Call for Participation
sound artists, musicians, Europeans by choice or fate
ANTHEMITY – A participative installation about the Anthem of Europe
Europe, who or what are you? A place of multicultural exchange, of cross-fertilisation? Cradle of human rights and democracy? Or just a bureaucratic monster, threatening national sovereignty, and quite pointless in view of globalisation? Is Europe as a political amalgamation paying attention to social aspects? Where will this lead to?
Utopian Europe, as a region of cohabitation, is deep-rooted in symbols. Symbols that manifest the supra-national merging: a common currency, a common fag and a common Anthem of Europe, the Prelude from “Ode to the Joy”, Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Referring to the unspoken motto: „All humans will become brothers”.
Our daily life is already using the possibilities of the European Union: we can travel around, sell and buy items, settle and work wherever we want. With a minimum of bureaucratic efort. The European Union as a step forward to a pacifstic and democratic World Union? Or is Brussels a symbol of the post-democratic society, where economics are the new sovereigns?
Somewhere in between, the inhabitants of Europe have to position themselves. The installation ANTHEMITY focuses on the anthem and asks to what extent an European identity might be discovered. For that reason, it is necessary to involve the inhabitants of Europe:
All of you – those who have found a home in the European Union, and those of you still looking for a home in the EU, take the European Anthem and inscribe yourself into it. Deconstruct it. Take parts of it, recomplete it, inject missing items or moods... make your own interpretation!
ANTHEMITY is a stage and soundboard for your version. In this project, several speakers will be arranged in a room. You will find several versions announced here later on. Some as a sketch, other ones as a detailed documentation.
As ANTHEMITY is the master's thesis of Philipp Weber in European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Science Potsdam, it is not possible at the moment to come up with too many details.
But pd is used for all installations and the patches will be released in this forum and on the website as soon as I'm allowed to.
Be part of it from now on and send your track to: http://www.dropitto.me/anthemity (password: imeu)
Details:
Advice: Due to legal circumstances, I'm not able to hand out the ofcial score of the Anthem.
Listen to: mms://webstream.ec.europa.eu/scic/press/euanthem/WindOrchestra_320kbs.mp3
Read about: http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/anthem/index_en.htm
Length: 2'07"
name and format: YourName-YourCountry.wav (all other formats will be recoded automatically.)
Licence: creative commons oder member of a collecting society? Please send me an email to me: pweber@uni-potsdam.de.
All entries submitted by August, 10th 2012 will take part at the premiere in Berlin.
Further details coming soon. Visit: http://philmstelle.de/projects/anthemity.html
Philipp Weber is always happy to hear from you: pweber@uni-potsdam.de