Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Berlin Train Station Gives Up Plan To Use Atonal Music To Drive Away Undesirables

Last month, Germany’s national rail operator announced that it would start broadcasting atonal music from the speakers at Berlin’s Hermannstrasse station in order to repel drug dealers and homeless people who were congregating there. The city’s new-music community rose up in protest. Lisa Benjes of the Initiative Neue Musik writes about how she organized a concert of atonal music at the station that convinced the powers-that-be to abandon that plan.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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