Schaust du gerne in die Sterne? Womit fühlst du dich verbunden? Im 3. OG des Ethnologischen Museums entsteht ein Raum, in dem du diesen Fragen nachgehen und aus Klängen und Bildern eine eigene Welt bauen kannst, die du mit anderen teilst. Gemeinsam mit Berliner Schüler*innen haben wir bereits viele verschiedene Welten gebaut und angeschaut. Nun […]
American Academy fellow project: The Gamblers- The Zama Zama Miners of Southern Africa. Brody created the sound design and composed music for the installation.
Performer in the Manifesto (2015) https://www.julianrosefeldt.com/film-and-video-works/manifesto-_2014-2015/
Both as an improvisor and film performer. The film is featured as well as live performances at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. More information to come. https://vimeo.com/239506684
The music/video installation and live performance of Fear of Music, Trust in Twelve will be announced soon. Brody’s involvement was as a composer and producer in the studio recording. More information to come!
The collaboration with world Arnold Dreyblatt involved creating a score for his sound-composition and conduction in the video shoot. See description below.
The Music of Yiddish Blessings and Curses installation was a collaboration with the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto. Paul Brody interviewed Yiddish speakers throughout the city to explore their favourite curses and blessings, as well as the stories and memories behind them. Brody was expecting that the blessings and curses would reveal a treasure of Yiddish culture — […]
Music/Video Sound Installation by Paul Brody and Michael Grossmann Premiered at the HochX Living Arts Theater in Munich, Germany (2020) Music & Text: Paul Brody Video: Michael Grossmann The inspiration for Slow Walk with Robert Johnson came from Alvin Lucier’s 1970 milestone sound installation I Am Sitting in a Room, in which Alvin Lucier records […]
Webern from the Inside and Outside A Sound Installation by Paul Brody Videos and Explanation: Video 1: Artist’s Talk at Boulez Saal. Video 2: Sound installation. Video 3: Selection of Videos from the 12 tone contributors. Webern from the Inside and Outside A Sound Installation by Paul Brody (English translation of Webern letter fragments below) […]
This heartfelt story of a Berlin woman teaching Arabic refugee women to ride bikes reflects a huge cultural dialogue.
Mending clothes brought across an ocean, working endless hours in sweat shops, religious and group belonging, combining fabric from two continents, new fashions that start out of necessity in ghettos
5 MINI OPERAS IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE in collaboration with photographer, Dirk Hasskarl (https://www.hasskarl.de/) just won a prize from the ‚Stipendium der Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst (Association of Visual Artists in Germany.) It started as an Artist in Residence project for the Museums Quartier in Vienna. The online presentation inspired new ideas, which lead to […]
Daniel Barenboim Foundation: Pierre Boulez Saal Webern from the Inside and Outside- Composition/sound installation More info in English and German: https://boulezsaal.de/webern-installation-paul-brody Additional composition and performance event in 2018 – 2020 Munich Kammerspiele remake of Bellini’s opera, La Sonnambula directed by David Marton. (Composer and performer) The Munich Kammerspiele premier of On the Road directed by […]
Brody’s sound installation wonderfully captures moments of intimacy… Süddeutsche Zeitung
Four Families Listening An Eavesdropping Installation Technical support by Daniel Dorch Listening has become a dirty word, especially in Berlin. In the early 90’s, when I arrived here it was mostly used while describing East Germans who had been spying on their neighbors and Russians and Americans spying on each other. Today it’s possible to […]
Art Accompanying Noise (2016) is a pivotal work because it explored the sounds around each artist working while he or she talks about creative process. The sounds of work reflect the materials used, and tell their own narrative. The artist discussing their work and the results of the work are secondary to the noises, which are […]
Voices of Help (2016-2917) is a three room documentary sound installation in the Jugend Museum Berlin. The piece explores concepts of help through interviews with community and social workers around a post socialist-communist area of Berlin. (Rote Insel.) The recording of each voice received and instrument that brought out the personal qualities of the […]
Jewish Museum Berlin Catalogue Text in English: 5 EASY PIECES (Surround sound installation) I admit, as a musician I have a bias towards sound. But when I think about Jewish culture, it seems to me that music and storytelling long played a critical role in transporting Jewish traditions. For one thing, visual culture encounters […]
Talking Melody-Singing Story An Operatic Sound Installation