Keynote Presentation and Panel Discussion (3:00 p.m.) and Concert III (4:00 p.m.)
as part of the "Hearing with Helmholtz" event series
BETRIEBSWERK, Heidelberg
Komposition:
- SCHOLA HEIDELBERG | ensemble aisthesis
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang W. Müller, Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt, Prof. Dr. Philipp Brüllmann
Leitung: Walter Nußbaum
The world premiere at 4:00 p.m. at BETRIEBSWERK will be preceded at the same venue at 3:00 p.m. by a keynote lecture and panel discussion on "Helmholtz & Palestrina" led by Prof. Dr. Philipp Brüllmann and Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt with students, as well as a conversation with composer Arne Gieshoff
"… (A) work for 5–8 singers, harmonium, recorded material, and live electronics. The musicians perform in an alchemical laboratory setting that playfully and associatively draws on Hermann von Helmholtz’s world of objects and ideas: a summoning of spirits, a reawakening. With the help of live electronic processes, the voices change their identities, becoming ghostly voices and encountering spectres on gramophones and records that haunt the recorded material: a subjective exploration of the past and of sound. Recorded and live sounds merge into a single phenomenon (...). (The conceptual framework of the work also incorporates Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina’s Stabat Mater (c. 1590) – analyzed by Helmholtz in his theory of sound perception – as well as Hildegard von Bingen’s hymn *O Orchzis Ecclesia* (Riesencodex, c. 1200)) ..."
Arne Gieshoff, on the commissioned work Helmholtz’ Labor // Séance (...)
