Anton Kats
The Cemetery of Melodies Alive (2023)
Sound installation / Commissioned work
Anton Kats, The Cemetery of Melodies Alive (2023), sound installation, installation view, photo: steirischer herbst / Mathias Völzke, courtesy of the artist
Dates
21.9.–15.10.2023
Location
Demon Radio
Graz
Part of
Demon Radio
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
Anton Kats’s newly commissioned work is a meditation on early musical memories. The soundtrackʼs associative, poetic narrative draws on past-life recollections of war and music heard during a childhood in Kherson, in a neighborhood inundated after the Kakhovka Dam was blown up by Russian troops and threatened by a possible sabotage of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant not far upwind. Kats’s central musical reference is Weather Report’s “Palladium,” a piece with cult status in the USSR, eponymous with the chemical element that one day might make cold fusion possible.
Ghost: ILYICH
Voice: Susanne Sachsse
Structural design: Byron Kalomamas
Audio mixing and mastering: Viktor Kurando
Retrospective
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