Warbling memory
Warble Memory is a chamber music piece by Eres Holz . The world premiere took place on June 1, 2010 at the Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv-Jaffa .
The project
The Berlin Composers' Association Klangnetz e. V. organized an exchange project between young Israeli and Berlin composers that took place in June 2010 with concerts and several public workshops in Tel Aviv , Jerusalem , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . The German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin and his memorial book Berliner Kindheit around nineteen hundred form the common reference point for all works, which is also shared by the international symposium "Sound and Music" organized by Klangnetz in cooperation with the Center for Literary and Cultural Research and the Academy of Arts in Walter Benjamin's work - Benjamin in der Musik ”, with which the project in Berlin concludes. In addition to the musical and acoustic elements in Benjamin's thinking, which, in contrast to the central role of language and thought images, have received little attention so far, the symposium also follows the suggestions that contemporary music has received from Benjamin's work and himself.
In Jerusalem, Klangnetz was a guest at the renowned Israel Festival with his concert. The German premiere of the new ensemble works by Amit Gilutz , Eres Holz , Yoav Pasovsky , Hever Perelmuter , Gilad Rabinovitch , Sarah Nemtsov , Tom Rojo Poller , Asmus Trautsch and Peng Yin were recorded by Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt. The pieces were played by Ensemble Adapter under the direction of Manuel Nawri .
The project was funded by the Capital Cultural Fund , the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation, the Embassy of the State of Israel, the Goethe Institute and the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation . The patronage of the DenkKklang project for Walter Benjamin was the Ambassador of the State of Israel in Germany Yoram Ben-Zeev .
shape
Trolling memory for flute , clarinet , viola , piano and percussion follows the idea of an "uprooting process". The piece consists of five parts (in the form ABABA), which differ from each other in their essential characteristics ( harmony , motif and rhythm ). A substantially by a percussive, dance-like facture in during B consists essentially of material for solo flute and slower harmonic motion in the ensemble. The staging of the "uprooting" is achieved by gradually failing or greatly varying certain features of the corresponding part with each repetition of a part (A or B). Omitting certain features creates a difference between the current and the past, which calls into question the familiar recognition of the parts or leads the listener into alienation . The oscillation of musical perception between the current and the past suggests non-linear or active listening that exemplifies the process of remembering.
literature
- Tobias Robert Klein, Asmus Trautsch: Sound and Music with Walter Benjamin . 2 CD supplements. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5343-3