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EAF Ensemble Academy Freiburg
The relationship between performers of New Music and classical music is often strained by prejudice. The Ensemble Academy Freiburg offered professional musicians in both fields the opportunity to discover what their diverse performance practices have...
Cinema Jenin – A Symphony
The cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin reopened in August 2010 for the first time since suffering heavy damage during the first intifada in 1987. With two other movie houses in Ramallah and Nablus, the cinema in Jenin is now the third public...
The Acoustic Kleist Memorial
„man sagt hier den 21en November; wir wissen aber nicht ob es wahr ist.“ schreibt Heinrich von Kleist 1811 an seinem Todestag aus dem Wirtshaus „Stimmings Krug“ am Kleinen Wannsee bei Berlin. In einem Waldstück am See schießt der Dichter kurz darauf...
Preparing for Departure
Neurological research has shown that music has the ability to reactivate areas of memory which had been thought to be lost. Especially for older people who largely define themselves by their experiences and past relationships, music can serve as an...
Dark was the Night
This project investigated our perception of music in darkness. Enclosed in a dark room, visitors lay on resonant structures and listened to the musicians play their instruments while moving vertically or horizontally around the room. The audience...
Clang – Cut – Book
The project “Clang – Cut – Book” featured selected composers who teamed up with writers to artistically process urban sound situations in Berlin and Buenos Aires. They identified locations in the city on the basis of their acoustics, historical...
Christoph Schlingensief - The Flying Dutchman
The Amazonas Opera Festival invited Christoph Schlingensief to direct Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman at several venues around Manaus - a Brazilian city of over a million inhabitants. The festival director Luiz Fernando Malheiro, who caused a...
The Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach
The Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the best-known and most frequently performed compositions of religious music in the world. Attending a concert of the Oratorio during the Christmas season has practically become a tradition of...
Club Contemporary Classical (C3) Festival
The C3 festival explored the divide between New Music and electronic club music – two genres which have had little in common in the past, even though many composers have ventured to combine so-called “serious” music with entertaining music. Lately a...
Harry Partch: Delusion of the Fury
The American composer Harry Partch (1901 – 1974) is widely regarded as one of the first composers to almost exclusively specialize in microtonality. During the course of his life, he not only developed a highly complex tonal system, but also built an...