MARCUS KÜRTEN



Your favourite virtue ::
Modest

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Forthright
Sensitive

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Empathetic
Emancipated

Your favourite occupation ::
Listening

Your idea of happiness ::
An idyll

Your idea of misery ::
Grief

If not yourself, who would you be ::
A good friend

Where would you like to live ::
Southern France

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Green
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Your favourite prose authors ::
Philip Milton Roth
Donna Tartt

Your favourite poets ::
Rainer Maria Rilke
Kurt Schwitters
Reinhard Mey

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Golem
Nosferatu

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Fraeulein Elisabeth von Bernburg
Sigrid Drusse

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Johann Sebastian Bach

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Thomas Alva Edison
John Zorn
Luigi Russolo

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
My wife
Daliah Lavi

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
All brutal, narcissistic and ignorant characters

Your favourite food and drink ::
Saddle of hare
Water
Coffee

Your favourite names ::
Egon
Sophie

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
Vast injustice

The change you most anticipate ::
The change of thinking in the food-processing industry

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
A wider frequency spectrum

How I would like to die ::
Finished

What is your present state of mind ::
Indefatigable

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
Excursiveness

Your favourite motto ::
And in the end, the love you make
is equal to the love you take.

15 juin 2008

Marcus Kürten is a sound activist and coordinator, with Marco Medkour, of Konkretourist, a netlabel for fieldrecordings and concrete sounds. Marcus is actually living in Cologne.

website :: Marcus Kürten
website :: konkretourist

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890