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Categories: radio
Source text:
Ruttmann, Walter «Weekend»
Relevant passages:
Golo Föllmer «Audio Art»
Dieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream » Golo Föllmer Julia Gerlach «Audiovisions. Music as an Intermedia Art Form.»
Works by Walter Ruttmann:
Check as well:
Walter Ruttmann/DJ Spooky u.a. «Weekend Remix»
Walter Ruttmann
«Weekend»
At great technical expense, Walter Ruttmann collects sound recordings of a weekend in Berlin: from finishing work on Saturday to starting the next week on Monday morning. Lasting a good eleven minutes, the piece alternates between narration and sound pattern. With his ear for the narrative as well as the visual, Ruttmann works on a kind of audio-art. His formulations can also designate structure on the basis of musical points of departure such as pitch and rhythm (see the reproduction of his notation for a speech sequence). But the characteristic style of «Weekend» is thoroughly narrative-related. Tone coloring, rhythm, and pitch merely customize the storytelling.
Golo Föllmer
