Rote Wueste

Stefan Németh’s Rote Wueste stages what could be called a productive discrepancy. The source material consists of the music track of the same name by his band Innode, released on their album SYN in 2021. Inspired by the electronic soundtrack to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il deserto rosso (1964), Rote Wueste creates an ominously swelling sound tableau interspersed with an accomplished arsenal of rhythm, which becomes ever more finely detailed and culminates in the tension of the “Now” (and the “Not now”). The present is splintered and shattered, in line with late modernist fantasies of alienation.
Coupled with this audio drama are images of a 2006 trip to and through Brasilia. Németh...