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Instrument making in East and West: Olga Adelmann and Curt Jung with a resonating excursion to India
Event date: 07/04/2024
Location: Musikinstrumenten-Museum, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Workshop as part of the conference "Cosmopolitan, international, global: music, archives and politics in East and West Berlin since 1963"
From July 3 to 5, a conference on "Cosmopolitan, international, global: music, archives and politics in East and West Berlin since 1963" will take place at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. As part of the conference, SIM invites you to a workshop on July 4, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the topic "Instrument Making in East and West: Olga Adelmann and Curt Jung with a Resonating Trip to India".
Mentors: Lars-Christian Koch, Thomas MacMillan, Radhey Shyam Sharma, Olga Sutkowska, Rebecca Wolf, Barnes Ziegler
The workshop focuses on two string instruments (viola d'amore and violin) made by Olga Adelmann and Curt Jung and includes letters written by the two across the German border within Berlin. The correspondence between these two instrument makers provides a good starting point for the discussion of perspectives from East and West Germany in relation to ideals of sound and historical performance practice. The resonance strings of some of the instruments will be of particular interest and provide a bridge to theories of the resonance phenomenon.
With regard to the viola d'amore, the aspect of the sound ideal is also part of the East/West theme. The resonance strings play a sound-determining role in the construction of the viola d'amore, as they do in most North Indian stringed instruments. This central sound element in Indian music is hardly present in Western music, with only a few exceptions. An instrument maker from India - Radhey Shyam Sharma - will open up a new level of discussion here. Together we will try to introduce approaches from the fields of ethnomusicology - sound aesthetics and sound ideals - into the discussion.
The workshop also offers the opportunity for internal discussions with the Indian instrument maker and the museum's restorer, Barnes Ziegler, on the subject of restoration and repair.
The sources for the workshop are mainly in German. The workshop itself will be held bilingually, in German and English.
An overview of all workshops and the conditions of participation can be found here.