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In their program Capital and Interests, Manufaktur für aktuelle Musik (MAM) analyzes current economic market trends and their resonance in contemporary music.
In his classic YouTube video-piece “Charts Music”, Johannes Kreidler sets to music stock exchange prices, whereas in his own work Michael Sell reinterprets a Suite by Georg Philipp Telemann documenting the 1720 stock market crash during which two enormous speculation bubbles burst (the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Bubble) – to this day the first and largest market collapse of all time. This piece is played for the very the first time in its original version for trumpet(s) and piano.
Patrick Frank’s The Law of Equality confronts the relationship between art and money, and is not only a piece of music, but also a work of action-art (Aktionskunst), where via the resale of the work and original musical score increasingly higher prices are reached, and whereby the work increases in (artistic?) worth.
In his cycle Guilty Pleasures, Mathias Monrad Møller decomposes and reinterprets a personal collection of popular songs and texts. Number 6, “Money, money, money”, represents a small hommage to the Swedish band ABBA.
MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik shows that capital and interests were already relevant musical themes in the baroque period in a small excursion to Johann Sebastian Bach. |
Johann Sebastian Bach Kapital und Interessen (Rezitativ und Arie aus der Kantate Thue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168) für Tenor und Ensemble
Johannes Kreidler Charts Music (2009) Video-Projektion
Patrick Franck The Law of Quality (2010) für Tenor und Klavier
Michael Sell La Bourse [UA] für Trompete und Klavier
Johannes Kreidler Money (2011) für vier Instrumente und Sampler |
