Concerts, Performances, Installations
The Long Now
30 hours Kraftwerk Berlin
Curated by Berno Odo Polzer, Laurens von Oswald and Harry Glass
The Long Now 2017 © Berliner Festspiele, photo: 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 2018. 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 fourth 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.
24.03. | 18:00
Doors
24.03. | 18:00 – 25.03 | 24:00 | Level 0
Wang Bing
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)
Part I: „Rust“; Part II: „Remnants“; Part III: „Rails“
Digital Video, 551 min.
Crude Oil (2008)
Digital Video, 840 min.
24.03. | 18:00 – 25.03 | 24:00 | Level 4
Xue Long by Materiel Matano
including video works by Tim Taylor
Installation
24.03. | 18:00 – 25.03 | 24:00 | Level 8 / Schaltzentrale
Soundwalk Collective
Sound Installation
24.03. | 19:00 | Level 8
Soundwalk Collective
Live Electronics
24.03. | 20:00 | Level 8
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Live Electronics
24.03. | 21:00 | Level 8
The Necks & ‘A’ Trio
The Long Now special four hour sextet improvisation
The Necks
Chris Abrahams, piano
Tony Buck, drums
Lloyd Swanton, double bass
‘A’ Trio
Mazen Kerbaj, trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui, guitar
Raed Yassin, double bass
25.03. | 01:00 | Level 8
Elodie
Extended Night Performance
25.03. | 06:00 | Level 8
Tomoko Sauvage
Amplified Ceramic Waterbowls
25.03. | 07:30 | Level 8
Melanie Velarde
Live Electronics
25.03. | 09:30 | Level 8
Lucio Capece
presents “Space Tuning Conditional Music”
Flying speakers, Analogue Electronics, Saxophone and Sine Waves
25.03. | 10:30 | Level 8
Kate Carr
Live Electronics
25.03. | 11:30 | Level 8
Morton Feldman
For Philip Guston
for flutes, percussion and keyboards (1984)
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, flutes
Chris Nappi, percussion
Joseph Kubera, piano, celeste
25.03. | 16:30 | Level 8
Horațiu Rădulescu
Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets
for seven B-flat clarinets (1972)
Samuel Dunscombe, Kai Fagaschinski, Theo Nabicht, Michiko Ogawa, Winfried Rager, Michael Thieke, Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson clarinet
25.03. | 18:00 | Level 8
Christina Vantzou & Francesco Donadello
Live Electronics
25.03. | 19:00 | Level 8
Huerco S.
Live Electronics
25.03. | 20:00 | Level 8
Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson
Live Electronics
25.03. | 21:00 | Level 8
Colin Stetson
Amplified Bass Saxophone
25.03. | 22:00 | Level 8
Second Woman
Live Electronics
25.03. | 23:00 | Level 8
Lustmord
Live Electronics
25.03. | 24:00 | Level 0 / OHM
DJs
Funded by the Capital City Cultural Funds.
In co-operation with Berlin Atonal
With support of Kraftwerk Berlin