Battles
2017
SCHLACHTEN consists of three full-length programs featuring contemporary new creations and pieces by Helmut Oehring, Turgut Erçetin, and Marc Sinan, as well as a musical bow to Steve Reich with a performance of his piece WTC 9/11.
SCHLACHTEN I
KRUNK (KRIEG/innen) When we put him in the coffin, he was as light as a bird
LOCKED IN
CRUNK (WAR)
WRONG . SWING – EAT – JUICE
by Helmut Oehring
Composed plateaus of victimhood or perpetration, violence, counter-violence, sound, language and silencing: The three-part series “Battles” kicks off with a semi-staged concert featuring three works by composer Helmut Oehring. The centerpiece is the composition “KRUNK (KRIEG/innen) When we put him in the coffin, he was as light as a bird”, based on his own texts as well as excerpts from the “Book of Whispers” by Varujan Vosganian. As, among other things, in his composition “Massaker, listen to you MASSAKER! (to: Recep Tayyip Erdogan)”, which premiered in 2015 as part of the highly acclaimed concert project “Aghet” by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra at RADIALSYSTEM V, Oehring continues his preoccupation with the effects of war, flight and exile on art and society. “KRUNK(KRIEG/innen)” is an instrumental-vocal dialogue between guitarist Marc Sinan as narrator and vocal artist David Moss and a string trio performing vocally and scenically, interwoven with electronic and pre-produced sounds by Torsten Ottersberg.
SCHLACHTEN II
ON THE NOTHING
WTC 9/11 – Steve Reich
December – Turgut Erçetin
Elegia 3 – Conrado del Rosario
On the nothing (UA) – Marc Sinan
The second part of the series focuses with four string quartets on the perspective of the victims – be it the dead of the terrorist act on September 11, 2001, imprisoned Turkish opposition members or Armenian prisoners of war. Turgut Erçetin is one of the most prominent representatives of new music in Turkey. In “December” (2011), he uses live electronics to explore new modes of musical interaction. The four musicians are linked to each other via electronics, so that their own instrument corpus is at the same time a resonance chamber for the other. Steve Reich’s piece “WTC 9/11” about the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York is a moving musical testimony in which helpers and victims have their say.
Marc Sinan’s composition “On Nothing” also works with original historical recordings: The songs of Armenian prisoners in the First World War are interwoven with the contemporary score.
SCHLACHTEN III
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
Scenic composition by Marc Sinan
As attractive as repulsive, incomprehensibly dark and incomparably beautiful, so full of extreme contradictions man shows himself at the poles of his existence. When he loves, plays, enjoys or dies his very own reveals itself.
“The Number of the Beast” is the final highlight of the SCHLACHTEN concert series – an unbounded evening that combines an extreme concert experience, barbecue on the Spreeterrasse of RADIALSYSTEM V and public viewing of the World Cup.
Supported with funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Media partnership: RBB Kulturradio.
Marc Sinan
Overall artistic direction
Vera Heimisch & Josephine Heide
Production
Maike Wetzel
Dramaturgy, PR
Holger Kuhla
Dramaturgy
BATTLES I
Helmut Oehring
Conception, composition & musical-scenic direction
Stefanie Wördemann
Textbook
Torsten Ottersberg
Sound conception, production & sound direction
Marc Sinan
solo guitars, voice
David Moss
voice, percussion, guitar
Emily Yabe
Violin, Voice & Signs
Karen Lorenz
Viola, Voice & Signs
Iida Hirvola
Violoncello, Voice & Signs
BATTLES II
Sonar Quartet (Nikolaus Schlierf, Cosmina Gerhardt, Wojciech Garbowski, Susanne Zapf)
String Quartet
Marc Sinan
Guitar
BATTLES III
Marc Sinan
Composition, electric guitar, electronics
Oguz Büyükberber
Clarinet, Electronics
Daniel Eichholz
Percussion
Jelena Kuljic
Voice/Performance
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