nothing is original!

Nothing is original! focuses on musical appropriation in contemporary music (new music), pop, and jazz. From the perspective of appropriation art and various artists who are influenced by appropriation art or who pursue similar concepts, music by Bernhard Lang, Lady Gaga, Danger Mouse, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, etc. is analyzed. In doing so, artistic categories such as original, repetition, and difference are questioned. Nothing is original! Artistic and cultural appropriation in contemporary music, pop, and jazz is aimed at anyone who has a penchant for thinking outside the box. And, of course, for digressions, because, as Laurence Sterne so beautifully puts it: "Digressions are undeniably the sunshine—the life, the soul of reading." There is no continuity in this book. Instead, there is an UNCEASING CONNECTION WITHOUT ORGANIZING UNITY.

Michael Emanuel Bauer (*1974) is a composer and holds a doctorate in musicology. Aesthetically and conceptually, he is close to Appropriation Art. He attended composition courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dieter Schnebel and Bernhard Lang. He has a long-standing collaboration with the Fassbinder composer Peer Raben. Works a.o. at the Vienna Festival, the Munich Biennale and at state and municipal theaters. He also writes for concerts, radio plays, arthouse cinema, is a lecturer in Hildesheim and a juror in the International Antonín Dvorˇák Composition Competition. He is the recipient of the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize of the City of Munich. Publications a.o. at MusikTexte and Henschel.

Art is theft —Pablo Picasso

The collage technique, the art of reassembling fragments of existing images to create a new image, was the most important innovation in 20th century art. —Charles Simic

Good poets borrow; great poets steal. —T.pp.

Michael Emanuel Bauer depicts this dynamic very directly. In his unfinished, incomplete text, he rejects rigid, essentialist concepts and keeps everything fragile and fluid. [...] Michael Emanuel Bauer has succeeded in creating Nothing is Original, a book that, after some initial confusion, can be read with pleasure and profit. It is both text and hypertext, a clever game of confusion, and ultimately an easy read that stands out pleasantly from weighty monographs or overly specialized anthologies." (Michael Rebhahn, JetztMusik, SWR Kultur)

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