Robert Lippok, OPEN – CLOSE – OPEN

In the organizer's words:

In 2001, the music exchange Napster disappeared from the market after just two years, while iTunes and Ableton Live were released at the same time. When Robert Lippok released the CD "Open Close Open" on the raster-noton label in 2001, it marked a turning point for him. Since the early 1980s, the artist, who grew up in East Berlin, has been testing the boundaries and new territory of art with band projects such as "Ornament und Verbrechen" and, since the 1990s, with "To Rococo Rot". After Lippok's solo album "Open Close Open" was re-released on vinyl on the Japanese label Flau in 2016, he finally released an extended version on a 12" "glow in the dark" vinyl in 2024. Not least this reminiscence of New York techno-maxis of the 90s makes "Open Close Open" an important soundtrack of global as well as local and radical transformations of recent music history, which Robert Lippok will expand with new sounds and reflections at HELLERAU with guests.