MUSIKLABOR: ZWISCHENWELTEN 3

All ears

Music by Luciano Berio and story by Italo Calvino

am Samstag,11. Oktober um 19:00 Uhr
Altstadtrathaus Dornse,
Am Altstadtmarkt 7, 38100 Braunschweig

VKK: Abendkasse ab 18:30 Uhr /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) inspiriert durch Sequenza VIII. für Violine
Luciano Berio         Sequenza VII für Sopransaxophon
Luciano Berio         Sequenza III für Sopran
Tatjana Prelevic     Klangdoskop UA (2025) für Ensemble Megaphon (UA)

Auszüge aus der Geschichte „Ein König horcht“von Italo Calvino

Besetzung

Tatjana Prelevic, piano, composition
Lenka Župková, violin, composition
Anna Clementi, Gesang, Stimme
Vlady Bystrov, Saxophon
Andre Bartetzki, live electronics
Tayfun Bademsoy, voice

Ein König horcht
From: Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun. Three stories
Aus dem Italienischen von Burkhart Kroeber © der deutschen Übersetzung: 1987 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München