Live Aachen 2009
15—17 May
15—17 May
Friday, 15 May 2009, 8.30 pm
Bryan Wolf – Sound ProjectionProf. Hans-Walter Staudte – Address of welcome
Stockhausen’s very first major electronic work, the sanguine singing of a boy, a range of voices in praise of creation, in an atmosphere of unfamiliar electronic sounds in the ionosphere and magnetosphere threatened by the universe’s particle fire in the light of the deadly flames here below.
The wind, the ventilators, children laughing, reeds swaying at the waterside, the steam, the double bass raging at the frogs, the vigorous bees, is it still the sound within me that seems so natural to me, or is it an enormous electronic edifice I’ve stumbled into without even noticing.
Saturday, 16 May 2009, 8.30 pm
Bryan Wolf – Sound ProjectionProf. Hans-Walter Staudte – Address of welcome
This work was realised in Denshi Angaku Studio for electronic music in Tokyo. Sounds of Japanese temple instruments, a ritual of the oriental world, a village fete in Spain, the rhythms of Hungary - all united in an all-round universal sound, a joint testimony of faraway countries and traditions shared in our personhood – and the universal information technology that now goes along with that.
How peaceful the universe seemed to us, the galaxy so familiar. Then the battle begins: the dark custodian of the laws of nature, the relentless inhibitor of joy in life manifestation, in growth, in freedom, in aspiration and in seeking. And here - in the centre of octophonic spatialisation of sound, amidst the turmoil of electronic forces - I am, I exist, I can be.
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 5.00 pm
Bryan Wolf – Sound ProjectionProf. Hans-Walter Staudte – Address of welcome
With introduction and repetition
Mad rotation, at the same time counter-rotation, incredible, mind-blowing, disconcerting in its length and intensity of a force never heard before. Composed in 2006, and after the technical realisation in the Studio for Electronic Music in Freiburg, the world premiere of Cosmic Pulses was staged in Rome in 2007 and received with a standing ovation. Perhaps an acoustic model for quantum mechanics in microcosm, the sound just heard, but where is it now? …incommensurate with the theories of dynamics of the immense cosmos. The right models for a common entity are what the physicists are searching for. Stockhausen says one should simply accept it as a natural phenomenon.
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 8.30 pm
Bryan Wolf – Sound ProjectionProf. Hans-Walter Staudte – Address of welcome
Under an electronic firmament that labours without respite, vibrates and oscillates, shifting energy, unfailingly active, fractions of anthems, chants and oratories resound, everything seems so small, so comparable, despite the evocation of an individual identity, everything below these electronic heavens is the same, equal, as people are, wherever they live and all over. The electronic heavens open for a split second, in the studio Stockhausen tells the sound engineer that he … a song from the past only as a reminder … Hymnen is the most important electronic work of the 20th century, in two parts, enough to fill a whole evening. With a host of new associations from their own lives, the listeners leave the performance, having re-discovered their own self.
Supporting Programme
Introductory course on Monday, May 11th: Andreas Klose, music teacher and Stockhausen expert, leads to the world of sounds themed "Hearing and speaking about new music". Location: seminar room Klangbrücke, 7.30 p.m.Special concert on Thursday, May 14th: Sounds from the laboratories and departments of RWTH mashed up with experimental music: Sounds of Science
Matinée "Moonscape" on Saturday, May 16th: Concert of instrumental-elektronic music made by children and Kindern und juveniles of the composition course lead by David Graham and Christian Banasik, Clara-Schumann-Musikschule (CSM) Düsseldorf. Productions of computer studio "Studio 209" of CSM with premiers of Kestutis Urbonas, Maximilian Yip und David Hoberg. Music pieces for piano and electronic as well as premieres of octophonic electronic pieces with pianists of piano course Susanne Kessel, Bonn. Start 11 a.m., duration approx. 45. min)