Weekend
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Creative Works
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Publication Year
1930
URL
[ private ]
Abstract
At great technical expense, Walter Ruttmann collects sound recordings of a weekend in Berlin: from finishing work on Saturday to starting the next week on Monday morning. Lasting a good eleven minutes, the piece alternates between narration and sound pattern. With his ear for the narrative as well as the visual, Ruttmann works on a kind of audio-art. His formulations can also designate structure on the basis of musical points of departure such as pitch and rhythm (see the reproduction of his notation for a speech sequence). But the characteristic style of «Weekend» is thoroughly narrative-related. Tone coloring, rhythm, and pitch merely customize the storytelling.
Description
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/weekend/audio/1/
Number of Copies
1
