Kraftwerk—one of the most important groups in electronic music’s relatively short history—will be the focus of a retrospective taking place in April at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the New York Times reports. The band, featuring lone founding member Ralf Hütter, will be present and performing as part of the celebration named Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Starting April 10th and taking place in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, Kraftwerk will perform over eight consecutive nights, with each evening dedicated to one of the pioneering group’s albums in chronological order, starting with 1974’s Autobahn. Tickets for the performances go on-sale on at Noon ET on February 22nd.

Kraftwerk will give a series of eight performances, each devoted to one of its albums, as part of a Museum of Modern Art retrospective of the electronic music pioneers in April, museum officials said. The performances during “Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8,” on consecutive evenings starting April 10, will not only feature tracks from one of Kraftwerk’s albums, but also other original compositions intended to showcase the group’s influence on contemporary culture. Projected images, including 3-D ones, will accompany the music. The albums will be performed in chronological order, one each night, starting with “Autobahn” from 1974 and working up through “Tour de France” from 2003.

Kraftwerk was formed by two music students, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, in 1970, and its robotic, repetitive, all-electronic music influenced virtually every synthesizer band that followed. By the mid-1970s, the group had invented a new electronic music, integrating mechanized sounds from life. Its compositions weave beautiful melodies with multilingual vocals and robotic rhythms. The concerts will take place in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium; tickets are $25 and will go on sale at noon on Feb. 22. Of the band’s original lineup in the 1970s, only Mr. Hütter will perform at MoMA

Tickets are $25.00 and will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, February 22, at 12:00 p.m., only at MoMAKraftwerkTickets.showclix.com. (You must paste the URL into your browser.) This is a public program and tickets are limited; there is no presale window or discount for MoMA members. There is a two-ticket limit per person for the entire series. Tickets will be distributed exclusively via will call, and photo ID is required. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Amazing!

Be nice if one of those shows were available as a stream of some sort.

all the show are sold out

Damn............I might have had 2 get 2 NYC 4 this.