
03.04.2012 / Arts & Culture
Eight nights at MOMA
One of the first groups to popularize electronic music and probably the only band to ever inflence black music, Kraftwerk will perform at a unique event in New York City: a series of eight concerts at MOMA, from April 10 through April 17.
Born in the late Sixties out of the encounter of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, through fifteen years 15 the German band based in Düsseldorf laid the foundations of electronic music as we have come to know it today.
Having met as students, Hütter e Schneider managed to put Germany at the center of the world’s electronic music scene through brand new musical language, mixing pop music and synthetic sounds ina time when synths were still huge and elaborate machines changing tonality with every voltage drop in the power line. Kraftwerk also succeeded in making this music rather popular, thanks to the success of albums such as Radio-Activity (released in 1975, a huge hit in France) and singles such as Computer Love (#1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1981).
Kraftwerk’s amazing work and the event’s nature make MOMA’s audiovisual retrospective a truly unique occasion. Each night will be devoted to one of the the band’s eight re-edited albums included in The Catalogue boxed set (all of which have been originally released between 1974 and 2003).
So if you’ve never attended a Kraftwerk concert, this is your big chance. Unfortunately, the online ticket sales system apparently failed , and most tickets were gobbled up by scalper robots, only to re-appear on Craigslist at iniquitous prices…
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