Eruption (German band)

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Eruption was a performance concept initiated by Joseph Beuys' student Conrad Schnitzler between 1970 and 1972 in West Berlin . Schnitzler, who called himself an "intermedia artist", wanted to remove the boundaries between music, visual arts and performance. He chose Eruption as his name.

In addition to the musical core, which in addition to Schnitzler also included Klaus Freudigmann and Wolfgang Seidel , numerous musicians from German rock music, also known as Krautrock , played at these events, including Klaus Schulze from Tangerine Dream and Manuel Göttsching from Ash Ra Tempel , Dieter Servas from Amon Düül and Lutz Ulbrich from Agitation Free . The first eruption-Event took place in 1970 in West Berlin Prisma. Shortly afterwards, at Christmas 1970, the Peter Brötzmann Group took part in the performance in the recently opened Latin Quarter .

In retrospect, Eruption was an attempt to bring together several artistic movements of the 1960s: free jazz , fluxus and the happening .

  • Eruption flyer for a 1970 event

  • Eruption concept sheet, ca.1970

literature

  • Christoph Wagner: "The Sound of Revolt - The Magical Years of the West German Music Underground". Schott 2013, ISBN 3795708427
  • Werner Pieper (Ed.): "Everything seemed possible - 60 sixties through the 60s and what became of them". Der Güne Zweig 2009, ISBN 3925817522
  • David Stubbs: "Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany". Faber and Faber 2014, ISBN 0571283322