REMIX

FORUM Merzhausen Dorfstr.1, Merzhausen, Deutschland

Remix culture has become an integral part of the present and also has had a strong influence on the contemporary music scene. Although only recognized as an art form in its own right since the late 1980s, the idea of the remix has been an essential part of European culture for much longer: Renaissance as […]

Spotted:HONGKONG

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

This concert program was curated by the Hong Kong-Chinese composer Charles Kwong. Artistic Manager Clemens K. Thomas spoke with Charles Kwong about Hong Kong, its new music scene and the variety of composers there.   Dear Charles, you were born in Hong Kong in 1985 and grew up there but spent a large part of […]

BLODHOV – The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Displacement, escape, deportation, death—the inhumane burdens that people far from their homes must fight against, people who have been violently torn from their surroundings. These burdens are immense—and timeless. We come across descriptions of them already in mythological prehistoric times. An Icelandic legend tells of the abduction of the giantess GerĂ°dur by the god Freyr […]

Oh, I see

FORUM Merzhausen Dorfstr.1, Merzhausen, Deutschland

The Freiburg composer Carola Bauckholt has a pair of eyes projected onto two balloons. Through these external movements we can draw conclusions about internal processes. The sounds of the clarinet, cello and piano complement the eyes so that we can perceive a kind of composite artificial face in this construct of images and sounds. Thus, […]

Abo 1: Kontakt – Day 1

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

The last year and a half seems like a constant loose connection. Sometimes we are allowed to meet, sometimes we are only allowed to connect virtually. Closeness and distance, the fundamental poles of human relationships, have become a matter of negotiation for society as a whole. Ensemble Recherche has also approached the matter as involuntarily […]

Abo 1: Kontakt – Day 2

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

The last year and a half seems like a constant loose connection. Sometimes we are allowed to meet, sometimes we are only allowed to connect virtually. Closeness and distance, the fundamental poles of human relationships, have become a matter of negotiation for society as a whole. Ensemble Recherche has also approached the matter as involuntarily […]

Kontakt – Interactive Web Installation

kontakt.ensemble-recherche.de

>>> access on: kontakt.ensemble-recherche.de(starting 30.09.21) The last year and a half seems like a constant loose connection. Sometimes we are allowed to meet, sometimes we are only allowed to connect virtually. Closeness and distance, the fundamental poles of human relationships, have become a matter of negotiation for society as a whole. Ensemble Recherche has also […]

Abo 2: Toy Laboratory

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

"I work at the piano." Which musicians would speak of themselves in this way? An instrument is played, reviews offer descriptions of the joy of playing, and a mistake is considered a "misplay" (even if the question remains open as to what is misplayed through imperfection). What does it mean in a professional context to […]

Abo 3: Das GefĂŒhl von Freiheit

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

Christoph Grund, Komposition Ines Geipel, Text Gefördert von Kunst trotz Abstand des Landes Baden-WĂŒrttemberg In Zusammenarbeit mit dem SWR Rundfunk

Abo 4: The New Recherche

Lokhalle Freiburg Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 5, Freiburg, Deutschland

After 35 years of successful existence, Ensemble Recherche reflects on its beginnings and seeks to reinvent itself at the same time. In a mixture of lecture-performance, concert and film premiere, the musicians present their new mission: anyone can be Ensemble Recherche, whether in Freiburg, Berlin, Hong Kong or... Zeitz. Playfully, the rules of new music […]

Abo 5: Poética del Camino

Konzerthaus Freiburg, Runder Saal Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1, Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland

Life is a constant becoming, a long way until death - at least. In his music, Alberto Posadas deals with existential themes of being human. In "PoĂ©tica del Camino", the Spanish composer sends Ensemble Recherche and the Neue Vocalsolisten on winding paths between isolation and coming together. The text is based on Wilhelm MĂŒller's cycle […]

ABO 2: Spotted: Subsahara

Jazzhaus Freiburg Schnewlinstraße 1, Freiburg, Deutschland

After centuries of Europe exporting its musical heritage all over the world, the Eurocentric map is gradually being crumpled up. For example, the idea of music as an autonomous product of the mind is a European one and does not always hold up in other contexts. The Nigerian composer Ayò Olúrántí describes that music with classical […]

ABO 3: Helmut – Portrait of a friendship

Konzerthaus Freiburg Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1, Freiburg, Deutschland

Despite all the dynamic changes that have marked Ensemble Recherche, one person has almost always belonged to it: Helmut Lachenmann. With a twinkle in his eye, the composer recently explained to our musicians the „tonlosoids“ he likes to use so much: sounds whose noisiness also subtly hides tones. While this idea is not in music […]

ABO 4: Creation / Extinction

Konzerthaus Freiburg, Rolf Böhme Saal Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1, Freiburg im Breisgau

Joseph Haydn‘s Creation is a hymn of praise to the creation of the earth. His oratorio tells the biblical story of Genesis in joyful, jubilant tonal language. 222 years and several summer heat waves later, this music makes one rather contemplative. In a joint concert with the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Recherche places earthly beauty in the […]

ABO 5 : Pierrot Populaire – a moon ride

E-Werk Freiburg Eschholzstr.77, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

„The wine that one drinks with eyes / the moon pours down at night in waves.“ The first lines in Arnold Schoenberg‘s Pierrot lunaire lead the way: things go upward to the moon, and inward into the soul brimming with emotion. The poems by Albert Giraud, on which Schoenberg‘s melodrama is based, paint fever- ish […]

ABO 1: Museum of a Future Past

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

A walk through the world of extinct sounds It is the year 2070 and Ensemble Recherche has just beamed its new season brochure directly to the brains of its subscribers via Neuro-telegram. Among the various goings-on there is a special invitation – the ensemble will open its “Archive of Extinct Sounds” to the public for […]

ABO 1: Museum of a Future Past

Ensemblehaus Freiburg SchĂŒtzenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland

A walk through the world of extinct sounds It is the year 2070 and Ensemble Recherche has just beamed its new season brochure directly to the brains of its subscribers via Neuro-telegram. Among the various goings-on there is a special invitation – the ensemble will open its “Archive of Extinct Sounds” to the public for […]

ABO 2: Hainbach + Recherche

Jazzhaus Freiburg Schnewlinstraße 1, Freiburg, Deutschland

A concert performance of semi-improvised music The work of polymath musician Stefan Paul Goetsch, AKA Hainbach, is marked by the use of historical/retro/obsolete electronic musical instruments, studio gear and telecommunications equipment (among other things) to create uniquely contemporary —yet strangely nostalgic — soundscapes. Following a week-long residency in Freiburg, Hainbach and members of Ensemble Recherche […]