Audition

"I have nothing to say / and I am saying it": process, fragments, listening

Early twentieth-century Germany saw the emergence of Konzertreform. Critics, composers, professors, and other members of the concert-music establishment imposed various measures to ‘purify’ the listening experience. One such example is illustrated above: as Cathy Van Eck explains in her book Between Air and Electricity, “To hide the choir and the orches…