A visit to freiLand, a self-managed cultural and community space spanning a large industrial area where once warplanes for the Nazi regime were produced and thousands of people worked in forced-labour camps. The Giraffe, a wooden sculpture and dynamic solar and wind-energy installation produces local renewable energy. I do a one hour radio interview with Erich Benesch. He has asked me to bring music, and I spent quite some time yesterday thinking about it. We talk about art and walking and activism and we don’t manage to listen to everything but this is the playlist I brought:
Pt. 9, Corrie van Binsbergen, from her solo guitar album Self Portrait in Pale Blue. A song she created while thinking of me walking.
Wild, Albert van Veenendaal, from the album The Eye in the Needle. I wrote the texts for this project about "How to be human in today's world".
The Trees of Green-Wood, Caroline Shaw, from the album The Whale. A composer and musician who creates bridges between music, environmental awareness and deep listening. The song is a long list of trees.
Dawn Chorus, Cosmo Sheldrake, from the album Wake Up Calls. The English multi-instrumentalist and composer is known for his acoustic ecology and this album was composed entirely of bird calls from endangered species in the UK.
Peripetatic, Alex Nowitz, from the album Spinors that came out on the label Evil Rabbit Records for which I do the photography. Peripatetic means “walking about” or “wandering” and relates to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle who taught while walking. Also: Alex is at home in Potsdam, something I didn’t know until I arrived.
Laurie Anderson, Walking and Falling, from the album Big Science. “You're walking. And you don't always realize it but you're always falling. With each step, you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling.”
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