{"id":60669,"date":"2022-08-16T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ensemble-megaphon.com\/?p=60669"},"modified":"2024-02-13T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:20:01","slug":"never-a-breath-pause-iii","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.ensemble-megaphon.com\/en\/project\/niemals-eine-atempause-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201eNiemals eine Atempause I. \u2013 III.\""},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n\t

Content<\/h2>\nWe live in a time full of contradictions, in which our belief in the changeability of the social status quo often fails due to a lack of trust in individual and collective creative forces.
\nWith the multi-part project \"Niemals eine Atempause\", Ensemble Megaphon wants to encourage the participating artists and the audience to reflect on their own attitudes and encourage dialogue. For questions like: What do we still believe in? Do we have the courage and means to change our society? What are we prepared to sacrifice? What role can art play in this context? Is the current system of democracy still relevant and forward-looking? - The concert experience and accompanying discussion rounds will provide space for these questions.\n

It is also about the relationship between artistic work and political stance: each ensemble member chooses a text that reacts to totalitarian social systems in different countries that violate human rights and freedom of expression. In a collective process, the ensemble elaborates these texts into media-based music-theatrical miniatures for live and online performances, incorporating non-musical forms of expression in equal measure. In this way, an experimental sound-space-time-light laboratory project develops, in which the functional separation between composer and performer is also questioned.<\/p>\n

Due to the current events in Ukraine, as a sign of solidarity we will perform a commissioned composition for the ensemble from 2016 by the Kiev-based composer Alla Zagaykevych: Punktum reditum. The composition was written in response to the Maidan events in 2013 and the occupation of Krym. Unfortunately, the situation in Ukraine has not changed, but has escalated into war.<\/p>\n

Programme<\/h2>\n