Uwe Rasch: DSDL 1: Gerald

for ensemble and video ^WP

Pony Says

A game that is organised by harmlessness, but played from a harm: Pony Says and three Stuttgart life artists in the »Game of Life«.

A music video performance

Alex Paxton: How to Eat your Sexuality

for voices, ensemble and electronics ^WP

Neue Vocalsolisten

Klangforum Wien

Conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni

»This is the best music I can imagine for an extraordinary collection musical people. … Song as play, listening as touch and harmony like being alive in a body. It has some gay bits too, I like ‘em.« (Alex Paxton)

Christian Winther Christensen: Children’s Songs

for ensemble and live electronics ^{GP of the extended version} 

Ensemble Ascolta

»Kitschy small figures and quotes from the world of children’s music…–wondrous sounds that arise when children interact with toys…: an intense, magical work for seven musicians and a radio.« (Christian Winther Christensen)

ABC of exclamations

a performative video-sound-poem ^WP

Comic drawings: Kastuś Žhybul

Poetry: Vera Burlak

Composition: Georgia Koumará

Animated film: Monika Nuber

Enigmatically funny comic figures, bizarre poetic stories and absurd-fantastic animated videos emerge from the sober Belarusian ABC. Georgia Koumará embeds images and stories in a large, expansive sound narrative: a strong plea for imagination, empathy and freedom.

Works by

Johannes Maria Staud ^GP, Elena Mendoza ^GP, Alberto Posadas ^GP

Christoph Sietzen, percussion

Florian Hölscher, piano
SWR Experimentalstudio

SWR Symphonieorchester

Conductor Emilio Pomàrico

»In today’s world, which suddenly feels dystopian due to the various crises, the idea of utopia has once again become vital to my survival.« (Elena Mendoza)

Sarah Nemtsov: New works from the SEPHIROT cycle

for the Musikfabrik

Yaron Deutsch, electric guitar

Ensemble Musikfabrik

»Of course it is presumptuous to ‘set’ cabbalistic concepts to music. Impossible. It was a subjective approach … You don’t have to have any knowledge of Kabbalah to hear or ‘understand’ the pieces. In the end, they are just sounds. That’s the most important thing.« (Sarah Nemtsov)

ABC of exclamations

a performative video-sound-poem ^WP

Comic drawings: Kastuś Žhybul

Poetry: Vera Burlak

Composition: Georgia Koumará

Animated film: Monika Nuber

Enigmatically funny comic figures, bizarre poetic stories and absurd-fantastic animated videos emerge from the sober Belarusian ABC. Georgia Koumará embeds images and stories in a large, expansive sound narrative: a strong plea for imagination, empathy and freedom.

Uwe Rasch: DSDL 2: Judith

for ensemble and video ^WP

Pony Says

A game that is organised by harmlessness, but played from a harm: Pony Says and three Stuttgart life artists in the »Game of Life«.

A music video performance

Works by

Ulrich Kreppein ^WP,  Arne Gieshoff ^WP,  Younghi Pagh-Paan ^WP, Zeynep Toraman ^WP,  Agata Zubel ^WP

Saviet/Houston Duo

Sarah Saviet, violin and Joseph Houston, piano

SWR Vokalensemble

Conductor: Susanne Blumenthal

Consolation–criticism–experiment–harmony: the perspectives of contemporary composing have probably never been more different than they are today.

Composition: François Sarhan
Dramaturgy: Maria Buzhor
Costumes: Lea Søvsø

Performance: Daniel Agi, Janina Ahh, Marie Buzhor, Julia Lwowski

United Instruments of Lucilin

A music-theatre collage, an investigation based on witness statements, documentary material and video re-enactments, in which not only the members of the United Instruments of Lucilin become witnesses.

ABC of exclamations

a performative video-sound-poem ^WP

Comic drawings: Kastuś Žhybul

Poetry: Vera Burlak

Composition: Georgia Koumará

Animated film: Monika Nuber

Enigmatically funny comic figures, bizarre poetic stories and absurd-fantastic animated videos emerge from the sober Belarusian ABC. Georgia Koumará embeds images and stories in a large, expansive sound narrative: a strong plea for imagination, empathy and freedom.

Works by

Timothy McCormack ^WP, Salvatore Sciarrino ^GP

Marco Fusi, viola and violin

»The viola is the body: press here to exact tension there; tighten there to sharpen vibration here. Touch the body, it responds. Listen to its song: a hidden, withdrawn counterpoint of tactility and sensation.« (Timothy McCormack)

Works by

Stefan Pohlit ^WP, Tomoko Fukui ^WP, Uwe Rasch, Fernando Manassero ^WP

Neue Vocalsolisten

»Landscapes are now covered in diamonds, and humanity is covered in boredom. It is hot, it is dry, and it smells, but everything shines.« (Fernando Manassero)

Works by

Bahar Royaee, Zihan Wu ^GP, Kathrin A. Denner ^WP, Sebastian Claren ^WP

Fabrik Quartet

Federico Ceppetelli, violin

Adam Woodward, violin

Jacobo Díaz Robledillo, viola

Elena Cappelletti, violoncello

»tremblement« has increasingly become a metaphor for all kinds of trembling movements, many of which are very concrete and direct, sometimes even violent. The piece has become a theatre of extremely conflicting forces that clash in a structurally claustrophobic space. (Sebastian Claren)

Works by

Luxa Mart*in Schüttler ^WP, Elena Rykova ^WP, Kuba Krzewinski ^WP, Bernhard Lang ^WP

Neue Vocalsolisten

Theo Nabicht, double bass clarinet

»Despite these manipulations, I believe memory cannot be fully erased; it endures in the hidden spaces of the mind and collective consciousness. … And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.« (Elena Rykova)

Elektroperette

by Annesley Black & Kinky Muppet

Kinky Muppet
The Nubes

The A.I. feels lonely, the A.I. is sad

The A.I. is thinking about the encounters it had,

and all the lovers get mad

It’s taking away, taking away

taking away what we had, taking away what we had

Video performance by Uwe Rasch
for the children, Mrs S. and her helpers ^WP

Hoverboard riders: Volunteers from FSJ Kultur Baden-Württemberg

Neue Vocalsolisten

One song describes the problems of a mother/child relationship, a second relies on drug treatment to help a child recover. In the third, we learn about a »fabulous« resilience. In other words, the musical basis is formed by the songs Hänschen klein, Häschen in der Grube and Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß.

Works by

Haukur Þór Harðarson, , Lucia Kilger ^WP, Zara Ali ^WP

ensemble mosaik

»My greatest wish is to create a world in which aesthetics is understood as a fundamental medium for shaping human existence.« (Zara Ali)

Uwe Rasch: DSDL 3: Patrizia

for ensemble and video ^WP

Pony Says

A game that is organised by harmlessness, but played from a harm: Pony Says and three Stuttgart life artists in the »Game of Life«.

A music video performance

works by

Sara Glojnarić, Thomas Stiegler, Anda Kryeziu

Fabrik Quartet

Echtzeit Ensemble of the Stuttgart University of Music

Conductor Christof M Löser

»Between self-built instruments, extended instruments and amplification, I explore the subtleties of instrumentation, mould the sound to create very intimate soundscapes and develop structures that explode in instrumental playfulness.« (Anda Kryeziu)

Alex Paxton: New Work

for ensemble and vocal ensemble ^WP

Klangforum Wien

Neue Vocalsolisten

Conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni

Karlheinz Stockhausen: STIMMUNG

für sechs Stimmen (1968)

Neue Vocalsolisten

libretto by Frank Witzel

solists

Neue Vocalsolisten extended

Stuttgart State Orchestra

direction Elena Schwarz