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| Gordon Kampe: Arien/Zitronen |
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Though it may be tempting to suspect an element of provocation here, Kampe is no iconoclast. His compositional style doesn’t follow an impulse to oppose any particular musical genre or movement – it is simply the result of an attentive, aesthetic sense of perception which articulates a wonderful inventiveness. This in turn allows Kampe to set the world to music. [...] Click here for more about Gordon Kampe: Arien/Zitronen. |
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| Milica Djordjevic: rocks-stars-metals-light |
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Milica Djordjević, a native of Serbia, is still in her early thirties: far too young to be pigeonholed. Nevertheless, judging by all she has achieved so far, she has to be on the side of the hedgehogs. She is pursuing her own, steady course with determination and great discipline; indeed her compositions are so clearly members of the same family, with numerous shared characteristics, that it might almost seem as though she were tirelessly writing and rewriting the same piece. On closer observation, however, this impression soon dissipates. [...]
Click here for more about Milica Djordjevivic: rock-stars-metals-light.
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| David Hudry: Durchgang |
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David Hudry is a French composer who is interested in the exploration of dramaturgy using heterogeneous musical characters. Inspired by the graphic arts, especially by Klee and Kandinsky, his music articulates gures and gestures that create tension and lends a visual aspect to the sonic material. [...]
Click here for more about David Hudry: Durchgang.
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A tamer and a charmer of tones, a ringmaster and a magician!  |
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| Zeynep Gedzlioglu’s music is an emphatic plea for the value of heterogeneous and individual difference. |
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| To stump a listener: the Music of Birke J. Bertelsmeier. |
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| For me, composition is a game’, says Kampe, ‘using objects which – from a distance – don’t seem to belong together. |
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| Attempting not to write music: Ernst von Siemens composer’s award winner Marko Nikodijevic |
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| It seems that Djordjević’s imagination is focussed entirely on an interior world, on the interplay of forces within a de ned space. |
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| Hèctor Parra’s working on a composition is comparable to the work of a sculptor; continually he carves out his oeuvre out of the musical material. Listen to the result here! |
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| Hans Thomalla’s opera Fremd adapts one of hte great myths of Worldliterature: Medea; still challenging, still compelling. |
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| Remembrance and Polyphony. Ernst von Siemens composer’s award winner Ulrich Alexander Kreppein. |
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