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The instrumentations employed in Arnold Schönberg’s chamber symphony and Edgard Varèse’s “Octandre” were long considered prototypes in putting together new music ensembles. It was taboo to question whether this was a needed or minimized instrumental reduction, whether the institutional situation was at fault or whether it actually arose from the artistic will of the composer. Today, however, this is no longer relevant. The past ten years, in particular, have seen the emergence of ensembles exploring a wide, sweeping range of novel instrumentation.
In the face of today’s electrified, digitalized world, the focus at the 2012 Donaueschingen Festival will be on instrumentations – on the one hand, instrumentations consisting of simple electronic instruments, particularly samplers and interfaces, and on the other, instrumentations characterized by a small but very specific grouping of acoustic instruments, a grouping in which electroacoustic instruments like the electric guitar and electric violin assume a unifying, integrative role between the various media.
Ensembles invited include the Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa, the Israeli ensemble Nikel and the Nadar Ensemble from Belgium. With the ascolta ensemble, the SWR experimental studio will be placed in juxtaposition with these multidisciplinary electronic ensembles, so firmly anchored in the low-tech realm, in order to foster enlightening insights on the basis of their fundamentally divergent electronically based musical concepts – insights that can provide potent fodder in triggering the most novel possible amount of aesthetic forward momentum. At the jazz concert, the AMM ensemble with Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury and the fORCH ensemble with Richard Barrett will be presenting the latest tendencies in improvised music
This year’s festival of world premieres will be featuring 27 works by artists from 14 nations, with invited artists including Malin Bång, Mark Barden, Franck Bedrossian, Eliav Brand, Aureliano Cattaneo, Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter, Bernhard Gander, Arnulf Herrmann, Georg Katzer, Johannes Kreidler, Klaus Lang, Eduardo Moguillansky, Wolfgang Motz/Mia Schmidt, Marko Nikodijevic, Helmut Oehring, Yoav Pasovsky, Stefan Prins, Trond Reinholdtsen, Klaus Schedl, Martin Smolka, Øyvind Torvund and Michael Wertmüller.
Letzte Änderung am: 01.02.2012, 11.31 Uhr
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