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Artist: Bognermayr/Zuschrader Title: Die Bergpredigt - Radical Codex Article No.: 61200 Media type: DVD Genre: Electronic Music, Lifestyle Label: Erdenklang Price: EUR 16,50 incl. VAT plus carriage costs For all foreign orders: Declared value is net! |
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The Sermon on the Mount
-radical codex-
A movie about the present
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How up-to-date is the „Sermon on the Mount“ in times of worldwide religious wars? What can the words from the Bible tell us in times of global stock exchange crashes?
Global Signals
The people no longer have trust in the utterances of the powers that be. Cynically, those powers that be equate constant blackmail with peace. Too many fatal lies have been told. The time has come to set some signals. We find signals of this character in the SERMON ON THE MOUNT, held 2000 years ago by Jesus of Nazareth, as well as in the principles of other religious and social systems. It is a matter of human co-existence, the essential questions of our existence, the renunciation of violence, of tolerance, solidarity, justice, freedom, and peace.
Regardless of their worldview, especially young people accept the postulations contained in the SERMON ON THE MOUNT, and in it they find answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. The threat to peace, the renunciation of violence, the reduction of aggression, the orientation towards tolerance and solidarity, the engagement for the surpressed and disenfranchised – these are the issues of the SERMON ON THE MOUNT. A utopia?
A filmo-photographic interpretation of Hubert Bognermayr´s and Harald Zuschrader´s computer-acoustic audio production „Sermon on the Mount“ (with texts by Walter Karlberger; published in 1983) by filmmaker and musician Ute Mansel (from Krefeld/Germany) shows the 1., 2., 4., and 8. Beatitude of this work.
The Sermon on the Mount - the core of all world religions?
The original text of the eight Beatitudes is confronted with statements of our time, i,e. keywords, stereotypes, clichés, cries for help, sound images, and now also with films and image compositions. Thus the principles of this smart Palestinian are slipped into set pieces of our dangerous and endangered present.
The basic material are the key sentences of the Gospel according to Matthew in authentic translations dating from the last two centuries. They are spread out into positive and negative interpretations of our time – in many years of work, the individual statements had been collected systematically from books, theological writings, speeches, and radio programs. In addition to the polarisation “man-woman-child”, the narrators in the studio also impersonate the various types of person and their relationships with each other against the background of their social environment.
For their transformation of the SERMON ON THE MOUNT into music, the musicians not only used many environmental sounds but also integrated the rhythms and timbres of the human voice into their computer-based composing. These word-sound-images are based on tape interviews recorded in hospitals, asylums, youth centres, in the streets and outdoors. Simultaneously, the composers tried and succeeded in integrating the sound of our environment (the so-called “soundscapes”) into the concept of music and dramaturgy by making use of the sampling technology in order to create an “ecological music”.
A digital Sermon on the Mount
In the context of the history of music, this work must be considered a milestone in the development of the sampling technology, i.d. the tonal and compositional use of each and every sound of our environment made possible through the use of computers. The composers of this ambitious project are two musicians and pioneers in electronic music from Austria: Hubert Bognermayr and Harald Zuschrader. The accompanying socio-critical texts were written by Walter Karlberger, the then person in charge of the religious programs of ORF (Austrian broadcasting). In 1983, in the wake of NATO´s twin-track decision and the public debates on nuclear armament, these texts – which still are as explosive politically as they were at the time - had been performed by actors of the Vienna Burgtheater and amateur actors together with the abovementioned musicians. The result was a contemplative listening scenario that gets under your skin.
(Hubert Bognermayr, Harald Zuschrader, Walter Karlberger Juni 1983
Ulrich Rützel, 2010)
-radical codex-
A movie about the present
______________________________________________________
How up-to-date is the „Sermon on the Mount“ in times of worldwide religious wars? What can the words from the Bible tell us in times of global stock exchange crashes?
Global Signals
The people no longer have trust in the utterances of the powers that be. Cynically, those powers that be equate constant blackmail with peace. Too many fatal lies have been told. The time has come to set some signals. We find signals of this character in the SERMON ON THE MOUNT, held 2000 years ago by Jesus of Nazareth, as well as in the principles of other religious and social systems. It is a matter of human co-existence, the essential questions of our existence, the renunciation of violence, of tolerance, solidarity, justice, freedom, and peace.
Regardless of their worldview, especially young people accept the postulations contained in the SERMON ON THE MOUNT, and in it they find answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. The threat to peace, the renunciation of violence, the reduction of aggression, the orientation towards tolerance and solidarity, the engagement for the surpressed and disenfranchised – these are the issues of the SERMON ON THE MOUNT. A utopia?
A filmo-photographic interpretation of Hubert Bognermayr´s and Harald Zuschrader´s computer-acoustic audio production „Sermon on the Mount“ (with texts by Walter Karlberger; published in 1983) by filmmaker and musician Ute Mansel (from Krefeld/Germany) shows the 1., 2., 4., and 8. Beatitude of this work.
The Sermon on the Mount - the core of all world religions?
The original text of the eight Beatitudes is confronted with statements of our time, i,e. keywords, stereotypes, clichés, cries for help, sound images, and now also with films and image compositions. Thus the principles of this smart Palestinian are slipped into set pieces of our dangerous and endangered present.
The basic material are the key sentences of the Gospel according to Matthew in authentic translations dating from the last two centuries. They are spread out into positive and negative interpretations of our time – in many years of work, the individual statements had been collected systematically from books, theological writings, speeches, and radio programs. In addition to the polarisation “man-woman-child”, the narrators in the studio also impersonate the various types of person and their relationships with each other against the background of their social environment.
For their transformation of the SERMON ON THE MOUNT into music, the musicians not only used many environmental sounds but also integrated the rhythms and timbres of the human voice into their computer-based composing. These word-sound-images are based on tape interviews recorded in hospitals, asylums, youth centres, in the streets and outdoors. Simultaneously, the composers tried and succeeded in integrating the sound of our environment (the so-called “soundscapes”) into the concept of music and dramaturgy by making use of the sampling technology in order to create an “ecological music”.
A digital Sermon on the Mount
In the context of the history of music, this work must be considered a milestone in the development of the sampling technology, i.d. the tonal and compositional use of each and every sound of our environment made possible through the use of computers. The composers of this ambitious project are two musicians and pioneers in electronic music from Austria: Hubert Bognermayr and Harald Zuschrader. The accompanying socio-critical texts were written by Walter Karlberger, the then person in charge of the religious programs of ORF (Austrian broadcasting). In 1983, in the wake of NATO´s twin-track decision and the public debates on nuclear armament, these texts – which still are as explosive politically as they were at the time - had been performed by actors of the Vienna Burgtheater and amateur actors together with the abovementioned musicians. The result was a contemplative listening scenario that gets under your skin.
(Hubert Bognermayr, Harald Zuschrader, Walter Karlberger Juni 1983
Ulrich Rützel, 2010)