All ears
Music by Luciano Berio and story by Italo Calvino
on Sunday, 4 May 2025 in the RAMPE at 7:30 pm
Gerhardtstr. 3, 30167 Hanover
within the framework of the KLANGBRÜCKEN 2025 Festival
Prices 15/10 €
VKK: Reservix, box office from 7 pm at the Rampe
Over the course of 44 years, the Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003) created a cycle of works that expanded the boundaries of music: 14 "Sequenzas" for solo instruments.
Four of them - Sequenza IV for piano, Sequenza VII for soprano saxophone, Sequenza VIII for violin and Sequenza III for soprano - will be presented at the Klangbrücken Festival in a new musical-literary collage.
Our idea
The Ensemble Megaphon combines four sequences by Luciano Berio, live electronic intermezzi and own compositions with the story "Ein König horcht" by Italo Calvino in an acoustic collage. Both works - Berio's sequences and Calvino's story - deal with listening as a central theme. The audience will be given eye masks at the beginning of the concert and are invited to experience the concert exclusively in the dark.
Listening experience in the dark
In this concert, everything revolves around the perception of the world through hearing alone: In Calvino's story, the king tries to grasp the whole world around him by listening.
Like the king's throne in the story, the piano stands in the centre of the room and the audience sits around it. We want to expand and enrich the narrative and emotional dimension of the text with live electronic interludes.
The musicians play in the space between the spectators. Selected text passages by Calvino are played, recorded by Tayfun Bademsoy and/or spoken live by the singer Sophia Körber.
Conversation and drink
After the concert, we invite you to an open discussion with the artists, accompanied by a drink.
Programme
Luciano Berio Sequenza VII for soprano saxophone
Luciano Berio Sequenza III for soprano
Luciano Berio Sequenza VIII for violin
Luciano Berio Sequenza IV for piano
Tatjana Prelevic Klangdoskop UA (2025) for Ensemble Megaphon (UA)
Excerpts from "A King Listens" by Italo Calvino
Live electronic and literary intermezzi
Copyright: A king listens
From: Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun. Three stories
Translated from the Italian by Burkhart Kroeber
© of the German translation:
1987 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich
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