Hessischer Rundfunk

With the biennial festival cresc... Biennale für aktuelle Musik Frankfurt Rhein Main, outstanding cultural institutions in the region join forces: the Ensemble Modern with the International Ensemble Modern Academy and the hr-Sinfonieorchester with the hr-Bigband. The motto of this year's festival is "Swarms". They fascinate with their elegance and synchronicity and are not created by central control, but by local impulses that condense into complex patterns. The music is the resonance chamber of the swarm. It lives from collective organization and individual voice at the same time. When sounds interweave to form dense surfaces or rhythmic structures pulsate like living organisms, the music itself appears as a superorganism. At the same time, we are enamored of a work, an ensemble, a sound.

The composer Miroslav Srnka transfers this phenomenon to the orchestra in his work "Superorganisms": sometimes the individual sparkles, sometimes the collective pulse dominates. A musical adventure that makes the power of togetherness tangible. In its chamber music version, Conlon Nancarrow's "Studies" unfolds a polyrhythmically grooving, multi-colored structural network. In Rebecca Saunders' "Wound", fragile lines and orchestral density, vulnerable intimacy and rugged defensiveness collide - an emotionally charged work full of sonic wounds.

Three works, three perspectives on the interplay of many individual voices: An evening about collective intelligence, tonal self-organization and the beauty of the complex whole, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling

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6.2., 8 p.m.

VILCO, Günther-Biwer-Platz 1, Bad Vilbel

2for1: 35 €

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