Visions of Visionaries – Max Richter
The composer Max Richter was interviewed as part of the FUTURE SELF Project. He talks about his background and his perspective on composing music and creativity.
Enjoy this inspiring video of one of the artists that worked at MADE.
Hello!
Thursday the 3rd of May my visit in Berlin came to an end. What an amazing time, and what inspiring and special people I met while I was there! I am very grateful and fortunate to have been able to do my case study at MADE and would once more like to thank the MADE team for giving me the opportunity to interview a big part of the team and be part of the MADE experience for a while.
Monday I had an appointment with Jan Piet Joris & Corneel. A graphic design collective based in Amsterdam. This young and just graduated graphic design trio will be helping me create a management product and visualization of the data I collected in the interviews at MADE. This interdisciplinary collaboration that I set up with them isn’t a coincidence. My research is focused on how you establish and set up interdisciplinary collaborations and projects and what you should take into account when managing or leading this process, so it wouldn’t be strange for me to try to implement this way of working in the process of my own final projects and thesis.
I am very much looking forward to this collaboration, and the outcomes of my research in a more visual form. All who are interested in receiving information about the outcomes and would perhaps like to receive a copy of the management product (it is still a surprise, even to me, what this is going to look like), please contact me: post@shariklein.com or +31630793154.
Now: crunch time for analyzing and concluding!
Until next time,
Shari
FUTURE SELF presents an unique collaboration rAndom International, Wayne McGregor and Max Richter. It is a performative and interactive light installation presented for the first time at MADE.
The participatory installation will be open to the public until 2nd June, Thursday – Saturday, 2 – 7 PM at MADE | 9th Floor | Alexanderstrasse 7 | 10178 Berlin.
Making its premier through performance over Berlin Gallery Weekend, FUTURE SELF was extensively explored in a new piece choreographed by Wayne McGregor and scored by Max Richter in relation to the light installation.
Two dancers intensely communicated, with each other and with their own reflections, through light as well as through the body. Throughout the performance, music, artwork and the human form were unified into one immediate and emotional experience.
FUTURE SELF studies human movement; what it can reveal about identity and the relationship we have with our self image. The installation mirrors our movement in light, creating a three dimensional, ‘living’ sculpture from the composite gestures of those who surround it.
Selected members of the audience are bound together, in the moment, as an illuminated presence –another version of themselves.
It’s been a while since my last post. The past 10 days have been great here in Berlin!
Yesterday I attended the FUTURE SELF show at MADE. It was amazing! The clash between the media artist collective rAndom International, choreographer Wayne McGregor & Music by Max Richter was astounding and really showed the innovation and creativity that can be established when three different creative disciplines are brought together. These three artists studied human movement, additive interaction and what these may reveal about identity, today and in the years to come.
As rAndom International explains on their website, they:
Create artworks and installations that explore behaviour and interaction, often using light and movement. Founded in 2005 by Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass and Hannes Koch, the studio utilises raw fragments of artificial intelligence to encourage relationships between the converging worlds of animate and inanimate. The studio is based in a converted warehouse in Chelsea, London and today includes a growing team of diverse talent.
The internationally known Wayne McGregor created beautiful choreography that fit perfectly with the light installation rAndom created for the space at MADE.
Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet (appointed 2006). In January 2011, McGregor was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
As stated on Max’ website:
Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.
On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.
In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album ‘Dead Cities”. He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums “The Isness” and “The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness”. Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on “In the Mode”.
In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, “memoryhouse”, recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat’s release of “The Blue Notebooks”, with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.
In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan’s outstanding comeback album “Lookaftering”.
2006 saw the release of “Songs From Before” based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing “from The Art of Mirrors”, an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.
Max’s more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is. ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.
Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC ‘making of’ documentary. Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.
Thursday my visit in Berlin will unfortunately come to an end. Berlin will welcome me again in July, and perhaps for longer after my graduation in September.
Until next time. Enjoy the sun!
So Interdisciplinary 