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Atlas. Islands of Utopia
The internationally renowned composer José Sánchez-Verdú from Spain is the inventor of the “auraphone”, an extraordinary instrument in which the singer’s voice or instrumental music resonates behind steel plates, tam-tams or gongs with the aid of...
Beat Furrer – Desert Book
In cooperation with Theater Basel, the composer Beat Furrer and author Händel Klaus have developed a music theatre project which took a close look at images of death from ancient Egypt. The theatre text was based on ancient Egyptian texts about...
Go East! Lviv, Kiev and Tbilisi
The Freiburg-based ensemble recherche is one of the only orchestras of New Music which regularly performs in Ukraine and combines its concert activities with master courses for young musicians on location. In 2006 the ensemble offered similar courses...
Berlin meets Los Angeles in concert
The Villa Aurora in Los Angeles awards scholarships to German artists which enable them to work on the American west coast. In the past, the scholarship winners could only present their completed musical works to Californian audiences. With this...
Apocalypse Now (and Then)
In the current catastrophies and gobal events the far-reaching overall changes of the past 25 years become more and more acute. Depending on the perspective they are being interpreted as a crisis or a chance for a new beginning. We experience a boom...
alif::split in the wall
The concert “alif::split in the wall” was a musical experiment. The production featured a viewer-accessible performance space, a kind of living, musical organism, which incorporated the audience members. The performance itself was a combination of a...
Eight Bridges | Music for Cologne: Tone. Movement. Sound.
Contemporary music lies at the heart of the festival Eight Bridges | Music for Cologne, established in 2011. Although the focus of the programme changes every year, audiences can always look forward to discovering New Music and its protagonists....
Anaesthesia
The music by George Frideric Handel is the main theme of Anaesthesia, a musical theatre piece performed by the Berlin theatre ensemble Nico and the Navigators together with the music ensemble Franui. This commemorative project marking the 250th...
Eight Bridges / Music for Cologne 2015: Music and Politics
The field of New Music is often accused of showing too little political commitment. Consequently, the fifth addition of the Cologne music festival explored whether there are any political positions to be found in contemporary New Music – especially...
Admeto
The international music world commemorated the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel in 2009. Together with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Göttingen International Handel Festival co-produced Handel's opera Admeto,...
