New music in concert
The ENSEMBLE MOMENT presents world premieres from the composition classes
For the second time, ENSEMBLE MOMENT, founded in 2023, will take the audience into previously unheard-of worlds of sound. In an interdisciplinary concert on Saturday, 20 January at 7:30 p.m. in the Saal Am Palais, the ensemble consisting of students from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar will present new works from the composition classes of Sven Daigger and Prof. Maximilian Marcoll as well as improvised and performative contributions.
While the ink is still drying on the music paper, rehearsals are already underway: works from the years 2023 and 2024 will be presented under the title "Abfahrt", composed by students and alumni of the composition classes at the Weimar University of Music. "At the same time, the performance form of the concert as such is to be questioned in its expected and ritualised sequence," explains project coordinator Leonard Friese.
Among other things, the work "zer" (2024) for ensemble can be experienced: Haonan Guo (instrumental composition) orients her composition on the meaning of the prefix of the same name (as in zergehen, zerfließen, zerbrechen) and traces the gradual deconstruction of a homogeneous sound surface.
In the piece "kippend stehen" (2023) by student Jasper Seibert (electroacoustic composition), a tautly stretched network of sounds pushes towards an apparent equilibrium - before tilting again and continuing its movement.
In his work "3x Streichen, 1x Zuppen", David Bilek (Electroacoustic Composition) sheds light on the surprising combination of double bass and subwoofer. What are the characteristics, the differences and the similarities between these two instruments? Where does one end - where does the other begin?
The audience can also look forward to "Caprice No. 1", a technically extremely demanding work for solo tuba by Jongsung Oh (instrumental composition).
The students of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar in the Instrumental Composition and Electroacoustic Composition programmes use the sonic possibilities of our time to pour ideas, structures, shapes and atmospheres into musical form.
"But this music can only become something alive when it is transformed into sound and received and reflected upon together. This requires a body of sound that makes the notated music resound and a framework in which the created sounds can be performed," says project coordinator Leonard Friese.
ENSEMBLE MOMENT is dedicated to this task at the university. "Founded in spring 2023, we see ourselves both as the initiator and organiser of corresponding concert projects and as a sound body that develops newly created works in close collaboration with the composers," says Friese.
[17 January 2024]