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Percussion, dance and experimental installations – an experience for ear and eye, unique and extraordinary.
Persephassa, Psappha, Rebond A and B
Compositions for percussion instruments, Iannis Xenakis
Dates: April 8th | 7 pm
April 9th | 7 pm
April 10th | 6 pm
Location: Former Postbank building, Überseering 26, 22297 Hamburg
Tickets: https://postbank-percussion-project.eventbrite.de
A light atrium, six stories high, 35 meters long, 12 meters wide. In the middle of the room the conductor and the audience. Around them six percussion positions, three more on the galleries.
Sounds wander through the room. Rhythms follow each other, drift apart, diffuse and come together again, finally sweeping the audience along in a dynamic acceleration as if in the wake of a turbine.
In honor of architect and composer Iannis Xenakis, who would have turned 100 this year, eleven students from the University of Music and Theatre will perform four of his pieces: Rebond A and B, Psappha, Persephassa. Dancers accompany the musical performance.
The context to the sound is a visual dimension. Architecture students from the HafenCity University show a variety of installations – some oversized, others sculptural, some inviting interaction – interpreting the scores and thus allowing the pieces to be perceived in a new way. They reflect the work of Iannis Xenakis, who showed in the 1960s how close architecture and music are to each other by letting mathematics flow into spectrographs and translating them into scores.
The concert in this form is unique. The students present a project that they designed especially for the atrium in the former Postbank building to mark a new beginning for the building. The company recently moved out. The building will be extensively changed and expanded in the coming years.
Music: Prof. Cornelia Monske – University for Music and Theatr
Installation: Prof. Lothar Eckhardt, Tina Bremer, Sylvia Soggia – HafenCity University
Dance: THE CURRENT DANCE COLLECTIVE and Erika Klütz School for Theatr Dance and Dance
Education, head: Suse Tietjen