Audio Poverty

Audio Poverty

9 January, 2009 | 6.24AM

• Written by: hkwberlin
• Filed under: Music News : conference, music economy

The upheaval in the world of music has created a quandary. Although the degree to which music is now being made available and listened to is unprecedented, we are also seeing a process in which individual works are becoming increasingly interchangeable.

Audio Poverty aims to take up these questions by means of lectures, panels, conversations with artists, concerts and DJ sets. In collaboration with musicians and producers, Audio Poverty aims to give expression to helplessness, overcome isolations, and sketch out proposals for political solutions.

The economically and artistically autonomous music culture that has functioned as a significant social corrective since the end of the 1970s is under threat. Music criticism, journalism and scholarship are losing their status as opinion leaders in the face of the flat and globalized hierarchy of cyberculture. The category of musical education is being undermined by a new detachment in the way music is spoken about. Opening the archives gives rise to a supra-historical access to the musical repertoire that does not demand a historical consciousness based on epochs, styles and categories.

AUDIO POVERTY
On the situation of post-economic music

Conference and concerts

Dates:
Fri 06.02.2009
Sa 07.02.2009
Su 08.02.2009

Concept: Ekkehard Ehlers, Björn Gottstein

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