Show for May 15, 2011. Committed to Memory: Trimpin and the Gurs Zyklus
The Gurs prison camp in southern France didn’t rank with the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. There were no gas chambers or ovens. But conditions were bad enough for the thousands of Jews interned there, and the lack of a fitting memorial has long troubled the German-born sound artist Trimpin. His latest work, the Gurs Zyklus (the Gurs Cycle), commemorates this little-known chapter of the Holocaust with an elaborate stage performance, featuring some of Trimpin’s fanciful musical inventions. I talked to participants on the eve of the piece’s premier at Stanford University. Included are interviews with Trimpin, director/performer Rinde Eckert, Gurs survivor Manfred Wildman, and Victor Rosenberg, whose grandparents and uncle were imprisoned at Gurs. Also included: some of the sounds of the Gurs Cycle, such as the fire organ, shown here:
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