K-U-L-T

Programme Note

K-U-L-T for piano and electronic uses materials from different sources and times with different aesthetics and integrates them into one work. The underlying material of K-U-L-T is historically and aesthetically charged material that loses its original meaning in a mass of notes. The common element that binds heterogeneous material is the concept of Noise.

Famous themes of Mozart and Beethoven, as well as pop music arise out of a bizarre chaos of notes and are at the same compositional level as industrial sounds, see sounds or refrigerators. All these elements are like "objets trouvés" in a mass of different acoustic stimuli.

In his essay on music "Where are we, when we listen to music" Peter Sloterdijk compares the mass consumption music with classical music. He argues that both are consumption music, since both clearly avoid risk and protect the public from the new. He calls it sedative music. The superficiality of the music used in the media, the constant repetition famous tunes is an important transformation of our time and leads to a sort of neutralization of our perception. Suddenly, the theme of the 40th Symphony in G Minor is no masterpiece but a hit. The same with the Ninth of Beethoven or the Fifth. The border between banality and genius is unclear and reversible ambiguous. "... Postmodernism has made its peace with the popular culture and discarded instinctively the distinction between 'important' and unimportant' " wrote Robert Misik in "Das Kult-Buch".