Kraftwerk at Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Kraftwerk – Retrospective April 10–17, 2012.

Over eight consecutive nights, MoMA presents a chronological exploration of the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk with a live presentation of their complete repertoire in the Museum's Marron Atrium. Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of Kraftwerk's studio albums—Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003)—in the order of their release. Kraftwerk will follow each evening’s album performance with additional compositions from their catalog, all adapted specifically for this exhibition. This reinterpretation showcases Kraftwerk’s historical contributions to and contemporary influence on global sound and image culture.




Kraftwerk - Das Model.




Kraftwerk - Computerliebe (1991).



Kraftwerk - Radioactivity.



Kraftwerk - "Pocket Calculator" (1981).

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We always performed with panache and a lot of pan stick, not realizing that we would never scale the heights of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. The British music press took to us and we garnered a couple of reviews in the inky weekly paper Sounds acortesy of Betty Page and Pete Scott and a photo in I.D. magazine, posing in our local grave yard. Wonder Stories became local heroes but never made the big leagues. Our look was thrift store chic and our sound was Kraftwerk, on hire purchase. Traveling to gigs in the back of Nick’s butcher van, we arrived in frilly shirts and smelling of meat-thereby inspiring my later move to vegetarianism.