ECLAT Konzert 1

VOICE AFFAIRS

Cynthia Zaven: Madrigal d’Essilio
for six voices ^WP

Raed Yassin: A Short Biography of a Snake
for six voices and electronics ^WP

Dániel Péter Biró: Asher Hotseti Etkhem* for five voices and electronics
for five voices and electronics ^WP

Aya Metwalli: cabaret macabre
for four female voices and electronics ^WP

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: VROS
for four voices and electronics ^WP

Youmna Saba: I covered the planet with a dried leaf
for six voices, oud and electronics ^WP

Manolis Manousakis: State of Exception
for six voices and electronics ^WP
with texts by Manolis Manousakis and Angeliki Poulou and choreography by Yannis Nikolaides

Panos Aprahamian: Assemblages
virtual video installation

Aya Metwalli, voice and electronics/Youmna Saba, oud and electronics/
Manolis Manousakis, electronics/Raed Yassin, electronics

Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Vargas, soprano/Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano/Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano/
Martin Nagy, tenor/Guillermo Anzorena, baritone/Andreas Fischer, bass

The Neue Vocalsolisten project was developed and co-produced by (in alphabetical order) Akademie der Künste Berlin, Irtijal Festival Beirut, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Onassis Cultural Center/Stegi Athens, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival

Broadcast on SWR2 JetztMusik on Wednesday, 17.3.2021, 11:03 p.m.

VOICE AFFAIRS initiates artistic border crossings in which European art music is infected by the diversity of Lebanon’s experimental music scenes. It connects the Neue Vocalsolisten with musicians from Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine who are located in these scenes. From the perspective of contemporary composition, electronic music, sound art, improvisation and avant-pop, they all deal in different ways with the voice, which plays a special role in the music of the Mediterranean region. Panos Aprahamian connects these works through video sequences that oscillate between documentary film and science fiction and in which he explores the phenomenon of the voice. Between immediate expression and instrumental artistry, it stands paradigmatically for our relationship with our natural and technologically shaped environment. In a combination of concert performance and video installation, the project is a grand narrative about the diversity, contradictoriness, explosiveness and poetry of the Lebanese cultural space.