About

A wolf tone is an acoustic disturbance, a “howling” sound made by bowed string instruments. Its name refers to the wolf fifth, an interval perceived as very dissonant that was shunned in Western music for a long time and has been eliminated in today’s standardized tuning. Using this sonic outsider as a point of departure, Augustin Maurs looks at what is excluded from harmonic music and harmonic societies in his musical performance. He draws upon the cultural history of the wolf as a symbol of fear, deviation, and resistance—from the myth of Lycaon via Disney villains to current political fearmongering.

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Photo: Annika Larsson