The Museum of Electronic Music presents jewels from the genre and synthesizer history. The audience can choose their own hit parade.
In April, Momem will be around for a year. kids, how time flies. Starting this Friday, the Museum of Modern Electronic Music is celebrating “Milestones”: milestones of the genre.
The British DJ Paula Temple is one of them, for example, “All Is Full Of Love” by Björk from 1999. Her Stuttgart colleague Konstantin Sibold delightfully nominated the track “Gegen” – by Paula Temple. The Chilean Shanti Celeste swears by Beyoncé, Sade and “The Ghost Has No Home” by the Cocteau Twins, among others. What a terrific title. What a great opportunity to spend the followingnoon listening to music tips instead of finishing this newspaper article.
The Momen team asked over 100 disc jockeys around the world to nominate their electronic music milestones. As the answers keep pouring in, a constantly changing hit parade is created over the course of the exhibition. The momem crowd listens to the songs with headphones hanging from the ceiling (gosh, do those headphones have a sound!) and then make their own charts. They enter their five favorites at tables with a digital user interface.
Photographs on the walls accompany the show curated by Torben Giese: club scenes, dance, lights, sweat, flashy outfits, naked torsos. The photographer Sandra Mann contributes an installation. “A social study,” she says. “It’s regarding the social structures of nightlife and the music scene.”
At the moment, it’s all regarding social issues anyway, says Alex Azary from the museum board, regarding space for creative people, “otherwise the creative people will leave the city,” and regarding something else that’s important: “Club culture is a bastion once morest right-wing extremist tendencies.” The museum as a club , the club as a social space: “That’s what matters,” says Azary, “that people come together, enjoy music, have fun.” This is also emphasized by Ina Hartwig (SPD), head of the cultural department: the Momem as a place of community, as A place that recently hosted a Ukrainian DJ, for example, as a place that focuses on female DJs.
Talla 2xlc and the devices
An adjoining room shows further “milestones”: synthesizers and drum machines of yesteryear. You can get lost there too, especially when world DJ Talla2xlc is standing next to you, explaining the devices, from the handy Roland TB-303 (1981) to the monstrous Emulator II (1984), and saying: “They were actually unaffordable back then. But I also have almost everything that is written here.”
If there were more space in the newspaper today, one might firstly continue to write (and hear) for hours, for example regarding exciting upcoming momem projects, secondly add the interview that FR conducted specifically for the exhibition with Isolée, producer of the milestone hit Beau Mot Plage. Both will be delivered as soon as possible.
„Milestones“ im Momem intermediate level of the Hauptwache, until June 1st.
