Metallurgien

With «Metallurgien», Ensemble KlangLab and Peter Ablinger pick up on Ablinger's explorations from the 1990s. Instrumental sounds are projected onto reverberation plates and these projections are condensed in such a way that they seem to disappear in a moment of maximum presence. «Metallurgien» can be understood, among other things, as an attempt to make such moments of disappearance tangible, to arrest them. The composition works with various modules, each of which determines a specific constellation of voice, instrumental sounds and resonances. These modules are sketched, for example, as: Brass chatter; car projections; trombone, seismographic; a Kyrie after Machaut or also as whispering, harmonic.

«Projections. Is there anything to be said about projections. Projecting something onto something. What does that mean? Isn't that what we always do anyway? We see something. No. We think we see something. While we are projecting something onto something.» [...]
Peter Ablinger, Libretto of the Metallurgien

With

Ensemble KlangLab: Adrián Albaladejo (trombone), Bertrand Gourdy (electronics), Dino Georgeton (electronics), Maia Zacarias (electronics), Noa Mick (saxophone), Chris Moy (electric guitar)

Program

Peter Ablinger (*1959): «Metallurgien» from «Projektionen» (1995-2022) for metal plates, instruments, voices, electronics, objects

Duration

100 minutes, with break

Prices

CHF 35.-/25.-/15.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission applies to persons with residence permit N, F or S. / CHF 5.- students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel / CHF 10.- members Colourkey and children under 12 years.

Links

→ klanglab-ensemble.ch