»Four Rooms« is a concert installation that blends a live concert with its electronic processing to produce four separate listening points. The ZKM Music Balcony provides the musical centre and stage for an improvising duo. The stereo signal of their concert is received in each of three adjacent studios by an electronica artist, who manipulates it in his or her own way – now in analogue, now in digital form. This ‘transformed’ music is only audible via loudspeakers in the individual room. The audience moves back and forth between the rooms and can hear either the original sound or one of the three ‘remixes’. This spatially distributed concert with separate acoustic components is reassembled, as it were, in the mind of the listener.

A concert by ZKM and SWR2 in the »NOWJazz« series

live:
Andrea Neumann [D] – inside piano
Tony Buck [AUS] – drums

electronic transformation:
Ana M. Rodriguez [ARG] – soundpatches
Sabine Ercklentz [D] – analogue
Christof Kurzmann [A] – digital

Organization / Institution

ZKM

Partners

SWR2