Ensemble Resonanz / Seth Parker Woods

Julius Eastman’s »Gay Guerilla« is a work of hypnotic power and a musical manifesto – a call for resistance, for visibility, for unstoppable revolution. His music knows no pause. It grows, overruns, demands – as uncompromising as his life as a black, queer composer in a world characterised by exclusion. His work is at the centre of a programme that brings different voices into dialogue with each other: Pauline Oliveros, a pioneer of deep listening, opens up a space for listening. Chinary Ung combines Western art music with Southeast Asian traditions and evokes the past. Pēteris Vasks opens up a view of the passing of time. With Jessie Montgomery, memory pushes into the present, searching for a way out and for unity. Edward Elgar takes his leave. But Eastman remains. Unstoppable. Without history, no future. Without struggle, no voice. Without blood, no cause.