Blaudzun : musik ungeklärter herkunft (original soundtrack)

The Cobra Museum has asked singer and composer Blaudzun if he would like to undertake a search for “Music of an unknown source”, inspired by Sigmar Polke’s 1996 series Musik ungeklärter Herkunft.
In 1995, Polke was invited to make a series of paintings for the IFA Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen. After an initial meeting with the artist, curator Götz Adriani was unable to get hold of Polke for weeks. When he was finally able to visit Polke’s studio in Cologne in December 1995, it turned out that the then 64-year-old artist had been working like crazy all that time. From a ‘fascinating abundance’, according to the surprised client, the selected a series of 40 pieces together. That was the ‘music of unknown origin’: Musik ungeklärter Herkunft (1996). The series of gouaches has travelled the world ever since and is now on show for the first time with a specially composed musical score by Blaudzun.