Discussion

Panel II: Killing with Sound

Andreas Ammer, Victor Gama, Tore Tvarnø Lind, Yassin Musharbash, Moderation: Holger Schulze

Sat, Jan 16, 2016

Exhibition Hall 1

5 pm

Free admission

How are sounds employed for acts of violence?

The music ethnologist and historian Tore Tvarnø Lind researches musical torture. The journalist Yassin Musharbash focusses on Islamism and Islamophobia. They meet Victor Gama, composer with an electronic engineering and music technology background, and Andreas Ammer, who repeatedly explores the theme of musical violence in his audio plays.

Moderation: Holger Schulze

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Audio – 1:24:27

Killing with Sound | Andreas Ammer, Victor Gama, Tore Tvarnø Lind, Yassin Musharbash, moderated by Holger Schulze

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Panel II: Killing with Sound

Killing with Sound | Andreas Ammer, Victor Gama, Tore Tvarnø Lind, Yassin Musharbash, moderated by Holger Schulze

wittmann/zeitblom: Is Everybody In?

Tobago Crusoe and the Kalypso Katz: We Declare War

Songhoy Blues

They will have to kill us first