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Erste Veröffentlichung lt homepage. Einband leicht berieben. - Auflage: 100. - Inhalt: Bemerkungen -- Konzept -- Zeichnungen -- Realisation -- Biographien. Eberhard Blum: Akustische Zeichnungen [Acoustic drawings] Published by Rolf Langebartels Edition Giannozzo, Vol. 22, Berlin 1982 14.4 x 16.5 cm, 52 pages, 11 b/w illustrations In his life and in his work, the musician and visual artist Eberhard Blum (1940?2013) established a continuum of the musical and visual arts. From the beginning to the end of his working life, sight was inconceivable without sound, and there could be no art without music. As a leading exponent of new and experimental instrumental, vocal?verbal, conceptual, and interdisciplinary works, Blum defined contemporary performance practice as much through the strength of his commitment as he did through the vigor and artistry of his playing. Had it not been for his authority as a soloist, his stamina and expressivity, many works of New Music would surely not have been developed around and variously scored for the full range of his flutes and voice. Nor would such works as the late, long trios of Morton Feldman have been given durations of up to four and a half hours. Likewise, the authenticity of his phonic-art recitations?foremost, here, his bravura performance of Kurt Schwitters?s Ursonate?relied as much on the virtuosity of his articulation as it did on the integrity of his persuasive physical involvement with a piece?s form. From the late 1970s onward, this body language, whose exuberance well served the emphatic production of sound, manifested itself in Blum?s work as a visual artist as well. Employing gestures whose origins he recognized in the mechanics of the writing process, he went on to produce countless graphic?conceptual works on paper?at first, parallel to his concert and recording activities, then, having chosen to end his work as an active musician in 2001, as the principal focus of his artistic production. In addition to his work as a visual, performing, and recording artist, Blum cultivated the art of conceiving, developing, and realizing ingeniously designed concert programs of music, both old and new, that he had valued and dedicated himself to throughout his lifetime. Collaborating with musicians he admired both personally and professionally, he more often than not presented these programs, whether as single concerts or as series, in art museums and galleries. Detailed information and commentary on individual concert series can be found in his autobiographical CHOICE & CHANCE: Bilder und Berichte aus meinem Leben als Musiker (An illustrated account of my life as a musician, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2008). The last sentence of this book, written in 2007, reads: Ein jeder hat seine Besessenheit, meine besteht jetzt darin, unermu?dlich an der Schaffung des von mir angestrebten Œuvres zu arbeiten?ohne dabei die Musik nur einen Moment lang zu vergessen??Each of us has an obsession, mine now lies in striving to create a [graphic] œuvre, without forgetting music for a single moment." 1940 · born in Stettin (now Szczecin) on 14 February 1960 · flees the GDR for West Berlin 1960?1964 · studies flute with Aurèle Nicolet at the Hochschule fu?r Musik, Berlin From the early 1960s · performs and records new and experimental music and phonic art From 1973 · Creative Associate at the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a member of the Ensemble Morton Feldman and Soloists From the late 1970s · works as a visual artist From 1990 · records circa 30 CDs 2001 · concludes performance and recording activities; devotes himself to visual work 2004 · elected a member of the Akademie der Ku?nste, Berlin, Visual Arts Section 2013 · died in Berlin on 5 March 1974 · Young artists? prize of the Berlin art prize, Akademie der Ku?nste, Berlin (Music Section) 1977/78 · Artist-in-residence grant for the Cité des Arts, Paris 1978 · Grant for the P.S.-1-Project, New York 1984 · Villa Serpentara prize of the Akademie der Ku?nste, Berlin (artist-in-residence in Olevano Romano) 1995 · Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge-Preis fu?r unkonventionelle Kunstvermittlung [Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Prize for Unconventional Advancement of the Arts] of the Stiftung Preussische Seehandlung, Berlin 1998 · Lifetime Achievement Award from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, Buffalo Conception, Organization, and Realization of Concert Series 1972 · Cage Object : For the 60th Birthday of John Cage, Galerie Kleber, Berlin 1977 · Berlin Now, The Kitchen, New York 1978 · Audible and Visible Pieces on Flutes (with Ann Holyoke Lehmann), Hallwalls, Buffalo 1980 · Theobald Boehm: Ein merkwu?rdiges Ku?nstlerleben [A remarkable artist?s life], Ku?nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1982?1986 · Hörformen I?V [Forms of listening], annual concert series at Ku?nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1984 · Sprachen der Ku?nste [Languages of the arts], Akademie der Ku?nste, Berlin 1987 · Konzert?Performance?Ritual [Concert?performance?ritual], Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Du?sseldorf 1988 · Positionen der Moderne [Positions of the modern], Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1989 · Stationen der musikalischen Moderne [Stations of musical modernism], Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau 1990 · Stefan Wolpe und die musikalischen Avantgarde [Stefan Wolpe and the musical avant-garde], Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum fu?r Gestaltung, Berlin 1991 · Mit anderen Ohren [With other ears], Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum fu?r Gestaltung, Berlin 1991 · Berlin Sound Works, Berlinische Galerie at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin 1993 · Choice & Chance, Aspekte der Entscheidung in Komposition und Vortrag [Decision making in composition and performance], Literaturhaus, Berlin 1993 · The New York School, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin 1993 · Die Zukunft des Hörens [The future of listening], Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1993 · Die Kunst der Serie [The art of the series], Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1996 · Morton Feldman Festival, Gu?tersloh 1999/2000 · 10 Manifestationen zur Jahrhundertwende, Musik, Kunst, Literatur und Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert [10 manifestations at the turn of the century: Music, art, literature, and architecture in the 20th century], Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2002, 2003, 2004 · Forum Neue Musik [Forum new music], Staatliches Museum Schwerin 2012 · Von der Disziplin der Anarchie: Der Komponist John Cage [On the discipline of anarchy: The composer John Cage (for his 100th birthday)], Akademie der Ku?nste, Berlin