5-5-5-5 cut
Raimund Kummer / Daniel Ott

5 rooms, 5 sculptures, 5 instrumentalists, 5 hours daily over a five-week period: in “5-5-5-5 cut”, sculptor Raimund Kummer and composer Daniel Ott intervene sculpturally, spatially, acoustically and with digital projections in the historical exhibition halls at the Akademie der Künste’s Pariser Platz venue.

The underlying concept is the central axis intersecting all five rooms in the exhibition space – cut is brought into play as a structural principle, as one of the musical and spatial leitmotifs of the SpaceSoundIntervention. The track, produced jointly by the two Akademie members, connects all the works. It transforms walking along a waterbound surface into a recurring sound.

Raimund Kummer’s five sculpture fragments and the three projected videos convey exemplary experiences in dealing with time: floating by, hearing, walking, resonating, counting, fading out, moving up and down, shards, relics and inconclusiveness. Walking along the parcours can be experienced as a continuum of production and reception of the “open artwork”. The following works are exhibited according to the spatial sequence: Krummer Deutscher (2000–2002), Signifikanzloch (1985 / 1991), Zerbrochener Blick, Knobelsdorffachse (2004 / 2016), Piano (1981 /2021), M’ama non m’ama (1994), Faded out (1988–2024), bis hierher und nicht weiter, non plus ultra (2014).

Daniel Ott’s instrumental composition acoustically references the footsteps from the Knobelsdorffachse film soundtrack and simultaneously the different material energies of the five sculptures. The composition remains constantly in motion, both visually (through the musicians’ movements with their instruments) and aurally (through changing musical material). Ott’s interaction with the sound content of materials, spatial structure, ordering systems and disturbances can be seen in the 5-5-5-5 cut musical score: The instrumental passages for two to five musicians for clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, viola, double bass and percussion will be performed live and are choreographed.

The musical composition differs from day to day, from hour to hour, from musician to musician and from instrument to instrument. The visitors’ encounters with the musicians take place directly and randomly in the space.

Musicians:

Bass clarinet: Jone Bolibar Núñez
Baritone saxophone: Jana De Troyer und Ruth Velten
Trumpet: Rike Huy and Paul Hübner
Viola: Josa Gerhard
Double bass: Adam Goodwin
Drums: Max Andrzejewski and Mikołaj Rytowski