MUSIC LABORATORY: INTERMEDIATE WORLDS 3

All ears

Music by Luciano Berio and stories by Italo Calvino
as part of the festival "Three days of new music in Braunschweig

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This concert is all about the perception of the world through listening alone: The Ensemble Megaphon combines four sequences by Luciano Berio, live electronic intermezzi and its own compositions with the story "Ein König horcht" by Italo Calvino in an acoustic collage. Both works - Berio's sequences and Calvino's story - deal with listening as a central theme. The audience will be given eye masks at the beginning of the concert and are invited to experience the concert exclusively by listening in the dark.

In Calvino's story, the king tries to grasp the whole world around him by listening.
Like the king's throne in the story, the piano stands in the centre of the room and the audience sits around it while the musicians play in the space between the audience members. Selected text passages by Calvino, recorded by Tayfun Bademsoy and/or spoken live by the singer Sophia Körber, are played.

After the concert, we invite you to an open discussion with the artists, accompanied by a drink.

Programme

Lenka Župková Klangfolgend UA (2025) inspired by Sequenza VIII. for violin
Luciano Berio Sequenza VII for soprano saxophone
Luciano Berio Sequenza III for soprano
Tatjana Prelevic Klangdoskop UA (2025) for Ensemble Megaphon (UA)

Excerpts from the story "A King Listens" by Italo Calvino

Cast

Tatjana Prelevic, piano, composition
Lenka Župková, violin, composition
Anna Clementi, Singing, Voice
Vlady Bystrov, saxophone
Andre Bartetzki, live electronics
Tayfun Bademsoy, voice

A king listens
From: Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun. Three stories
Translated from the Italian by Burkhart Kroeber © of the German translation: 1987 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich