The Goethe-Institut, the Polygon Gallery, and AFM INC present a workshop and performance with German artist and composer Robert Lippok, giving the audience the opportunity to improvise and create sounds that are combining into a unique piece.
Developed and co-presented by the Goethe-Institut & The Polygon
Avant-garde German visual artist and composer
Robert Lippok has been an influential player in Berlin’s thriving experimental music scene from a very early age. In 1983, he co-founded dissident punk band Ornament und Verbrechen with his brother Ronald, inspired by industrial trailblazers Throbbing Gristle. An open platform to explore jazz, electronic, and industrial concepts with like-minded collaborators of the East German underground persuasion, the group remained active until the mid-1990s, at which point it was overtaken by the brothers’ next and most well-known collaboration, the palindromic To Rococo Rot. A significant post-rock/electronic outfit started by the Lippok brethren and Düsseldorf bass guitarist Stefan Schneider, the Krautrockish band ushered in a new generation of electronic acts committed to acoustic investigations and improvisation of all stripes.
Known for his expansive imagination, inventive rhythmic reflexes, and layers of fuzzy tones, Lippok’s solo work is just as wide-ranging – from funky, glitch-y, twisted techno record Redsuperstructure for Raster-Noton (2011), to stage design for operas, gallery exhibitions, and notable collaborations with Italian harpist Beatrice Martini, Canadian percussionist Debashis Sinha in the duo Knuckleduster, or brother Ronald and Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi (the latter trio as Whitetree).
In the workshop at the Polygon Gallery he will lead amateurs and professionals alike in creating sounds with laptops and voices, starting at 5 p.m., those pieces combining into a performance at 9 p.m. Lippok will himself perform at 10 p.m.
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