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On the occasion of the European election results, Marc Sinan writes in the Tagesspiegel about how we can win back young, right-wing voters: Arguing together, reconciling again, practising remembrance, crying and laughing. This requires a cultural space as a contrast to the constantly available drug of distraction and repression.

Article in the Tagesspiegel from June 24, 2024

In Treffpunkt Klassik extra, he talks about the music Marc Sinan has loved since his childhood and why the guitar, of all things, is a misconstruction. Listen here!

Alongside the Marc Sinan Company, Ensemble Resonanz performed the new arrangement of Different Bombs for soprano, electric guitar, string ensemble and tape at Kampnagel in Hamburg. The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote:

A truly haunting artistic treatment of these terrible historical events. Art seeks and finds a moment of reconciliation in the humanist ideal. In empathy. This is their unique strength.”

Full review by Annette Stiekele for the Hamburger Abendblatt

The oratorio was premiered at the opening of the Pantopia Music Festival in Karlsruhe. Sven Scherz-Schade wrote about the great effort that went into it and the other transmedia program items for the Badische Neusten Nachrichten on 11.11.2024.

The debut novel Gleissendes Licht was picked up again by Deutschlandfunk Kultur in a radio program by Sabine Voss, which can be listened to here.

In an extensive article, Anja Blum writes about Gleissendes Licht, the debut novel by Marc Sinan, as well as a Pantopia edition taking place in Sinan’s home town of Ebersberg. The installation Seven Spirits framed the program highlight Bamako di Baviera, which brought together artists from Bali, Berlin and Ebersberg.

Süddeutsche Zeitung on September 29, 2023

The transmedia app Human Commodity – Ware Mensch has been available in the app stores since last year and continues to make waves. Text fragments, photographs and compositions at 99 locations in Berlin commemorate Nazi forced labor. Andrea Schwyzer reports on this for the NDR Kultur program á la carte.

You can listen to the program.

You can find out more about the project and the apps at human-commodity.de!

Tim Seyfi reads from 18.09. until 6.10. in NDR Kultur’s “Am Morgen vorgelesen“, an episode of the audio book on Gleissendes Licht every day. Each episode is available to listen to for 7 days. If you do miss it, argon Verlag has platforms where it can be purchased or streamed.

Marc Sinan was a guest of Achim Bogdahn on BR and talked about his novel Gleissendes Licht. Listen now!

Bettina Göcmener from B.Z. spoke to Marc Sinan about his debut novel and what comes next:

The guitarist enjoys writing so much that he is planning his second book. It has to do with Berlin.

The alliance of the six parties that are now opposing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gives me hope that many thousands of political prisoners will finally be released. That would be a great success. At the same time, the alliance scares me.

The answer to the question “why” can be found in Zeit No. 16/2023 or online.

Kulturnews recommends the best books of 2023. Marc Sinan’s debut Gleissendes Licht is among the best company.

The other recommendations can be viewed here.

SWR selects the 10 best books of March 2023 and Gleissendes Licht is among them:

It is an unusual mixture of literary tones that Marc Sinan condenses here into a panorama: sometimes a picaresque novel, sometimes an autofictional memoir, then again a description of atrocities. And behind everything, there are always the questions: How can this be thought together? And how does all this affect the present?

The full justification can be read here.

Georg Patzer from literaturkritik.de read the debut novel and writes that Marc Sinan succeeds in

[…] with an often sensual language and his exuberant imagination, a poetic sophistication and the irrepressible narrative joy that leaps from every line, quickly captivates the reader. The jumping, the breaks, all of this not only fits the theme, but also acts like a musical cluster whose elements flow together to form an overall sound, a symphony. […]

Gleissendes Licht has been published and Marc Sinan was a guest on NDR Kultur to talk to Andrea Schwyzer on the á la carte program about the Turkish-Armenian background to the novel. The program can be listened to and partly read.

In a 40-minute radio report, SWR discusses Marc Sinan as an author and his debut Gleissendes Licht. Listen and read.

Gleissendes Licht was discussed in the podcast “Buchkritik” by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Ingo Arend thinks it stands out from the crowd of debuts. Read and listen to the full opinion.

“On the power of forgiveness” is the subtitle of the feature on Marc Sinan’s debut novel Gleissendes Licht. Watch it in the ARD media library.

Marc Sinan’s debut novel Gleißendes Licht has been published. Jan Drees from Deutschlandfunk judges:

This impressive novel shows that every story, even the most terrible, holds the chance of peace. But it has to be told. That takes courage. And it is precisely this great courage that Marc Sinan has admirably demonstrated with “Gleißendes Licht”.

The radio report and full text can be downloaded from Deutschlandfunk.

In cooperation with the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor, Marc Sinan developed the app Human Commodity – Ware Mensch. At 99 locations in Berlin, 99 musical fragments, 99 stories and 99 photographs commemorate the 500,000 forced laborers who lived in Berlin alone. The Tagesspiegel reports on the musical-documentary memorial.

Find out more about the app here.

After the Covid19 pandemic, life is slowly returning to the cultural sector. In a guest article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Marc Sinan suggests why we should not carry on as before and what we should do differently:

  1. Let’s develop something exclusively new in at least five orchestras and five opera houses in the country. […] Let these houses be laboratories. If we do this, we will find a profound contemporary music that appeals to a huge audience – a contemporary art form that will outlast our century.

Read more in the Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 136/2022

Marc Sinan was a guest on “Heimatmysterium – der Migra-Identitätspodcast” and talks about his artistic motivation and the oratorio MANİFEST(O), among other things. You can listen to the entire conversation in the ARD Audiothek.

It was a beautiful evening! We thank you for coming and our partners in Buchenwald, Tel Aviv, Berlin and Jena for the fantastic cooperation.

Those who could not be there live can listen to the live recording here in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur audio library.

GLEISSENDES LICHT will celebrate its world premiere on September 29, 2021. Marc Sinan gives insights into his work and the project on rbb-inforadio, on the YouTube channel of JenaKultur and as guest of the day on rbbKultur.

Since September 22, 2021, Marc Sinan’s chamber music suite OKSUS can be experienced in a version specially developed for the Humboldt Forum in the listening room of the new permanent exhibition of the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art at the Humboldt Forum Berlin.

The listening room in the exhibition “Sounds of the World” aims to make it possible to experience a wide variety of cultures acoustically. Various forms of music and types of performance are staged by artists as a three-dimensional listening experience with the help of the special technical equipment of the listening room. In this way, different artistic positions and documentary formats emerge. The starting point for this is the Ethnological Museum’s extensive ethnomusicological collections.

More information about OKSUS.

The opera fractal SURVIVAL by Marc Sinan with a libretto by Maike Wetzel was released on vinyl on June 11, 2021. You can buy the record in the store of SPREEHALLE Berlin and at all known music streaming services.

SURVIVAL narrates a contemporary digital epilogue to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the Chinese Peony Pavilion. A contemporary score that reinterprets traditional music from Asia and Europe. Played on Chinese and European instruments, with musicians from China and Europe. Recorded by: Ensemble ConTempo Beijing, Dresden Symphony Orchestra and the Marc Sinan Company.

From October 21 to November 7, 2021, artistic and civil society interventions on the NSU complex will take place as part of Kein Schlussstrich! With the MANİFEST(O) oratorio, we will also be making a contribution to this.

The project aims to bring the perspectives of victims’ families and (post-)migrant communities into the public spotlight and create spaces for conversation about structural and everyday racism in our society. With the polytopic oratorio MANİFEST(O) we unite seven individual performances, performed at key locations of the acts of the so-called NSU, in a full-length work. MANİFEST(O) emerges from individual voices as a transnational oratorio with orchestra, choirs and soloists that connects history and places. Negative energies of the crimes are taken up, basic questions of retribution and new beginnings are discussed and processed in an ethical utopia. More information on the decentralized theater project Kein Schlussstrich is now available at www.kein-schlussstrich.de.

Sat. 10.07., from 5 p.m., SPREEHALLE Berlin

While the installation THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST will be on display in the SPREEHALLE, there will be culinary treats around the hall and live music by the Marc Sinan Company and friends starting at 8 pm. Free admission! Come by and celebrate with us!

The Senate of Culture supports MSC with the 2022 base grant.

Funding is available for Berlin-based music ensembles that are primarily active in the field of new music (contemporary music, classical modernism or sound art) and that plan and realize new music projects on their own responsibility. We are very happy about this great recognition, with which we see our continuous engagement with transmedia productions in the independent scene honored.

Since November 2, all theaters, museums, concert halls and venues are in lockdown. But it is precisely in this crisis situation that we realize how much we need art and culture – for self-assurance, for questioning, for freedom!

The cultural emergency we are currently experiencing must be ended promptly. Art and culture creators need a secure perspective and more support in the current situation. The Marc Sinan Company has also not performed at any events for months and the venues are empty. We also feel this (inner) emptiness. The only ray of hope we have is that we will be back for our audience in April with our transmedia installation ENDLESS PELASURES – SURVIVAL at SPREEHALLE Berlin.

The concert series ELEKTROPOLIS starts on September 12, 19:30 at Reinbeckstraße 16.

In the future, the TRANSFORMATOR, the 32-channel 360° sound system, will invite all artists

in the SPREEHALLE to new immersive sound experiments. Paul Frick’s FRICKIN FRICKOUT will be offered for its world premiere at the opening. Also present: flutist Susanne Fröhlich with an original composition and Marc Sinan with his interpretation of ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT by Steve Reich. Please register bindingly: info@spreehalle.berlin.

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