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Gesamtkunstwerk

(Ger.)

‘Total art work’: term used by Wagner to signify his music dramas in which all the arts (music, poetry, movement, design) should combine to the same artistic end. The concept was not original to Wagner, but the term was.



 
 
Album Review: Gesamtkunstwerk

  • Release Date: 1999
  • Genre: Electronica
  • Label: Source

  • Artist: Dopplereffekt
  • Flags: Compilation (best of)
  • Type: Compilation
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Styles: Electro, Neo-Electro, Electro-Techno
  • Track Picks: "Cellular Phone," "Rocket Scientist," "Speak and Spell"

Review

Including the complete contents of most every Dopplereffekt record released before 2000, Gesamtkunstwerk is an excellent display of paranoid, menacing retro-electro straddling the early '80s and the late '90s. As with Kraftwerk classics "Pocket Calculator," "The Robots," and "Home Computer," the social concerns of Dopplereffekt tracks ("Cellular Phone," "Rocket Scientist," "Superior Race," "Speak & Spell") are expressed almost exclusively in the titles, with a minimum of vocal accompaniment. "Sterilization," the act's most famous track thanks to a few compilation appearances, includes just one vocal tag -- a robotic "We had to sterilize the population" -- but loses none of its post-apocalyptic perfection. Besides the push/pull attraction and repulsion of technology, sex is a big theme ("Plastiphilia," "Pornoactress," "Pornovision") on Gesamtkunstwerk as well. At least until their next underground club hit, this collection is all the Dopplereffekt you'll ever need. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title iTunes Composers Performers Time
Cellular Phone
Juan Atkins Dopplereffekt (4:37)
Technic 1200
...
Dopplereffekt (4:31)
Scientist
Dopplereffekt (4:13)
Rocket Scientist
Dopplereffekt (3:21)
Master Organism
...
Dopplereffekt (3:06)
Satellites
Dopplereffekt (2:49)
Plastiphilia
...
Dopplereffekt (1:02)
Plastiphilia 2
...
Dopplereffekt (2:14)
Voice Activated
Rudolf Klorzeiger Dopplereffekt (4:07)
Speak and Spell
...
Dopplereffekt (4:27)
Denki No Zuno
...
Dopplereffekt (2:51)
Radiometer
Dopplereffekt (4:20)
Pornoactress
Rudolf Klorzeiger Dopplereffekt (2:24)
Infophysix
Dopplereffekt (3:52)
Pornoviewer
Rudolf Klorzeiger Dopplereffekt (2:30)
Sterilization
Dopplereffekt (2:30)
Gesamtkunstwerk
Dopplereffekt (6:07)

Credits

Dopplereffekt (Main Performer)
 
Wikipedia: Gesamtkunstwerk

Gesamtkunstwerk ("total," "integrated," or "complete artwork") is a German term attributed to the German opera composer Richard Wagner which refers to an operatic performance encompassing music, theater, and the visual arts. Wagner felt that in ancient Greek tragedy, these had been fused, but at some point they drifted apart — he was critical of the opera of his time which he felt emphasized the music too heavily and did not contain quality drama.

The term, which might also be translated "synthesis of the arts," is commonly used (especially by Germans) to describe any integration of multiple art forms.

The term is also used in architecture to describe a building where every part is designed to be part of a whole.

Wagner placed great importance on "mood setting" elements, such as a darkened theater, sound effects, and seating arrangements which focused the attention of the audience on the stage, completely immersing them in the imaginary world of the music drama. These concepts were revolutionary at the time, but they have since come to be taken for granted in the modern operatic environment.

This term was also used by the Vienna Secessionists to describe their ultimate aesthetic goal.



 
 

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