the powerplant, sleep over, or come and go. Beds will be provided.
Graindelavoix25.03. | 18:29 Doors
25.03. | 18:29 – 26.03. | 23:00 | level 0
William Basinski & James Elaine
Video and tape loops
On loan from Lux (Museolaboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo - Italy)
25.03. | 19:00 | level 0
No [more] Pussyfooting
Live realization from
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
“No Pussyfooting” (1973) and “Evening Star” (1975)
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar and arrangement
Johan Vandermaelen, tape-recorders and mix
With the support of Artesis Plantijn University College, Flanders State of the Art and ChampdAction
25.03. | 20:00 | level 0
Andrea Belfi & Francesco Donadello
Live electronics
25.03. | 21:00 | level 0
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Live electronics
25.03. | 22:00 | level 0
Kara-Lis Coverdale
Live electronics
25.03. | 23:30 | level 8
Alvin Lucier
I am sitting in a room
for voice and electromagnetic tape (1970)
Alvin Lucier, performance
Hauke Harder, sound direction
26.03. | 00:00 | level 8
Graindelavoix
And Underneath The Everlasting Arms – Polyphony for a Better Sleep
Works by Alexander Agricola, Josquin Desprez, Ludwig Senfl, Alessandro Coppini, Jakob Obrecht, Antoine Divitis, Nicolas Gombert, John Sheppard, Orlando di Lasso & Samuel Beckett
Graindelavoix:
Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Joachim Höchbauer & Björn Schmelzer
Margarida Garcia, Scenography
Koen Broos, light
Björn Schmelzer, concept & artistic direction
26.03. | 02:00 = 03:00 | level 8
Leyland Kirby presents
The vast sea of recollection
Overnight concert
26.03. | 08:00 | level 8
Chris Watson
Field recordings & live electronics
26.03. | 11:00 | level 8
Morton Feldman
Patterns in a Chromatic Field
for piano and cello (1981)
Duo ascolta:
Florian Hoelscher, piano
Erik Borgir, cello
26.03. | 12:30 | level 8
Alvin Lucier
Vespers
Acoustic orientation by means of echolocation, for players with hand-held echolocation devices (1968)
26.03. | 13:00 | level 8
Graindelavoix
And Underneath The Everlasting Arms – Polyphony for a Better Sleep
Works by Alexander Agricola, Josquin Desprez, Ludwig Senfl, Alessandro Coppini, Jakob Obrecht, Antoine Divitis, Nicolas Gombert, John Sheppard, Orlando di Lasso & Samuel Beckett
Graindelavoix:
Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Joachim Höchbauer & Björn Schmelzer
Margarida Garcia, Scenography
Koen Broos, light
Björn Schmelzer, concept & artistic direction
26.03. | 15:00 | level 8
Catherine Christer Hennix
For Brass and Computer
for trumpet, horn, trombone, microtonal tuba and computer
Zinc & Copper
Robin Hayward, microtonal tuba
Hilary Jeffery, trombone
Elena Kakaliagou, French horn
Paul Schwingenschlögl, trumpet, flugelhorn
Stefan Tiedje, computer
26.03. | 17:00 | level 8
Punctum (Caterina Barbieri + Carlo Maria)
Live electronics
26.03. | 19:30 | level 8
Aleksi Perälä
Colundi electronics
26.03. | 21:00 | level 8
Helm
Live electronics
26.03. | 22:00 | level 8
Wolfgang Voigt presents
Rückverzauberung
Live electronics
26.03. | 23:00 | level 8
Tim Hecker
Live electronics
In cooperation with Berlin Atonal.
With the support of Kraftwerk Berlin.
The project is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation.