Pomen II – the seductive dance of the world of living and the world of dead

Last week tonight was THE night – had the outmost chance of listening live performance of Milica Djordjevic’s “Pomen II” for solo viola, played by Paul Beckett (ensemble recherche) at Ultraschall Berlin.And boy oh boy what a performance it was! Milica Djordjevic leads us into the intriguing coquetry of life and death. Celebration and grief.…

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Migration into eternity

As the Darmstädter ferienkurse für neue musik 2018 continues to unwrap its treats, quite a special ear-candy was on the menu on this fourth to last day! Among the pieces on the program on this Wednesday 25th, Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea played a piece “Migracion” by Marisol Jimenez. And her sensibility and…

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Immersed in Orchestra… on a Wire

The Darmstädter ferienkurse für neue musik had its very first performance of the festival. Well… No. Not a performance. Not an installation. A sound immersion! Because Christina Kubisch’s ‘Orchestra on a Wire’ was just that (for me at least). An offer of experiencing an orchestra, a performance, in a way you haven’t before, proximity to…

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Skin. Skin. Skin.

Mysterious voice reveals a passage… This passage… a door to the space that has for far too long been left abandoned. The unsettled dust that raises upon this opening, reveals the unexplored with each particle… uncertain whether it is a particle of light or dust, we feel drawn and obliged to follow and enter. Enter…

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When the Sideshow is the main show

Have you ever thought anout what do all the manmade creatures of the amusement parks do at night?Do they come to life? Would they, do they, get upset? Of how they are treated. Do they have feeling and thoughts of rebellion and overtaking their “masters”, the human? How loud, or how silently and steely creepy…

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