Tomorrow sirens will start to sound in Brno, there will be twenty-five cannon shots, the engines of starting aircraft will be heard and the sirens of ambulances and fire engines will go off. All these sounds of the city are part of the Symphony of Sirens, the loudest composition in the history of mankind and one of the highpoints of the Moravian Autumn festival.
The duo of Andreas Ammer and FM Einheit (ex-member of Eistrürzende Neubanten) adapted especially for Brno this work by Arsenij Avraamov, who performed the symphony for the first time in 1922 in Azerbaijan’s Baku. He conceived of it as a spectacle of sound made up of the noises of a port city, in which he joined the war fleet, the sirens of all the factories in the city, aircraft, soldiers, hydroplanes … “Since the time when the work was created there have been a few attempts at its reconstruction, and ours is clearly the most ambitious of these to date. The fact that this is an event of world significance is shown by the fact that it will be recorded by Bavarian radio,” stated the director of the Brno Philharmonic Marie Kučerová.
“We are not scared - we are really looking forward to it. And no-one else should worry. Since Tuesday we have been rehearsing in Brno and we are overjoyed. It does not hurt - it is not some kind of atonal insanity. For example when the tuba plays it is wonderful - you can dance to it. We ourselves were overjoyed with it today, it is great - it is wonderful. It works wonderfully for the body, rhythm and senses at once – really danceable,” say the creative duo Andreas Ammer and FM Einheit, who prepared the Symphony of Sirens for Brno on the basis of Arsenij Avraamov’s concept. He performed the work in 1922 in the Azerbaijani port city of Baku.
Saturday’s event begins at 7.30 p.m. in the viewing tower of the Brno Exhibition Centre with a shot from signalling pistol. All the participants will be led by a brass band along with two papal vehicles to Pavilion A, where the Symphony of sirens will take place, lasting about an hour. The main gate of the Brno Exhibition Centre, where tickets (badges) can be bought, will open at 6.30 p.m. Everyone going through the gate will pay 50 CZK, regardless of whether they want to take part in the event inside the pavilion or only listen from outside.
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