Sleepy Ralf Robot in Time magazine
ASMO23
dentaku
Well ther is another confirmation of The Catalogue in here
A translation from the heart, i'm not a native german or englishspeaker
but got a good six year wasted on the language in highschool:
--
Many people wake up in the morning and know, I have to go to the
Northpole. Not me. The word dream is not in my dictionary. I have
visons, nonetheless. But a better word for me is: concentration.
We at Kraftwerk have implemented the 168-hour workweek. Which means that
we do not differentiate between life and work. For me such a distinction
seems to be artificial. Work has no negative connotation for us, It's
not a process which starts on mondays and ends on fridays. You can get
ideas everywhere. The differentiation between fases like load and
discharge seems meaningfull to me. But it doesnt lead to freedom.
It feels good to be part of a machine, it's a liberating feeling, even
when I pose as an individual. We play the machines and they play us. We
play on tape, and then the tape plays back. To compose is to join thing
together, while we work with chance and spontaneousness.
Music reaches ranges, we cannot reach with words. Otherwise I would
perhaps have become a poet. For a long time we have developped for
Kraftwerk the conception of music, which you can see with your eyes
closed. As a studentband we travelled hundreds of thousands of
kilometers. One drives and drives. One day we made a song of these
experiences: Autobahn. In which cars play a part. The engines buzz in
overtones, which we have mixed with synthesizers. In rockmusic there are
numerous songs about cars. But they allways revolve around ego's: me and
my car. Never did one speak from the motorway. <Autobahn-lyrics
omitted>. Allready at that time, we left the stage at concerts, and the
people still danced on. That was the idea: the musician withdraws
himself, or abolishes himself alltogether. The music plays itself,
becomes part of an interlaced, worldwide system and propagates itself
like a virus.
The song has developped itself like a neverending road, Not the road is
the prize, but the road is the road. Freedom of thought. Compositon like
a river flowing. In flux. Music with the finger in mind.The fingers find
there way on their own. Like in cycling: One stops thinking. A bike is
like an instrument: it allways goes forth. When I have to make a wish,
then: allways continue. Music non-stop.
Ralf Hutter, 62, is one of four members of Dusseldorfs Kraftwerk. The
pioneers of electronic music are admired worldwide since the seventies.
On stage they let themselves be replaced with puppets. Our picture shows
Hutter as puppet in which the photographer has installed his real eyes.
In september the complete work or the band is released in a technicly
reworkerd version.
--- Well, opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.
D. Harry
rick
> ASMO23 schreef:
>> can anyone translate this?
>> http://www.elektropolis.de/zeit_magazin.jpg
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Ed
>
> Well ther is another confirmation of The Catalogue in here
>
> A translation from the heart, i'm not a native german or englishspeaker
> but got a good six year wasted on the language in highschool:
So, the usual drivel.
--
rick
Bruce Atchison - author
What I'd like to know is about the early years and how they made the sounds
that we hear on the first 3 albums.
I think all creative people work 168 hours per week. I find myself dreaming
that I'm writing. Sometimes I'm composing music. I woke up on July 28th
with a title in my mind for a tune that I was composing for Gary Flanagan's
CD compilation. Creativity never sleepss, or so it seems to me.
Sincerely,
Bruce Atchison - author of Deliverance from Jericho (Six Years in a Blind
School) and When a Man Loves a Rabbit ((Learning and Living With Bunnies).
Please visit my blog at the
http://canadianauthors.ning.com/profile/batchison and
http://www.bruceatchison.blogspot.com pages.