Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert Revision VI-VII
limited edition 300 signed
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Christopher Dell
Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert
Revision VI-VII
‘Das Arbeitende Konzert/The Working Concert’ is a discursive format by the composer Christopher Dell. During the concert, internationally acclaimed musicians work together with Dell to determine and demonstrate the organisation of the piece as open form. The format invites the audience to experience and discuss the process of music-making in real time. As performative and discursive installation, the work addresses and contextualises fundamental questions of cooperation in the fields of contemporary art, music and urban theory. In this sense, ‘Das Arbeitende Konzert/The Working Concert’ is a performative installation work focused on concerts and their representations as creative media, whereby concerts are understood not as neutral frames but as a form of artistic expression and as critical dispositifs or apparatuses. The performances of ‘Das Arbeitende Konzert/The Working Concert’ are serially ordered in revisions. The recording at hand is the Revision VI-VII, performed on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th of June 2018 at Emil Berliner Studios, Berlin as commission of the Goethe Institute Brussels and in the program of the exhibition WeTraders.
Line Up:
Christopher Dell  vibraphone, conduction, composition
Elisabeth Coudoux cello
Pierre Borel saxophone
Jonas Westergaard bass
Robert Landfermann bass
Christian Lillinger drums
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Klaus Scheuermann at Emil Berliner Studios, Berlin
Composition and Concept by Christopher Dell
Produced by Christopher Dell
The limited and signed edition of 400 pieces consists of
– double 12 cm cd
– artist PocketPac 4 pages, 4 Pockets, 300 g/m²
Chromocadboard, inside outside print 4c Euroskala +
matt lacquer, Pockets with opening outside,
– 12 page artist booklet 4/4 color.
The booklet includes the photo series “untitled” (2018) and the essay “Recording Action: The Work of the Concert in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility” (2018).
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Funded by
Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Funded by Musikfonds/BKM
