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atom tm interview for 06:00am
06am Why is it a hard world the world we are living in?
Is it???
06am Why do we constantly repeat the same mistakes? Have you made mistakes that helped you learn?
We are making the same mistakes over and over, because they are built in. For the very same reasons we have written "user's manuals" such a the bible, the koran, basically any religious writing and as well philosophical texts. Those texts nothing else but show us the possible mistakes and deliver guidelines of how to prevent them. I do take those writings very seriously because of the same reason.
As for own mistakes, yes, of course, one makes them all the time, sometimes knowing, sometimes not knowing, on all levels.
06am Do you believe that what would be enough to make the world better is a bit more discipline?
I think that discipline is just one part, but, yes, absolutely I believe that it's an important element of human life. Discipline itself would not make things better per se, and needs to be accompanied by other things to balance it.
06am What makes us undisciplined?
Entropy.
06am How did you come to become an artist/musician?
By accident actually…and to a certain degree by destiny. It would be too long to list here, but there were plenty of events that, now looking back at it, pretty much let me take the path towards music. One event, and this may sound almost insignificant reading it, and most probably it seemed insignificant in the very moment i lived it was, when i hear a drum machine sounding on the radio for example. up until that point i had only heard real drums, and so was i interested in playing real drums at that time. i perfectly remember the moment i heard an artificial beat and it struck me that that was, what i wanted to be able to do myself.
06am What is your idea of happiness?
Be here now, don't want anything, don't do anything.
06am What is revolution for you?
Revolution comes with a certain amount of aggression i think, and it happens when a system is saturated by the wrong elements or conditions. As opposite to "evolution", a situation where a system can still be "fixed" or made better, a revolution to a big degree is something like the only way out of a rotten situation. by that meaning, it has to take everything by its roots and tear it out, revolve it. for the very same reason there has been no revolution in art, but just evolution. those who claim to have revolutionized art where most clever salesmen, nothing else.
06am What is the role of art? Why do we have it/do it for? Why should it exist?
art shows us, that we are in fact human beings. that we are evolved, have culture and on top of all that, leisure for something that lays outside the sphere of functionality (such as science, technology, etc.). It exists, because human beings are spiritual beings and art connects them with their spirituality, in the sense as it transmits something that, in our usual manners of living our lives, can not be felt, understood or expressed. art shows us the mysterious, the visionary and everything that lays beyond dull explanations, mainly installed by some sort of alpha-male in order to make life easier for him or his clan.
06am Are there people that have influenced you? Is there a person that has influenced you more than any one else?
i think it's no high philosophy to state that everything, may it be human or inhuman, subject or object, does influence you…may it be good or bad. in that sense i can certainly connect certain things of who i am to certain experiences with certain people. who smaller how big those influences are, may be hard, or impossible to tell. there are of course key figures, books i read, music i heard, but it would be unfair to those i do not list, to write down a series of names right now, since this series of names may be arbitrary…who knows?
06am What is/was your father's occupation?
I'm coming from a working class background and my father was craftsman.
06am A real author thrives in an environment of absolute freedom or of social and economic pressure?
hard to say. i guess it's both. there are so called artists that have the luxury to have no social or economic pressure at all, yet, in most cases, their art seems unimportant or even bad. then there are others, who have made extraordinary things in total isolation…and as well there is the opposite: artists driven by economic success who have made great things…and very bad things. as for myself, i believe in absolute freedom, which is in fact something i have a continuous interest in achieving. if i look back at my life until now, almost all important decisions i took where driven by obtaining freedom, mainly through cutting off elements of my life of which i had the feeling they would restrict that freedom.
06am Have you made any sense from the fact that man has the need to invent notions such as that of God and address to them?
it makes actually quite a lot of sense, that in a world of which we have no clue about at all, we tend to refer to higher entities, gods, and so on in order to make it livable. fact is, that we are living in a grid of explanations, a construct we have invented to make our world manageable, bearable and livable. only the ignorant or the stupid believe that those constructs are actually the real thing, the others know that beyond those constructs lays the unimaginable, the infinite, the total void and that we are totally unable to get the slightest grasp of it. it is wise to praise that void, however you may name it!
06am Do you consider yourself a talented person?
yes.
06am Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Frankfurt/Main.
06am Do you believe that places influence our thinking?
Obviously they do! way beyond the usual "social" component, which is obviously an influence to everybody and strongly connected to the place everybody lives, i think that we are not the same if we exist in other places. "matter" and our physical body, such as our non-physical body is only understood in a very shallow way and we don't really know what happens to us, once we move.
06am What book (books) do you read these days?
Karl Marx "The Capital".
06am Is life a matter of endurance?
oh, absolutely! without endurance, entropy wins…ideas fall apart, such as houses, bodies, cultures, empires…
06am Does silence have sound?
As by the definition of the word "silence", it doesn't.
06am Does negative critique bother you?
Not at all. I don't consume or read press, and this includes articles about my work as well. Apart from that, I even think that positive critique could be even more bothering, like for example being loved by someone who completely misunderstands your work. I think that that's really a reason to be bothered about. However, I don't consider information coming from those sources valid enough to take them seriously on any level. interestingly, just the last couple of days i was going through my press archive, since i am uploading everything to my new website "atom-tm.com" (and so will be the press!)…in fact, my daughter is scanning the articles for me, and i format them and prepare them for the upload…well, i couldn't avoid to go through some press articles from 1990/91 just some days ago and really had to laugh about it! so much nonsense, both, from myself and the journalist!
06am What matters more, choices or influences?
is there a difference between the two…aren't they just the very same thing?
06am What does one loses when she/he grows up?
Innocence, no doubt!
06am Would you like to send us an image, of you or of something else, that best describes your current state of mind so that we post it along with your answers?
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ταξίδι στη γη
Ο δίσκος «ένα παιχνίδι» κυκλοφόρησε από την «Fm Records» το 1998 και σ’ αυτόν η Πόπη Αστεριάδη τραγούδησε τραγούδια του Κωνσταντίνου Βήτα.
Τα μέρη του δίσκου:
νέο βάδισμα
μικρή ζω
ένα παιχνίδι
τα φιλιά
η μόνη αλήθεια
τ’ αστέρια τη νύχτα
ταξίδι στη γη (από το «Βιταμίνα τεκ» των στέρεο νόβα)
το τραγούδι της Μαρίας
μεταβίβαση
ποιος καρδιά μου ξέρει
χάθηκες
ταξίδι στη γη (mix ‘98)
Τα μέρη του δίσκου:
νέο βάδισμα
μικρή ζω
ένα παιχνίδι
τα φιλιά
η μόνη αλήθεια
τ’ αστέρια τη νύχτα
ταξίδι στη γη (από το «Βιταμίνα τεκ» των στέρεο νόβα)
το τραγούδι της Μαρίας
μεταβίβαση
ποιος καρδιά μου ξέρει
χάθηκες
ταξίδι στη γη (mix ‘98)
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26.6.12
Eli Keszler interview for 06:00 am
06:Tell us about your best visual experience and your best sonic experience?
06: In which neighborhood did you grow up? Can you describe it to us?
06: What was your parent's dream for you?
ek:not on the internet
06: Do you think that by being honest we help to better our lives?
ek:Sometimes – I think that honesty has the potential to also be a very cruel policy and can be very dangerous.
ek:I don’t really know if I’ve had a best visual or sonic experience – but watching large swarms of birds flying is something I find very striking.
06: In which neighborhood did you grow up? Can you describe it to us?
ek:I grew up in Brookline Massachusetts which is a town surrounded by Boston at all ends. My neighborhood was very quiet and was a short walk to Boston proper.
06: What was your father's profession?
ek:My dad sold Physical Therapy Equipment and medical supplies. He was a very serious musician – mostly guitar and was also an illustrator as well.
06: What was your parent's dream for you?
ek:I think my parents wanted me to be happy mainly – but, I was always encouraged to pursue music.
06: When did you write your first song?
ek:I think I was 11 when I first notated a piece of music. But, I remember singing songs when I was 3 or 4 and walking down the street and not understanding why every one of them lined up with the stomping of my feet.
06: What do you jeopardize by writing music?
ek: A lot of my time – I don’t think much else, I can’t really imagine not writing music.
06: How did you came to become an artist/musician?
ek:I grew up in a very artistic home. There was always music and creative stuff going on, so I don’t really think I ever came to music – it just was in my environment.
06: What puts you down?
ek:Cruelty, politics, financial matters, the state of global affairs, the way people treat each other.
06: Do you believe that art is done for others to experience or is it only for those who make it.
ek:I don’t think it is the same for everybody, but I think its safe to say that art is made for the ideas, and entertainment is made for people. I wouldn’t separate the audience from the creator but more make distinctions between the way the material functions.
06: What instruments did you learn to play? Define your music in relation to the word "instrumental".
ek:I learned to play drums and percussion, as well as guitar and piano. I would say my music is instrumental mostly, I’m not really interested in experimental instruments necessarily in my own work, which may seem like a contradiction, since I design installations. The reason I started building massive installations, is that at the scale that these installation are running, they turn from something instrumental into something more environmental.
ek:I learned to play drums and percussion, as well as guitar and piano. I would say my music is instrumental mostly, I’m not really interested in experimental instruments necessarily in my own work, which may seem like a contradiction, since I design installations. The reason I started building massive installations, is that at the scale that these installation are running, they turn from something instrumental into something more environmental.
06: Which is the greatest pleasure in your life?
ek:Laughing, Eating, Being with friends, Music
06: What is your idea of happiness?
ek:I don’t really have an idea of happiness, it seems very individual to me.
06: Do you consider yourself a talented person?
ek:That’s an interesting question – People say that to me, but I feel like I’m constantly fighting against an instinct to do a bad job. I’m not really sure I know what talent is. In a sense it might simply be having an instinct about what works, what doesn't, and what to do next.
06:. Reveal a secret of yours
ek:not on the internet
06: Do you think that by being honest we help to better our lives?
ek:Sometimes – I think that honesty has the potential to also be a very cruel policy and can be very dangerous.
06: What do you think about the current situation of Europe?
ek:I think it’s horrible – It’s the same thing that happened here – the out of control rich ruining basic rights for people because of blatant greed.
06: Do you believe in the concept of revolution?
ek:Yes
ek:Yes
06: Are there people you remember clearly because they made your way easier in life?
ek:Yes
ek:Yes
06: Does negative critique bother you?
ek:Not really – but uninformed and bad criticism does – mainly because uninformed discourse is pretty common
06: What does one loses when she/he grows up?
ek:I don’t think much about this – though a lot of people do force loss upon there own lives. It’s really up to the people who grow up to decide that.
ek:I don’t think much about this – though a lot of people do force loss upon there own lives. It’s really up to the people who grow up to decide that.
Eli Keszler - Photo by Ashley Paul
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