Dogma of the Reclaiming Social Movement (Movement 07)

Notebooks of European Contemporary Movement (Fundamental Laws and Absurd Dogmas)

PART II

Absurd Dogmas (Notebooks I-V)

Notebook II – Social Movements

 

MOVEMENT 07

Every initial movement with the capacity of overcoming inertia and friction causes waves to propagate with increasing intensity (Dogma of the Reclaiming Social Movement)

 

July 8, 2023. The train stops in Berlin and there’s plenty of time, before the connection to Poland, to stretch your legs and get around the city. Wim Wenders and his Wings of Desire provoke this urge to go there, to Siegessäule. On the way, the techno music starts is pretty audible, and it’s getting louder and louder. The entire boulevard, from the Brandenburg Gate to the Victory Column, is flooded with people. Thousands, tens of thousands, dozens of convertible buses, which are moving dance floors, with sound systems that acoustically drench the surrounding crowd. The parade goes along the avenue, turns around at the traffic circle where there is no Bruno Ganz anymore, then it turns back and resumes its route. There is no beginning and no end, because every space is occupied by the crowd and the buses. When a tourist asks what it’s all about, the answer is that it’s the Rave the Planet Parade, a carnival-style protest parade demanding the dignity of Berlin’s techno scene and the right to equality between musical genres. Thousands of people demanding that the techno scene be recognized. An annual event, which perhaps due to its show of strength, certainly contributed to Berlin techno being officially added to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage on March 13, 2024. Clearly, unity is strength.

 

Published in November 15, 2024

 

Author: Carlos Norton

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Technical file

Movement 07

Sound recorded with Roland CS-10EM binaurals

Rave The Planet Parade, Berlin

July 8, 2023, 15:00

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Mov 07

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