2021 Weiwuying TIFA Contemporary Music Platform
KNM BERLIN - Tunings of the World 2.0
Reading Music is a collection of text composition works and an ongoing project. It explores how composers and musicians reach mutual comprehension without the score as a medium and further elaborates on the relationship between sound art and space.
Based on the concept of German master K. Stockhausen's Music for a House, Studio Acht and KNM Berlin invited six composers from Taiwan, Germany, Argentina, and Mexico in 2019 to create Music for an Opera House, a work tailor-made for the spaces in Weiwuying Opera House. Music for an Opera House is completed after a year of discussion, research, and creative brainstorming. Due to the pandemic, this piece is unable to perform live; however, the challenge of the reality, in fact, spurred the team to go deeper into Stockhausen's groundbreaking concept of musical composition. They thus filmed the experimental results into Reading Music III-VIII in Berlin. It serves not only as a record of the creating process of Music for an Opera House but a way for composers and performers to profoundly present the thinking of musical performing styles put forward by Stockhausen in the last century through unconventional space and the sense of space.
Program
KAO Kai-yi, Counterpoint
Carlos LTURRALDE, Elastic Semantic Transfer
Ana Maria RODRIGUEZ, Gold and Silver
LIU Wei-chih, Burst Forth
LIN Fang-yi, Let's Read Some Poems
Laure M. HIENDL, Practice
Information
Date: 2021/04/12 ~ 2021/04/25
Tim: 11:00 ~ 17:00
Location: Art Gallery, Weiwuying(Free Entry)
Meet the composers
Time: 2021/4/18(Sun.)11:00-12:00
Location:3F Crown Hall, Weiwuying
Speakers:LIN Fang-yi、KAO Kai-yi、LIU Wei-chih
Photo /Photo/National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)©
Creative and Production Team
Ensemble KNM Berlin
Flute|Rebecca LENTON
Contrabass Clarinet|Theo NABICHT
Trumpet|Matthew CONLEY
Violin|Theodor FLINDELL
Viola|Kirstin Maria PIENTKA
Violoncello|Cosima GERHARDT
Double Bass|Jonathan HEILBRON
Weiwuying Academy Ensemble Musicians
Bassoon|WANG Peng-Hui
Piano|HUANG Yu-Ting
Sound design and video|Andre BARTETZKI, Thomas Bruns
Director|Thomas BRUNS
Host:National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
* Tunings of the World 2.0 is a project by the Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Taipei, the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai, Studio Acht Taiwan, Jinju Music Festival (JMF) and Berghain Ostgut GmbH. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan).
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【2021 Weiwuying TIFA Contemporary Music Platform】KNM BERLIN - Tunings of the World 2.0