Electronauts
Pioneers of Electronic Music in the Elbphilharmonie Grand and Recital Halls
It was a small step for a musician, but a great one for the music world: on a December afternoon in 1981, Manuel Göttsching plugged in a drum computer, a sequencer, keyboards and his electric guitar, and recorded a piece of music just under an hour in length, to which he gave the title »E2-E4« after the most common opening move in the game of chess. And thus, without knowing it, he laid an important foundation stone for genres like techno and trance. The Elbphilharmonie now dedicates a three-day festival to Manuel Göttsching and other »electronauts« that also gives audiences a new chance to hear the music of Göttsching’s Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel.
Taking the music of the 70s and 80s as its starting point, the festival focuses mainly on music that is produced with synthesisers from the pre-digital era. Lovers of historic synthesizers will be particularly interested to find that both the monophonic instruments created by Robert Moog and those invented by Don Buchla are represented at the festival.
Programme (booklet)
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