speaking drill

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speaking drill
General information
origin Cologne , Germany
Genre (s) Sound poetry , the art of language , the
art of speaking , a cappella
founding 2004
Website www.sprechbohrer.de
Founding members
Sigrid Sachse
Song, language
 Harald Muenz
Song, language
 Georg Sachse
Current occupation
Sigrid Sachse
Song, language
 Harald Muenz
Song, language
 Georg Sachse

The sprechbohrer are a phonetic-musical language art ensemble from Cologne . It mainly performs works from the border area between music, sound poetry , spoken song , phonetics and language . The speech drills have received a lot of attention and numerous prizes, both for recordings and for concerts and world premieres of their own and third-party works. All members of the trio also work in related areas, be it as speakers, solo artists, in other formations, as instrumental teachers, choir directors, university lecturers, composers or book authors.

history

Before it was founded in 2004, the members of the ensemble had known each other for years from a variety of backgrounds, including their joint training at the then Institute for Phonetics at Cologne University with Georg Heike and the Cologne University of Music . Sigrid Sachse and Georg Sachse are married and have children together.

The voice drills performed their first program “Beyond the Ursonate” in the art station in St. Peter in October 2004 with the support of the SK Foundation for Culture . After they had already made a guest appearance in January of the same year with the program “… from everyday life” in the Cologne loft , in October 2007 they were again in this parish church, which is popular for its acoustics . There they experienced extremely contradicting reactions from the audience in 2009 as part of No Music Day (day without music). The joke is that there is no music on the day itself, so no concert either. In Sankt Peter the organ was silent during the service and there was no singing. These 24 silent hours ( interval ) were initiated by the speech drills with a decrescendo concert on Friday from 23:00 to 24:00 and ended with a crescendo on Sunday from 00:00 to 01:00.

Since the first Cologne Music Night , the speech drills have been invited to one evening of this series of over a hundred events every year. For the 2nd Cologne Music Night on November 22nd, 2006, they contributed to the world premiere of the composition Zungenwerk for voices, piano and double bass by Prof. Georg Heike in the Alte Feuerwache . Georg Sachses and Harald Münz 'former director of the institute composed it loosely after Hans Magnus Enzensberger and dedicated it to speech drills. In 2008, the voice drills caused a sensation at the 4th Music Night in the Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz of the WDR with their performance " songs restructured ". In addition to their own new pieces, they also performed classics by Helmut Heißenbüttel and the work “Zig-Bang” by the French Georges Aperghis . At the 5th Cologne Music Night in the Luther Church there, the trio presented the latest art of speech and speech from their own work and at the same time remembered Oskar Pastior with two of their works of anagrams , palindromes , homophones and acronyms . Three years before his death played the speech drills also in 2009 commissioned by the Hessian broadcasting the famous experimental literary work Fa: m 'Ahniesgwow of the writer, social and economic historian Hans G. Helms in an authorized by the author complete version of one. It was later published on WERGO and received several awards.

On February 20, 2010, the voice drills made a guest appearance again at the Alte Feuerwache in Cologne, where they not only performed Fa: m 'Ahniesgwow in full alongside other works, but also organized a panel discussion on this piece. At the 6th Cologne Music Night in 2010 on the topic of "Early Music", they awakened the impression of minimal music with texts from the Merseburg magic spells . These are considered to be the only surviving pre-Christian Old High German sources; they were written before 750. Baroque works by Gerhard Rühm and his own compositions rounded off the varied program. In music night of the year following the speech drills also brought the Ursonata of Kurt Schwitters to the stage. In 2012 they appeared in the context of the 8th Cologne Music Night in the Museum of Applied Art, alongside other pieces, with three world premieres and later in the Klangwerkstatt Berlin with a complete performance by Fa: m 'Ahniesgwow. At the 9th Cologne Music Night in 2013, the sprechbohrer will perform in the Institut Français with their own and others' pieces and on September 19, 2014 in the Alte Feuerwache in Cologne at the anniversary concert "10 years sprechbohrer" again with some world premieres and repertoire pieces.

In spring 2014 Deutschlandradio Kultur brought a radio feature by reporter Florian Neuner with the title: “ Music for speakers. The Kölner SprachKunstTrio sprechbohrer and the Aesthetic Phonetics . ”The portrait broadcast contained interview excerpts with Georg Heike, Sigrid Sachse, Harald Muenz and Georg Sachse and many music passages from the work of the Speech Bohrer.

Members

The members of the speech drill are exceptionally versatile.

Sigrid Sachse

The solo pianist Sigrid Sachse teaches the piano and performs mainly with newer music. Her repertoire includes works by Frédéric Chopin , Robert Schumann , Antonín Dvořák , Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel , Sigfrid Karg-Elert , Frank Martin and Francis Poulenc . Together with the flautist Martin Becker , she has performed as Duo Descartes since 1997 . Together with her husband she performs under the name Kaiku , Finnish for echo , multi-instrumental, including exotic instruments, at vernissages and readings and with her own evening programs. Together with the castanets artist José de Udaeta , Sigrid Sachse recorded the CD Magic of the Castanets and in 2003 brought the world premiere of Georg Sachse's “Monologue for Piano” on the stage of the auditorium of the University of Cologne.

Harald Muenz

The internationally known and award-winning composer and sound engineer Harald Muenz studied, among other things, aesthetic phonetics at the University of Cologne, which he also taught there from 2001–2005. He then worked for six years as Artistic Director at the Electronic Studio of the Lübeck University of Music and has also taught composition at the Brunel University School of Arts in London since 2005 . He writes chamber , orchestral and vocal music , especially spoken compositions . He has had assignments and radio broadcasts in many European countries , South Korea and the USA . There are numerous publications about and by him. His scores are published by Feedback Studio Verlag in Cologne.

Georg Sachse

The phonetician , aesthetic phonetician and IPA member Dr. Georg Sachse was involved as an off-speaker in several dozen CD productions, including for the WDR , the Conference of Ministers of Education , in the field of German for foreigners for the publishers Hueber and Langenscheidt as well as test and teaching materials for the University of Hagen . He also works as a composer , as a guitar teacher and teaches phonetics and transcription at the University of Cologne . The popular lecturer was honored with the teaching award of the Philosophical Faculty in 2011. He gives musical and literary theme evenings and looks after a children's choir and a youth choir and composed the children's musical stardust . He composes music for documentaries, performs solo as a singer-songwriter , as an interpreter for jazz , free folk and ambient or soundscape music. In the summer of 2015, Sachse performed with his family and Susanne Kelling at Eulenbroich Castle in Rösrath with “Mondnacht - A musical-poetic journey to the moon”.

Repertoire (selection)

In addition to several compositions by the ensemble members themselves, the following important pieces of music belong to the repertoire of the speech drill:

which are also available on sound carriers. There are also several other pieces by Schwitters and Helms, as well as by John Cage , Oskar Pastior , Dieter Schnebel , Gerhard Rühm , Mauricio Kagel , Georg Heike and a few others.

Discography (selection)

  • Double CD (plus 64 pages booklet) Fa: m 'Ahniesgwow , experimental language composition by Hans G. Helms , first recording of the complete works, Mainz, WERGO , 2011.
  • CD Kurt Schwitters : ursonate and other consistent poetry , Mainz, WERGO, 2014.

Prizes and awards

Collaboration with other artists

All members of the trio also perform together with other artists. In addition to the already mentioned collaborations, other performers are often involved in the choir concerts directed by Georg Sachse. There is also a collaboration between the composers Peter Behrendsen , Hans Peter Reutter and Stefan Streich and the talking drills.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f talking drill programs. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  2. ↑ As Georg Sachse reports in one of his seminars in the context of “ subjective music perception ”.
  3. ↑ Tongues - YouTube. Retrieved July 31, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Georg Heike, compositions. Retrieved July 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ sprechbohrer - "songs restructured" - September 20, 2008 - 4th Cologne Music Night. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  6. ↑ sprechbohrer - “Wortmmeldung” - September 19, 2009 - 5th Cologne Music Night. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Published 1959/60 by DuMont Schauberg in Cologne
  8. ↑ talking drill. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  9. ↑ sprechbohrer - "ZeitZauberZungenZweifel" - September 25, 2010 - 6th Cologne Music Night. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  10. ↑ There is an excerpt with the Merseburg Magic 2 on YouTube . Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  11. ↑ sprechbohrer - September 10, 2011 - 7th Cologne Music Night. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  12. ↑ sprechbohrer - “Remnants, Keepsakes, Memories” - September 22nd, 2012 - 8th Cologne Music Night. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Klangwerkstatt Berlin - Festival for New Music - November 2 to 10, 2012. Accessed July 27, 2014 .
  14. ↑ sprechbohrer - “Elegies Beyond Hollywood” - September 14, 2013 - 9th Cologne Music Night. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Harald Muenz - On stage . Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Broadcast from Tuesday, April 15, 2014 from 00:05 to 01:00, meanwhile depublished by deutschlandradio.de , but see “News” on sachse-musik.de. Retrieved July 30, 2014 .
  17. ^ Duo Descartes - Martin Becker and Sigrid Sachse. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 27, 2014 ; accessed on July 27, 2014 . 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sachse-musik.de
  18. ↑ a b kaiku. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  19. ↑ a b c See: Georg Sachse, performance dates. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  20. ↑ See: Publications on Sachse-musik.de. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  21. ↑ a b Georg Sachse - Works. Retrieved July 28, 2014 .
  22. ^ Works by and about Harald Muenz in the catalog of the German National Library
  23. ↑ Georg Sachse - speaker. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  24. ↑ Georg Sachse - About . Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  25. ^ University of Cologne - Philosophical Faculty - Institute for Linguistics - Phonetics - Dr. Georg Sachse. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  26. ^ University of Cologne - Philosophical Faculty - Quality Management. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  27. ↑ AkkuRath, a former elementary school choir from the Cologne Veedel Rath , see: Veedelschor für Kinder - Kölner Wochenspiegel by Rath-Heumar from Thursday, February 20, 2014. Accessed on July 27, 2014 .
  28. ↑ a b Grönemeyer and Geisterstunde - AkkuRath and ConTakt gave a choir concert in the elementary school - Bergisches Handelsblatt, Rath / Heumar edition of Thursday, October 11, 2012. Accessed on July 27, 2014 .
  29. ↑ Youth Choir ConTakt. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  30. ↑ First performed in 2007, see also stardust. Retrieved July 27, 2014 . and stardust content. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  31. ↑ See: norrut. Retrieved July 27, 2014 . , "Norrut" is Swedish for "northwards, northwards out"
  32. ↑ Ice Harmonic - norrut (Georg Sachse) - YouTube. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
  33. ↑ Georg Sachse Music, Dates. Retrieved June 16, 2015 .
  34. ↑ talking drill. German Music Information Center, accessed on July 27, 2014 .