montage – Caroline Siegers

VISION FUGITIVE (2023)

Ivan Moshchuk plays Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives,
Rachmaninoff’s Corelli Variations and Cage’s „In a Landscape“

This video was created on Dec 20, 2022 the Royal Academy of Music, London, Susie Sainsbury Theatre. The one hour program was directed by Ivan himself and filmed in one go by Tenor Andrew Staples.

Ivan and I just finished the post production.

SILENT SONGS (2022)

Konstantin Krimmel, bariton; Hélène Grimaud, piano

These Songs were recorded at Turbinenhalle Stienitzsee in August 2022. A representative of „Kiev’s Avantgarde“, Valentin Silvestrov was initially a construction engineer and visited music school at night. He then studied composition with Boris Ljatoschinski and Lew Rewuzki.

In 2022, he came to Berlin from Kiev.

Op. 32 by Brahms was composed in 1864. All songs express some kind of conflict between lovers. „So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide“ is really my favourite.

A SENSE OF TIME

Lab concert, feat. a song by Mikis Theodorakis, ADAF Greece online 2022

In our laboratory, Stock and I are using our newly built MIDI-controllers pendulum and crank for the first time. The piece is a vivisection of Mikis Theodorakis‘ song „Tin porta anigo to vradi“, from Ta Lyrica, lyrics by Tassos Livaditis.

Since the basic idea of cranking a MIDI-Sequence is derived from the functionality of a music box, the original music box needs its place in the lab as well. And since the „triplet“, an instrument initially used in a theatre show in 2015, is still working, this punchcard dj instrument appears likewise.

Thank you Philipp for your lovely camera work.

KALLE KALIMA (2022)

Flight from Sirius to Tegel C by Kalle Kalima,

KALLE KALIMA’s album LIVE ON PLANET BERLIN is out. Kalle is one of the 3 nominees for German Jazz Prize 2022. We did this rbbKultur record at the legendary AUFSTURZ, featuring Oliver Potratz on bass and Oliver Steidle on drums – just shortly before the pandemic came to Berlin. The album is a wild safari to the outskirts of planet earth. It is published on enja & yellowbird records.