MaerzMusik: silent green 2

Peter Jakober // The Monochrome Project 1

This year, we are once again hosting the MaerzMusik festival of the Berliner Festspiele. The 2025 edition focuses on unique percussion and brass constellations, participatory formats, post-digital music theater, and diverse perspectives on voice and breath.

The evening begins with Peter Jakober’s composition for brass and woodwind instruments Little Beauty, which will be performed together with amateur musicians. During the concert performance, which will take place on the long concrete ramp at silent green, the sounds of the piece will accompany the visitors as they make their way into the Betonhalle, the performance of The Monochrome Project follows. 

This ensemble – founded in 2015 by Marco Blaauw to explore the range of the trumpet sound and the diverse instrument’s playing techniques – opens its concert with Fever by Claudia Molitor. Her composition “is an answer to the noises we are surrounded by in the early 21st century, the noises that are a sonic marker of our destructive human ways. A call for hope […], to find a way to live with our environment, not against it.” The evening closes with Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Flight of the Eagle: The Sonic Memorial of Jiddu Krishnamurti”. The composer drew inspiration for his work from the Indian thinker of the same name, expressing his desire to reshape the world “into something more beautiful and meaningful for all people to be a part of.”

Programme

Peter Jakober
Little beauty
for wind ensembles in public space (2024)

The Monochrome Project 1
Claudia Molitor
Fever
for 8 trumpets and electronic (2024)

Wadada Leo Smith
The Flight of the Eagle: The Sonic Memorial of Jiddu Krishnamurti
for 8 trumpets and bass drum (2024)

Cast
The Monochrome Project
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Mathilde Conley, Rike Huy, Bob Koertshuis, Nathan Plante, Markus Schwind, Laura Vukobratović
Trumpet

Christine Chapman
Horn

Dirk Rothbrust
Bass Drum

Fever and The Flight of the Eagle: The Sonic Memorial of Jiddu Krishnamurti are produced by hcmf// and supported by Hinrichsen Foundation, Vaughan Williams Foundation, The Marchus Trust and Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation; also supported by Kunststiftung NRW and Ministry of Culture NRW.

Friday, March 28
Betonhalle
9 pm until 10:30 pm
Tickets