Music in factories | Rhine-Main

• OfAndreas Hartmann

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“Sound art” accompanies days of industrial culture

The festival “Days of Industrial Culture”, organized by the cultural region, has an attractive companion this year: The Frankfurt-Rhein-Main Cultural Fund is combining a ten-part series with concerts and sounds at ten unusual locations.

For example, the cellar of a winery in Eltville, a water tower in Hochheim am Main, the historic cable railway in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen (see adjacent article), the former Zauberberg pulmonary sanatorium in Kelkheim or the engine shed of the railway museum in Darmstadt-Kranichstein are used.

The musicians’ installations were specially created for the respective locations, reports curator Julia Cloot, herself a musicologist. She raves about the Offenbach Mato factory, in whose former gatehouse Jens-Uwe Dyffort and Roswitha von der Driesch offer “Distant Rhythms”. “It’s an incredibly great building,” she says.

The music and the ambient noises combine in the installations to form spatial compositions. “The musicians should capture the aura of the places,” says Cloot. “These are some of the greats in the sound art genre that appear.” And she is certain: “Even if you visit all ten locations with sound installations, you won’t be bored. It’s incredibly varied. “

All of this is also suitable for families and children. “The sound art is also corona-compliant, because visitors can wander through the rooms at their own pace and at a distance,” she says.

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