Das SWR Experimentalstudio beim Kontakte-Festival in Berlin

Das SWR Experimentalstudio bei WEIT! in Weingarten

Das SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg mit Alfonso Gomez

Das SWR Experimentalstudio bei Bilder Klänge Galaxien in Freiburg

Das SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg mit Werken von Paredes

Les Métaboles / SWR Experimentalstudio

In his late work, Luigi Nono always also transformed the music into moving ambient sound. To achieve that, he regularly worked with the legendary SWR Experimentalstudio. One example is his vocal and instrumental work »Diario polacco No. 2«, in which electronic sounds permeate the hall. His work »›Hay que caminar‹ sognando«, in contrast, features two violinists wandering from one music desk to the next. Under conductor Léo Warynski, the Les Métaboles vocal ensemble and the SWR Experimentalstudio remember Nono the political man. When martial law was introduced in Poland in 1981 he wrote »Quando stanno morendo / Diario polacco No. 2« and dedicated it to persecuted Polish friends and comrades. Nono composed »›Hay que caminar‹ sognando« in 1989, one year before his death. With its »choreographic« arrangement, it epitomises an inscription, seen on a monastery wall, that had fascinated Nono: »Wanderer, there is no path. All that matters is the walking.«

Widmann | Reinecke | SWR Experimentalstudio

“I’m fascinated by the problem of composing intermediate spaces – that is, the spaces that lie often between polarities, however covert, fragile or breathless.” Mark Andre explores the transitions between spirit and matter with a passion and meticulousness second to none. Fixed variables are far less interesting to him than states of flux. He is concerned with experiences that only become possible when borders are crossed. The two solo pieces on this programme arose in close collaboration with two equally gifted performers: the clarinettist Jörg Widmann and the double bass player Frank Reinecke. Both are famous for probing their own mental and physical limits, over and over again. Andre and Reinecke worked on the double-bass piece iv 18 “Sie fürchten sich nämlich” for three years. Reinecke describes the result: “It’s always a question of the ineffable. We’re suddenly very close to a secret, but the closeness doesn’t unveil the secret”. Fear and bliss lie cheek by jowl in the musical world of Mark Andre – and it’s almost always the Bible that opens the gateways to new dimensions.

Das SWR Experimentalstudio in Genf mit Werken von Huber und Nono

Das SWR Experimentalstudio bei den Wittener Tagen für Neue Kammermusik

Festival ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ I

Experimenting is the name of the game here. ›Ultraschall Berlin‹, the festival for new music, regularly presents new sounds at the beginning of the year in the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre. Whether world premieres and first performances in Germany, works of the recent past, or classics of the avant-garde – ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ combines a look at the new, the wild, the unconventional with forays through the music history of the past 70 years. Organised by the radio3 and Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio stations, the festival continues the ›Musik der Gegenwart‹ series, with which the DSO has been bringing the most recent compositions to the Berlin stage in legendary concerts since the 1950s. In 2025, the orchestra will again be performing the opening and closing concerts of the festival.

Festival ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ II

Experimenting is the name of the game here. ›Ultraschall Berlin‹, the festival for new music, regularly presents new sounds at the beginning of the year in the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre. Whether world premieres and first performances in Germany, works of the recent past, or classics of the avant-garde – ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ combines a look at the new, the wild, the unconventional with forays through the music history of the past 70 years. Organised by the radio3 and Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio stations, the festival continues the ›Musik der Gegenwart‹ series, with which the DSO has been bringing the most recent compositions to the Berlin stage in legendary concerts since the 1950s. In 2025, the orchestra will again be performing the opening and closing concerts of the festival.