MUSIC LABORATORY: INTERMEDIATE WORLDS 3

All ears

Music by Luciano Berio and story by Italo Calvino

on Saturday, 11 October at 19:00
Old Town Hall Dornse,
Am Altstadtmarkt 7, 38100 Braunschweig

VKK: box office from 18:30 /Pay what you want

Over the course of 44 years, the Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003) created a cycle of works that expanded the boundaries of music: 14 "Sequenzas" for solo instruments.
Four of them - Sequenza IV for piano, Sequenza VII for soprano saxophone, Sequenza VIII for violin and Sequenza III for soprano - will be presented at the Klangbrücken Festival in a new musical-literary collage.

Our idea

The Ensemble Megaphon combines four sequences by Luciano Berio, live electronic intermezzi and 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 in the dark.

Listening experience in the dark

In this concert, everything revolves around the perception of the world through hearing alone: 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. We want to expand and enrich the narrative and emotional dimension of the text with live electronic interludes.
The musicians play in the space between the spectators. Selected text passages by Calvino are played, recorded by Tayfun Bademsoy and/or spoken live by the singer Sophia Körber.

Conversation and drink

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