Music
Petite messe solennelle – An Oratorio as Visual Theater
| After their acclaimed premiere of "Petite messe solennelle" in autumn 2011, Nico and the Navigators will again present their production at the RADIALSYSTEM V: From June 22 - 24, 2012, the twelve singers, three pianists and four performers under the direction of conductor Nicholas Jenkins and stage director Nicola Hümpel will perform anew the "Petite Messe solennelle" by Gioachino Rossini, reviving Rossini’s ambiguous world by providing a contemporary perspective on his work. |  |
Myth 116
| 09.12.2011, Berlin | In December 2011, the CD "Mythos 116" of the CALMUS vocal ensemble Leipzig was awarded the SUPERSONIC AWARD of the Luxemburg classical magazine Pizzicato. With “Myth 116,” the young but multiply awarded CALMUS ensemble has worked a very special concert program out: In 1616, Burckhard Großmann, a merchant from Jena, commissioned a composition from sixteen composers from central Germany – including such masters of sacred music as Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein and Michael Praetorius –, who wrote a five-part musical score of the 116th psalm in Martin Luther’s translation. Prompted by this historical event, the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig commissioned a new composition in 2010 – from two of the most important central German composers of our time: Steffen Schleiermacher and Bernd Franke. During the “Myth 116” concert, several of the 17th-century works will be performed alongside premieres of Steffen Schleiermacher’s “convertere anima mea in requiem tuam” and Bernd Franke’s “And why?” |  |
Perceptible Data Streams: datamatics [ver.2.0]
| 25.03.2011, Berlin | The high speed and amount of data streams is the challenge of our digital age. It is also a main subject of the works by Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda, winner of many international awards. In his performance “datamatics [ver.2.0],” which will be presented at trafo on March 26, 2011, at 10 p.m. as part of the MaerzMusik festival, he investigates the perception of the invisible multi-materiality of the data stream that permeates our world. As sources for the sounds and visualizations of his tightly composed work Ikeda uses pure data that he, in a minimalist yet impressive manner, transforms into three-dimensional shapes. The focus is on sound as sensation. |
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Musical Cross-Border Dialogue – Laptop Orchestra Reworks Missa Choralis by Franz Liszt
| 03.06.2010, Berlin – Pécs – Osijek | In 2010, the Ernst Schering Foundation and MitOst e.V. for the third time organized a joint competition – this year under the title “kultur-im-dialog.moe” (culture-in-dialogue.moe). The competition is designed to promote cultural projects that foster the long-term relationship between neighboring countries and/or in border regions in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe. One of the winning projects is the “Musical Cross-Border Dialogue” of the Berlin Laptop Orchestra. The Laptop Orchestra transforms classical music into contemporary electronic music and thus tries to sensitize young people and young adults from the Duna/Dráva border region between Pécs, Vukovár, and Osijek to the social and artistic transformation processes of our times. |  |
inside ciacona – A Three-dimensional Listening Experience
| 17.03.2010, Berlin | Completed in the early 18th century, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin” is a rather unusual composition for his time, forgoing as it does any other accompanying instrument. Using the violin simultaneously as a melodic, accompanying, and bass instrument, these complex, polyphonic compositions, which push the performing musician to the limits of his/her ability, are one of the milestones in the history of music and an essential part of the violin repertoire. |  |
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