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Texts
In some cases Marc Behrens’ sound works or installations are accompanied by texts. These provide some insights into the creative motivations or a wider context of the works.
There is also a number of small articles on various music and art related topics.
2010
EACH MINUTE DRAWS POSSIBILITIES OF PARALLEL FUTURES, written in collaboration with Ana Carvalho
At last, with the end of motors, bidirectional wheels and roads, the Greeks have been surpassed. At the core of belief is now the individual — a self-aware, active agent within the social landscape…
A printed version will be published in: «Sonic Ideas/Ideas Sónicas, Vol 2 No. 2», Magazine (Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts, CMMAS)
sonicideas.org
An online version can be accessed through any of these addresses:
eachminute.marcbehrens.com
parallelfutures.visual-agency.net
Acknowledgements: Narciso Melo, Miguel Carvalhais, Rajmil Fischman, Allon Kaye.
2009
A NARROW ANGLE texts
Where
Yes, I have a map. And I have it with me when I arrive at the intersection…
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Five micro stories from Taiwan, an island with three names, and after…
A NARROW ANGLE CD
2008
Interview
conducted by Zheng Hong
Published on the website of the Deutsch-Chinesisches Kulturnetz [German-Chinese Culture Network].
de-cn.net [deutsch/mandarin]
2007
Interview
conducted by Jørgen Larsson
Published on the Grieg07 website.
grieg07.com
2006
ARTISTS ACROSS BORDERS
Abstract
Künstler waren schon früh eine reisende Elite. Man denke an die mittelalterlichen Ikonenmaler, die von Stadt zu Stadt zogen, auf der Suche nach Aufträgen. Auch Albrecht Dürer hatte eine “Residency” (wie man heute sagen würde) in Italien wahrgenommen.

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Lecture held February 3, 2006 at the class «Transnationale Professionskulturen» conducted by Dr. Petra Ilyes, Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2006
Interview
conducted by Mark McLaren
Featured in «Survey on location based media», interviews with six artists: Chris Watson, Yannick Dauby, Derek Holzer, Julian Weaver, Francisco López, Marc Behrens. Published on the Binaural website.
binauralmedia.org
2005
NOTES ON PSYCHOTOPOGRAPHY: INTEGRATED LISTENING AND SOUND LANDSCAPES
The idea of connecting topographic landscape and the topography of the human mind, and with it the internal representation of the former, goes back through the history of humans, to pre-literate times.

Published in FO A RM magazine, no. 4 (topography).
FO A RM magazine
Acknowledgements: Seth Nehil.

2003
ANIMISTIC texts
(1)
When I was younger I rather frequently experienced a phenomenon that connected my body and my perception of sound/silenc e…
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Text excerpts from CD booklet.
ANIMISTIC (FOR DONATELLA) CD
2001
ELAPSED TIME
Elapsed Time
is inspired by the book THE SECRET WAR, by Brian Johnson (British Broadcasting Corporation, 1978). The sounds and sequences used in the piece were recorded exactly fifty years after …
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Text from CD booklet.
ELAPSED TIME CD
1999
KEYHOLES texts
(1986)
I owned an electronic organ that I abandoned at the age of twelve after recurring skin allergies which completely absorbed my will to attend organ lessons in the summer. The next time I switched it on I was fourteen …
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From text panels inside the installation KEYHOLES and from the invitation card to its exhibition.
KEYHOLES installation
1996
ROGUE Nummer 33 «Natur & Moral»
Issue 33 of a German art and culture magazine, text and layout by Marc Behrens.
1995
ROGUE Nummer 30 «Der Klang der Dinge»
Issue 30 of a German art and culture magazine, layout and most texts by Marc Behrens and Christian Schröder.
1990
THE HOUSEWIFE texts
with Walter Hartmann
The Housewife
On the kitchen table a pink radio is blaring. Bang goes the pan. But the HOUSEWIFE does not turn her head nor the knob. Instead, the potentiometer of the radio has turned into a parameter …
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From booklet of cassette tape release (including plates and corrected version of layout).
THE HOUSEWIFE cassette tape
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