Programm

Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music by Lou Drago

“Music makes time audible.”
Susanne Langer

“Time exists for us because we experience tensions and their resolutions.” Philosopher Susanne Langer, claims that the particular building-up of tensions, and “their ways of breaking or diminishing or merging into longer and greater tensions, make for a vast variety of temporal forms.”

In most Western music, we generally listen within a linear framework, recalling what has already been heard and anticipating what will come next. Often without ever having heard a piece of music before it is possible to anticipate the next phrase because of how it was suggested earlier in the piece. Johnathan Kramer introduced the concept of vertical time in music after experiencing a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Kramer encountered a feeling of having exhausted the information content of the work and experienced “getting bored, becoming imprisoned by a hopelessly repetitious piece.” The experience of time became slower and slower, threatening to stop. But through this boredom, Kramer discovered a different mode of listening. By being liberated from considering the music’s past and future, the present expanded; suddenly it was possible to enter the “vertical time of the piece.”

A vector can be drawn between this alternate mode of listening to music and numerous meditation and mindfulness practices that similarly emphasise the importance of focusing on the present. As Lou Drago sees it, meditation can be used to obviate thought in order to alleviate oneself temporarily from the weight of self-consciousness and other anxieties.

For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates which music potentiates the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time. This work hypothesises that these two factors, meditation and non-linear listening, are interdependent. The experience of vertical time can have a meditative effect, yet effectively one must be meditating – be alleviated from conscious thought – to be able to experience time vertically.

Text Lou Drago

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music by Lou Drago

“Music makes time audible.”
Susanne Langer

“Time exists for us because we experience tensions and their resolutions.” Philosopher Susanne Langer, claims that the particular building-up of tensions, and “their ways of breaking or diminishing or merging into longer and greater tensions, make for a vast variety of temporal forms.”

In most Western music, we generally listen within a linear framework, recalling what has already been heard and anticipating what will come next. Often without ever having heard a piece of music before it is possible to anticipate the next phrase because of how it was suggested earlier in the piece. Johnathan Kramer introduced the concept of vertical time in music after experiencing a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Kramer encountered a feeling of having exhausted the information content of the work and experienced “getting bored, becoming imprisoned by a hopelessly repetitious piece.” The experience of time became slower and slower, threatening to stop. But through this boredom, Kramer discovered a different mode of listening. By being liberated from considering the music’s past and future, the present expanded; suddenly it was possible to enter the “vertical time of the piece.”

A vector can be drawn between this alternate mode of listening to music and numerous meditation and mindfulness practices that similarly emphasise the importance of focusing on the present. As Lou Drago sees it, meditation can be used to obviate thought in order to alleviate oneself temporarily from the weight of self-consciousness and other anxieties.

For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates which music potentiates the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time. This work hypothesises that these two factors, meditation and non-linear listening, are interdependent. The experience of vertical time can have a meditative effect, yet effectively one must be meditating – be alleviated from conscious thought – to be able to experience time vertically.

Text Lou Drago

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music by Lou Drago

“Music makes time audible.”
Susanne Langer

“Time exists for us because we experience tensions and their resolutions.” Philosopher Susanne Langer, claims that the particular building-up of tensions, and “their ways of breaking or diminishing or merging into longer and greater tensions, make for a vast variety of temporal forms.”

In most Western music, we generally listen within a linear framework, recalling what has already been heard and anticipating what will come next. Often without ever having heard a piece of music before it is possible to anticipate the next phrase because of how it was suggested earlier in the piece. Johnathan Kramer introduced the concept of vertical time in music after experiencing a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Kramer encountered a feeling of having exhausted the information content of the work and experienced “getting bored, becoming imprisoned by a hopelessly repetitious piece.” The experience of time became slower and slower, threatening to stop. But through this boredom, Kramer discovered a different mode of listening. By being liberated from considering the music’s past and future, the present expanded; suddenly it was possible to enter the “vertical time of the piece.”

A vector can be drawn between this alternate mode of listening to music and numerous meditation and mindfulness practices that similarly emphasise the importance of focusing on the present. As Lou Drago sees it, meditation can be used to obviate thought in order to alleviate oneself temporarily from the weight of self-consciousness and other anxieties.

For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates which music potentiates the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time. This work hypothesises that these two factors, meditation and non-linear listening, are interdependent. The experience of vertical time can have a meditative effect, yet effectively one must be meditating – be alleviated from conscious thought – to be able to experience time vertically.

Text Lou Drago

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Dimitry Paranyushkin: ∞OS Sessions

EightOS is a bodymind operating system based on approaching the human body as a site for translating abstract and intangible concepts into the realm of physical experience. Using the movement, sound, and language as a programming code we seek to explore the modalities of experiential knowledge that unfold into a range of new possibilities, as well as the aesthetic, ethical and pragmatic implications of this approach. In the frame of Gazebo (even if) we invite the participants to explore the notions of ecological confluence, resilience, immunity, mutation, integrity and adaptivity in relation to each other, to the environment, and to the (public) space.

These sessions are based on interactive physical exercises that will inform you about all the basic principles of ∞OSbodymind operating system and show you how you can apply them in practice, in work, and in everyday life.

We will use a combination of different approaches derived from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from physical practices to organizational frameworks. For example, we combine Systema martial art and Version Control practice from computer programming; Noguchi Taiso movement technique and Agile approach organizational framework; contemporary dance and network theory; improvisational theater and dynamical systems theory.

We focus on exercises that bring relaxation, efficiency, and unobstructed flow into one’s psyche and into the group dynamics. The exercises will help the participants implement those behavioral principles on the level of subconscious reflexes to be used in the context of physical interaction — and especially in situations of conflict. We will then demonstrate how those same principles can have a wider range of applications in different contexts, not only within the physical realm but also in everyday life interactions, work, and relationships.

Open to all and at any time, but those who want to experience the practice at its fullest should come on time.

(Text des Künstlers/ Welt ohne Außen-Ausstellung, Gropius Bau 2018)

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Website

Dimitry Paranyushkin: ∞OS Sessions

EightOS is a bodymind operating system based on approaching the human body as a site for translating abstract and intangible concepts into the realm of physical experience. Using the movement, sound, and language as a programming code we seek to explore the modalities of experiential knowledge that unfold into a range of new possibilities, as well as the aesthetic, ethical and pragmatic implications of this approach. In the frame of Gazebo (even if) we invite the participants to explore the notions of ecological confluence, resilience, immunity, mutation, integrity and adaptivity in relation to each other, to the environment, and to the (public) space.

These sessions are based on interactive physical exercises that will inform you about all the basic principles of ∞OSbodymind operating system and show you how you can apply them in practice, in work, and in everyday life.

We will use a combination of different approaches derived from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from physical practices to organizational frameworks. For example, we combine Systema martial art and Version Control practice from computer programming; Noguchi Taiso movement technique and Agile approach organizational framework; contemporary dance and network theory; improvisational theater and dynamical systems theory.

We focus on exercises that bring relaxation, efficiency, and unobstructed flow into one’s psyche and into the group dynamics. The exercises will help the participants implement those behavioral principles on the level of subconscious reflexes to be used in the context of physical interaction — and especially in situations of conflict. We will then demonstrate how those same principles can have a wider range of applications in different contexts, not only within the physical realm but also in everyday life interactions, work, and relationships.

Open to all and at any time, but those who want to experience the practice at its fullest should come on time.

(Text des Künstlers/ Welt ohne Außen-Ausstellung, Gropius Bau 2018)

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Website

Dimitry Paranyushkin: ∞OS Sessions

EightOS is a bodymind operating system based on approaching the human body as a site for translating abstract and intangible concepts into the realm of physical experience. Using the movement, sound, and language as a programming code we seek to explore the modalities of experiential knowledge that unfold into a range of new possibilities, as well as the aesthetic, ethical and pragmatic implications of this approach. In the frame of Gazebo (even if) we invite the participants to explore the notions of ecological confluence, resilience, immunity, mutation, integrity and adaptivity in relation to each other, to the environment, and to the (public) space.

These sessions are based on interactive physical exercises that will inform you about all the basic principles of ∞OSbodymind operating system and show you how you can apply them in practice, in work, and in everyday life.

We will use a combination of different approaches derived from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from physical practices to organizational frameworks. For example, we combine Systema martial art and Version Control practice from computer programming; Noguchi Taiso movement technique and Agile approach organizational framework; contemporary dance and network theory; improvisational theater and dynamical systems theory.

We focus on exercises that bring relaxation, efficiency, and unobstructed flow into one’s psyche and into the group dynamics. The exercises will help the participants implement those behavioral principles on the level of subconscious reflexes to be used in the context of physical interaction — and especially in situations of conflict. We will then demonstrate how those same principles can have a wider range of applications in different contexts, not only within the physical realm but also in everyday life interactions, work, and relationships.

Open to all and at any time, but those who want to experience the practice at its fullest should come on time.

(Text des Künstlers/ Welt ohne Außen-Ausstellung, Gropius Bau 2018)

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Website

Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music by Lou Drago

“Music makes time audible.”
Susanne Langer

“Time exists for us because we experience tensions and their resolutions.” Philosopher Susanne Langer, claims that the particular building-up of tensions, and “their ways of breaking or diminishing or merging into longer and greater tensions, make for a vast variety of temporal forms.”

In most Western music, we generally listen within a linear framework, recalling what has already been heard and anticipating what will come next. Often without ever having heard a piece of music before it is possible to anticipate the next phrase because of how it was suggested earlier in the piece. Johnathan Kramer introduced the concept of vertical time in music after experiencing a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Kramer encountered a feeling of having exhausted the information content of the work and experienced “getting bored, becoming imprisoned by a hopelessly repetitious piece.” The experience of time became slower and slower, threatening to stop. But through this boredom, Kramer discovered a different mode of listening. By being liberated from considering the music’s past and future, the present expanded; suddenly it was possible to enter the “vertical time of the piece.”

A vector can be drawn between this alternate mode of listening to music and numerous meditation and mindfulness practices that similarly emphasise the importance of focusing on the present. As Lou Drago sees it, meditation can be used to obviate thought in order to alleviate oneself temporarily from the weight of self-consciousness and other anxieties.

For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates which music potentiates the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time. This work hypothesises that these two factors, meditation and non-linear listening, are interdependent. The experience of vertical time can have a meditative effect, yet effectively one must be meditating – be alleviated from conscious thought – to be able to experience time vertically.

Text Lou Drago

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music by Lou Drago

“Music makes time audible.”
Susanne Langer

“Time exists for us because we experience tensions and their resolutions.” Philosopher Susanne Langer, claims that the particular building-up of tensions, and “their ways of breaking or diminishing or merging into longer and greater tensions, make for a vast variety of temporal forms.”

In most Western music, we generally listen within a linear framework, recalling what has already been heard and anticipating what will come next. Often without ever having heard a piece of music before it is possible to anticipate the next phrase because of how it was suggested earlier in the piece. Johnathan Kramer introduced the concept of vertical time in music after experiencing a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Kramer encountered a feeling of having exhausted the information content of the work and experienced “getting bored, becoming imprisoned by a hopelessly repetitious piece.” The experience of time became slower and slower, threatening to stop. But through this boredom, Kramer discovered a different mode of listening. By being liberated from considering the music’s past and future, the present expanded; suddenly it was possible to enter the “vertical time of the piece.”

A vector can be drawn between this alternate mode of listening to music and numerous meditation and mindfulness practices that similarly emphasise the importance of focusing on the present. As Lou Drago sees it, meditation can be used to obviate thought in order to alleviate oneself temporarily from the weight of self-consciousness and other anxieties.

For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates which music potentiates the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time. This work hypothesises that these two factors, meditation and non-linear listening, are interdependent. The experience of vertical time can have a meditative effect, yet effectively one must be meditating – be alleviated from conscious thought – to be able to experience time vertically.

Text Lou Drago

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music by Lou Drago

“Music makes time audible.”
Susanne Langer

“Time exists for us because we experience tensions and their resolutions.” Philosopher Susanne Langer, claims that the particular building-up of tensions, and “their ways of breaking or diminishing or merging into longer and greater tensions, make for a vast variety of temporal forms.”

In most Western music, we generally listen within a linear framework, recalling what has already been heard and anticipating what will come next. Often without ever having heard a piece of music before it is possible to anticipate the next phrase because of how it was suggested earlier in the piece. Johnathan Kramer introduced the concept of vertical time in music after experiencing a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Kramer encountered a feeling of having exhausted the information content of the work and experienced “getting bored, becoming imprisoned by a hopelessly repetitious piece.” The experience of time became slower and slower, threatening to stop. But through this boredom, Kramer discovered a different mode of listening. By being liberated from considering the music’s past and future, the present expanded; suddenly it was possible to enter the “vertical time of the piece.”

A vector can be drawn between this alternate mode of listening to music and numerous meditation and mindfulness practices that similarly emphasise the importance of focusing on the present. As Lou Drago sees it, meditation can be used to obviate thought in order to alleviate oneself temporarily from the weight of self-consciousness and other anxieties.

For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates which music potentiates the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time. This work hypothesises that these two factors, meditation and non-linear listening, are interdependent. The experience of vertical time can have a meditative effect, yet effectively one must be meditating – be alleviated from conscious thought – to be able to experience time vertically.

Text Lou Drago

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Dmitry Paranyushkin: ∞OS Sessions

EightOS is a bodymind operating system based on approaching the human body as a site for translating abstract and intangible concepts into the realm of physical experience. Using the movement, sound, and language as a programming code we seek to explore the modalities of experiential knowledge that unfold into a range of new possibilities, as well as the aesthetic, ethical and pragmatic implications of this approach. In the frame of Gazebo (even if) we invite the participants to explore the notions of ecological confluence, resilience, immunity, mutation, integrity and adaptivity in relation to each other, to the environment, and to the (public) space.

These sessions are based on interactive physical exercises that will inform you about all the basic principles of ∞OSbodymind operating system and show you how you can apply them in practice, in work, and in everyday life.

We will use a combination of different approaches derived from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from physical practices to organizational frameworks. For example, we combine Systema martial art and Version Control practice from computer programming; Noguchi Taiso movement technique and Agile approach organizational framework; contemporary dance and network theory; improvisational theater and dynamical systems theory.

We focus on exercises that bring relaxation, efficiency, and unobstructed flow into one’s psyche and into the group dynamics. The exercises will help the participants implement those behavioral principles on the level of subconscious reflexes to be used in the context of physical interaction — and especially in situations of conflict. We will then demonstrate how those same principles can have a wider range of applications in different contexts, not only within the physical realm but also in everyday life interactions, work, and relationships.

Open to all and at any time, but those who want to experience the practice at its fullest should come on time.

(Text des Künstlers/ Welt ohne Außen-Ausstellung, Gropius Bau 2018)

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Website

Dmitry Paranyushkin: ∞OS Sessions

EightOS is a bodymind operating system based on approaching the human body as a site for translating abstract and intangible concepts into the realm of physical experience. Using the movement, sound, and language as a programming code we seek to explore the modalities of experiential knowledge that unfold into a range of new possibilities, as well as the aesthetic, ethical and pragmatic implications of this approach. In the frame of Gazebo (even if) we invite the participants to explore the notions of ecological confluence, resilience, immunity, mutation, integrity and adaptivity in relation to each other, to the environment, and to the (public) space.

These sessions are based on interactive physical exercises that will inform you about all the basic principles of ∞OSbodymind operating system and show you how you can apply them in practice, in work, and in everyday life.

We will use a combination of different approaches derived from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from physical practices to organizational frameworks. For example, we combine Systema martial art and Version Control practice from computer programming; Noguchi Taiso movement technique and Agile approach organizational framework; contemporary dance and network theory; improvisational theater and dynamical systems theory.

We focus on exercises that bring relaxation, efficiency, and unobstructed flow into one’s psyche and into the group dynamics. The exercises will help the participants implement those behavioral principles on the level of subconscious reflexes to be used in the context of physical interaction — and especially in situations of conflict. We will then demonstrate how those same principles can have a wider range of applications in different contexts, not only within the physical realm but also in everyday life interactions, work, and relationships.

Open to all and at any time, but those who want to experience the practice at its fullest should come on time.

(Text des Künstlers/ Welt ohne Außen-Ausstellung, Gropius Bau 2018)

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Website

Dmitry Paranyushkin: ∞OS Sessions

EightOS is a bodymind operating system based on approaching the human body as a site for translating abstract and intangible concepts into the realm of physical experience. Using the movement, sound, and language as a programming code we seek to explore the modalities of experiential knowledge that unfold into a range of new possibilities, as well as the aesthetic, ethical and pragmatic implications of this approach. In the frame of Gazebo (even if) we invite the participants to explore the notions of ecological confluence, resilience, immunity, mutation, integrity and adaptivity in relation to each other, to the environment, and to the (public) space.

These sessions are based on interactive physical exercises that will inform you about all the basic principles of ∞OSbodymind operating system and show you how you can apply them in practice, in work, and in everyday life.

We will use a combination of different approaches derived from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from physical practices to organizational frameworks. For example, we combine Systema martial art and Version Control practice from computer programming; Noguchi Taiso movement technique and Agile approach organizational framework; contemporary dance and network theory; improvisational theater and dynamical systems theory.

We focus on exercises that bring relaxation, efficiency, and unobstructed flow into one’s psyche and into the group dynamics. The exercises will help the participants implement those behavioral principles on the level of subconscious reflexes to be used in the context of physical interaction — and especially in situations of conflict. We will then demonstrate how those same principles can have a wider range of applications in different contexts, not only within the physical realm but also in everyday life interactions, work, and relationships.

Open to all and at any time, but those who want to experience the practice at its fullest should come on time.

(Text des Künstlers/ Welt ohne Außen-Ausstellung, Gropius Bau 2018)

The Participation is free (with exhibition ticket).

Spontaneous attendance is possible and welcome.
(Limited capacities, admission subject to availability.)

Website