ABO 4: Other Histories

Ensemblehaus Freiburg Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

Music and history, in other words History – in the sense of a society’s collective memory and understanding of the past – is constructed based on decisions made by older generations about what is worth preserving (in the form of texts, images, icons, monuments...) and what is not. The authors of these decisions (politicians, archivists, […]

ABO 5: Performing the Archive

Experimentalstudio Freiburg Kartäuserstraße 45, Freiburg

A deconstruction of the musical heritage Ensemble Recherche and the SWR Experimental Studio have long and illustrious histories. But as L.P. Hartley wrote, “the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”. In recent years, Ensemble Recherche has become increasingly engaged in the broader trend of questioning the meaning, relevance and potential burden […]