4. 10. // 20,00

The ensemble consisting of vintage record players, loudspeakers, 16-mm projectors and a renaissance spinet tell the story of Kafka’s well-known parable about the door and the doorkeeper. The text of the story is translated into a digital, binary code which is then used as a basis for this audiovisual composition. The code uses electromagnets to vibrate the spinet, makes the light to pulsate and Morse codes to be heard over the record player, while the acoustical basic narrative comes from the gramophone record.

The process is presented as an acoustic landscape through which the audience walks and which uses stylistic means of classical minimalism and kinetic art to create the state of illusion, frozen time and enchantment.

Stephan Mathieu (1967) is considered one of those contemporary musicians which with particular interest experiments within the domain of electronic music. His distinguished sound is mostly based on early instruments, environmental sounds and outdated media which he then records and transforms using experimental static, re-editing techniques and software procedures which include spectral analysis and coils.

Taking into account the details and the affective contents of the piece, he creates live unique experiences while working with pieces of perceived reality. Both gentle and sharp, Mathieu’s music was released on 16 CDs which received world-wide good reviews. He started his career as a drummer collaborating with improvisation artists like Axel Dörner and Butch Morris. As a solo percussion performer he performed his own pieces and those of Earl Brown, Stockhausen and Cage. Mathieu designed installations for various spaces which he described as specific works for a specific location, purely acoustic in which he uses visual and acoustic objects. The artist is also a passionate collector of 78rpm records from the 1910s and 1920s which he used in his latest projects A Static Place and Virginals.

Realized in co-production with Multimedia institute, Music Biennale Zagreb, Kulturbüro de Stadt Saarbrücken, KuBa –Kulturzentrum am Eurobahnhof