»Musikgeschichten: Filmmusiken«

Irmin Schmidt was first taught by György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen to think outside of the box. Starting in 1968, he went on to stir up the history of rock together with his band CAN. But Schmidt has also always written music for more classical narrative formats, starting with the German spaghetti western »Deadlock« from 1970, which will be screened at Pop-Kultur and whose soundtrack was made by CAN, and also encompassing work for the stage, the screen, and, in recent years, for television. Most recently he composed the soundtrack for the crime thriller »Murder in Eberswalde«, which was conceived as a disquieting sociological study of the late-1960s GDR. On this evening, before the screening of the film, Schmidt will speak with director Stephan Wagner about his numerous film scores. This detailed discussion about the interplay between image and sound will be moderated by the radio journalist Hanna Bächer.

»Irmin Schmidt: Musikgeschichten«

Irmin Schmidt played with the best band in the world and hasn’t stopped creating music history ever since. On three evenings at Pop-Kultur, he will share memories from a long life and show films that he himself or his band Can set to music. Alongside screenings of »Mord in Eberswalde« [»Murder in Eberswalde«] and »Deadlock«, Schmidt will speak with moderator Hanna Bächer and with Stephan Wagner, the director of the »Mord in Eberswalde«, about the movie’s soundtrack. Ulrich Gutmair will present the composer with recordings of unfamiliar music, and Schmidt will exchange with the writer Max Dax in a talk moderated by Anne Waak about the recently-published band biography »All Gates Open: The Story of Can« by the British music journalist Rob Young, to which Schmidt contributed the text collage »Can Kiosk« and Dax contributed an oral history together with Robert Defcon. Although Schmidt has written so many music stories already, there’s always another couple to tell—about Can, or Stockhausen, or about murder cases in Brandenburg.