{"id":9023,"date":"2019-07-01T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/strom-1-as-much-to-be-seen-as-to-be-heard\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:09:15","slug":"strom-1-as-much-to-be-seen-as-to-be-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/strom-1-as-much-to-be-seen-as-to-be-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"STROM #1: As much to be seen as to be heard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ensemble Musikfabrik is going to launch a new concert series in July!\u00a0STROM<\/strong>\u00a0is a platform for crossmedia productions and opens up new perspectives on music and its transformation.\u00a0STROM #1\u00a0on July 14th features\u00a0Pierre Jodlowski<\/strong>\u00a0– composer, performer and multimedia artist, whose works are at the crossroads of acoustic and electronic sound and are marked by dramatic and political elements. On our blog, Pierre Jodlowski gives insight into his work and his performances.<\/p>\n

– As a multimedia artist, your work includes videos, installations and staging. How did this cross-media approach come about and what scope does it offer to your music<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Well, I started a long time ago, almost 20 years, to ask myself about staging or more deeply about the question of the function of musician\u2019s bodies on stage. Are those bodies only dedicated to their instruments or can they interact with other parameters, such as space, gestures, movements? And therefore I started to work on the visual dimension. I must say that I never considered myself as a videast or film-maker, neither a proper stage director \u2026 all those tools are treated here as an extension (or a counterpoint) of the music. And for me, this is fantastic in the way that it increases the tools that I can manipulate in order to achieve my ideas. John Cage said that music is \u201cas much to be seen as to be heard\u201d and I strongly believe in this. What musicians, singers or more generally performers can achieve is way more than simply \u201cplaying an instrument\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

– You\u2019re defining music as an \u201cactive process\u201d on the physical level (gestures, energy and space) and on a psychological level (memory and visual dimension). Can you explain this aspect a bit more? Is there a connection to the dramatical and political dimension of your work?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, definitely! I have always been in search for some kind of extra signification in my art. Generally, I am not an \u201cabstract\u201d artist even if I love the \u201cpower\u201d of abstraction (in paintings for example). I think that I simply need to express some inner anger linked with our world which is basically not so much better than in the past darkest ages. So I am always trying to \u201cinput\u201d some critical dimension in my pieces, sometimes with strong or dark elements, sometimes with humour, as I think that this is the best tool to finally achieve stronger criticism. But the concept of \u201cactive music\u201d is also very much linked with what I call \u201csounding memories\u201d . Each of us has a very strong and complex relation with any kind of sound which can be very meaningful (as they would be part of our lives) or insignificant. And I like to \u201cinsert\u201d concrete sounds or referential sounds which can built some specific networks inside of our imagination as they are triggering connections.<\/p>\n

– Together with the musicians of Ensemble Musikfabrik, you play a selection of your compositions in Bogen 2 in Cologne for the kick-off concert. Can you tell us a bit about the selection of the pieces that can be experienced in July?<\/em><\/p>\n

We constructed this program together and basically, I had two goals : firstly, I wanted to show some pieces that I wrote at different periods of my artistic production. The oldest piece, named \u201cIS IT THIS ?\u201d was composed when I was in residency at Akademie der K\u00fcnste in Berlin, almost 20 years ago, and the most recent one \u201cOUTERSPACE\u201d was first performed in March 2018. I really enjoy to conceive programs like this as it is a very strong way to measure how time is relevant. The second goal was to create a very specific evening according to the space, Bogen 2, which is a very special venue. Therefore, I proposed to work on four different spaces or stages, meaning that the audience will be able to move and enjoy the architecture during the concert. All those pieces are including amplification, electronics, lights, video, pictures \u2026 so it will be a kind of portrait of what I enjoy to do and I am so pleased that I can work with Ensemble Musikfabrik in such a great context.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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