Kallabris

Kallabris is the project of Michael Anacker,  born 1968 in Hagen, Westphalia. Active since 1986, Kallabris’ work has  been described as ‘electro-acoustic chamber music’ — a description which should be taken literally. Anacker’s main interest is a reflection on the electro-mechanical conditions of sound recording presented in everyday recording devices such as cheap home computers, dictaphones and answering machines. Thus, he is not interested in the limits of musical styles but in the limitations of sound (re)production.

Besides music, Anacker teaches theoretical philosophy and philosophy of culture at the Ruhr University in Bochum. At present he is lecturing together with Dimitri Liebsch on the philosophy of music — covering positions from Eduard Hanslick to Stephen Davies, Jerrold Levinson and Peter Kivy. His topical research deals with non-representational aspects of intentionality, where ‘pure’ music comes into view as a symbol system which lacks representation — as symbols that mean without meaning something.