The second issue of
CRU includes documents on
Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione,
Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by
Frédéric Acquaviva on the late
Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on
Henri Chopin and the magazine
OU, a set of posters and postcards…
This second issue, printed at 500 copies, includes this time 3 catalogues under the form of affiche + postcard + list of material exhibited + poster of the 3 main exhibs of last year, on Broutin (
Lettrist since 1968), Gil J Wolman (with an amazing survey of his work, also being the first retrospective in Berlin) and a collective exhibition displaying for the first time all together the 3 historical multimedia magazines : Henri Chopin's
OU, Maurice Lemaître's
UR and Larry Austin's
Source.
Added is a CD with the mock up original unreleased version of Trevor Wishart's masterpiece
Anticredos with himself multitracked + Denis Dufour's
Berlin Suite with
Loré Lixenberg. Dufour was a member of the French GRM and founder of Futura Festival. The DVD contains performances at La Plaque Tournante by young German concept composer Johannes Kreidler, new Indian sound artist Hém-Ish, the Lettrists Broutin and François Poyet + a unique documentary of 40' of Gil Wolman at work, a unique document by Silvia Béju filming in 2001 Henri Chopin reflecting on his legendary
OU with ironic comments, and the last intervention published by late Pauline Oliveros (with Ione) : a film of 20' by Frédéric Acquaviva.
Published by
AcquAvivA editions,
CRU is the annual magazine that documents what's happening or what could have happened at La Plaque Tournante (
www.laplaquetournante.org), a non commercial artist space in Berlin and run by French composer
Frédéric Acquaviva and English mezzo-soprano
Loré Lixenberg. The magazine contains a CD, a DVD, some playlists of exhibited material, postcards, affiches and catalogues into the form of posters.
