The ECLATReporter Workshop 2020 of Music of the Centuries with Berlin music journalist Julia Kaiser accompanies all festival events with reviews, interviews and reports …

How the participants of the workshop put their audiovisual impressions into words can be read here:

www.jungereporter.eu

Opening

Works by Adrian Nagel, Sandeep Bhagwati, Tim Schomacker/Christoph Ogiermann

Stadtkapelle Lahr/Ensemble Aventure
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Junges Streichorchester Weil im Schönbuch
Vokalensemble Sinsheim/Ensemble KLANK

Back to the revolutionary potential of language: »Not the language of millions, but the dialect of everyone.« …

Stefan Keller: Persona–a tabla extended project
for tabla, bass and live-electronics (2019/20) ^WP

Stefan Keller, Andreas Fischer, Reinhold Braig

A “hitherto unheard-of complex soundscape fed by elements of traditional Indian music, contemporary vocal sounds, percussive antemortems and wacky electronics …

Chamber Concert

Works by Thomas Kessler ^GP, Ramon Lazkano ^WP, Mark Andre ^GP and Sergej Newski

Yuko Kakuta, soprano/Yukiko Sugawara, piano

Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Vargas, soprano/Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano/Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano/Martin Nagy, tenor/Guillermo Anzorena, baritone/Andreas Fischer, bass
Gareth Davis, double bass and bass clarinet
Ashot Sarkissjan, violin/Ralf Ehlers, viola/Lucas Fels, cello

Fragile miniatures, tributes to courageous women and a portrait en miniature of Sergei Nevsky …

Malte Giesen: FRAME
Music Theater (2018–20) ^WP

Director: Thomas Fiedler

Neue Vocalsolisten
ascolta

BORIS
By Modest Mussorgski/Sergej Newski
Modest Mussorgski: Boris Godunow (original version of 1869)

Sergej Newski: Secondhand-Zeit
based on texts from the book of the same name by Svetlana Alexievich
(premiere on 2.2.2020 at the Stuttgart Opera House)
(Commissioned by the Stuttgart State Opera)

Displace, Displace, Displace (2019/20) ^WP
Cellars, Ghosts and the Demise of Heimat

A music theater by the performance group Oblivia
Composition and Sound Design: Yiran Zhao

Nerdy, geeky, experimental–Together with composer Yiran Zhao, Oblivia tackles different aspects of the German word for displacement and repression in »Displace, Displace, Displace«…

Reviving the Tradition

Works by Karen Power ^WP and Bernhard Lang

Synthesizer Trio Lange/Berweck/Lorenz

With a passion for electronically generated music, loops and the strange encounter between man and nature …

James Dillon: The Freiburg Diptych
for Solo Violin, Tape [&] Live Electronics (2019) ^WP

Irvine Arditti, violin/SWR Experimentalstudio

Inspired by the ancient form of the diptych, James Dillon has dedicated his latest work to the sound specialists of the Freiburg SWR Experimentalstudio.

Raed Yassin: The Absent Now (2020) ^WP

Raed Yassin, Turntables

Of the magic of making music together and fateful encounters while improvising….

Displace, displace, displace (2019/20) ^WP
Cellars, Ghosts and the Demise of Heimat

A music theater by the performance group Oblivia
Composition and Sound Design: Yiran Zhao

Nerdy, geeky, experimental–Together with composer Yiran Zhao, Oblivia tackles different aspects of the German word for displacement and repression in »Verdrängen, Verdrängen, Verdrängen«…

changing moments in life

Works by Elena Rykova ^WP, Wei-Chieh Lin ^WP, Timothy McCormack ^WP, Rei Munakata ^WP,Hanna Hartman ^WP und Malin Bång ^GP

Curious Chamber Players

Six composers* invent new playing techniques and thus continue to write the unique ensemble sound of the Curious Chamber Players …

SWR2 JetztMusik

Works by Ashley Fure, György Kurtág, Fabià Santcovsky ^WP, und Turgut Erçetin ^WP

Arditti Quartet/SWR Symphony Orchestra/Conductor Michael Wendeberg

An evening about the poetry of the wind, about fleeting and yet kinetically powerful energies…

Laureate concert for the 64th composition prize of the state capital Stuttgart

Werke von Zeynep Gedizlioglu ^GP, Andreas Eduardo Frank und Ashley Fure ^WP

Ensemble Modern/Leitung Enno Poppe

Komponist*innen, die auf die physische Erfahrbarkeit ihrer Musik setzen, entwickeln dafür ganz eigene (Klang-)Räume…

Die Veranstaltung ist ausverkauft!

Maximilian Marcoll [&] AAA—AAA: A C H K
A performance for two electric guitars and electronics

AAA—AAA Guitar duo: Timm Roller, electric guitar/Thilo Ruck, electric guitar
Maximilian Marcoll, live electronics
Florian Zwissler, sound direction

On the vulnerability and deceptiveness of perception(s) …

Displace, Displace, Displace (2019/20) ^WP
Cellars, Ghosts and the Demise of Heimat

A music theater by the performance group Oblivia
Composition and Sound Design: Yiran Zhao

Nerdy, geeky, experimental–Together with composer Yiran Zhao, Oblivia tackles different aspects of the German word for displacement and repression in »Verdrängen, Verdrängen, Verdrängen«…

Works by Sven Ingo Koch ^WP, Andreas Eduardo Frank ^WP, Sergej Newski und Silvia Borzelli ^WP

Gareth Davis, bass clarinet/Sebastian Berweck, synthesizer/Arditti Quartet

»The concept of the future was stronger in the past« says composer Andreas Frank and, like his colleagues*, he is curious to see what an exceptional ensemble and two exceptional soloists will make of this assumption…

SWR2 JetztMusik in ECLAT

Works by Georges Aperghis ^WP,Marina Khorkova ^WP, Anna Korsun ^WP, und Samir Odeh-Tamimi ^WP

Teodoro Anzellotti, Akkordeon/SWR Vokalensemble/
Musicians of the SWR Symphony Orchestra/Conductor Peter Rundel

In search of their cultural roots in a globalized age, the composers sometimes take seemingly adventurous detours …