HUNGRIGE STERNE: SMALLROOM BERLIN
Georgia Ioakimidis-MacDougall (Horn, Artistic Director)
Erik DeLuca (Composer, Installation Artist, Writer)
Callum G'Froerer (Trumpets)
More information: www.smallroomberlin.com
On April 29 2017 at Studio Rotor in Wedding, contemporary music ensemble Smallroom Berlin will present Hungrige Sterne; the first of their 2017 series supported by Initiative Neue Musik which merges contemporary music performance and sound installation. Iceland-based composer Erik DeLuca (USA) has formulated a work for the ensemble whose fundament is the installation of 100 radios in the new interdisciplinary warehouse space Studio Rotor. The distortion and interference between radios guide musicians who move through the space with a set of responses to different sounds. Second on the program is a new work developed Callum G’Froerer for amplified double-bell trumpet and 4-channel sound projection. G’Froerer’s Charcoal vi separates the double-bell trumpet into 4 entities, each sent to speakers in 4 corners of the performance space. Subtle electronic processing of intimate air, tongue and lip noises places the listener almost inside the instrument. Last on the program is Austrian composer Klaus Lang’s Hungrige Sterne. This is a consummately crafted piece whose long and shifting tone clusters and overtones feel as though they are suspended in space. Timbres achieved through harmonics and suspensions are characteristic of Lang’s work, but with striking moments when a texture falls away to reveal an extremely quiet choral.