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hand werk ([`hand vɛrk]) is a German chamber music ensemble for contemporary music based in Cologne .

description

The ensemble, founded in 2011, is dedicated to undirected chamber music, in which the musicians stand equally for an overall concept of musicality and performance.

Ensemble handicraft

In order not only to enable the classically composed works with the Pierrot cast , handwerk selects from a repertoire of pieces for extraordinary instruments, such as everyday objects (tables, balloons, voices, etc.) and electronic instruments. Due to the variety of works and the collaboration with other cultural workers, handwerk is involved in interdisciplinary projects in the areas of experimental art, performance and music theater .


hand werk has played at the Witten Festival for New Chamber Music , the Darmstadt Summer Courses , Eight Bridges Cologne, Zagreb Biennale, Klangzeit Münster, Ultrasound Berlin, at Harvard University in the USA and at concert series in European cities. The ensemble operates internationally and played a. a. on a Lebanon tour, a residency in Tel Aviv, Israel and a concert tour to Singapore and Australia. hand werk promotes cross-border collaboration with other contemporary music ensembles and is also regularly present with its own, often interdisciplinary productions.

Ensemble name

The name, inspired by Richard Sennett's book Handwerk (2007), refers to the picking up of a tradition in which a craft is cultivated with the intention of manufacturing a product with the greatest possible care and initially only for the sake of making, without focusing on production efficiency and sales potential to be. The focus is on the product itself as a quality product, whereby quality products are always produced with expression and interpretation in addition to technical precision at handwerk.

Discography

handwerk has been involved in the production of several CDs:

  • Timothy McCormack: Apparatus / Myunghoon Park: Seeds (Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Kulturforum Witten 2012)
  • short wave (ON - New Music Cologne, 2017)
  • Lisa Streich: Pietà (Wergo, 2018)

Literature and press reviews

  • “The six musicians from handwerk developed the highest concentration, precision and presence, although they did not appear with their traditional instruments in pieces by Sarhan, Filidei, Barden and Löffler, but as percussionists, vocalists and electronics technicians. Their achievements were all the more fascinating: they were ready for national and international podiums. ”Rainer Nonnenmann: Exhibition of young ensembles. The WERFT festival of the Cologne network ON, In: neue musikzeitung 2/2017
  • “For handwerk, musicality and care count instead of material fetishism or instrumental showmanship.” Leonie Reineke, Deutschlandfunk, Atelier Neue Musik 2016
  • “Six works by young composers were selected from the forty-five submitted scores and premiered by the young Cologne chamber ensemble“ hand werk ”. Among his highly concentrated interpretations, flautist Daniel Agi stood out with the world premiere of Yasutaki Inamori's virtuoso and idiosyncratic “Mumbling Flute, Reinforced”. The screaming, silent "ash" of the Swedish Lisa Streich, born in 1985, was particularly impressive, where the clarinet literally swallowed the cello sound in forced unison, so that only the violent changes of arcs of the cellist can be seen and heard as cracking impulses. "Rainer Nonnenmann: Interventions against the routine. The Witten Days for New Chamber Music. MusikTexte 137, 2013
  • Heather Roche: Communicative movement in contemporary chamber music: hand werk in the rehearsal of new works by Thierry Tidrow and Georgia Koumará Divergence Press, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exhibition of young ensembles | Edition: 2/17 | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rainer Nonnenmann: The Witten Days for New Chamber Music | MusikTexte 137 - May 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Communicative movement in contemporary chamber music: hand werk in the rehearsal of new works by Thierry Tidrow and Georgia Koumará . In: Divergence Press . ( divergencepress.net [accessed April 15, 2018]).