Tempus ex machina / Elbtonal Percussion
»Greatest Hits« / Festival for Contemporary Music
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Start 18:30
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End ca. 19:30
Description
The percussionists of the Hamburg-based formation Elbtonal Percussion provide a fascinating listening experience on the second day of »Greatest Hits«, the festival for contemporary music at Kampnagel and the Elbphilharmonie. »Tempus ex machina« is a study of the construction and disintegration of rhythm. In this work, French composer Gérard Grisey superimposes the rhythms upon one another in varying tempi, as if they came out of nowhere, combining them into patterns and compressing them into trills until the listener only hears them as an expanse of sound.
From 1 to 4 November, the »Greatest Hits« festival presents contemporary music at Kampnagel and the Elbphilharmonie. The focus this year is on the composers Gérard Grisey und Harry Partch. The latter was a contemporary of Arnold Schönberg and Aaron Copland; in the desert near San Diego Parch developed his own tuning system with home-made instruments which feature in many of the festival concerts.
Performers
Elbtonal Percussion
Jan-Frederick Behrend percussion
Andrej Kauffmann percussion
Stephan Krause percussion
Sönke Schreiber percussion
Francisco Manuel Anguas Rodriguez percussion
Olaf Koep percussion
Programme
Gérard Grisey
Tempus ex machina
Jan-Frederick Behrend
Afrock
Casey Cangelosi
Bad touch
Johann Sebastian Bach / Elbtonal Percussion
Trash-Bach
Thierry De Mey
Musiques du Tables
Radiohead / Jan-Frederick Behrend
Daydreaming
Promoter: HamburgMusik / Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik / NDR
