Ernest Berk: An Expressionist 'Outsider'

欧内斯特·伯克是英国最多产的电子音乐作曲家之一，在1957年至1984年间完成了200多部重要作品。这些作品，往往是实质性的和熟练的制作，组成一起伯克的编舞为他的舞蹈公司进行。自他去世后，他的作品一直默默无闻-只有两件作品在他的一生中被释放，他捐赠给科隆国家档案馆的档案仍然没有编目，并且在部分建筑倒塌时受到严重破坏。这个项目将与马丁科勒在档案馆倒塌前制作的数字化音频材料以及剩余现存材料的新数字化一起工作，以制作关于伯克工作的第一本英语书。我们将不仅从他作为编舞家的工作角度，而且从他作为纳粹德国流亡者的工作角度，以及作为一个坚决在当时的大型文化机构和学术界之外工作的人来审视他的生活，工作，美学和工作方法。此外，我们将创建一个欧内斯特·伯克电子音乐的数字档案和一个配套的网站，通过与那些与他一起工作的人的访谈，档案文件，作品分析以及他用来实现他的作品的工作室设备来介绍他的作品。为了在更广泛的背景下研究Berk的工作，我们将举办两个研究日，研究英国电子音乐的“失落的声音”，以及研究当时的文化机构在促进和促进电子音乐的特定方法中所发挥的作用。通过研究伯克的工作，并从地缘政治的角度在英格兰更广泛的场景，我们的目标是了解伯克的工作，在自主电子音乐与舞蹈一起播放是非常反对当时的流行审美和“功能音乐”由英国广播公司推广。我们研究伯克的作品如何与西欧的电子音乐有更强的亲缘关系-而英国广播公司推广的“功能性电子音乐”是东欧广播电台推广的美学-以及由此产生的影响。研究成果将包括两本书，一本是关于欧内斯特·伯克和他的电子音乐的，另一本是从研究日中产生的论文集，该论文集在二战后的机构和地缘政治环境中更广泛地关注电子音乐，以及参与其创作的艺术家。除了数字档案馆和网站，一套5 CD精选的伯克作品将由哈德斯菲尔德当代唱片公司发行。

Ernest Berk was one of the most prolific composers of electronic music in England, completing over 200 significant works between 1957-1984. These works, often substantial and expertly crafted, were composed to be performed alongside Berk's choreography for his dance company. Since his death, his work has fallen into obscurity - only two works were released during his lifetime, and the archive that he donated to the National Archive in Cologne remains uncatalogued and was significantly damaged when part of the building in which it was housed collapsed. This project will work with audio materials digitised by Martin Kohler made before the collapse of the archive, as well as new digitisations of the remaining extant materials, to produce the first English language book on Berk's work. We will examine his life, work, aesthetic and working methods not only from the perspective of his work as a choreographer, but also as an exile from Nazi Germany, and as someone who resolutely worked outside of the large cultural institutions of the time and academia. In addition, we will create a digital archive of Ernest Berk's electronic music and an accompanying website that contextualises his works through interviews with those who worked with him, archival documents, analyses of works as well as the studio equipment he used to realise his works. To situate Berk's work in a wider context, we will host two study days examining the 'lost voices' of electronic music in England, as well as examining the role that the cultural institutions of the time played in facilitating and promoting a particular approach to electronic music. Through examining Berk's work, and the wider scene in England from a geopolitical perspective, we aim to understand how Berk's work in autonomous electronic music to be played alongside dance was very much against the prevailing aesthetic of the time and the 'functional music' promoted by the BBC. We examine how Berk's works have a stronger kinship with the electronic music of Western Europe - whereas the 'functional electronic music' promoted by the BBC was an aesthetic promoted by Eastern European Radio stations - and the implications arising from this. The research outcomes will comprise two books, one about Ernest Berk and his electronic music, and an edited collection of essays arising from the Study Days looking at electronic music more widely within a post-World War 2 institutional and geopolitical setting and the artists involved in its creation. In addition to the digital archive and website, a 5-CD set of selected works by Berk will be released by Huddersfield Contemporary Records.