Son[i]a #187
Diedrich Diederichsen
Diedrich Diederichsen is a cultural critic and music journalist whose teaching and writing straddle contemporary art and music, with a particular interest in the area where the two converge: pop culture. He teaches at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a regular contributor to Art Forum and Texte zur Kunst. He was editor of the German magazine Sounds in the heyday of Punk and New Wave music in the early eighties, and editor-in-chief of the influential magazine Spex in the nineties.
SON[I]A talks to Diedrich Diederichsen about the role of criticism and creativity in contemporary art, the social dimension and signifying potential of today’s music, and the links and differences between the art and music worlds.
Audio: Terre Thaemlitz ‘Means From An End’
Duration
This episode explores the concept of duration in music. It examines the different ways that composers and musicians have explored duration in terms of both the large and small.
Lost Techno-Pop Weekend in Rural Midwestern America
This show takes a listen to techno-pop of the seventies and early eighties as a brief yet deliberate interruption into the realms of pop, rock, soul and R&B.
Diedrich Diederichsen. Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with the cultural critic and music journalist Diedrich Diederichsen.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Laurie Spiegel and Terre Thaemlitz