DJ Redo aka Werner Durand
28.09.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin RECORD PLAYER Lounge
Tenores di Bitti
28.09.2003 / 21:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin CANTI Traditional Sardinian male choir Daniele Cossellu, Mario Pira, Pier Luigi Giorno, Piero Sanna For thirty years, the vocal quartet Tenores Di Bitti Remunnu ‘E Locu (Bitti, Sardinien), named after the famous poet from Bitti, has been carrying on the still-lively Sardinian tradition of polyphonic a cappella men’s singing, which has an exceptional position in Mediterranean vocal music and is unique in Europe. A primordial form of the “canto a tenores” has been preserved in northeastern Sardinia for centuries, one as vital and direct as the untamed nature of the island. The lead singer sings the main melody – usually of ballads, satires,…
Michiko Hirayama
28.09.2003 / 20:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin CANTI Canti del Capricorno by Giacinto Scelsi (1915-1982) – voice solo Michiko Hirayama (Rome), now 80 years old, is the master singer to whom Giacinto Scelsi dedicated his works, and was his muse for many years. And thus, she is the designated and authentic interpreter of Scelsi’s magnificent cycle for solo voice under the sign of Capricorn. Hirayama, who had also studied traditional Japanese singing, came to Rome in the ’60s and soon stood at the center of that city’s musical avant-garde. Over 100 works were dedicated to her and her extraordinary voice. Giacinto Scelsi (1915–1982) was a loner among the composers of…
zeitblom
26.09.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin NET MUSIC motion picture soundtrack – concert biomorph source music III/audiotracts – sound project in the Net, presentation Both performances by the Berlin electronic musician, composer and sound designer zeitblom (Berlin) are based on the idea of a biomorphic composing process, with sound as the micro-organism, which he developed while working on the installation trilogy “bioplex – biomorph – bioscope” (2001–2005). In his concert “motion picture soundtrack”, zeitblom presents the music for an unmade movie filmed using the anamorphic Cinemascope process. Similar to anamorphic optics, sounds are first compressed, and then expanded and separated to again create a monophonic soundscape. Sound, melody, and rhythms…
Glenn Branca
26.09.2003 / 20:00 h St. Elisabeth-Kirche 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin MAXIMAL MINIMAL Symphony No.14 (Retrospective) – WP – Commission for rock band and electronics – Glenn Branca – overtone guitar Regina Bloor – guitar Ryan Walsh – bass Tony Cenicola – drums Glenn Branca‘s (New York) astonishingly powerful, harmonic (i.e.based on overtone series) microtonal music for massed groups of electric guitars and keyboards is closely linked with the history of Freunde. Since the end of the ’70s, Branca has experimented with the sound and overtones of electric guitars, and developed his own instruments and special tuning systems based on the finely gradated intervals of the partial tone series. He began, moreover, to be concerned…
