ECLAT 2a

CIRCLES
Community between play and existential experience

Ricardo Eizirik: in steps
for five amplified voices and one performer (2018) ^WP

Alessandro Bosetti: »These Foolish Things«
for recorded voice and bass clarinet (2018) ^WP

Antje Vowinckel: Summit Meeting
fordialect voices and imitative singers (2018/19) ^WP

Huihui Cheng:Your Turn.
A card game performance for six singers and spectators (2018) ^WP*
Graphic: Karin Kraemer

Hannes Seidl:For us. For us.
Songs on the piano for two to four voices (2018/19) ^WP**

Gabi Wüst (Schüttler/Genschel): Workshop of Love.
An audience survey with the Neue Vocalsolisten (2018) ^WP**

Alexander Schubert: A Perfect Circle
for bass clarinet and five voices (2018/19) ^WP**

Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Zimmer/Susanne Leitz-Lorey/Truike van der Poel/

Martin Nagy/Guillermo Anzorena/Andreas Fischer

Gareth Davis, bass clarinet
Scene and space: Thomas Fiedler

* commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte
financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

** Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte
funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

In a time in which many young artists are turning away from high culture and virtuosity, leaving temples of muses, despising the artificial and questioning traditional forms of reception, in which the visual gesture is put on a par with the musical one, reality is transformed into artistic material and every performance is medially charged, the challenge for a top vocal ensemble and the role of its members is also changing: they are becoming a projection screen, a medium, representatives of reality.

For CIRLCES, seven highly interdisciplinary and conceptually minded composers are independently composing works in which questions about cultural heritage and communities of values, rituals, roles in communities and social dynamics are expressed.

CIRCLES describes scenic positions, but also social circles, which are addressed in the concertante, semi-scenic, discursive, participative and immersive projects–including a rediscovery of domestic music, a performance that emerges participatively from a discussion circle and a fast-paced, spontaneous game in which viewers interfere, which they can cross or counteract. Finally, a hypnosis session in which the audience is drawn ever deeper into a surreal world.

Between game and existential experience the spectators are offered different roles: onlooker, idea giver, interactor, even subject of a hypnosis session–or always the pure observer role.

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Duration approx. 150 minutes
Broadcast 6. March 2019/SWR2 JetztMusik/11:03 pm