MEMOIRAMA, by grau&

MEMOIRAMA

by grau&

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In the MEMOIRAMA project, grau& tried its hand at the sonic cultivation of memories that shape the present. Orah, Kupi and Achternkamp each presented artefacts from childhood at an empathy research workshop and approached this archival material (image, object, video, etc.) associatively through joint discussion. Different musical practices, inspired by Southeast Asian and European pagan and shamanistic sound rituals and based on text-generative composition, were shared and a common musical expression developed in improvisation. The result of this process is this concept album inspired by the artefacts as well as a sound sculpture, which made both the musical work and the archival material accessible and tangible for the public.

Memory culture often remains trapped in the visual-haptic: MEMOIRAMA aims to create an auditory approach to memory, de-privatising and collectivising it. The community-building element of memory has great potential, and artistic engagement with subjective pasts can help to process personal and collective traumas, explore identities, and thereby create more openness, understanding, and social tolerance for subjective worlds of experience.

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released April 24, 2022

All tracks composed, recorded, and mixed by Ariel William Orah, Maximilian Kupi, and Pia Achternkamp.

Mastering by Maximilian Kupi

Picture and Artwork by Ariel William Orah

Published by L_KW

grauund are Pia Achternkamp, Maximilian Kupi, and Ariel William Orah.

Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR recovery programme.

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grau& Berlin, Germany

The name grau& (“grau und”, engl. grey and) articulates the trio’s never ending curiosity about the “in-between” and the search for anti-dualism in music and noise, tonality and atonality, structure and chaos, concrete and abstract, …

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