FM Einheit – Exhibition Of A Dream (Interpreted By FM Einheit)

FM Einheit – Exhibition Of A Dream (Interpreted By FM Einheit)
Label: Cold Spring – CSR292CD
Format: 2 × CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 26 Feb 2021
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Monolog, Speech

FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten)

Twelve dreams of musicians, artists, and filmmakers, interpreted by FM Einheit (ex-EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), with voices by: Lee Ranaldo (SONIC YOUTH), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / THROBBING GRISTLE), Susan Stenger (BAND OF SUSANS), Émilie Pitoiset, Erika Stucky, and the Gulbenkian Choir; with guest musicians: Volker Kamp, Saskia von Klitzing, Robert Poss, and Susan Stenger.

Exhibition Of A Dream (L'exposition D'un Rêve) is formed of twelve dreams interpreted as songs. Exploded in time, these are played as temporary and evolving patterns of shapes and forms in an otherwise empty gallery following the drawings of mandalas. Exhibition Of A Dream highlights the complex beauty of how to generate a dream in the mind of the spectator. A shared experience to be lived within our own personal inner space, these remastered dreams are an invitation to listen to a sensitive architecture of words and music.

Created 2017, recorded both in public and in private in the amphitheatres and the garden of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and in Einheit's own studio Steinschlag. The dreamers were: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lee Ranaldo, Émilie Pitoiset, Susan Stenger, Susie Green, David Link, Pierre Paulin, Alexandre Estrela, Tim Etchells, Gabriel Abrantes, FM Einheit, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

Originally released as a 3LP set, and only ever available at the 2018 exhibition at the Foundation. Presented in a 6-panel matt-laminate double digipak. 

Exhibition Of A Dream was commissioned and produced by the Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian - délégation en France (7 October - 17 December 2017). An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland, recorded at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and Steinschlag, Germany.

FM Einheit: stones, springs, score
Volker Kamp: bass, brass
Saskia von Klitzing: drums
Susan Stenger: flute, bass
Robert Poss: guitar

Vocals: Lee Ranaldo, Émilie Pitoiset, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge,
Susan Stenger, Erika Stucky, Gulbenkian Choir.