MUSIC FOR DEAD ANIMALS 3a

Music for dead Animals 3a

Music for Dead Animals consists of a series of films documenting how Neo Hülcker and Henry Wilde play concerts for dead animals. Only they and the animal are present. The focus is on the way the respective animal heard and the sounds it perceived in its life. The project began in 2017 with the mummified owl Pierre, which Neo Hülcker and Henry Wilde discovered during a summer vacation in southern France. Further concerts for the beetle Ambrosia, the dog Archi, the vixen Freya and the crocodile Kroko followed.

The project encompasses several formats, including a YouTube channel, live performances, and a score of how to make a concert for a dead animal >> here.
Music for Dead Animals 3a is a live performance which took place in the 5th Edition of Héroines of Sound Festival, at HAU2 Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), on the 7th of December 2018 >> here.
Music for Dead Animals: A Lecture Performance occurred at KuLe, Labor Sonor (Berlin), on the 9th of July 2018 >> here.
For Meleagris Henricus Wildus, Henry Wilde composed a memorial piece for Neo Hülcker’s cat Schnucko (died 2009) >> here; Neo Hülcker’s composition In Memoriam Schnucko features Henry Wilde as a virtuoso turkey impersonator >> here. Both were performed in and hosted by Social Pleasure Center at Fortuna Wetten (Berlin), on the 19th of April 2023.