Max Dax

Einstürzende Neubauten

Dirk Luckow

What happens when musicians make use of ideas and strategies from the art world? And what kind of pictures result when painters are influenced by music? To be interested in other people's lives, to follow the unknown, to copy it, to use it in one's own work--in short, to cross-map between the worlds of music and the visual arts: this is the subject of HYPER! A Journey into Art and Music curated by Max Dax, the former editor-in-chief of Spex and Electronic Beats. The book will include classic works such as Peter Saville's ground­-break­ing album cover for New Order's 1983 ­masterpiece Power, Corruption and Lies, and the narrative, ­minimalist imagery of Emil Schult on which the cover of Kraftwerk's 1974 album, Autobahn, was based, and Cyprien Gaillard's acclaimed 3D in­stallation, Night Life, from 2015. The mutual influences between music and art will be illustrated with examples by Albert ­Oehlen and Scooter, ­Thomas Scheibitz and the Melvins, as well as Daniel Blumberg. Photographs and video works by Andrea Stappert, Sven Marquardt, Andreas Gursky, The KLF, Mark Leckey, and Bettina Pousttchi will lend the book a documentary dimension. The book is narratively underpinned by numerous background interviews that Max Dax conducted with the participants in HYPER! over the past thirty years.

A Journey Into Art and Music

Hyper!

Pas de beauté sans danger raconte la véritable histoire de Einstürzende Neubauten. Blixa Bargeld, Andrew Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Mark Chung, FM Einheit, Rudolf Moser, Jochen Arbeit et de nombeaux autres personnages essentiels parlent de dignité, d’auto-détermination et de manipulation, de discipline concernant la création et des excès liés à la drogue, de marteau-piqueur Kango et de critique architecturale. Max Dax et Robert Defcon ont enregistré et compilé cette conversation basée sur 49 interviews inédites des membres du groupe et de leurs proches. Une grande partie du mythe et de la hype médiatique est révéléé telle quelle. En même temps, Einstürzende Neubauten parle de ses méthodes de travail, de ses recherches sur le son, de l’histoire du groupe et de celle de Berlin – avec ses propres mots.

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