5-5-5-5 cut Raimund Kummer / Daniel Ott | Eröffnung

In the organizer's words:

Opening with Manos Tsangaris, Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott
Moderation: Anke Hervol

5 rooms, 5 sculptures, 5 instrumentalists, 5 hours a day, 5 weeks: With "5-5-5-5 cut", sculptor Raimund Kummer and composer Daniel Ott intervene sculpturally, spatially, acoustically and with video projections in the historic exhibition halls of the Akademie der Künste on Pariser Platz.

The basic idea is based on a central axis cutting through the five rooms - cut as an artistic principle is one of the musical and spatial leitmotifs of the RaumKlangIntervention. The track produced jointly by the two academy members, which connects all the works - walking on a water-bound path surface - can be heard as a recurring sound moving through the rooms.

Raimund Kummer's five exhibited sculptural fragments as well as the three projected videos convey meaningful experiences in dealing with time: flowing past, hearing, walking, resonating, counting, moving up and down; fragments, relics and things left open are leitmotifs of the works. They can be walked along the route and experienced as a continuum of production and reception of the open artwork. According to the spatial sequence, the following can be seen Krummer Deutscher (2000-2002), Signifikanzloch (1985 / 1991), Zerbrochener Blick, Knobelsdorffachse (2004 / 2016), Piano (1981 / 2021), M'ama non m'ama (1994), Faded out (1988-2024), bis hierher und nicht weiter, non plus ultra (2014).

Daniel Ott's composed instrumental music refers sonically to the footsteps from the Knobelsdorffachse film soundtrack and at the same time to the different atmospheres of the five sculptures. Both visually (through the movements of the musicians with their instruments) and aurally (through changing musical material), the composition remains in constant motion. Ott's exploration of the tonal content of materials, spatial structure, ordering systems and disturbances can be seen in the score 5-5-5-5 cut: The instrumental passages for two to five musicians* for clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, viola, double bass and percussion are performed live and are choreographed.

The musical composition differs from day to day, from hour to hour, from musician to musician and from instrument to instrument. The visitors' encounters with the musicians take place directly and randomly in the space.

Musicians:

Bass clarinet: Jone Bolibar Núñez
Baritone saxophone: Jana De Troyer and Ruth Velten
Trumpet: Rike Huy and Paul Hübner
Viola: Josa Gerhard
Double bass: Adam Goodwin
Percussion: Max Andrzejewski and Mikołaj Rytowski