transformation – EECLECTIC https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt-schlagwort/transformation/ Digital Publishing for Visual Culture Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:22:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://eeclectic.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-EE-blau-signet-32x32.png transformation – EECLECTIC https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt-schlagwort/transformation/ 32 32 In Leder https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt/in-leder/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:12:31 +0000 https://eeclectic.de/?post_type=product&p=16480 The publication presents the series of “leathered” instruments and allows us to hear the newly created sounds

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]]> The publication shows the work In Leder by the artist Käthe Kruse. In Leder consists of 20 leather-covered instruments. The starting point was the drum kit that Käthe Kruse played in the iconic band Die Tödliche Doris in the 1980s and which she “leathered in” as the first of the instruments in an act of transformation and redefinition. This was followed by the guitar, bass, violin, clarinet, recorder, rattles, accordion, cymbals, kettle, xylophon, and claves, which, once covered in leather, became objects in their own right. The new sounds can be heard, and the instruments can be played in the e-book.

The leathered instruments continue to be played in performative settings. In the performance Lieder in Leder* Kruse sings songs from Chöre & Soli, half-hidden in a column of leather. She is accompanied by her daughter Edda Kruse Rosset on the leather-covered drums. All instruments are used in Konzert in Leder, and Kruse beats the metal sheets printed with the lyrics of the songs, which create a clattering counter-sound to the instruments muffled by the leather. Sophia Bicking, Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke, Edda Kruse Rosset and Alma Neumann accompanied Kruse at the one-off concert on April 10, 2025, at the Berlinische Galerie. The performances Lieder in Leder and Konzert in Leder are included in the e-book as videos.

*Lieder in Leder are based on the short acappella songs from the box Chöre & Soli by Die Tödliche Doris, published in 1984 by Gelbe Musik, Berlin, and Pure Freude, Düsseldorf.

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