Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop & Maya Dunietz & WhatWhy Art: Sound Of Difference

Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop & Maya Dunietz feat. WhatWhy Art

The music and performance project Sound Of Difference, developed by the composer Maya Dunietz and the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, works with acoustic drones that make microtonal frictions audible and tangible and are generated live by string instruments. The result is a constantly changing sound that shifts from unity to complexity, from organisation to anarchy: an expansion of the boundary between detachment and taming of sounds.

The music and performance project Sound Of Difference, developed by the composer Maya Dunietz and the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, is an artistic exploration of new sonic and performative dimensions: Acoustic drones and soundscapes that are constantly in motion and make beats, microtonal friction and pulsating rhythms audible and tangible. The result is a permanently changing sound that shifts from unity to complexity, from organisation to anarchy: an expansion of the boundary between detachment and taming of sounds.

Dunietz and Kaleidoskop invite different guest musicians to each performance, who give the compositions a new colour and diversify the sound. In Berlin, they work together with WhatWhy Art from Seoul, a four-piece ensemble for contemporary music on traditional Korean instruments. Kaleidoskop has been collaborating with WhatWhy Art for many years. Most recently, the two ensembles explored various musical issues centred around the connection and difference between their cultural affiliations under the title Trembling.

In Sound Of Difference, they explore a special sonic dimension together: the sounds create tonal frictions and subtly pulsating rhythms that are constantly moving and changing. The seemingly static drones never sound the same for a second, but move towards or away from each other in an endless search for balance. It is a game of proximity and distance, of attraction and repulsion. The sounds, which are close to each other in terms of frequency, begin to vibrate together, suddenly and clearly audible through wild, synchronised, shared pulses. These moments of shared pulsation, which always unfold unexpectedly, are extremely fragile and fleeting, a sound that can be heard all over the body. The musicians position themselves at different points in the room, thus dissolving the frontal performance situation. The audience is invited to approach the performers and follow them.

Dunietz, Kaleidoskop and WhatWhy Art create a complex and ambivalent environment of slow gestures and changing pitches. The performers become a many-headed organism, a swarm that moves without a leader or score.

Programme:
Ana-Maria Avram: Chiaroscuro for three cellos (2011)
Maya Dunietz: Sound Of Difference / Trembling (2024)
Maya Dunietz: Fruit Sorbet (2024)

Founded in Berlin in 2006, the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop has been committed to developing new forms of experimental music theatre from the very beginning. With great openness, the ensemble creates new formats in collaboration with international artists from other genres and stages music in contemporary contexts. In recent years, the focus of the ensemble's work has shifted to an exploration of the body. The members of the ensemble have developed from pure instrumentalists into musical performers and co-authors of these collaborative productions.

A production by Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
WhatWhy Art is supported by the Arts Council Korea. The project is part of the Month of Contemporary Music Berlin organised by initiative neue musik e.V. / field notes berlin.

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Saturday, September 14
Doors 7 pm / Start 8 pm
Kuppelhalle
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