WAGNER WELTWEIT

“Wag­n­er World­wide” is an attempt to illus­trate the area of over­lap between the activ­i­ties of the Wag­n­er mer­ce­nary group made up of Russ­ian para­mil­i­taries and the mytho­log­i­cal deeds depict­ed by Richard Wag­n­er. Explor­ing how the feel­ings of the gen­er­al pub­lic are informed by cur­rent glob­al myths, the project aims to decon­struct these myths and set up oppos­ing nar­ra­tives. Music is pro­vid­ed by instru­men­tal­ists involved with, and influ­en­tial with­in, Berlin’s alter­na­tive “Echtzeit” scene, a com­mu­ni­ty whose work is known for gen­er­at­ing com­po­si­tions in the area of over­lap between reduc­tion, min­i­mal­ism, new music and post-Cage sound­scapes. The assump­tion is that Echtzeit pieces chal­lenge the pre­vail­ing polar­is­ing inter­pre­ta­tion of Wagner’s works. Over the course of five scenes, “Wag­n­er World­wide” over­lays the polit­i­cal research of “Sound­ing Sit­u­a­tions” onto the musi­cal cos­mos of “Echtzeit Wag­n­er”.

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