RAUMKLANG – ORGAN PROJECT MOZARTEUM COMPOSERS
PROGRAM
Yannai Schrire – Ouroboros
Amélie Undine Schmidt – CORPUS CALLOSUM
Johannes Brömmel – 2
Hugo Daouk – DAS GROSSE FIEPEN
Tim Lugstein – an Orguement
Matthias Brandt – Atemhunger
Samuele G. Ferrari – when
Organists:
Susanne Kujala
Maximilian Schnaus
Wolfgang Kogert
Chislain Leroy
Yannai Schrire – Ouroboros
The ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail, symbolizes an eternal continuity. Enclosing a defined space, it offers a boundary between what is inside and what is outside, a spatial- physical border continually flowing. It is a metaphor for the collapse of time - a non-linear temporality developing in vain, merging beginnings and ends, a constant cycle of disintegration and restoration that is ever-changing yet static. This piece ponders over these ideas, employing the four organs as one corpus divided into stations situated around the audience.
Amélie Undine Schmidt – CORPUS CALLOSUM for four organs
The Corpus Callosum is the central connecting bridge between the two hemispheres of the brain. Millions of nerve fibers coordinate, here, the exchange of information, movement, feeling, and thought - lightning-fast, complex, and vital. In this work, anatomy becomes sound architecture: Four organs, spatially separated, enter a dialogic mesh that sounds at times symmetric, at times contradictory, at times like a single large impulse. Impulses travel, respond to each other, and overlap just as signals do in the brain.
Corpus Callosum is a piece about connection, separation, and harmony- and about the ability to turn plurality into unity.
Johannes Brömmel – 2
Melodien haben haben eine difficult Situationship.
Hugo Daouk – DAS GROSSE FIEPEN
The great squeal
Four organs whine with metered sound,
as by a clockwork they were bound.
One travels on, unyielding, sure,
the others fall off their allure.
The nightingale now flies ahead,
as if her worldly goods were fled.
A whistle here, a pipe and sigh,
the figure rushes ever by.
And when the final voice is hushed,
the great squeal keeps its onward rush.
Tim Lugstein – an Orguement
Belief, truth, reality, the meaning of life, the meaning of our shared existence. Questions that science can only partially answer, and which provoke social tensions and the need for discussion. Cultural backgrounds fuel conflicts and constant compensation for the long-term, possibly least fulfilling goal of strengthening one's own position of power. A sustainable result could probably be found in a respectful and humble confrontation and willingness to compromise. However, the reality is likely that different positions will always be in a natural tension.
Matthias Brandt – Atemhunger
(air hunger) is the feeling of suffocating while actually stll being able to breathe. Organs, instruments that never run out of breath, become my medium to explore how air itself can betray them. How can the illusion of breathlessness be conjured where breath should be an infinite resource?
Samuele G. Ferrari – when
“At or during the time when;
at the moment that
Just after the moment when
Whenever, at any time that
What time?
Why worry, when there’s nothing you can do?
Do you remember when?
When and where?
Something like that?
Conditioned by 4 individual clicktracks, each of the players plays its unit, independently, yet
intertwined with the others.
When hearing a cue, they move one step further into the piece. While going faster. And the
mess unfolds :)”
