Chronos (2021) for ensemble

Die Geschichte des Fermentierens ist eine Geschichte, die von Zufällen geprägt ist. So ist auch unsere Geschichte. Wir suchen unbeirrt nach neuen Musikknospen, legen sie ein und lassen es ziehen. Mit uralten Methoden werden hier ganz neue Geschmacksrichtungen entwickelt. Unsere milchsaure Gärlösung schmeckt irgendwie vertraut und doch nicht. Sind unsere fermentierten Zutaten, nämlich ungeschliffene frei gewachsene Improvisationen, erst einmal gereift, fällt das Kochen ganz leicht und Ideen pflanzen sich zu ausgewachsenen Mixturen fort. 
Die unsichtbare Welt der Schimmelpilze, Hefe und Bakterien arbeitet dabei auf unserer Seite und uns Fermentierten bleibt dabei nur noch, im richtigen Moment das richtige Glas aufzumachen.

Oktopus Und Oedipus

i composed this in dedication to Nika Shakarami, who was murdered by the current dictators of Iran. I dedicate this track to all the women asking for freedom, and to the ongoing Iran Revolution.

my heart is filled with sadness about the murders of all these beautiful human beings.

May the voice of Nika be carried on forever.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63200652
#JinaAmini #IranRevolution #JinJiyanAzadi #womenlifefreedom #freeElhamChoubdar #freeZahraSedighiHamedani

Nika Shakarami

playing together in IMO orchestra since many years, Teresa Hackel and Lucien Danzeisen started to improvise music as a duo in october 2023. Here you'll find two of the first improvised pieces.

https://www.teresa-hackel.com/
https://www.luciendanzeisen.com/

Teresa Hackel was born in Berlin in 1981. She studied recorder with Gerd Lünenbürger at the Berlin University of the Arts and got the pedagogical diploma. 

In 2005 she moved to Bern in order to study recorder with Carsten Eckert at the Bern University of the Arts. In 2006 she was awarded the 3rd Prize at the Concours Nicati for interpreters of contemporary music in Bern as a soloist. In 2008 she obtained her artistic diploma with distinction. The focuses were free improvisation and interpretation of contemporary music.

Teresa Hackel took part in different Swiss premieres. She has a long collaboration with the guitar player Virginia Arancio. Together with her and Elena Casoli she recorded pieces of Fausto Romitelli. This CD “Solare” was released in 2018. With the guitar player Karin Rüdt she recorded the CD “Zustandsformen” with pieces of the millennium in 2022.

She has played in several projects and ensembles, currently she is a member of the Insubordination Meta Orchestra. Regularly she plays the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach with the “J.S.Bach-Stiftung”, conducted by Rudolf Lutz.

She teaches recorder in a music school and in the grammar school in Aarau, Baden and Wettingen and she is living in Baden, Switzerland.

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Lucien Danzeisen is a composer and artist. Lucien took part in ‘The Young Composers Project’ (Künstlerhaus Boswil) and completed their bachelor’s degree in composition (Josef Kost, Michel Roth, Bettina Skrzypczak) and piano (Yvonne Lang, Marc Hunziker) with a minor in harpsichord (Bettina Seeliger) at the Hochschule für Musik Luzern in the Department of Classical Music. From 2012-2014, they were based in Basel. They completed their master’s degree in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Hanspeter Kyburz. They are sometimes teaching at the UdK Berlin as part of gather (formerly known as FEM*_MUSIC*_), and are a member of the Insubordination Meta Orchestra in Geneva. After living in Berlin for 9 years, they moved back to Aargau (Switzerland) in 2023. Lucien has given concerts in Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Poland, France, and the Czech Republic, and focuses on composition and free improvisation. After holding a "Berliner Arbeitsstipendium für Ernste Musik und Klangkunst" from Berlin Senate (june-nov. 2020) and a "Neustart Kultur" grant by Musikfonds (jan.-june 2021), they are now happy to receive an AdK Berlin Special Grant "INITIAL" (category: Young Artists) (Okt.21-Jan.22).

Teresa Hackel und Lucien Danzeisen improvisation Session 2c Dezember 2023

The work is an ecstatic and fervent exploration of the aria "Brother Liu is Prejudiced Against Women” from the Yu Opera 'Hua Mulan'. Through extension and fragmentation, the aria becomes a musical frame upon which my music seeks out interaction between the soloist as individual and the orchestra as mass. What begins in media res with a monolithic orchestral eruption based on an isolated cadential motive from the aria gradually crystallises into a joyous dance between several living “fragments": the pipa, a string quartet drawn from within the orchestra, the twinkling quintet of the harp and the four percussionists, and ultimately the orchestra itself. The music journeys through the prism of the entire aria from beginning to end, living fragments dispersed within the musical fragments, all mutually constituting one another towards a climactic, scintillating and harmonious union.

Conductor: Zhang Liang
Pipa: Xu Jiaxin
Orchestra: Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

Written for the 2017 'Hearing China' festival

Festivities Of Fragment (2017)

Vor 47 Jahren befragte ein Abendschau-Reporter Passanten auf dem Ku'damm, ob sie schon mal frustriert waren.

Hier gehts zum Mini-Video, unter dem auch das Original vom rbb zu finden ist: https://www.facebook.com/peterpaasch.mondflug/videos/363254404364721/

frustriert

frustriert 🤯

A re-imagining of Purcell's famous aria 'Dido's Lament', my work extends the original through layers of itself operating at different levels of temporal stretching and compression to create a new lament whose tragic elements are intensified in the unleashed multiplicity and warping undulations of the human voice.

…but ah, forget our fate

The piece looks at the idea of human identity as a constantly proliferating multitude, an (in)balance of different elements pushing and pulling a person in different directions. The performer plays solo and yet speaks in an internal monologue while fantasies of the single line’s multiplication and modification dance unpredictably around the installation. The three elements morph, shape and transform each other in creating the fundamental flux and drama of a constituted subject, reflected publicly in the spatial orientation of the sound, originally for an 18-channel presentation on special "sound-dice” speakers and presented here in a stereo mix.

Anatomies of the Self (2020)

please visit my other soundcloud page as well https://soundcloud.com/ael-danzeisen

Lucien Danzeisen is a composer and artist

Teresa Hackel und Lucien Danzeisen improvisation Session 2c Dezember 2023

Lucien Danzeisen

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