Geräuschtöne – Festival 33,7

Martyna Kosecka (*PL, 1989)
Weightlessness (2021) for flute(s), bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano – 7’
Premiere: 20.11.2021, Neimënster, rainy days festival, Luxembourg
“Weightlessness” for chamber ensemble is inspired by the works of Stanisław Lem and celebrates the centenary of his birth in 2021. The piece takes up the theme of weightlessness and specific thinking about the relationship between the pressures described in music – ‘heaviness of composed sound’ and their dispersion in the acoustic space.

Carola Bauckholt (*DE, 1959)
Geräuschtöne (2003) for violin, violoncello and percussion – 13’
“And then I sit there and listen to different recordings of a seagull and try to re-note them: the rhythm and above all what grabs me about it, the horrible screeching, for example. The structures of animal voices are something completely different from our ‘music’.” (Carola Bauckholt in conversation with Raoul Mörchen in 2008, broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin
on 9.12.2008, translated by Jil Hamm for United Instruments of Lucilin)

Diana Rotaru (*RO, 1981)
Some reeds and some air moving them (2019) for accordion – 9’
The piece was commissioned by and dedicated to Klemen Leben. It was funded by DocMus, Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki and premiered on April 16th 2019 in Helsinki.

James Dillon (*UK, 1950)
The Acrobat (2022) for percussion, accordion and electric keyboard – 10’ World Premiere
Commissioned by United Instruments of Lucilin for the project 33,7 – Esch2022 European Capital of Culture, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Against the quiet pedals and swells of the two keyboards, the percussionist takes on the virtuosic persona of ‘the acrobat’ as he juggles both impossibly soft dynamics, stretches of space and the ‘subito’ interruptions of freeze-frame pauses. Finally an accord!

With: André Pons-Valdès (violin), Wanru Cheng (violin) Nora Braun (violoncello), Pierre Fourcade (violoncello), Jean-Marc Foltz (clarinet), Païvi Kauffmann (flute), Frin Wolter (accordion), Zala Kravos (piano), Pascal Meyer (piano) Guy Frisch (percussion), Julien Leroy (conductor)