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  • Audio CD

Unceremonious Processions

Elena Kats-Chernin
1999
© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Type of publication
Audio CD
Author / Editor
Elena Kats-Chernin
Publishing house, place
Schott Wergo, Mainz
Physical Description
1 CD
Language
German and English
Year
1999
ISBN
WER 2057-2
Content

The Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin made herself well-known by her soundtracks for experimental and silent films or her works for drama and dance theater. This CD has been produced at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe). 

»Unceremonious Processions« is something like »live studio music«. Kats-Chernin’s 15 short pieces could have been the music for a film that was never made. The set would be an abandoned theater; the ruined technical equipment would become the props, strewn about the stage. Many traces can be heard in this music, those of Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, or of American Minimal music. There are also points of contact with House and Ambient music despite the models of nostalgic dance music that lend form to many of the pieces. But »Unceremonious Processions« does not appeal to the emotions of the listener, it is itself emotion - so tangible that it easily lingers on in one’s memory

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