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Escalier du Chant
Olaf Nicolai

triple case with 58 sheets including 32 pp. booklet
 



Leipzig January, 2013
ISBN: 9783940064653
Edition Number: 1

Width: 18 cm
Length: 24.5 cm

Language(s): English, German

Author
Olaf Nicolai

Designer
Helmut Völter, Till Gathmann

How can songs reflect political events? How does a song become a political song? The artist Olaf Nicolai invited eleven international composers to write songs that reference political events which were of current relevance to them. Without prior announcement, a total of 58 songs were performed as a-cappella pieces on twelve Sundays in 2011 on the central staircase of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Visitors to the museum found themselves as actors in a staged performance for brief instances of time. The publication »Escalier du Chant« presents excerpts from the songs and commentaries by the composers in the form of 58 music sheets; the accompanying booklet contains various photographs of the performances.

Including songs by: Tony Conrad, Georg Friedrich Haas, Georg Katzer, Liza Lim, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Enno Poppe with Marcel Beyer, Rolf Riehm, James Saunders, Elliott Sharp, Mika Vainio, Jennifer Walshe.

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