Autosymphonic

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Autosymphonic 2011 in Mannheim

Autosymphonic is a multimedia show on the subject of automobiles .

composition

The composition commissioned by the city of Mannheim and the agency m: con-mannheim: congress GmbH is the work of the Cypriot composer Marios Joannou Elia . The piece is written for 300 musicians and 500 technicians: a car orchestra consisting of 80 automobiles and 120 percussionists, a large symphony orchestra, choir, children's choir, pop band vocal ensemble, percussion octet and live electronics. The autobiography of Carl Benz is central to the music . Selected quotations are the linchpin of the nine movements of the symphony . The composer incorporated 800 different car sounds into his work. The musical message: The car has to be reinvented again and again.

Car orchestra

The bandwidth of the world's first car orchestra ranges from trucks to buses , from classic cars to modern sedans and tractors up to Formula 1 - racing cars . Different sizes, years and engine strengths - the car orchestra as a cross-section through time and a mirror of different vehicle types: including rarities and peculiarities of automotive history, such as the patent motor car number 1 from 1886, a De Dion-Bouton from 1908, a Maserati GranTurismo from 2009 , a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano from 2007, a Lanz Bulldog "Ackerluft", a 230 HP Ford Thunderbird , a Trabi , a Goggomobil , a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, the Messerschmitt Tiger cabin scooter , a Jaguar WildCat, a Citroën 2CV , a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, a Mercedes-Benz Actros , as well as a Porsche 356 and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS .

premiere

Before the premiere , the composer Marios Joannou Elia handed and m: Co Managing Director Michel Maugé officially the Baden-Württemberg Minister President Winfried Kretschmann and the Mannheim Mayor Peter Kurz , the score of "autosymphonic".

80 automobiles as "musical instruments", the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg with its percussion octet, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart , the children's choir of the Stuttgart State Opera , the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg , 120 young people from Mannheim and the pop band Söhne Mannheims found themselves on the 65,000 square meters of Friedrichsplatz in the city to form a unique orchestra.

For the premiere of the Elia Opus, the central square of Mannheim, Friedrichsplatz , was transformed into an amphitheater . An elaborate stage provided space for the choir and orchestra . Across from it, the car orchestra was largely placed on the covered pergola of the facility. The optically closed form was continued in terms of sound technology, a total of 168 large sound systems were used. Thanks to a 360-degree arrangement, impressive sound wanderings were possible. Since the audience was in the center of this circle, the sounds could be heard from every seat.

The symphony was staged with a video and laser show by the Mannheim photographer and video artist Horst Hamann . For his video and laser projections of photos, films and texts, he used the architectural features of Friedrichplatz: The facades of the Art Nouveau buildings in the area function as a 360-degree panorama screen. Almost 20,000 spectators saw the one-hour world premiere of the work. The "autosymphonic" was the climax and the end of the Baden-Württemberg "Automobile Summer 2011".

Reviews

"One of the world's more remarkable symphony concerts"

- The Huffington Post

"Roaring engines, squeaking wiper blades and horns, plus a multimedia laser show: at the" autosymphonic "in Mannheim, the audience was particularly enthusiastic about 80 cars."

- Article on Focus Online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sound of 300 musicians, 500 technicians and 81 cars  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.swr.de on September 10, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stream-tv.de  
  2. ↑ Symphony: Autobiography of Carl Benz as a source of ideas ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.autosymphonic.de on September 11, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.autosymphonic.de
  3. ↑ Symphony with Laser and Motors at www.nordbayern.de on September 11, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011
  4. ↑ Looking for cars with a talent for sound! ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on http://www.gcb.de from unknown, accessed on December 16, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gcb.de
  5. ↑ A superlative symphony for the car birthday at www.mittelbayerische.de on September 11, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011
  6. ↑ Roger Scholl, Thorsten Langscheid: Summer fairy tales in a square - Mannheim has topped everything . September 12, 2011, p. 23
  7. ↑ autosymphonic: multimedia with one-off effects ( memento of the original from June 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.autosymphonic.de on September 11, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.autosymphonic.de
  8. ↑ The multimedia symphony "autosymphonic" ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.mediacenter.dw-world.de on September 17, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mediacenter.dw-world.de
  9. ↑ Germany's Auto Symphonic Fixation ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.huffingtonpost.com, accessed February 5, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.huffingtonpost.com
  10. ↑ Music: wiper blades and motors sound to the symphony - Miscellaneous - FOCUS Online - News . Focus Online website. Retrieved February 11, 2012.

Web links

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