echt.zeit.festival
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basic idea of the project echt.zeit | real.time was the creation of
an 'experimental festival' dedicated to the 'art of listening'. The
place choosen for to realise the project was the Austrian village Königswiesen,
situated in the rural region Mühlviertel. |
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Aside prominent authors, echt.zeit integrated artists, which are not writing for the conventional book market, like column writers, poetry slammers and song texters, like hiphop MCs. All the textes had to be presented by the authors themselves. The only exception was Mongo Stojka. Marian Schönwiese was reading out of the book 'Children of Paper' - which was published in 2001 - and his son Harry Stoijka contributed contemporary Roma music with his band. In the end of the reading, Mongo Stojka, who had survived the holocaust as a child, stood up and held a speech, which created absolute silence. If the 'art of listening' was ever realised during the echt.zeit project, then it happend during the enigmatic moments, when Mongo Stojka was speaking about tolerance and respect. |
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One
key innovation of the echt.zeit project was the combination of electronic
music and literature. For the vast majority of participants, this was
a new experience - not only for the audience, but also for authors.
It must be noted, that the focus of echt.zeit was not fixed on electronic
music. The range of instruments varied from Alphorn to Thermin, from
Accordeon to Korg MS20 synthesizers, from brass instruments to software-based
groove boxes. The criteria was neither a type of music nor a sort of
instruments, but the ability of artists to perform their own compositions
live. |
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Outstanding
moments appeared also on those festival days, when the so-called 'echt.zeit
culture trekking' was scheduled. Then the audience was walking for hours
with artists from one performance towards the next one. Once even extreme
weather could not stopp a group of enthusiastic culture trekkers. After
heavy rain had turned into a snow storm, the group was rescued by a
bus, which brought them back to Königswiesen. There
was fine trekking weather the other years and thus allowing music and
literature to breath fresh air outside ivory towers. The trail led through
the pitoresque valley 'Klammleiten', which got the nickname 'canyon
of sound' during the festivals. |
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After
it was impossible to raise the budget for the artistic program of the
festival 2006, the project echt.zeit had to be finished. After five
years working without any financial compensation, the man behind echt.zeit
stopped running in circles. On this site some photographic impressions
are published as documention of the project and for to say thanks to
all artists, supporters, sponsors and - not at least - to the audience.
You were ingredible! |
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echt.zeit 2001 - 2005 |
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echt.zeit.2005 |
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interview with slobodan
misailovic (novi sad | serbia) |
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1.000
roses for your altruistic support of the echt.zeit project |
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echt.zeit 2001 -
2005 |
real.time 2001
- 2005 |
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| the project echt.zeit | real.time was dedicated to the Serbian artist and composer Mitar SUBA Subotic (+ 2.11.1999, Sao Paulo, Brasil) - the first festival started on 2nd November 2001 with his composition 'Voce Gosta'. |
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THE
ART OF LISTENING What's the connection between echt.zeit and hornyphon? Well, when the echt.zeit project started in 2001, a web domain for a hompepage was needed. The domain(s) for the name 'echtzeit' (realtime) were all in the hands of domain grabbers and therefore too expensive for this non-budget project. Thus the festival was promoted on the domain hornyphon.at - as there was the hope, radio could be a strong symbol for the 'art of listening', which was the intention of the project. This hope gave echt.zeit a nice spin: instead of reporting about contemporary music and literature, media reported about the 'art of listening'. The message was simple and promised: in this project the audience is given a unique status - the status of artists. The only thing to be done is ... to listen! Promotion images were needed for transporting this up-side-down idea and an old-fashioned radio was casted as 'top model' for this purpose. Thus an HORNYPHON ATACHÉ became a little media star in 2001, which appeared not only in regional newspapers, but also in Austria's top magazin Profil. One of these images became a classic - although the 'top model' as stolen the show by a goose - and it came like this: 'I placed the HORNYPHON on the ground infront a farm house for to catch the traditional stone pattern of the wall in the background. Then I moved backwards and focused the setting from different angles, when - out of the blue - a goose came along from the left side. It ignored me, but started with impressive movings and strange sounds to frighten the unknown object. After a while the goose was totally exhausted. To tell the end of the story: before it disappeared, the goose was pissing on the radio. And what was I doing during this funny clash of cultures? Of course I pressed the trigger, yes, but I was so frightend by this unilateral conflict escalation, that I was not able to move my right pointing finger more than two times. The HORNYPHON radio became a constant 'visual element' during the echt.zeit project. All temporary stages of the festivals were designed in different ways - but from each stage the little HORNYPHON was watching the audience with it's wonderful 'magic eye' switched on ... until the little radio disappeared mysteriously during the festival 2004. Soon later also the domain hornyphon.at disappeared, as it was blocked frequently by internet providers, most probably for misinterpretation of the honourable Hungarian family name 'Horny'. Finally
the project echt.zeit disappeared, after the search for financial
support for a festival in 2006 became too exhausting. Already fixed
were performances of the Austrian quartet Amarcord and the Serbian
pianist Branka Parlic, amongst upcoming authors, the plan was to invite
Imre Kertesz from Hungary, Bogdan Bogdanovic (the former mayor of
Belgrade, who settled down in Vienna) and the Austrian authors Eugenie
Kain and Peter Handke. The intended program was a result of long and
joyful discussions with Milo Dor, the Austro-Serbian author and president
of the Austrian PEN-Club. Milo Dor was looking forward to read at
the echt.zeit festival 2005, but his heart problems erased all common
plans forever. Our dreams were too big ... |