COUNTDOWN INS NICHTS

This concert is an investigation of contemporary music production, cognitive abilities, limits of acoustic perception and multimedia content to soothe one‘s inner emptiness. The politics of commissioning, the role of authors, the pragmatism of the professional musician, the social situation, the legitimacy of the work itself, the work of art as an attempt at creative development in social networks, the exchange of interests in compulsive consumption of productions and disinformation and the resulting lack of concentration of the ideal audience are just some of the questions to be examined.

At the centre of this evening with the Weimar ensemble via nova and the Maulwerker from Berlin - one of the most distinguished ensembles for vocal experiments and performative music - is the commissioned work Autotune para el pueblo (Autotune for the People) by Belenish Moreno-Gil & Óscar Escudero for performer, flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, autotuned Greek choir, video and live electronics (funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation). Other works by Margareta Ferek-Petric, Moritz Eggert, Raquel García- Tomás (Video: Pere Ginard) (World Premiere), Jule Flierl, Johannes K. Hildebrandt, Christian Kesten and Steffi Weismann.