Short Description
In the book JETZTSCHEIBE, author Thomas Stammer takes the readers on a fascinating journey that traces the development of holographic music visualization and the opera project D • I • E.
The book JETZTSCHEIBE contains a bilingual text book (German/ English) with 112 pages and 20 illustrations and additionally holds two accordion-fold inserts.
JETZTSCHEIBE provides readers with an inspiring insight into this fascinating concept and aims to contribute to further developments in music visualization.
CHAPTER
Background
Orpheusmaschine
Jetztscheibe
Polychronotope
Holographic Music
Time Movement Space
The Making of
the Opera D • I • E
The book will be introduced for the first time in November 2023 at Art Cologne, available through Salon Verlag and Walter König, at a price of 60 €.
Content
MUSIC IMMEDIATELY TRANSFORMS INTO SPACE – a vision that even ancient Greece already dreamed of. Thomas Stammer pursued this artistic motif since his project 9.81 – Music and Architecture. In 2001, an encounter with the Swiss percussionist and composer Michael Wertmüller in Los Angeles led to the idea of three-dimensional music visualization. Almost twenty years later, artist Albert Oehlen, along with Rainald Götz, provided the inspiration for the opera project with the book D • I • E abstract reality (Holzwarth Publications, 2010). From this, the concept of JETZTSCHEIBE emerged for the conceptualization and performance of the opera D • I • E at the Ruhrtriennale in September 2021.
JETZTSCHEIBE presents a deliberately heterogeneous collection of texts, emails with initial ideas, concepts, work reports, essays, photographs, and graphics, with the fundamental idea of exploring and shaping the deeper layers of time. The various moments and encounters create a rich thematic framework for the chapters of the book, allowing readers to trace the development of holographic music visualization and the opera project D • I • E.
The first of the 180cm long, 8-part accordion-fold inserts showcase the overall graphic concept of the opera and the evolution of musical visualization. The second photographic accordion-fold is an artistic adaptation of the opera’s spatial concept for the book medium, presenting the light sculptures and ensemble performance in a 360-degree space.
Book Info
Book Info:
Conception, texts und photos: Thomas Stammer
with texts by Michael Wertmüller and Albert Oehlen
ISBN 978-3-89770-568-5
Edition: 300
Pages textbook: 112
2 accordion fold inserts
Print: Königsdruck Printmedia and digital Services GmbH, Berlin
Bookbinding: Grit Wenig, Berlin
Editorial: Kit Schulte
Editor: Nikolaus G. Schneider
Translation: Kit Schulte,
Michael O’Ryan
Graphik Design: Thomas Stammer,
Kit Schulte, Sabina Kerić
Funded by the
Cultural Foundation of
North Rhine-Westphalia
Kindly supported by Max Hetzler and GERRIETS GmbH
Contacts for press inquiries:
Agency Kit Schulte
kit@kitschulte.com
Phone: +49 171 1908312
Thomas Stammer
thomasstammer@me.com
Phone: +49 178 7826637