The structures of loom and fabric are linked in the notation. Similar to the way conventional musical notation conveys the course of a melody to the musician, the shape of the future workpiece can already be read via the woven score.
What is particularly striking is not only the visual similarity of the vertically running warps to staves, but also the musical vocabulary within the two notation systems:
The weavers speak of a score and of the loom as their instrument.
In 1677, Marx Ziegler publishes the Weber Kunst und Bild Buch (Weavers' Art and Picture Book), which is expanded between 1708 and 1736 by Nathanael Lumscher as the Neu Eingerichtetes Weber Kunst und Bild Buch (New Weavers' Art and Picture Book) and, as the first pattern book, archives patterns of fabrics and makes them reproducible.
What is particularly striking is not only the visual similarity of the vertically running warps to staves, but also the musical vocabulary within the two notation systems:
The weavers speak of a score and of the loom as their instrument.
In 1677, Marx Ziegler publishes the Weber Kunst und Bild Buch (Weavers' Art and Picture Book), which is expanded between 1708 and 1736 by Nathanael Lumscher as the Neu Eingerichtetes Weber Kunst und Bild Buch (New Weavers' Art and Picture Book) and, as the first pattern book, archives patterns of fabrics and makes them reproducible.
The musical material of this concert is based on the visual analogy of weaving notation and conventional musical notation.
Awards/ Grants:
Awarded the Alumni Scholarship "Artistic Research" (2014) of the Hessian Theater Academy and supported by the concert promotion of the German Music Council (2014), as well as by ON - Cologne, Büro für NeueMusik, Cologne.
Premiere on 09.06.2014 in the context of the exhibition "FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS" at Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne with Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (violin) and Dominik Susteck (organ).
Further performances:
27.04.2015, FrankfurtLAB, Frankfurt, Lecture Performance as part of the series "Miniatures".
20.08.2015 as part of the series "klingt gut" of the German Music Council, Art - and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn With: Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (violin), Georg Conrad (electronics), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion).
23.09.2015 Art - Station St. Peter, Cologne. With Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (violin), Dominik Susteck (organ) and Florian Zwißler (analog synthesizer).
25.01. - 03.03.2018 in the context of the exhibition "Kunsthalle for Music", Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL) with the ensemble of the "Kunsthalle for Music": Bergur Thomas Anderson (guitar), Billy Bultheel (piano),Sandhya Daemgen (violin and voice), Sara Hamadeh (violin), Alexander Iezzi (drums and percussion), Nanna Ikonen (saxophone and electronics), Jackson Moore (saxophone) and Pau Marquès i Oleo (cello).
12.04.-13.05 2018 "Ringmodulator", group exhibition Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Supported by Musikfonds, Kunststiftung NRW and PerformAktiv of Kultursekretariat NRW.
