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Cottbusser Chor @ West Germany 13.10.23 door 20:00 showtime: 21:00
Cottbusser Chor @ West Germany 13.10.23 door 20:00 showtime: 21:00
Yusuf Ergün, Eduard Mont de Palol, Margareth Kammererworking note 01
#smallcrowd
The Cottbusser Chor is by German definition not a choir, seven singers are too few for that. Yet seven are just enough to get out of the dynamics of small constellations: Duo, Trio, Quartet.
Seven people is the smallest crowd !The Cottbusser Chor, as a small crowd, claims to represent a social orders.
But is it even possible to make music together in front of an audience and not represent a social order ?
Is it even possible to hear the sound of music and not perceive it as a higher order of existence ?
We of the Cottbusser Chor assume that music always defines a social order and, conversely, ask the question:
How should the musicians and the audience be organized today so that they can imagine new forms of society?
#smallcrowd
The Cottbusser Chor is by German definition not a choir, seven singers are too few for that. Yet seven are just enough to get out of the dynamics of small constellations: Duo, Trio, Quartet.
Seven people is the smallest crowd !The Cottbusser Chor, as a small crowd, claims to represent a social orders.
But is it even possible to make music together in front of an audience and not represent a social order ?
Is it even possible to hear the sound of music and not perceive it as a higher order of existence ?
We of the Cottbusser Chor assume that music always defines a social order and, conversely, ask the question:
How should the musicians and the audience be organized today so that they can imagine new forms of society?
Cottbusser Chor @ Lungomare Bolzano
The art space Lungomare in Bolzano Italy cellebrates its 20th birthday. Cottbusser Chor has been invited to open the festivities with our classic The News Trilogy. But we are also happy to perform Vorahnungen. This time with new texts by Shadi Habib Allah, Vinit Agarwal, Jiachen Xu & Farkhondeh Sharhoudi
30.9.2023 Lungomare art space Bolzano, Italy
Performance times:
The News Trilogy 12:00 & 15:00
Vorahnungen 18:00
Nicholas Busmann & the Cottbusser Chor are giving two summer concerts this year. We have prepared something special for this occasion: not only do we sing new songs of rare birds, but Jiachen Xu, Vinit Agarwal, Haytham El Wardany & Jasmina Al Qaisi have given us new little texts that we don't understand. We are very happy because we trust them; also we came up with some very nice things to copy. We love to copy and you love it too! So this time everyone can join in !
Cottbusser Summer I @ Hopscotch Singing Room 28.6.2023 19:30 ->
Cottbusser Summer II @ Walden:Memory Beach Festival für zeitgenössische Musik & Performance 1.6.2023 19:15 ->
Cottbusser Summer I @ Hopscotch Singing Room 28.6.2023 19:30 ->
Cottbusser Summer II @ Walden:Memory Beach Festival für zeitgenössische Musik & Performance 1.6.2023 19:15 ->
Cottbusser Chor sings Nicholas Bussmann Vorahnungen
with texts by Haytham El Wardany, Micha Lylov, Jasmina Al Qaisi and Yan Jun – 18.3.2023 KM28 Berlin
Installation Views
2018-2022
Nicholas Bussmann – Kosmoskopien
HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
Berlin / Germany 2021
curated by Anselm Franke
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HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
Berlin / Germany 2021
curated by Anselm Franke
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Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Nicholas Bussmann – Singing Yesterday’s News Again
Berlin/Innsbruck/Paris/Beirut
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Berlin/Innsbruck/Paris/Beirut
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Wandering Dunes 002
Exhibition & Performance
Museu Serralves Porto / Portugal 2018
curated by Pedro Rocha
Museu Serralves Porto / Portugal 2018
curated by Pedro Rocha
Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Nicholas Bussmann
Singing Yesterday’s News Again
Installation with 7 channel audio, installation view Berlin 2021
The installation is based on a radio project for the ducumenta14 radio at SAVVY Contemporary 2018. The Installation has been commisioned by Taxispalais Kunhalle Tirol.
Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol 2018
Beirut Art Center 2019
Goethe Institut Paris 2019
Kunstverein Tiergarten 2021
Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol 2018
Beirut Art Center 2019
Goethe Institut Paris 2019
Kunstverein Tiergarten 2021
Nicholas Bussmann – Kosmoskopien
Wandering Dunes Installation with players & performers
Wandering Dunes is an installation, it is a performance and it is a game. The game may be played by the visitors. These figures in sands are moments of the game in transition created by visitors/players. More information on this ongoing project you will find here![]()
Dachs Kirsche Schuh 2021 ![]()
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a mobilé
Gouache paintings of the clouds: Lucile Desamory
Technical realisation: Michael Haarmann
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Gouache paintings of the clouds: Lucile Desamory
Technical realisation: Michael Haarmann
Revolution Songs in an AI Environment 2018 ![]()
installation with a piano robot and scrolling text LEDs
piano robot by Winfried Ritsc![]()
piano robot by Winfried Ritsc
Nicholas Bussmann – Amelica
Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol
Innsbruck / Austria 2018
curated by Nina Tabassomi
Innsbruck / Austria 2018
curated by Nina Tabassomi
Cottbusser Chor
Lucile Desamory
Yusuf Ergün
Margareth Kammer
Laura Mello
Eduard Mont de Palol
Rico Repotente
Aaron Snyder
The Cottbusser Chor is a vocal ensemble and performance group. It has been in existence since the beginning of 2014. The singers of the ensemble speak 13 languages and come from different musical contexts. The algorithm-based compositions in which the choir specializes preserve this diversity. - It is precisely this audibility of languages, gestures, accents and accentuations that is the choir's strength. Since its foundation with the premiere of "The News Blues", the choir has given concerts at Maerzmusik Berlin 2016, Hangar Bicocca Milan 2016, for documenta14 Radio 2017, among others. "The News Blues" became "The News Trilogy" with further parts "Major News / Minor News" and "Secret News" . We blew up the choir to a band: "Kopiergruppe" is a musical neighbourhood project at SAVVY Contemporary & Zeitzone in 2019, an open structure to process musical donations. In the run-up to the concerts we asked pedestrians for musical donations, This little recordings were being copied by the choir The copies of the donations were meshed into a medley during the show. The group plays also an important role for the Wandering Dunes as a performance. The group took part of all three iterations in Innsbruck, Porto & Berlin
The group was also involved in three film scores for "Miete essen Seele auf" by Angelika Levi Arte 2016 Weitermachen Sanssouci by Max Linz / Berlinale 2018. and the upcoming film by Max Linz.
T–p records / Austria & Subjam / China have released an album Digital and on Vinyl on bandcamp
The group was also involved in three film scores for "Miete essen Seele auf" by Angelika Levi Arte 2016 Weitermachen Sanssouci by Max Linz / Berlinale 2018. and the upcoming film by Max Linz.
T–p records / Austria & Subjam / China have released an album Digital and on Vinyl on bandcamp
Kopiergruppe
2019 Savvy Contemporary Berlin-Wedding
Galerie Zeitzone Berlin-Kreuzberg
Galerie Zeitzone Berlin-Kreuzberg
The News Trilogy
between 2014 and 2017 Nicholas Bussmann and the Cottbusser Chor developed algorithms how to sing the news. These algorithms where bundled in The News Trilogy. The News Trilogy was first performed for documenta 14 radio SAVVY Funk at Savvy Contemporary.
I The News Blues
II Major News / Minor News
III Secret News
II Major News / Minor News
III Secret News
Cottbusser Chor The News Trilogy as part of Wandering Dunes at HKW Berlin 2021 Nicholas Bussmann & Cottbusser Chor – Vorahnungen
For Vorahnungen we ask friends, writers, artists to make us a small text or poem in a language we do not understand. One of us learns these words by heart to teach them during the concert to the others and transform it into music. So far we have sung lyrics by Miya Yoshida - Japanese, Farkhondeh Shahroudi – Farsi, Vinit Agarwal – Hindi & Mewati, Jasmina Al Qaisi – Romanian, Yan Jun – Chinese, Haytham El Wardany – Arabic, Pavel Braila – Romanian, Konstantin Schimanowski – Russian, Jia Chen Xu – Chinese, Mikhail Lylov – Russian, Shadi Habib Allah – Arabic
うまさうな 雪がふうはり ふわりかな
寒念仏 さては貴殿で ありしよな
これがまあ 終のすみかか 雪五尺
雪国の 雪もちよぼちよぼ 残りけり
雪とけて 町一ぱいの 子どもかな
春風や 牛に引かれて 善光寺
傘に べたりとつきし 桜かな
竹にいざ 梅にいざとや 親雀
すずめの子 そこのけそこのけ お馬が通る
寒念仏 さては貴殿で ありしよな
これがまあ 終のすみかか 雪五尺
雪国の 雪もちよぼちよぼ 残りけり
雪とけて 町一ぱいの 子どもかな
春風や 牛に引かれて 善光寺
傘に べたりとつきし 桜かな
竹にいざ 梅にいざとや 親雀
すずめの子 そこのけそこのけ お馬が通る
やせ蛙 負けるな一茶 これにあり
悠然と して山を見る 蛙かな
やれ打つな はえが手をする 足をする
あさら井や 小魚と遊ぶ 心太
朝顔や 人の顔には そつがある
開帳に 逢ふや雀も おや子連れ
あまり鳴いて 石になるなよ 猫の恋
蚊一つの 一日さはぐ 枕哉
昼の蚊や だまりこくつて 後から
悠然と して山を見る 蛙かな
やれ打つな はえが手をする 足をする
あさら井や 小魚と遊ぶ 心太
朝顔や 人の顔には そつがある
開帳に 逢ふや雀も おや子連れ
あまり鳴いて 石になるなよ 猫の恋
蚊一つの 一日さはぐ 枕哉
昼の蚊や だまりこくつて 後から
#smallcrowd
The Cottbusser Chor is by German definition not a choir, seven singers are too few for that. Yet seven are just enough to get out of the dynamics of small constellations: Duo, Trio, Quartet.
Seven people is the smallest crowd !The Cottbusser Chor, as a small crowd, claims to represent a social orders.
But is it even possible to make music together in front of an audience and not represent a social order ?
Is it even possible to hear the sound of music and not perceive it as a higher order of existence ?
We of the Cottbusser Chor assume that music always defines a social order and, conversely, ask the question:
How should the musicians and the audience be organized today so that they can imagine new forms of society?
Werner Dafeldecker
& Nicholas Bussmann
Monte Carlo Fallacy
With the first lockdown in early 2020 Berlin became silent. The streets of Kreuzberg looked de-gentrified: it felt like early 90ies in East Berlin. This is the backdrop of the music on this album and this is what made it possible. Within a dozen recording session Nicholas Bussmann on Cello and Werner Dafeldecker on double bass explore the wooden texture of their instruments gently carved out of the self noise of the room.
Both sides of the album are just one take split in two.
Video No.2
2 channel video installation
Tokyo 2007
Etüde in bürgerlichen Gefühlen
Video 18 Minuten 2007
Nicholas Desamory
house music
Lucile Desamory & Nicholas Bussmann
Lucile Desamory & Nicholas Bussmann
Releases on Vinyl & DL
like you
1.000.000.000.000.000.000
You only need to know how it feels to believe
like you
1.000.000.000.000.000.000
You only need to know how it feels to believe