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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American sound artist Paul Brody<\/a> will be performing his Poetry<\/strong> Electric<\/strong> project as part of the Night of Museums Hanover 2025. Poetry Electric is a project that integrates spoken word and everyday sounds into an electro-acoustic performance. <\/p>\n

What sounds, melodies and words do you associate with everyday Jewish life?<\/em><\/p>\n

Brody asked Jewish people from the Ashkenazi cultural area this question. The resulting interviews, melodies and sounds are used in part to create an ambient music composition. Acoustic sounds are mixed with electronic elements and occasionally accompanied by Brody’s live trumpet solo. <\/p>\n

BACKGROUNDS<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Jewish Museum Berlin once invited me to an event where artists were asked to talk about their cultural heritage based on an object they associated with being Jewish. I grew up secular and didn’t start integrating religious practices into my life until I had young children. Bringing a menorah or prayer shawl didn’t feel right to me, so instead I tore a sheet of notebook paper out of my notebook and sketched a crude question mark. Questions played a central role in my experience of Jewish culture; from my early Torah studies to my enjoyment of Jewish comedians: Are you right? Am I wrong? And, I recalled at the time, Hillel the Elder used questions to lead us from one humanistic lesson to the next: <\/em><\/p>\n

If I am only for myself, what am I?<\/em>
\nIf I am only for others, who will be for me?<\/em>
\nAnd if not now, then when?<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s fascinating to see how my answers to these questions have changed over the years. As a sound artist, I find solace in the realm of questions. With the smallest melodic nuance, music can embody the question without demanding a concrete answer. Like the rondo or the concerto, Hillel’s teaching, this architecture of questions, has become a musical form that gives me a sense of freedom. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Paul Brody is a California-born sound artist, composer and trumpeter. He studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston and has composed and performed for the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Vidy in Lausanne, the M\u00fcnchner Kammerspiele, the Berliner Schaub\u00fchne, the MC93 Paris, the Badisches Staatstheater and the Vienna Burgtheater. He has worked closely with the music producer John Zorn and the directors David Marton, Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Kevin Barz. <\/p>\n

His album “Behind All Words”, which is based on the poems of Rose Ausl\u00e4nder, features Clueso, Meret Becker and Jelena Kulji\u0107. It was included in the best list of the German Record Critics’ Award. Brody was nominated for the Europe Broadcasting Festival Award and the International Feature Festival Vienna for his sound art. His works have been heard on WDR, Deutschlandradio, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Canadian Language Museum and at Transmediale Berlin, among others. <\/p>\n

Brody recently composed the opera \u00cates-vous amoureux for the Op\u00e9ra National de Lorraine. He was Artist in Residence at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and in the opera department of the M\u00fcnchner Kammerspiele. He has also worked as a guest artist and composer at the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, the University of Rhode Island and as a lecturer in trumpet and improvisation at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. <\/p>\n

Two permanent sound installations by Brody will open in 2025: The City of Berlin commissioned him to create a documentary soundwalk on the history and nature of the park at Gleisdreieck (Storywalk Gleisdreieck), while the Humboldt Forum commissioned him to compose archive and sound recordings for the exhibition Tausend Welten. He also currently curates art projects for people with special needs and composes for Germany’s first inclusive orchestra, the Utopia Orchestra in Berlin. <\/p>\n

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You can find more information about the Night of the Museums at Villa Seligmann here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Please note that we will be taking photos and videos during this event. The image material will be published on our website and\/or social media channels and used for press work. By participating, visitors to this event agree to this.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sound images of everyday Ashkenazi life<\/strong><\/p>\n

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