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post socialist real ism meets unbridled fantasy have a look at the newest works by painter neo how coming up on arts and culture and. astronauts all over moon or a bit inspires the new jazz album by pianist. and a solar powered sculpture taking flight without the help of fossil fuels argentinian artist his vision for the future. welcome to arts and culture when mayo 1st came on the scene museums were reluctant to buy the artist's works large figurative paintings were out of style especially by artists from the former east germany well now spend things are so valuable most museums can't afford that this week the artist unveiled a new body of work and our reporter melissa holroyd was there.

this is the results anyway it's all just paint it's just paint that's something we all have to agree on. paint worth millions the exhibition hunt for handrail on show in the house hometown of like boasts 16 new works by the master painter and it magic pieces that speak to the viewer's unconscious but it also says that for him the characters he creates are much more than just figments of the imagination. they are very real for me because my creations really do stalk me in the night. paintings are very open to interpretation and their inner workings are not something he usually likes to talk about until now that is coming to mind. for you could say that this woman who is in the foreground of the

picture finds herself in a situation where there's petrol and so what does she carry at home plate it's a fungus in a hole so how can she carry this flammable material when all she has is this place . so she decides to use that as a canister. in the end that is the job of art to take all the bad all the evil all that is uncomfortable and disgusting and to cultivate it as. commentary gives the works a new life. things are influenced by socialist realism style prevalent in the east germany of helps you but they're now one sided. this painting is called hand or hand rail in english here we have a scintilla together with a woman who has 2 faces or 2 heads and 3 legs he's holding a hand it looks like they could be dead soon or he could be taking her somewhere

near iraq's paintings and all gold all evil has always opposites in them and so what we have is quite a positive situation there's new sick being played over here and a man with a guitar but with a headed looks like it's quite dark and for that the going to need to handrail. a lot of neo house own life and contradictions are reflected through his work there's a stark difference between his work reflective and not about money or fame and the huge success he's received. at 60 votes already looking ahead. is from windsor 300 human i'm working till 65 then i'm going to retire and get my monthly 365 euro pension so that's one goal of the one see you then i'm going to go on a cruise to venice. we need to. tell then

still has a bit more time on his hands to get some painting him. as a whole were just got back from that exhibition welcome melissa that was a joke right thing about the pension isn't he one of the wealthiest men in germany yeah he's one of the 1000 wealthiest men in germany that's largely due to his popularity in the united states where his works sell for millions and that is before they even write my word but that doesn't mean he's not without his critics not everybody loves neo route. he's accused of milking east german thing also if used too much symbolism in his work and the lack of real content is nowhere dreams are all about the sort of lots of symbolism little real content. yet that is what dreams are about and the characters in his paintings are very dreamlike it's almost like this sleepwalking they seem like they're quite lonely characters who are

unaffected by what's going on around them with that be good or evil they're also often indifferent in historical costumes from different periods and this takes away any idea that there is a chronological order to the painting so it's like they're all trapped in that type of time warp ok so you've got this sort of weird mixture between history and mystery for me part of the mystery around nero has always been his name. knew how is the german word for smoke is that even his real name is his real name i didn't think it was his real name but yet apparently he says he doesn't like it he considers himself to be quite a conservative person he starts work at bon o'clock in the morning and finishes at 6 o'clock in the evening he has lunch every day with his wife he has a very structured life but it was the name that his parents gave him and they died tragically when he was just 6 weeks old and that's something that also features a lot in his paintings savor boating connected to his biography melissa thanks so

much for checking out the exhibition for us and thanks for coming in the studio. now german pianist mr advani was a child prodigy is now in his forty's and still enormously successful as near jazz solo album more than kent or moonchild is 46 minutes 38 seconds long and that is not an accident that's the exact length of an astronaut's solo orbit around the moon in 1969 here's a taste. no 'd it's not about the moon it's about loneliness beyond the moon on the new album by michel he thought any.

music is inspired in part by u.s. astronaut michael collins who orbited the moon on his own in 1900. 2 more famous members of his mission walk to the surface with each orbit cullen's lost contact with the earth for 46 minutes isolation a fitting theme for 2021 civility the coronavirus situation happened by chance just as we'd started recording it was made a pretty little i drove into berlin alone and the city was completely empty and for the sitting at the piano in the big studio i suddenly felt i was in a capsule sending signals to the outside but i was all by myself once and not alston is about i miss john's presence. ready ready ready ready coffee cups placed on the strings had an unexpected magic.

the album's title moon didn't kill the moon child comes from the fantasy novel the never ending story. see there's a part of the novel that's very important and moving for me around the middle of the book when the protagonist suddenly has to rename his inner world annoyed when he has to give it a new name so his story can continue or take into account i think that's a process that musicians and improvisers often experience and for one you have to examine your inner soundscape and your ideas and give them new names on most of. the name mooned and get into a new child sums that idea up her made it also draws a nice connection to the lonely astronaut michael collins who were against the moon and with each orbit is reborn and won't cost went. up nor could one what are you to

morbid. jabs from the dark side of the moon for late night. since the corona virus pandemic started we've all become more aware of the air around us and the particles in it artist. has a new show with a computer program that creates sounds based on the dust that's in the air just the latest of his many trailblazing works. flying without fossil fuel is this possible and how can i help to reach this goal. flaxseed not been thinking about the idea of flying cities for a long time is that our planet orbits the sun we humanity and all planetary species are travelling at a speed of 76000 miles an hour the idea of flying cities is really that utopian from a cosmic perspective but if i tell an astronaut about it he'd say but we're already

flying. back in tinian performance and installation artist thomas arsinoe seeks to answer the most pressing questions of our time how can a human kind live in harmony with nature use the earth's resources more efficiently and develop greener mobility solution sorry say no has always been fascinated by the interplay between art and science in 2011 he showcased his cloud cities project at a museum in berlin this project like so many others question the way we live as a society and vision of new forms of human coexistence and community. in 2018 sorry say no showcased an installation at paris's famous poly to tokyo contemporary art venue it focused on the importance of care and how we as a species are polluting this vital element sorry say no set up 76 spider webs to

make the air more tangible as it were spiders after all depend on the air to construct their intricate web so. the spider webs are starting point i've been fascinated by them for a very long time they're connected to the spiders. thomas arsinoe often incorporates spiders in his work researching them and how they live. in his installations which take up entire rooms sorry say no continually plays with the patterns and shapes found in his spider's web site visitors can even enter into a huge. web and experience the world from a spider's perspective. sara santa was also interested in alternative means of travel and how art can inspire us to think outside the box for years he's been experimenting with flying arrow solar sculptures at a variety of locations around the globe these free floating sculptures are lifted only by the sun and carried only by the wind and they enable flight without burning

fossil fuels are radical concept and one that has already set several world records . sorry say no uses his art to get people thinking protecting the classical element that keeps us alive is its main goal a way of making amends to mother earth. journeys that this nation we will often lose our way on this journey but we will continue on with enthusiasm and hope your parents. and or got lots more of thomas say no for you on a special edition of art's 21 this weekend on d w you can find it online at d.w. dot com slash arts 21 for me and all the crew here in berlin thanks for watching have a great weekend. that

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look to be fun beethoven challenge his musicians technically like no other composer did before i'm very happy that he did because he wrote fantastic solos for the horn a world without beethoven i can't even begin to imagine looking weak fun beethoven

shaped entire musical genres pushing boundaries and even breaking them he was a pioneer and not just when it came to music. what would a world without beethoven look like that's what i wanted to find out. ok one time. in 816 beethoven revolutionized the tradition of leader songs with poetic lyrics.

that was very beautiful but jumma. it's ok but let's do the transition one more time. ok dear. this is. a switch transition. for some it's a song cycle for others it's the world's 1st concept album beethoven's and the phantom. 6 songs tell the story of unrequited love in 15 minutes.

and the biggest invention is the facility shelley give to that he curated reader's song cycle this is the 1st in music history i would say. that he was composing a very long song but it was this kind of its mission speed and norful show noir intrade there it kind of powerful nashville and but in fact you have you have different kind of songs different kind of effort episodes and he is really telling a long story this is really for show the biggest invention in the in the aspect for the for the song repertoire. and he found it a leap that became the model for all great song cycles of classical and romantic music. france schubert adopted the close connection between piano and singing voice from

beethoven. good stuff mahler expanded the idea and had the singer accompanied by an orchestra . against. him. 150 years later the idea was picked up in a completely different place in the mid 1960 s. pop music was revolutionized in the hills north of hollywood this is where the 1st concept albums were created shedding pumps teenybopper image and making it into a global $1000000.00 business. hollywood's lights camera action home of the movie industry and also home of some of the most iconic pop songs ever produced.

one driving force was brian wilson of the beach boys his goal was to write many symphonies for kids. for his concept album smile he hide a young lyricist the arranger and composer fan dyke parks. and. i read about your good vibrations session you suddenly said we got to put a cello in there yeah but a challenge and it's now triplets it's fundamental and it's no preference how did you come up with that idea god gave me a platter and god gave me a plan that i would be a good arranger come up with a good idea for us something that had a baby and a 2 and a half minute time lapse

a signature like the red ribbon the slip or something to distinguish the bank decks hand shake. play it again say and brian wilson and fan dyke parks shared an ambitious vision rather than a simple collection of tracks smile was to be a song cycle telling the history of the united states carefully composed right down to the last detail smile wasn't released in its entirety until decades later but the idea was quickly copied by the world's most successful band right next door in laurel canyon frank zappa created his concept album freak out. and in england the beatles were also inspired by smile they invented a fictitious music group sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band. the british band the who released a rock opera called tommy. and pink floyd's concept album the

dark side of the movie about a descent into madness became one of the most successful albums in music history and this is something you've used in your music ever since beethoven wrote the very 1st song cycle ever and he found it in the funnily enough and this is why i really want to talk to you about this is what you've been doing this is what you did immediately after your your album the song cycle well ok this is interesting but that was imposed upon me by the medium the medium was the album of the album had a constituent a lapse of time this concept it's fun album yeah that concept album did come out of laurel canyon to be sure all of those people. and to no mercy mention all those out i was there and next to the cabin which is burned to the ground other groups of joni mitchell and crossfire stills and nash and all of the stuff everybody and rock and i had the idea of the concept album that is since people were now listening to

the album it was a technological advancement we were at the gilded age of analog recording and that album form provided that continuity. that people say so sought and it became a discipline and a pro forma everything had to be just so for example new thought had to think about the 1st cut you had to think about the last card you had to think about the amount of time thinking about the amount of time it would take to turn it over again to the b. side what the 1st cut would be the how what and then did you want to build or hour of operating your most recent album spangled it's also a concept you decided to put famous pan-american songs together with a reason and what has kept you on this track in my case is with the people around me gaby murder. one of the people around found parks is grammy winner gabby marino

a singer songwriter from guatemala she and found i wrote the concept album spangled the song cycle evokes the time when there was still a lively cultural exchange between latin america and the usa with neither hatred nor boredom. there's a. lot of. political . let's just look. at this idea of having a concept is this something you've consciously tried to do in your own stuff or hasn't did this come through the work with with found that part i've always thought that you know it's important for me to think of of an album like from from

beginning to end like ideally in an ideal scenario you want people to listen to it from the internet when did you have the concept before that the concept come while you were looking for the piece and i remember at 1st it was a lot of songs in spanish so new beginning he started sending me that one which ended up on the record he started and i'm already and then. i can remember. quite well but i think he just he just sent me across the border line just a song written by wright cooter and john hiatt in the 1980 s. so he sent me that song and i was like and something like something sparked in me and said ok. i get it we get it this is the concept we're going to do a record that celebrates not only the cultures in latin america but also the u.s. and try to like unite the north and south and central america and think of it because in one of my i was it was like in guatemala he teaches that the continent

is a maybe you know one continent. so it was important for me to like just reflect that on this record where we're celebrating the the wonderful music that comes from the all these different parts of. america singer songwriting legend jackson brown joined the celebrations. good. politics is another thing that really. appeal to me and beethoven's maverick status that encouraged you and encouraged me. her and. her.

beethoven some cycle and he found it was a wonderful concept which is still being copied by composers and arrangers today. with this next completely different idea beethoven shaped an entire genre and chanted an audience of meaning. that it. it. was. was.

in 1908 looked like fun beethoven began to create images in the minds of his listeners he gave his 6 symphony descriptive movement names such as awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside. to eat he began to describe images using the orchestra for the country outing he featured woodwind instruments who were usually more in the background of the music. heard. beethoven's new ideas were a success the 1st movement conjures up associations with excursions and it delivers country life. but that it isn't is disturbed thunder storm is the title of the 4th movement here brosnan

percussion dominate the idea of program music music with a meaning or concept was born with the 6 it funny and quickly became an important jonna of romantic music. man. in his some funny fantastic from 830 hector barely owes chose the same instrumentation for the same movement as beethoven had done 20 years earlier. in richard strauss's monumental alpine symphony beethoven's instrumentation is still a mistake and lead a model for strauss's $915.00 program music. the idea of using sounds to create moods and associations with landscapes took over hollywood with the introduction of sound in films movie soundtracks became

a laboratory orchestrated. for the air composers who had fled here up such as eric wolfgang korngold book beethoven's legacy to american films creating a new lasting stand the. music in the style of beethoven intensified the effects of a delay clan scapes and romantic love scenes was. one in a way that helped. it is quite. clear. that was one of the better of the arbitron. and when the enemy approaches we can hear rolls of thunder korngold cannonballs can be heard from a fog man. hours. and even the greatest modern day film composer makes clever use of beethoven

formulas. in the star wars films the forces of good and body by princes lair and look skywalker are played by woodwind instruments. evil with its imperial march is dominated by bras instruments coincidence. we are at one of the greatest music festivals in the world the tanglewood music festival in lenox massachusetts and one of their yearly highlights is film light where of course they play the music of the legendary john williams. the composer of jaws indiana jones jurassic park harry potter star wars and many many others has influenced the film music industry of the last decades more than anyone else and won many oscars and grammys along the way. the typical john williams sound touches

millions of fans around the world and me especially as a horn player. as

a moviegoer i could not imagine a world without john williams and this is what we're talking about today a world without without beethoven it's also impossible to imagine that it is so base of when was the 1st composer to actually write program attic music in a 6 symphony he gave each each movement a title so that the listeners would know exactly what they were listening for yes to successfully is maybe the normally to have that he thought he might have been making entertainment he said in an interview that you felt that beethoven was one of the greatest organizers of sound question your idea of organizing sound was instruments in this case into shapes and eventually into things that will exchange of motions is hard to imagine like life without beethoven

i had a conversation about a submitting with you was an elderly doctor friend of my very very brittle and i said to work. what is your answer to what would the world be like with of beethoven and he said very quickly to me what would life be like if we'd never seen a rainbow. but how do you decide which instrument is going to be the one to portray princess leo which instrument is going to want to make to make us care and is that something do you have a a program you've worked out over the years there's a tradition in cedar and in film if you have a villain you probably have in the old days you would have a diminished 7th chord played from blondel somewhere or there is an expectation culturally of certain kind of things where the horn is. established as the hero we like that.

these connections. apply their historical their culture all the forms of structure within which you have some freedom you know in the 7th symphony in the 3rd movement . and then the trumpets and mongol. and then you know this. well. and then it goes into the interstate i see a shark i see this shot i see a shark. a lot and when i went to fire

a shot i heard terrifying shark and we've always wondered if that was the precursor to the jaws that i sing so i think i think of a different had been swimming. the drama in beethoven's music has been an endless source of inspiration for film scores but his influence is also seen in the success of a somewhat on remarkable invention. for some it's an instrument of torture for others an indispensable companion for rehearsing and performing the metronome providing the correct tempo at all times.

in 1819 beethoven caused another sensation in the music world he wrote an article praising the previously unknown invention by his friend johann nipple milkmaids of the metronome. and since then life in music without a metronome has become hard to imagine. feed .

me through norm is included metronome is basically the click track tool that is embedded in the recording software nama software and about as. there is a musical grid so to speak i know i news ecologists there are certain time signatures a certain tempo but the best time to talk to at least of this temple wouldn't be if i could start a record run i'd hear this for example good if somebody else here who are on it would be a fool. and critic thank you mark apart from the fact that it delivers a very stable tempo a click track also works as a synchronous reference you'll see soon clean the front ends with a few. pop and then any pop and rock music productions are done as multi-track

recording all someone over each instrument in a song is recorded one at a time which they can get the distance for example drums are often recorded 1st and then a week later a guitarist plays along and then in another studio a singer sings his lines the separate tracks are held together by this click reference. beethoven published metronome markings for his symphonies in the light sic news a journal he left nothing to chance. before that composers had used italian tempo markings from largo slow to presto fast but they were approximate markings thanks to met you know markings every

conductor knows the precise tempo beethoven wanted for his symphonies. parvo why do you think it was so important to beethoven to promote this new idea the metronome it's like evolution you're like a fish coming out of the water and realizing we need feet you know and then they go feet and then they start walking and so so. i think that probably that has something to do with it because all of a sudden the control goes from the hand of a composer into the hand of a stranger who has nothing to do with the creation of the piece and this whole recreated process to interpret in process was more. powerful yeah it's one of the world's top conductors and he is

a great fan of beethoven's metro markings. he published the metronome markings. probably because he wanted to make sure that people are in the right area of tempi and of course. so much controversy. is to this day there are these these national markings and then the main problem really is that they are very fast a lot of them are much faster than the traditional bit of an interpretation that you know now are comfortable. and in a way i think that that's exactly why he published them because because he sort of could foresee that things would get slower more romantic you know there is

a there is a kind of a a slowing down the grand ness the wagner effect if you will. the metronome which beethoven so appreciated makes it possible to set the same tempo any time and anywhere since $8095.00 a german company has been producing meltzer's metronomes and selling them all over the world they are based in the well hidden it is a town of isn't it. in calgary in south germany there is the most famous metronome manufacturer in the whole world victor metronomes i never thought i could get so excited about metronomes but look at this one. metronomes are high tech. before a model is sold it has to path and endure and stress test. battles

i. think 7 vote that is metronome was sick how can a metronome be thick concrete. almost but you have to bear in mind the state of technology in those days when it's the metronome is a highly precise mechanical device that the slightest deviation is by in term of dimensions we're talking about a weight discrepancy of one or 2 grams that would cause a different matter and i speak. for. we conveniently as post facto sort of speak we can say well you know he was deaf

and his national was broken and there is even some kind of a story somewhere in the letter where it says that you'd better know it was not functioning correctly i mean i think it's all nonsense i mean that's what it was def he wasn't stupid. the children's insistent on exact tempos set standards with his special feeling for rhythm he inspired a completely different genre long after his time.