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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.
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
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
ROGUE Nummer 33 «Natur & Moral»
Issue 33 of a German art and culture magazine, text and layout by Marc Behrens 1996.
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 1995.
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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