D>Elektro 1.2 - |> expanded concept <|
|1.2.1| Development + History/ies
|>NEWland
Electrochildren + The Sound of the Debris |
| "Our
music was surely mirroring those social
and political upheavals ... We were playing in absolute darkness, with deafening volume, merciless. If one of the musicians got bored, he dropped his instrument and played the pinball machine we had onstage." Hans J.
Irmler [Faust] |
| "It
was the year 1973, and musicians normally played solos and looking
for a big hand at the audience and fat, ugly blokes were hopping around
in hippie-cloth's and sang of some godforsaken bullshit. But then FAUST hit the stage. Long-haired without bellbottoms. They wore these bleached european tubes, that you could see in the early 70's on those hip German students. One played drums, the other piano and sang, the other two, with their backs to each others at the sides of the stage, played the pinball-machine, which was hooked up to some synthesizer. It was epic, it was brilliant. It had an attitude that could turn whole cities into debris and ashes. They had concrete blocks and those huge pneumatic drills onstage, and their Stooges-like Pre-Punk-Presence shocked and filled me with a helluva respect."
Julian Cope - 'Krautrocksampler'
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The shock has always been a side-effect of the new - also and particularly in the history of art:
| "The
shock is utterly exhilarating, prompting the same thrill of modernist
liberation that early 20th century audiences must have experienced
at Dada or Surrealist exhibitions, or at the performances of Futurist
Luigi Russolo's Intonarumori
noise machine, or Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring - the feeling that
some Rubicon has been irrevocably crossed. Jaws drop all around the hall. The fourth wall of performance has been shattered, and nobody who was present will forget it, or listen to music in the same way again. Who would have thought that one chord and the simplest of beats could be a life-changing experience?"
Andy Gill about a FAUST concert in 1973 [4/97, MOJO]
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Such radicalism was mostly met with equally little appreciation as the slogans of the demonstrating students and other youth's. Some "critics" sincerely wanted to see those musicians punished much harder than just with flying fruits:
| "These
blokes are sitting on wooden chairs, playing electric instruments.
It would be far better, would they sit on electric chairs playing wooden instruments." 'Critic' of a swiss newspaper - after his exposition
to a CAN concert
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