secession update #012

___sinawe - from samul-nori to hip hop
___lecture: 1938 Degenerate Music Exhibition in Düsseldorf

|| secession update 
   25/07/00
   #012

___sinawe - from samul-nori to hip hop

Sinawe, or free music, is a performance integrating the Korean tradition of "deep" emotive improvisation and the real-time sound and visual collage techniques of composer, Andrew Garton (aka. lost_time_accident), and video artist, Kim Bounds (aka. raindog).

Sinawe includes traditional shamanistic, folk and court music, Punk, Hip Hop and electroacoustic compositions from Korea.

Sinawe will be performed during the Melbourne Fringe Festival at:

9pm

october 7, 14, 21

alia
(cnr gertrude and smith st, fitzroy, melbourne)

___lecture: 1938 Degenerate Music Exhibition in Düsseldorf

(from Melb Uni mailout)

The Target of Racial Purity:
The 1938 Degenerate Music Exhibition in Düsseldorf

a free public lecture by

Dr Albrecht Dumling
Institute of Musicology in Berlin

Dr Dumling, musicologist and music critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is the organiser and curator of the travelling exhibition "Entartete Musik: A Critical Reconstruction (Düsseldorf 1938/1988)". Since 1988 this exhibit, which recreates the "degenerate music" exhibition staged by the Nazis in 1938, has been seen in more than 50 cities throughout Germany, the United States, Great Britain and Japan.

Dr Dumling's lecture will explore the Nazis' program of "cleansing" German music of Jewish influences as well as examine the relationship between Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. His lecture will by supplemented by some musical examples drawn from the CD created for 1988 reconstruction of the Degenerate Music exhibit.

Wednesday, 26 July, 6.30 p.m.
Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture Building Melbourne University

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