The opening concert of the Contemporary Music Month has a few surprises in store! → Musikbrauerei Berlin Fri. August 28, 2020, 6 p.m. + 8:30 p.m. The concert will take place twice in order to enable as many interested parties as possible to attend, even with limited seating. We ask you to book your tickets in advance.
Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004): Professor Bad Trip Lesson 1 (1998) 14′
Sarah Nemtsov (*1980): Seven Colors (2018) 15′
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Misha Cvijović (*1984) Emotional Logic (2020, UA) 35 ‘
Zafraan Ensemble, Sirje Viise (soprano), Titus Engel (conductor), Daniel Weingarten (sound director), Vincent Stefan (video)
https://www.eventbrite.de/o/zafraan-ensemble-14622931981
TWO FACED shows ensemble, singer, fixed media, live electronics and video in different approaches to the elements that make us up physically and psychologically. It vividly describes the duality of emotional experiences and expressions between free will and coercion.
First, Professor Bad Trip lures you into hypnotic sound spectrums between protest and restraint, hardness and softness. A trip that almost feels like the battle of an inner, human voice against an artificial autotune control.
Sarah Nemtsov’s Seven Colors are also a magma of sounds, shapes and colors. A rich, earthy, almost synesthetic world emerges here, which is closely linked to personal experiences. Emotionality and analysis destroy, support and merge into one another; obscure and reinforce singular expressions, creating a new creature for all to confront.
In response to the unexpected current situation, Emotional Logic focuses on how a prolonged period of isolation affects an ensemble. How this phase affects the individual members as people and musicians, especially in the comparison of the previously documented individual pre-Corona self with the respective experiences during the crisis and the relationship to it in the past, present and future .
We are interested in how we have changed and will change as a result of our experiences; emotionally, musically and as human beings. We want to transform potential destruction into a creative source. The research, the collection of materials and the formal structure (consisting of improvised and composed elements) reflect the recurring chaos that arises when one is confronted with strong emotions in isolation in a very controlled, unfamiliar situation.
The quarantine therefore unplanned became a constitutive factor in the creation of this composition. The six basic human emotions (fear, disgust, sadness, anger, joy and surprise) are used as a kind of lens through which we view the quarantine period. We observe ourselves and others in four phases, as prescribed by the Corona regulations; Sound research and interviews in virtual space, joint meetings, first online, then offline at a prescribed distance and at the end, the joint performance after a long period in which we could only see ourselves as isolated members of an ensemble from a bygone era.
https://www.field-notes.berlin/de/programm/49738/two-faced
With the kind support of the Initiative Neue Musik Berlin/field notes and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
