Yes, "Event" is now a German word. Also "Performance" and "Club" (pronounced like "kloob").
Last Saturday I attended an Event/Performance by Robert Henke and a visual artist named Christopher Bauder. Robert Henke is a musician I've interviewed; he performs under the name Monolake and developed an important software program called Ableton Live.
The Performance consisted of about an hour of electronic music improvised in real time on a laptop. The music was coordinated with 64 balloons, which were lit individually with LEDs. They were raised and lowered individually in various patterns that coordinated with the music. (Anyone familiar with techno will realize that 64 is a perfect number, because the music is most often structured in exponents of 4.) The audience members were seated on the floor of the gallery, in the dark, looking up at all this.
It was very cool! Here's a link to the gallery homepage and to the Monolake homepage, which has some really cool pics.
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