ECLAT 7

Reviving the Tradition

Bernhard Lang–DW30, loops for Klaus Schulze
for three synthesizers (2017)/23′

Karen Power: …where foreigners meet….
for three synthesizers (2019/20) ^WP/15′
Composition commissioned by Trio Lange/Berweck/Lorenz
with the support of the Musikfonds

Bernhard Lang: Cheap Opera #1 ‘Répétitions’
for three vocoder voices, three synthesizers, 1 sequencer/drum computer (2019)
based on texts by European legal politicians (1926–2018)/19′
libretto by Bernhard Lang

Synthesizer Trio Lange/Berweck/Lorenz
Sebastian Berweck/Silke Lange/Martin Lorenz

Broadcast 26. February 2020/SWR2 JetztMusik/23:03

The three virtuoso synthesizer experts share their passion for electronically generated music (from analog and digital epochs) with composer Bernhard Lang, who was immediately inspired by the idea of a »revival«. According to Lang, synthesizers show a special affinity for loops. DW30, for example, is »a further reflection on the aesthetics of loops«, in which sequencers are also used as loop machines. In Lang’s first Cheap Opera »Répétitions«, the playful gives way to a bitter seriousness: it is »a decidedly political piece, reacting to the contemporary developments in Europe towards a state of war«. Karen Power opens the concert with an encounter between two alien beings: Man and Nature. In the fusion of hyper-natural and hyper-electronic sounds she creates a unique soundscape.