[Microsound-announce] Bucharest - fragments // catalogue, book and compact disc // Greta Hoheisel & Norbert Lang // MitOst & Gruenrekorder

[Lasse-Marc Riek]

Bukarest | Bucureşti – fragmente | Greta Hoheisel & Norbert Lang

Bucharest - fragments is a journey through a metropolis in continuous 
flux. It is a hybrid of exhibition catalogue, book and compact disc; 
containing photos, texts and soundscapes - three obstinate elements that 
reciprocally comment on one another.


[listen]
http://gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=314

[order]
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/shop/#Gruen_068

[information]
CD (+Book) 20 Tracks (47′19") (500 copies)


[notes]
The constant humming sound of the city, house walls that we pass by, the 
snatches of a conversation which we hear on the streets – fragments, 
that we are confronted with every day, but to which we nevertheless pay 
hardly any attention. It is not just the pompous and spectacular view on 
the city, that forms our relation to it, it is also the seemingly 
incidental and fragmentary occurence.

To seek for those fragments, the german photographer Greta Hoheisel and 
the sound-artist Norbert Lang stayed in the capital of the new EU 
country Romania, in Bucharest for almost one year. What they found was a 
complex urban realm between consumerism and tradition, between 
turbo-capitalism and religion. The outcome of their continuous striving 
through the sound- and cityscapes of Bucharest is a multimedia 
exhibition called »Bucharest – fragments in a box« and also »Bukarest | 
Bucureşti – fragmente«, a hybrid between foto-catalogue, sketchbook and 
audio-CD.

The basis for the book-CD are 20 fieldrecordings that tell about the 
life in the city: About sudden horn concerts during rush-hour as well as 
about the rural idyl in the backyards of the city. Each of the 20 
chapters in the book is dedicated to one fieldrecording on the CD, 
consisting of a sketchy text and photographs, showing deserted places 
around the city. The combination of those three elements generates a 
city mosaic full of gaps, that needs the pre-text of the observer and 
listener to be put together. Thus »Bukarest | Bucureşti – fragmente« can 
be understood as a universal work about urban sound- and cityscapes in 
the 21st century.


[exhibition]
Bucharest - fragments in a box / A wandering exhibition
Stellwerk, Kassel | Germany 3.-10.10.2008
MitOst Festival, Uschhorod | Ukraine 16.-19.10.2008
Kulturama Festival, Hildesheim | Germany 1.-2.11.2008
RKI Wien, Österreich | Austria 2009

Published by MitOst Editionen, Berlin and Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt 2008
12€ | 96 pages | gruen 068 | 2008
LC 09488 | GEMA | ISBN: 978-3-9812411-1-2

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