A quote to be proofed.

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In this workshop, the audience is invited to engage in a process of quoting and proofing a historical text by collaboratively using a record player as research instrument. In 1923, when already teaching at Bauhaus University, the painter and photographer László Moholy-Nagy wrote a text about how the gramophone could be used as an instrument to create new musical structures: "Neue Gestaltung in der Musik ". In this text, he proposes, among other things, the possibility of a "scribal script" that could be used to inscribe sound directly into the medium and thus compose it. We want to examine parts of this text, which is now almost 100 years old in the course of the workshop and by means of artistic practice. To what extent do these historical assertions stand up to practical scrutiny, and if so, what new possibilities arise in the experimental test setting? Can we "write" sounds on a record and which visual structures become relevant for sound and image design in this sense? To test this, the record player will be used as a prototypical apparatus to examine artistic research questions. In this workshop, the record player in no way serves only its intended function, namely the mere reproduction of pre-produced sounds and music; rather, it is used as a research apparatus (and above all as an apparatus that inscribes itself into things in the sense of Walter Benjamin), and furthermore - in an ambiguous sense - as an instrument and thus production apparatus.

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