Lecture in the context of the Hospitalhof series Am 11. um 11 Uhr
The many facets of the festival for new music ECLAT
Speaker: Christine Fischer (Director Musik der Jahrhunderte)

Laureate concert for the 63rd Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart 2018

Works by Mirela Ivičević, Augustin Braud, *Ondřej Adámek and *Ole Hübner

Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass/Klangforum Wien/conductor Bas Wiegers

ECLAT opens with Case Black by the young Croatian Mirela Ivičević. It stands for much that is important in this festival …

Additional performance on February 8, 2019/3:30 p.m. in T3 and T4.

CIRCLES. Community between play and existential experience

Works by Ricardo Eizirik ^WP, Antje Vowinckel ^WP, Alessandro Bosetti ^WP, Hannes Seidl ^WP, Huihui Cheng ^WP, Gabi Wüst ^WP, Alexander Schubert ^WP.

Neue Vocalsolisten/Gareth Davis, bass clarinet/scene and space: Thomas Fiedler

CIRCLES describes scenic positions in space, but at the same time social circles addressed in the concert, semi-staged, discursive, participatory and immersive projects …

N.E.W. 1
Solo Sets: Wuchtbrummen (2019) ^WP

Andrea Neumann/Sabine Ercklentz/Ute Wassermann.

Fragile sound textures, magnified as if under a magnifying glass, stand next to »walls of noise« …

CIRCLES. Community between play and existential experience

Works by Ricardo Eizirik ^WP, Antje Vowinckel ^WP, Alessandro Bosetti ^WP, Hannes Seidl ^WP, Huihui Cheng ^WP, Gabi Wüst ^WP, Alexander Schubert ^WP

Neue Vocalsolisten/Gareth Davis, bass clarinet/scene and space: Thomas Fiedler

… Works in which questions about cultural heritage and communities of values, about rituals, about roles in communities and about social dynamics are expressed.

Up Close and Personal
A centrifugal operetta solo (2018)

Music and concept: Kaj Duncan David/Space and concept: Troels Primdahl
Performance: Daniel Gloger

Performing in a different city every week and rarely sleeping in his own bed, he lives a nomadic lifestyle that requires absolute dedication…

Happiness Machine
3 hours of happiness with Klangforum Wien

Films/music by Matthias Meinharter, Michelle Kranot/Iris ter Schiphorst ^WP, Samantha Moore/Malin Bång ^WP, Rebecca Blöcher/Eva Reiter ^WP, Eni Brandner/Misato Mochizuki ^WP, Elizabeth Hobbs/Carola Bauckholt ^WP, Andrea Schneider/Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri ^WP, Joanna Kozuch/Ying Wang ^WP, Susi Jirkuff/Joanna Bailie ^WP, Vessela Dantcheva/Electric Indigo ^WP, Ana Nedeljković/Hanna Hartman ^WP, Rebecca Saunders ^WP

Klangforum Vienna
In a cinematic performance with animated films and testimonials, Klangforum Wien asks the question: how should we live?

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skull ark, upturned with no mast (2017–18)

Music and concept: Clara Iannotta
Performance: Karin Hellqvist, Emma Iannotta, Truike van der Poel, Johanna Zimmer

… Life behind screens, trapped in a virtual reality that enables action without exposing. Through a subtle and sensitive sound-light-shadow dramaturgy, Clara Iannotta gradually reveals this »life struggle« to us outsiders …

Up Close and Personal
A centrifugal operetta solo (2018)

Music and concept: Kaj Duncan David
Space and concept: Troels Primdahl
Performance: Daniel Gloger

The boundaries between work and personal life are blurred. To keep this up, Daniel optimizes his »me time« …

N.E.W. 2
Duo-Sets: Rauschzustand (2018) ^WP

Andrea Neumann/Sabine Ercklentz/Ute Wassermann

They transform and extend conventional sound generators, bringing amplified objects and costumes, moving speakers, field recordings, talkboxes and mouth speakers to bear …

at close quarters.

Installation und Performance (2018/19) ^WP

Composition and performance: Philipp Krebs
Performance: Neus Estarellas

30-minute performances at 2:45 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m.

In a reversal of traditional working relationships, the performer provided the composer with material with which he had to deal artistically: for a year, she sent him a »media snapshot« almost daily …

Depth of field of a newly entered space
Between digital and real space–an interactive installation

Lara Hampe, writer/media artist
Vera Sebert, media artist

»What language is capable of capturing a present characterized by performativity? And how can we intervene artistically and raise awareness of the interactions of our actions with computer-generated processes?«

Impossible Situations
Works by Lars Petter Hagen ^GP, Alberto Bernal ^GP, Lisa Streich, Øyvind Torvund ^, Kristine Tjøgersen ^GP

Duo Hellqvist/Amaral
Max Sauer: sound direction
Filippa Berglund: architecture/scenography

” … more sweet than bitter and not sweet like sugar, but many different dimensions of sweetness…. which in a way also include tenderness …”

SWR2 JetztMusik in ECLAT
Works by Michael Pelzel ^WP, Bernhard Gander ^WP, Christian Wolff ^WP

SWR Vokalensemble/Badischer Jugendchor/Leitung Rupert Huber/Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

Witches, Elves, Humans. Enigma and lucidity, magic and reality can sometimes be close together …

Eivind Buene: Schubert Lounge (2018) ^WP

Tora Augestad, mezzo-soprano/Halvor Festervoll Melien, baritone/Christian Eggen, piano/Eivind Buene, vocals [&] Fender Rhodes/Oslo Sinfonietta/conductor Christian Eggen.

Franz Schubert, says Eivind Buene, was a »singer/songwriter.« Using a Schubertiade as a model, the composer–who himself grew up with pop music–imagined Schubert in the singer/songwriter pose of the 70s …

N.E.W. 3
Trio-Set: Polyp ^WP

Andrea Neumann/Sabine Ercklentz/Ute Wassermann

For years Andrea Neumann, Sabine Ercklentz and Ute Wassermann have been working together in different constellations of experimental music. Now they are forming a new trio

terra nera

Music in scenes ^WP

Music and concept: Saskia Bladt/Sophie von Arnim, sound objects, equipment/Martin Spura, composition dramaturgy
Neue Vocalsolisten and instrumentalists

»With the sky-storming Don Quixote, we plummet to the black earth and thus experience failure as something primordially human. But even here, in the blackness of the abysmal, sparks of light glimmer …«

Chamber Music
Works by Hristina Šušak ^WP, Eiko Tsukamoto ^WP, Mikel Urquiza ^WP, Milica Djordjevic, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari ^WP, Niklas Seidl ^WP

Ensemble Ascolta

The seven musicians, ready for any challenge, offer five very different composers a special sound and a rich palette of colors for their chamber music works–with all openness for what could happen in this »chamber« …

SWR JetztMusik in ECLAT
Works by Vykintas Baltakas ^WP, Christian Winther Christensen ^WP, Vito Žuraj ^WP

Rei Nakamura, piano/SWR Experimental Studio/SWR Vocal Ensemble/SWR Symphony Orchestra/conductor Brad Lubman

»Art is turning useless into valuable; it is the magical transformation of feces into gold.« …