Projects

A weekend outdoors with concerts and sound experiments to listen to, see, join in and mushroom soup to mark the 100th birthday of the American modernist composer legend JOHN CAGE. With a music festival at the KulturGut Poggenhagen, the experimental musicians of the Ensemble Megaphon are celebrating the 100th birthday of the composer and lateral thinker John Cage (1912-1992). Under the artistic direction of Lenka Župková [...]

As part of the "150 years of Linden" anniversary year, pupils from an 8th grade class at IGS Linden have developed the "Urban Choreography" dance project under the guidance of dancer and choreographer Mikael Honesseau. From April to June, a dance performance will be shown at several public outdoor locations. Sponsors Stiftung Niedersachsen, Linden Limmer Stiftung, City of Hanover, [...]

From the deep silence and timeless atmosphere of the space, soundscapes and scenes from almost a millennium emerge: from preserved medieval songs and the mystical chants of the Lüne and Wienhausen monasteries to early Baroque composers and contemporary commissioned compositions. Tatjana Prelevic, Lenka Župková and Julia Mihaly have written three compositions for the choirs especially for these performances [...].

As part of the ArchitekturZeit organised by the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects in Hanover/Amtsgericht, Celle/Kunstmuseum R. Simon and Braunschweig/ Haus der Wissenschaft. What do angels sound like and what do they look like? Fascinated by images and compositions by various artists and composers, the musicians of the ensemble Megaphon embarked on a journey. In this journey, poetic speech and choral singing were combined with compositions by [...]

The sounds of the forest, the noises of the street, the voices of the animals in the nearby zoo and the birds already form an acoustic backdrop for a soundwalk, which is expanded by the performers and set in a new soundscape. Twenty musicians move outside and inside the labyrinth, playing together in ever new formations. The [...]

Interdisciplinary performance at the Eisfabrik Hannover Water serves the actors of the ensemble Megaphon not only metaphorically and virtually, but also in a very real way as material, space and background: ice as body and crystalline structure, water and waves as sound generators and dynamic landscape, vapour and breathable air as fleeting and chaotic transmitters of acoustic and breaking visual messages. Solidification/melting, [...]

Performers Ensemble Megaphon Hannover Neue Musik Braunschweig e.V. Andre Bartetzki - composition / sound direction Vlady Bystrov - composition / saxophone Lenka Zupkova - composition / violin Sylvia Heyden - choreography / dance Mikhail Honesseau - choreography / dance Tilman Thiemig - text collage / voice Sponsor Musik 21 Niedersachsen Kultur Institut Braunschweig Nord LB Braunschweig Videos [...]