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yannisТем временем сообщают, что 21-22 января в Aston University, Birmingham, состоится первая в истории научная конференция посвящённая творчеству Kraftwerk.
Да, это не шутка. Первая. Научная. Конференция. Посвящённая. Kraftwerk.
Какой ад. Впрочем я вспомнил, что ещё когда только начинал интересоваться их творчеством, десять лет назад, обнаружил на просторах инета и качнул эссе под названием KRAFTWERK: TEKNOLOGI OCH POPMUSIK (av Per Broberg). Эссе это на шведском языке, и качнул я его по приколу, но оно до сих пор лежит у меня и предваряется вот какими словами: The text you find here in an essay that I've written in 1994-95 at the Institution of Language and Litterature at the Univeristy of Linkцping, Sweden.
Но то - эссе, а это - конференция. В этом месте я хотел выматериться, но не буду, раз уж здесь речь касается научных проблем. Лол.
На память - программа конференции под катом (посещение стоит 20 фунтов для посторонних и ненаучных лиц, 10 - для посторонних научных и бесплатно для своих студентов и преподов).
Kraftwerk and the Birth of Electronic Music in Germany
The first ever international academic conference on Kraftwerk will take place at Aston University on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22, January 2015.
Kraftwerk have long been recognised as major pioneers of electronic music. The group attracted keen interest particularly in the UK, where their innovative sound had a decisive influence on the development of 1980s synth pop. While the announcement in 2009 of Florian Schneider’s departure from the core team of Hütter/Schneider initially suggested an end to the band, the now solely Hütter-led group has since made a stunning return to public attention.
Extensive touring attracted considerable audiences who, in many cases, were exposed to the band’s shows for the first time. The recent full move to 3D stage projections took their shows – once defined by Hütter as a succession of Musikgemälde (musical paintings) – to a new visual level. It prepared Kraftwerk for a string of appearances at international museums and leading art institutions, where, over the course of eight evenings each, they played retrospectives of their catalogue. These residencies in venues such as MoMA, Tate Modern and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the week before the conference, have confirmed Kraftwerk’s position as major exponents of contemporary German art. Their unique standing in the twenty-first century underscores the band’s promise given in the 1986 song Techno Pop: “Es wird immer weiter gehen / Music als Träger von Ideen” (It will carry on from here / Music, the carrier of ideas).
While Kraftwerk’s recent activity rekindled interest in the band – as evidenced by David Buckley’s 2012 biography and the volume edited by Sean Albiez/David Pattie (2011) – there still remain many areas to be explored and many established views to be questioned. For example, a critical appreciation of their conceptual art or the contextualisation of the band in the wider framework of German cultural history are needed. To do justice to the many-facetted aspects of their œuvre and their artistic ‘corporate identity’ as a group of “sound researchers”, a pronounced interdisciplinary approach will provide the methodological framework to the conference. Kraftwerk specialists from Britain, as well as Finland, Austria, the Netherlands and the US, will present papers dealing with the band's music and the impact it has had on other artists.
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
9.00 Registration
9.15 Welcome
9.30 Mallinder, Stephen (Brighton): Kraftwerk: Modernity and Movement
10.15 Pattie, David (Chester): Ralf und Florian, Krautrock and Germany
11.00 Adelt, Ulrich (Wyoming): Moving Up: Kraftwerk and kosmische Musik
11.45 Stevenson, Nick (Nottingham): Cabaret Voltaire and Dada Modernity
12.30 Concluding discussion
13.00 Lunch break
14.15 Schiller, Melanie (Groningen): Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn: Kraftwerk Challenging Germanness
15.00 Rietveld, Hillegonda (London): Europe Endless: Geopolitical Retro-futurism?
15.45 Schütte, Uwe (Aston): We Are the Robots! On the Cultural-Historical Origins of the Man-Machine
16.30 Concluding discussion
18.00 Break
19.30 Kraftwerk Disco @ The Electric Café
Thursday 22 January 2015
9.00 Springer, Johannes (Osnabrück): Kraftwerk and the Cultural Studies of Cycling
9.45 Monroe, Alexei (London): Trans-Slovene Expressions: Kraftwerk on the Sunny Side of the Alps
10.30 Stubbs, David (London): The Archaeological Years: Kraftwerk before Autobahn
11.15 Tea/Coffee break
11.30 Deisl, Heinrich (Vienna): Searching for Modernity: Socio-historical perspectives on techno music and »das Deutsche«. (Kraftwerk –
Wolfgang Voigt – Dopplereffekt)
12.15 Harden, Alexander (Surrey): Kraftwerk and the Issue of Post-Human Authenticity
13.00 Lunch break
14.15 Grönholm, Pertti (Turku): Nostalgia For The Modern. Re-Imagining the Past Futures in the Concept of Kraftwerk
15.00 Albiez, Sean (Southampton): Kraftwerk in the context of the 20th century European avant-garde
16.00 Concluding discussion
Kraftwerk Disco @ The Electric Café! Вот так-то!
А ещё сейчас почитал условия покупки билетов на концерты в Берлине и Копенгагене (разумеется, уже давным-давно раскупленных за минуты), и честно говоря не очень жалею что не попаду туда: в Берлине одно лицо могло купить билет вообще только на один концерт, да и в Копенгагене какие-то ограничения.
В отличие от Парижа, где можно было покупать сколько угодно на все концерты. Хорошо всё же что я туда съездил, несмотря ни на что.
Да, это не шутка. Первая. Научная. Конференция. Посвящённая. Kraftwerk.
Какой ад. Впрочем я вспомнил, что ещё когда только начинал интересоваться их творчеством, десять лет назад, обнаружил на просторах инета и качнул эссе под названием KRAFTWERK: TEKNOLOGI OCH POPMUSIK (av Per Broberg). Эссе это на шведском языке, и качнул я его по приколу, но оно до сих пор лежит у меня и предваряется вот какими словами: The text you find here in an essay that I've written in 1994-95 at the Institution of Language and Litterature at the Univeristy of Linkцping, Sweden.
Но то - эссе, а это - конференция. В этом месте я хотел выматериться, но не буду, раз уж здесь речь касается научных проблем. Лол.
На память - программа конференции под катом (посещение стоит 20 фунтов для посторонних и ненаучных лиц, 10 - для посторонних научных и бесплатно для своих студентов и преподов).
Kraftwerk and the Birth of Electronic Music in Germany
The first ever international academic conference on Kraftwerk will take place at Aston University on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22, January 2015.
Kraftwerk have long been recognised as major pioneers of electronic music. The group attracted keen interest particularly in the UK, where their innovative sound had a decisive influence on the development of 1980s synth pop. While the announcement in 2009 of Florian Schneider’s departure from the core team of Hütter/Schneider initially suggested an end to the band, the now solely Hütter-led group has since made a stunning return to public attention.
Extensive touring attracted considerable audiences who, in many cases, were exposed to the band’s shows for the first time. The recent full move to 3D stage projections took their shows – once defined by Hütter as a succession of Musikgemälde (musical paintings) – to a new visual level. It prepared Kraftwerk for a string of appearances at international museums and leading art institutions, where, over the course of eight evenings each, they played retrospectives of their catalogue. These residencies in venues such as MoMA, Tate Modern and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the week before the conference, have confirmed Kraftwerk’s position as major exponents of contemporary German art. Their unique standing in the twenty-first century underscores the band’s promise given in the 1986 song Techno Pop: “Es wird immer weiter gehen / Music als Träger von Ideen” (It will carry on from here / Music, the carrier of ideas).
While Kraftwerk’s recent activity rekindled interest in the band – as evidenced by David Buckley’s 2012 biography and the volume edited by Sean Albiez/David Pattie (2011) – there still remain many areas to be explored and many established views to be questioned. For example, a critical appreciation of their conceptual art or the contextualisation of the band in the wider framework of German cultural history are needed. To do justice to the many-facetted aspects of their œuvre and their artistic ‘corporate identity’ as a group of “sound researchers”, a pronounced interdisciplinary approach will provide the methodological framework to the conference. Kraftwerk specialists from Britain, as well as Finland, Austria, the Netherlands and the US, will present papers dealing with the band's music and the impact it has had on other artists.
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
9.00 Registration
9.15 Welcome
9.30 Mallinder, Stephen (Brighton): Kraftwerk: Modernity and Movement
10.15 Pattie, David (Chester): Ralf und Florian, Krautrock and Germany
11.00 Adelt, Ulrich (Wyoming): Moving Up: Kraftwerk and kosmische Musik
11.45 Stevenson, Nick (Nottingham): Cabaret Voltaire and Dada Modernity
12.30 Concluding discussion
13.00 Lunch break
14.15 Schiller, Melanie (Groningen): Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn: Kraftwerk Challenging Germanness
15.00 Rietveld, Hillegonda (London): Europe Endless: Geopolitical Retro-futurism?
15.45 Schütte, Uwe (Aston): We Are the Robots! On the Cultural-Historical Origins of the Man-Machine
16.30 Concluding discussion
18.00 Break
19.30 Kraftwerk Disco @ The Electric Café
Thursday 22 January 2015
9.00 Springer, Johannes (Osnabrück): Kraftwerk and the Cultural Studies of Cycling
9.45 Monroe, Alexei (London): Trans-Slovene Expressions: Kraftwerk on the Sunny Side of the Alps
10.30 Stubbs, David (London): The Archaeological Years: Kraftwerk before Autobahn
11.15 Tea/Coffee break
11.30 Deisl, Heinrich (Vienna): Searching for Modernity: Socio-historical perspectives on techno music and »das Deutsche«. (Kraftwerk –
Wolfgang Voigt – Dopplereffekt)
12.15 Harden, Alexander (Surrey): Kraftwerk and the Issue of Post-Human Authenticity
13.00 Lunch break
14.15 Grönholm, Pertti (Turku): Nostalgia For The Modern. Re-Imagining the Past Futures in the Concept of Kraftwerk
15.00 Albiez, Sean (Southampton): Kraftwerk in the context of the 20th century European avant-garde
16.00 Concluding discussion
Kraftwerk Disco @ The Electric Café! Вот так-то!
А ещё сейчас почитал условия покупки билетов на концерты в Берлине и Копенгагене (разумеется, уже давным-давно раскупленных за минуты), и честно говоря не очень жалею что не попаду туда: в Берлине одно лицо могло купить билет вообще только на один концерт, да и в Копенгагене какие-то ограничения.
В отличие от Парижа, где можно было покупать сколько угодно на все концерты. Хорошо всё же что я туда съездил, несмотря ни на что.
