Our concept of music does not end at the ear. Sound emerges in the interplay of perception, gesture, image, and imagination – what we see shapes what we hear, and vice versa.

After our first REINGELAUSCHT concert last season we now shift our focus towards the visual. When does something tip from the visual into the sonic? When does a sign turn into sound? For centuries, composers have explored expanded forms of notation – not as illustration, but as an independent musical practice.

In REINGELAUSCHT – REINGESCHAUT, we encounter four such approaches. The starting point is Treatise by Cornelius Cardew – a key work of graphic notation. Dots, circles, and lines structure the score without fixing it. Send us your interpretation of Cardew’s score printed on pages 14/15, and experience how we interpret it in concert! Beltrán González’ Every Fragment a Fragment is based on East German family holiday slides, texts and media. Through live manipulation of archival images, private memories are transformed into shifting landscapes of speculation, distortion, and poetic reconstruction. In Leaves in Marble, Elena Rykova develops her own fragile notational system. Between traditional notation and drawn gesture, a space emerges in which musical imagination is not fixed, but in motion. In Micrography, Macri Cáceres goes further: the performers wear the score itself on their bodies. Inspired by historical textiles, the visual is translated into performance. Colour becomes sound, density becomes texture, emptiness becomes silence.

Join us in exploring the connections between the visual and the acoustic, develop your own graphic scores – and experience their immediate musical realization. Here music emerges at the thresholds: where an image tips and morphs, where a sign becomes uncertain, and where sound begins.

With works by

Cornelius Cardew, Beltrán González, Macri Cáceres, Elena Rykova

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE

Anja Clift, Flute
Eduardo Olloqui, Oboe
Shizuyo Oka, Clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, Piano
Christian Dierstein, Percussion
Adam Woodward, Violin
Sofia von Atzingen, Viola
Åsa Åkerberg, Cello
Lukas Nowok, Sound Design

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Freunde des Ensemble Recherche e.V.