BÜRO FÜR PROBLEMATISCHE KOMPOSITION @ BLURRED EDGES 2020

The "Büro für problematische Komposition" is an association of multimedia composers and video artists. Taking risks and trying them out, as well as putting the experiment central to the ensemble is an obligation for all its members. Every year at blurred edges there are compositions and improvisations, electro sounds, field recordings, lectures, film screenings, world premieres, performances and numerous sound experiments to see and hear. The audience can look forward to a mixture between underground and avant-garde. The many different venues offer exciting backdrops from the deck of the MS Stubnitz to the Kraftwerk Bille and the Resonanzraum in St. Pauli.

MULTIMEDIA COMPOSER: ALESSANDRO ANATRINI (IT) // GREG BELLER (FR) // XIAO FU (CN) // AIGERIM SEILOVA (KAZ) // JACOB SELLO (DE) // STEFAN TROSCHKA (DE) VIDEO ARTIST: JANINA LUCKOW (DE) // MUSICIANS: LIN CHEN (CN/DE) // MICHAEL SCHRÖDER (DE) // KRISTIAN SIEVERS (DE)//STEFAN WEINZIERL (DE)

SYNESTHESIA: AUDITIVE & VISUALPROJECT

Synesthesia is an audiovisual project which deals with the possibilities of the representation of musical media. The focus is on 2 strong contrasts. Audio and video and analog and digital. The analog sounds are accompanied in their individual elements by digital animations. The form follows the sound. This creates abstract clips that perfectly accompany and underline the music. Synesthesia: the product of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. The project is the result of a collaboration between toğrul (sound) and Giacomo Wiesenberg (animation), both members of the vibrational network.

PEAK HUMANITY / RESONANCE ASRESILIENCE @ BLURRED EDGES

Live-Streaming from the ballroom of Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg’s former coal power plant. WITH: Ingrid Hoelzl: clarinet, voice, performance // Georgia Ch. Hoppe: reeds, mini-electronics // Emese Kovács: dance, voice, performance // Marcia Lemke-Kern: soprano, viola, performance // Frantz Loriot: viola, voice, performance Composition: Georgia Ch. Hoppe // Dramaturgical advice, text, camera: Remi Marie // Artistic direction, research, libretto: Ingrid Hoelzl //Technical direction: Sascha Hahnrath // Scientific advice: Sebastian Dutreuil/Sebastien Klotz // Intern: Fiona Eden.

Original excerpt: „Are we at the peak of humanity, in terms of demography, resources, and the habitablity of planet Earth? Are we already beyond? Will we simply go extinct or can we survive in radically changing gears? PEAK HUMANITY counters the modern mantra of the “survival of the fittest”, projected from society onto nature and back onto society (and of which today’s geoengineering phantasies are but a variant) with a “survival of the best related” (Morizot) that has been practiced intra- and inter species ever since. With recourse to the octatonic scale as a musical “peak of humanity” five performers will gather in the former ballroom of Hamburg’s industrial vestige Kraftwerk Bille, a 1901 coal power plant. Using voice, instruments, and movement they will grope their way towards resonance as resilience: A journey that leads us from Apocalypso; The Abyss of Time; Extinction Blues to Mutant Mambo and Cosmic Fragility. PEAK HUMANITY is the fourth project of General Humanity, a collective for theory-performance founded in 2018 in Budapest, stationed 2019 in Zurich and since 2020 based in Hamburg. General Humanity means the integration of humans in the ecological community. Previous projects: ANIMAL ANCESTOR (2020) and POSTIMAGE OPERAAAHHH!!! (2019).“