24.10.2019
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Architectural construction with sound & performance: Cevdet Erek performs a remix of the installation "Cevdet Erek. Bergama Stereo" as part of the series Works of Music by Visual Artists. On November 29, 2019, the performance series will start at the Hamburger Bahnhof and is planned to continue from January to March 2020.
Cevdet Erek performs a live remix of the 34 seperate audio channels of his installation Bergama Stereo. He will be joined by Saba Arat und Gökhan Deneç to experiment with the davul, the double-headed drum popular across the Middle East and on the Balkans, a forerunner of the Western bass drum. It is struck with a strong mallet on the upper side, hanging from the left shoulder on a strap. On the lower side, it is played with a thin whip, which makes buzzing noises similar to the snare drum. Erek plays his Davul in his own way, alienating its sound in the finest nuances
The three players experiment with the relationship between the acoustically played drums and the pre-recorded drum sounds of the installation: the evenly organized beat against the impulsive, the relationship between amplified and unamplified, the testing of distortions and feedback in the sound system.
Founded in 2018, the trio contagious explores the interface between club-oriented danceable music and “autonomous” experimental music, opening up new aesthetic spaces through mutual “contagion”.
In collaboration with the CTM Festival 2020
An open-ended experiment: Rap remixes of the description of the Pergamon Altar from The Aesthetics of Resistance by Peter Weiss (in German, Turkish and English), with Aybes, renowned rapper from Istanbul; Volkan T error, pioneer of Turkish hip hop, from Berlin; and Brian Moss, American doyen of experimental vocal music, living in Berlin.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Works of Music by Visual Artists, the Nicolai and Lippok brothers will once again compete with each other: Who are the better deejays? Who gets people more in the mood to groove? The artists are subject to the jury’s rigorous verdict.
The series “Works of Music by Visual Artists”, initiated in 1999, is an ongoing collaboration of Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e. V. with Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. So far the series has presented concert performances of musical works and installations by Hanne Darboven, Yves Klein, Hermann Nitsch, Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Lawrence Weiner / Peter Gordon, Käthe Kruse, Carsten Nicolai, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Cory Arcangel, Egill Sæbjörnsson & Marcia Moraes, Ryoji Ikeda, Susan Philipsz, Saâdane Afif, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Christian Marclay and Jorinde Voigt at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.
Coproduction by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V., Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Ruhrtriennale 2018–2020.
Related Link
Bergama Stereo Variations + Davul Step 2
Exhibition
Cevdet Erek. Bergama Stereo
19.10.2019 to 08.03.2020
Related online offer
Trailer: Cevdet Erek. Bergama Stereo