---- **Volksamt! Klang Manufaktur / VLKSFST Orkest**
VLKFST Orkest Re-Enacts: Symphony of Sirens (1922)
**Tele-present performance; spatial audio, 2ch video.** NIGHTLINE, Samstag Nacht, 6. Sept, 02:00 **Installation on the Net. Source Engine Dedicated Server.** And part of exhibition: open throughout, STWST upstairs ---- {{:avraamovcombine.png?400nolink|}} **Volksamt Klang Manufaktur continues their series** of re-enactments of significant 20th century compositions with a reimagining of Arseny Avraamov’s seminal industrial music piece //Symphony of Sirens// (1922) as a Garry’s Mod server. **Presented under this year’s theme FOG MANIFESTO,** the work reflects on the “fog of war” both literally and metaphorically. Avraamov’s Symphony was chosen as the conceptual ursprung because of its connection to fog of war in a literal sense; every performance of the piece had ended in disaster; in Baku, the artillery was shot to soon, covering the ground with so much smoke that documenting the piece was not possible, in Moscow it was played in such a large area that the artillery smoke made it impossible for the performers to see each other. Staying true to the symphony’s open but site-specific format, this re-enactment moves the composition to a video game server. An orchestra of bots fire an amount of bullets that Avraamov could only dream of, inline with the military excess plaguing the world. **After the performance the server** will be available publicly: tba. \\ ---- ---- //**Volksamt Kultur Manufaktur**// is studio for intermedia art based in Netherlands. What Volksamt! does is artistic organization; be it organizing sound into composition, objects into bricolage or people into an entity. While Volksamt! develops a wide variety of work such installations, performances, and digital media, its output is always firmly rooted in the realm of sonic arts. //**VLKSFST Orkest**// is an off-shoot of Volksamt! Kultur Manufaktur; focusing on re-enactments, and performances of original compositions. It is an ever changing cast of brilliant performers. //**At STWST VLKSFST Orkest is:**// Gokay Atabek – www.volksamt.org Fai Hathaway - https://www.instagram.com/faeriefai/ This project would not be possible without Falco Peijnenburg’s (https://github.com/FPtje) MIDI plug-in for Garys Mod and most importantly artist/bandmate/friend Berk Ozdemir’s (https://www.berkozdemir.com/) research/thesis/open source project PPPB.