Record release of the album "Deconstructivist Sound" by Stefan Römer (Corvo Records), with a video projection of the performance at CTM Festival in 2018.
Film projection viewed from the courtyard // Limited capacity
ACUD Galerie + Courtyard, 18H

ABOUT

In 2018, Stefan Römer performed quotations from cultural or musical theoreticians commenting on performances by two iconic musicians, Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler, at the CTM Festival Berlin.

The quote is used as a word score that functions as an instruction for the sound performance. Stefan Römer has attempted to reach a similar psychedelic state of mind similar to that of the referenced artists, using an LSD substitute. The performative staging of textual citations, an instrumentation comparable to those of the historical events, musical performance, and an altered state of consciousness works to deconstruct conventional understandings of music.

Stefan Römer works as an artist with sounds, images and words in a de-conceptual way.
This album is the first publication presenting results of Stefan Römer’s project »DECONCEPTUALIZE!« that he has been able to plan as an awardee of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme. In this project, he applies a deconstructivist re-reading of the discourse of conceptualism under the changed and problematic cultural conditions of right-wing populism in the globalized world.

Special thanks to Jan Rohlf and CTM Festival Berlin 2018 for making this experimental sound performance possible.

Supported by Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme/gkfd The Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

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