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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Atlas of the Sky. Atlas of us.
“Atlas of the Sky”… One of those magical pieces one simply must try to catch and experience live! Liza Lim‘s sound is always special. It is different. It is one of those things that seems you have never heard before, even if you might have. But you haven’t really. As if it has never been…
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…
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…
Seeing the movement, imagining the sound
We are about a week into the 48th Darmstädter Ferienkurse… Although never being able to respond and physically be present here for the Ferienkurse, his spirit and music, and influence, still manages to echo, through continuous mentions and performances of his music… So somehow sharing a silent recording of Schoenberg conducting Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4,…
Left Breathless In the Heights of the Air
Have you ever stood in the middle of the air? Starting from the ground, and being elevated. Higher and higher. Feeling as if the air is getting thinner. And while rushes of grasps for air are occupying your thought and body, you realise that yo are not flying after all. But rather being elevated by…
Reiter’s “Lichtenberg Figures”
Have you ever thought how would it be if you could see the process of thought, the process of thinking? How would it feel? To be inside a brain. To see it in all its glorious action. Experiencing the performance, looking and listening, of the “Lichtenberg Figures” it was as close to this experience. The…