Carsten Nicolai with Rainer Römer

Carsten Nicolai with Rainer Römer

Portikus

Carsten Nicolai, aleph-1, 2013.

January 18, 2013

aleph-1
a project by Carsten Nicolai with Rainer Römer
a cooperation of Ensemble Modern and Portikus

Sunday, 27 January 2013, 12–4pm

Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt am Main

www.portikus.de

aleph-1
aleph-1 is a collaborative performance project by Carsten Nicolai with Rainer Römer of Ensemble Modern. This special combination of electronic and acoustic sounds will be presented for the first time at Portikus. Inspired by modern classical and African music, aleph-1 merges melodic and rhythmic elements to a mesmerizing amalgam. The pieces are meant to be infinite and have no actual beginning or ending. They create an ambience rather than an event. In 1884, the term “aleph-1″ was introduced by Georg Cantor into the mathematical world. Since then, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet combined with a number has been used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets. The aleph numbers differ from infinity () commonly found in algebra and calculus. Alephs measure the sizes of sets; infinity on the other hand, is commonly defined as an extreme limit of the real number line, or an extremal point of the extended real number line. While some alephs are larger than others, is just .

Carsten Nicolai – electronics
Rainer Römer – marimba
Norbert Ommer – sound direction

A project in the framework of the Frankfurt Positions—an initiative of the BHF-BANK-Foundation.

Director: Nikolaus Hirsch
Curator: Sophie von Olfers

Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt am Main
T +49 69 962 44 540
www.portikus.deinfo [​at​] portikus.de

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