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THIS PAGE HAS MOVED TO www.BirgitRamsauer.net/Spinet JUST CLICK... Spinet: an experiment on Gesamtkunstwerk - Totalart location: The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, New York 7 East 7th Street, Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Street, The Foundation Building, The Great Hall, downstairs date: Oct. 21st, 2004, 6-7pm discussion "contemporary composers and an historical instrument", 8pm concert Oct. 22nd, 2004, 6-7pm discussion "The Gesamtkunstwerk (Totalart) in the 21st century", 8pm concert curator: Birgit Ramsauer Free Admission In collaboration with The Cooper Union “spinet” is an art project on Totalart. The installation with an historical instrument of the artist Birgit Ramsauer is the center tool. She works with an international group of composers, artists, dancers, poets who dedicate pieces, as collaborators, who dedicate pieces to this tool. This is an ongoing process. The project will take place at The Cooper Union and, the following year, in Europe.
CONCERT October 21st 2004 the project “spinet”, part 1: “contemporary composers and an historical instrument” The Great Hall, The Cooper Union	PERFORMANCE October 22nd 2004 the project “spinet”, part 2: experimental collaborative music, dance, video, art, music, literature The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
panel discussion: 6-7pm The Great Hall The “spinet” as a member of the family of harpsichords entered the performance stage again in the 1930ties. Contemporary music never really connected to this instrument till now. Why should contemporary music reconnect to historical instruments? Leading through the discussion: Christopher McIntyre, The Kitchen - Associate Music Curator Participants include Jens Barnieck (pianist, Germany), Thea Herold (Wordperformer, Germany), Wolf-Dieter Neupert (company for historical instruments, Germany), Georg Nussbaumer (composer, Ausria), Katharina Rosenberger (composer, Switzerland), Birgit Ramsauer (artist, Germany, USA)	panel discussion: 6-7pm The Great Hall „The Gesamtkunstwerk (Totalart) in the 21st century“ Gesamtkunstwerk as a team work. A different idea of Gesamtkunstwerk in the 21st century? Leading through the discussion: Christopher McIntyre, The Kitchen, curator music, NY Participants include Jens Barnieck (pianist, Germany), Gloria Coates (composer Germany, USA), Thea Herold (Word performer, Germany), Gerd Stern (poet and artist, USA), Charlie Morrow (composer, USA), Aloisia Moser (philosopher, Austria), Georg Nussbaumer (composer, Austria), Birgit Ramsauer (artist, Germany, USA)
Performance: 8pm Abraham Lincoln´s Cooper Union Address, Gloria Coates, 2004 (Germany, USA), Uraufführung Pär Frid, Totentanz für Spinett, 2004 (Sweden), Uraufführung Stefano Giannotti, L´Arte des Paesaggio, 2000 (Italy), Heinrich Hartl, Cemballissimo, 2003 (Germany), Horst Lohse, Birgit´s Toy, 2004 (Germany), Uraufführung Katharina Rosenberger, Echo, 2004 (Switzerland) Uraufführung spinet Jens Barnieck in collaboration with the artist Birgit Ramsauer	Performance: 8pm Aldo Brizzi, “The rosa Shocking”, 2004 (Brasilia, Italy), Uraufführung Frieder Butzmann, “Soirée pour double solitaires”, 2004 (Germany), Uraufführung Gloria Coates, Birgit Ramsauer “Entering the Unknown”, 2004 (Germany, USA), Uraufführung Enrico Cocco, ........, 2004 (Italy), Uraufführung Thea Herold, “non papers”, 2004 (Germany), Uraufführung Charlie Morrow, “alive I was silent and in death I do sing”, 2004 (USA), Uraufführung Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara Malvacías and DJ (USA, New Zeeland, Paraguay), Uraufführung Georg Nussbaumer, “Birding Guide”, 2004 (Austria), Uraufführung Gerd Stern, “Spinett”, 2004 (USA), Uraufführung spinet Jens Barnieck in collaboration with the artist Birgit Ramsauer