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| BEIJING commission for a new piece september 7 18:30-19:30 zhang ding: sound and light installation + solo performance 20:30-22:00 Christian Kesten CONTRIBUTIONS, COUNTERPOINTS & PLACES for chamber ensemble (13 performers: violins, erhu, violoncelli, clarinet, trumpet, tuba, coding (laptop), hand fans, paper and other objects) World Premiere – performed by Marinate Fish Impro Committee Beijing & the Berliners Robin Hayward, Andrea Neumann, Takako Suzuki and Christian Kesten | Takako Suzuki TREADER with Robin Hayward | Yu Ji solo september 8 14:00-15:00 lecture: labor sonor and today’s experimental music in berlin (andrea neumann and christian kesten) 16:00-17:30 andrea neumann solo: SOLO FOR HEARTBEAT, MIXER AND ZITHER | christian kesten solo: UNCOLOURED. SEVEN SONGS | beijing impro committee work 18:00-19:00 zhang ding: sound and light installation + solo performance Goethe Institute, Originality Square, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Beijing, China free | |
| BAM! Berlin Festival for actual music theatre Contemporary music-theatre between narration and abstraction | 20-23 September, 2018 BREAKFAST OPERA by Makiko Nishikaze for 4 voices, objects, audio recordings, video projections MAULWERKER Ariane Jessulat, Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Steffi Weismann Composition / direction: Makiko Nishikaze | stage/video: Steffi Weismann & Hsuan Huang Thursday, 20 September, 2018 | 8pm Friday, 21 September, 2018 | 7pm Acker Stadt Palast | Ackerstr. 169/170 | 10115 Berlin | |
| DURST&FRUCHT A work for voices, instruments, video projections by Annette Schmucki with Ensembles Maulwerker and Proton premiered at Musikfestival Berne 9.9.2017 27 & 28 October, 2018 Ballhaus Ost | Pappelallee 15 | 10437 Berlin | |
| LABOR SONOR : CHOREOGRAPHING SOUND music composers composing for dancers. dancers performing music. Transdisciplinary Festival & Symposium with composers Brandon LaBelle, Matteo Fargion, Hanna Hartman, Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Yan Jun | Festival direction: Matthias Haenisch and Christian Kesten 30 November – 2 December, 2018 Ballhaus Ost | Pappelallee 15 | 10437 Berlin |
