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Performance recomendation:
21. + 22. March 2010 / sophiensaele / Berlin
MaerzMusik / SONIC ARTS LOUNGE
Felix Kubin + ensemble Intégrales
Echohaus
Live concert for 6 rooms, headphones ensemble and electronics (2010) WP
Echohaus, a concert for 6 rooms, headphone ensemble and electronics is based on an idea by the Hamburg composer and artist Felix Kubin, which was developed in collaboration with the composer Burkhard Friedrich, the ensemble Intégrales and the pop music producer Tobias Levin.
Initially the project was planned purely as studio production. So as to achieve a living, “cinematic” sound with unusual dynamics and mechanical amplification of detail, a special recording technique was developed whereby the musicians play in separate rooms, connected to one another via headphones.
The music in Echohaus evolved from compositional sketches and playing instructions that were developed in close collaboration with the interpreters. In this manner a hybrid of new music, film music and improvisation, melody and noise, scored and improvised music, playback and live concerts, was developed. The natural reflections of the rooms and the mixer are part of the orchestra.
The premiere of the live performance by MaerzMusik in the Sophiensaele simulates the recording situation of the studio: players are also divided between different rooms and linked to each other by headphones. The audience can wander between rooms, come up close to the interpreters and thereby experience particular details of the music amplified. The total of all parts is only possible in absence of the players: as an invisible orchestra in a monitor room, in which all the acoustic and electronic signals converge, so that the impression of a tape music concert emerges there.
Felix Kubin, composition/concept/electronics
Tobias Levin, mix
ensemble Intégrales
Burkhard Friedrich, composition/saxophone
Ninon Gloger, piano
Barbara Lüneburg, violine (ghost)
Steve Heather, drums/percussion (guest)
A project by MaerzMusik in co-operation with Sophiensaele
With the support of the Ilse and Dr. Horst Rusch Foundation