Urban + Aborignal XV: China

15.11. – 17.11.2002
Podewil, Werkstatt der Kulturen der Welt

URBAN + ABORIGINAL – Music and performance between Rock, Jazz, “ethnic” and “new” music, in the borderland of styles, cultures and between the arts. Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. have presented their annual festival “Urban + Aboriginal” since 1985. With its shifting emphasis on different regions and themes, the festival has developed into a focal point for contemporary music and performance in Berlin. It presents soloists and ensembles who operate in the thickets between “new” and “ethnic” music, rock and jazz, and who cross boundaries between the arts: music and performance by big-city natives – the transgressors, troublemakers and trappers in the crossfire of cultures and styles. It’s not about trends, but about the urban and the aboriginal.  Both are experiencing transformations far from the beaten track and searching for individual solutions. Progressive urban-industrial cultural forms undergo dialectical, even ironic refractions, reverting to supposedly outdated modes, to the “primitive” and “alien”, the “archaic” and “anarchistic”, to “nature” and “ritual”. These experimental projects are juxtaposed with traditional styles of ethnic music that have developed outside the urban context, so that the hybrid forms of musical expression from the cities appear as if illuminated in relief.

Urban + Aboriginal XV: China is dedicated to the musical culture of China.

Team:
Program/organisation: Vilém Wagner, Matthias Osterwold, Elke Moltrecht, Anette Heit, Yu Fang, Werner Durand

In cooperation with Podewil and Werkstatt der Kulturen. With support of Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V., Siemens AG Berlin and SFB RADIOkultur, Musik fremder Kulturen.

Programm:

15.11.2002

ENSEMBLE XIAN AN GUYUE
AVANTPOP & CLUB CULTURE:
Li Chin Sung (live electronics, turntables) – »Beijing«
•  Podewil

16.11.2002

MIN XIAO-FEN – Pipa solo
DEREK BAILEY (Gitarre) / MIN XIAO-FEN (Pipa)
»Flying Dragons, Dancing Phoenix«
AVANTPOP & CLUB CULTURE
Li Chin Sung (live electronics, turntables) – »Berlin«
•  Podewil

17.11.2002

LI MINGZHONG
ENSEMBLE XIAN AN GUYUE
ENSEMBLE »DER DRACHE«
XU FENGXIA / WU WEI
•  Werkstatt der Kulturen der Welt

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