As soon as we leave the house, we are bombarded with sound. At the station, in the shopping centre, at the airport, in public toilets. Everywhere we go, background music is softly playing. Our brain is being attuned to good shopping, good digestion, good business. This mood music, formerly also known as muzak, is a psychological airbrush that blurs the contours of the environment and the sharpness of our minds. With “Muzak Forzato”, the Hamburg sound artist Felix Kubin turns the conceptual tables and has commissioned a number of international artists to acoustically reinterpret specific spaces of public life and thus subvert the everyday trickle of sound. These subversive, partly humorous, partly strictly conceptual, but in all cases surreal interventions in the soundscapes that surround us are in turn themselves documented and then compiled by Kubin into a contribution for the festival’s own radio programme.
Infos
Duration: 60 min
Language: German
Commissioned Work
Sponsors and Supporters
Konzept, Realisierung, Moderation: Felix Kubin
Akustische Beiträge: Julia Drouhin, Barry Burns & Mark Vernon, Thomas Mahmoud, Leyla Yenirce, Nele Möller & Frederic van der Velde, Marc Behrens, Victoria Keddie, Jörg Piringer, Anna Irina Russell & Albert Tarrats, Robert Schalinski, Bernhard Schreiner, Charlotte Simon, Leander Ripchinsky, Marcus Dross
„Tonfunktion – Festival für Gebrauchsmusik“ ist ein Projekt des Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Gefördert vom Musikfonds e. V. mit Projektmitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien und durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain. In Kooperation mit MMODEMM, EOS Radio, dem Amt für Kultur- und Sportmanagement der Stadt Offenbach am Main und der OPG Offenbacher Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH.