Nachhall #19: Every Song Ever IV

Paul Wallfisch – Tasten, Stimme, Elektronik Martin Siewert – Gitarren, Lap Steel, Elektronik Mona Matbou Riahi – Klarinette, Stimme, Elektronik Ben Ratliff – Lesung, Gespräch Stefan Grissemann – Moderation November 9th at Echoraum will mark the 4th and final installment of our series EVERY SONG EVER in which we “play the book” by the award winning American music critic and professor Ben Ratliff. I’ve always had a penchant for the ekphrastic, so the notion of “playing” a book is not new to me. I’ve tried it before with Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster. Ben’s remarkable work, practically cries out to have the ecstatic experience of insightful listening he describes come sonically alive. We will be your audio book with extra dimensions! Subtitled Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty, Ratliff’s book is divided into twenty chapters appended by playlists that confound and transcend traditional ways of categorizing music. David O’Neill found “…the most galvanizing aspect of [Ratliff’s] project is that it leaves room for the DIY spirit to emerge…[Every Song Ever] reignites our sense of longing for connection…” “The most significant progress in the recent history of music,” writes Ratliff, “has to do with listening. How we listen to music could be, for the first time in centuries, every bit as important to its history and evolution as what the composer intends when writing it.” While Ratliff’s words are captivating on the page, to me they inexorably inspire performative expression. As I’ve learned in forty years of trying to break down the fourth wall, and as Ratliff writes “Music is a game between performers and audience…” Along with regular co-conspirator, the exceptional Viennese multi-instrumentalist Martin Siewert, I’ll be joined by world renowned Iranian musician and composer Mona Matbou Riahi. We’ll tackle selections from the last 6 chapters of Ben’s book: Just a Little Bit: LOUDNESS R.S.V.P: DISCREPANCY I Still Believe I Hear: MEMORY & HISTORICAL TRUTH On

Nachhall #19: Every Song Ever IV findet am 9. November 2026, 17:00 bei Echoraum statt.

9. November 2026, 17:00

Echoraum · Sechshauser Straße 66, 1150 Wien

Diese Veranstaltung liegt im Grätzl Rudolfsheim (15. Bezirk) – bekannt als bunt, lebhaft, ungeschliffen.

Nächste Öffi-Haltestelle: Grimmgasse (57A), ~50 m.

Sehenswert in der Nähe: Wientalbruecke, Hauptfeuerwache Mariahilf, Kirche Maria vom Siege (Wien).

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