‍Program note:
I’m going to put in a fresh cylinder and do a little of it myself, and [then] I want you to. When either of us is dead and gone, the survivor will be tickled to death to hear the other’s tones again ... Now it’s in, and you’ve only to begin talking. Whatever you say this evening may be listened to by people 10,000 years hence.
C. B. LEWIS / Mr. Browser's Tribulations (1901)

‍Nostos: the act of returning to a place. Algos: pain. Nostalgia: The pain of wanting to return to a place - for centuries thought to be an actual medical condition that could potentially be fatal.
@ETYMOLOGYNERD / Instagram (2024)

In a distant future with no awareness of music and concerts as we know it, archeologists have excavated a tape-machine and a number of tape-rolls, one of them with a live recording of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. To better understand the nature of the sounds stored on the mostly deteriorated tapes they connect the tape-machine to a "reverse echolocation"-chamber, enabling them to visualise and explore the space where the mysterious, acoustic signals were recorded ...

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(Concert photos: Holger Talinski)

‍Program note:
I’m going to put in a fresh cylinder and do a little of it myself, and [then] I want you to. When either of us is dead and gone, the survivor will be tickled to death to hear the other’s tones again ... Now it’s in, and you’ve only to begin talking. Whatever you say this evening may be listened to by people 10,000 years hence.
C. B. LEWIS / Mr. Browser's Tribulations (1901)

‍Nostos: the act of returning to a place. Algos: pain. Nostalgia: The pain of wanting to return to a place - for centuries thought to be an actual medical condition that could potentially be fatal.
@ETYMOLOGYNERD / Instagram (2024)

In a distant future with no awareness of music and concerts as we know it, archeologists have excavated a tape-machine and a number of tape-rolls, one of them with a live recording of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. To better understand the nature of the sounds stored on the mostly deteriorated tapes they connect the tape-machine to a "reverse echolocation"-chamber, enabling them to visualise and explore the space where the mysterious, acoustic signals were recorded ...

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(Concert photos: Holger Talinski)