How Did You Do That? Developing Transcultural Music ll

Peter Klohmann and Eleanna Pitsikaki (Photo Klohmann: Alexander Paul Englert)

Wednesday, September 6, 7 pm

What is Transcultural Contemporary Music? Musicians of the Frankfurt Bridges Chamber Orchestra provide insight into their musical work and decision-making processes.

How do compositional ideas develop in the Bridges Chamber Orchestra or in Bridges ensembles? What are the orchestra's approaches and decision-making criteria regarding arrangements, instrumentation, and artistic practice? How is music created that makes room for the respective traditions of the musicians or their instruments and at the same time allows for the development of something new? What are the (musical) cultural and aesthetic contrasts between different oral and written musical traditions, and how do the musicians deal with them?

Eleanna Pitsikaki presents traditional musical forms from the Arabic and Byzantine contexts on her box zither kanun. The aesthetic focus is on ornamentation, microtonality and improvisation techniques. Together with Peter Klohmann, she builds bridges to the use of the kanun in transcultural contemporary music in the Bridges Chamber Orchestra as well as in jazz.

Program

Beyat Saz Semai

Komp.: Kanuni Ömer Afendi

Kanun Solo 

Kanun: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Hicaz Madilatos 

Komp.: trad. griechisch

Kanun Solo 

Kanun: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Sweet Breeze 

Komp.: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Kanun Sopran Saxophon Duo

Kanun: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Sopran Saxophon: Peter Klohmann

Slow Mo' 

Komp.: Peter Klohmann

Kanun Sopran Saxophon Duo

Kanun: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Sopran Saxophon: Peter Klohmann

Bue.not 

Komp.: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Kanun Sopran Saxophon Duo

Kanun: Eleanna Pitsikaki 

Sopran Saxophon: Peter Klohmann

The event will take place in the ArtLab of the Institute, Grüneburgweg 14, 60322 Frankfurt am Main. The discussion after the performance will be in English. Admission is free, please register at sek.musik@ae.mpg.de.

The event is part of our "How Did You Do That?" series.

Artistic work involves a multitude of decisions of a conscious and unconscious nature, judgments of success and failure, reflection on one's own actions. The series "How Did You Do That? Lecture Recitals on Contemporary Artistic Processes, Decisions, and Judgements" invites well-known artists from various disciplines to reflect on these processes: What criteria play a role? On what background are aesthetic decisions made? What kind of references are involved? When is a work/performance successful?

The evening events of the series each consist of a performance (concert, reading, performance) and an accompanying discussion with audience participation in the ArtLab, the concert and performance hall of the MPIEA.