ENSEMBLE EXTRAKTE Die “Note” – Transtraditionelle (Ver)wandlungen

  • Performance
  • Seminar
16. April 2023, 16:00
16. April 2023, 16:00
ACUD CLUB RAUM
Veteranenstrasse 21
10119 Berlin

Das Ensemble Extrakte in Berlin fasziniert das kleinste Element des notierten Klangs, “die Note”, der in den verschiedenen Musiktraditionen unterschiedliche Konzepte zugrunde liegen. In einem dreimonatigen Erforschungsprozess konnten neue Ansätze des Zuhörens, von Transformationen oraler und tradierter Notationen, Interpretationen und kollaborative Improvisation erkundet werden.

Der europäische Begriff der Note wird mit dem indischen, chinesischen, arabischen, armenischen und des Blues in Beziehung gesetzt, die jeweils unterschiedlichen Arten der musikalische Handhabung folgen. Eine solche musikalisch-praktische und mikroskopische Analyse des Notenbegriffs im transkulturellen Vergleich hat es bisher noch nicht gegeben. Als Ergebnis eines daraus resultierenden Erkenntnisgewinns über die jeweiligen kulturellen Praktiken sind transtraditionelle Verwandlungen entstanden für ein musikalisches Miteinander vor neuen Zeichen: die NOTE als erweiterte Dimension und als Dekonstruktion gewohnter Spieltechniken hin zu einer alternativen musikalischen Realität. Die Musiker sind dadurch in die Lage versetzt, selbst entworfene neuartige Modi innerhalb ihrer eigenen Kompositions- und Improvisationsmethoden zu verwenden und ihre eigenen Kategorien von Raga- oder Makam-ähnlichen Ansätzen zu erfinden und in sie selbst prägende erlernte musikalische Praktiken das 20. und 21. Jahrhundert zu übertragen.

Die Musikerinnen und Musiker von Ensemble Extrakte präsentieren im Konzert gemeinsam entwickelte “EndFragmente” in Gruppen und als Ensemble. Die Stücke im Programm basieren auf Analysen und daraus gewonnenen erweiterten Spielweisen sowie auf Synergien aus neu kennen gelernten Notationspraktiken der verschiedenen Traditionen. Entstanden sind dimensionsreiche musikalische Annäherungen.

gesponsert von Musikfonds e.V. FEB-III Stipendienartige Förderung für Ensembles und Bands



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Ensemble Extrakte in Berlin has taken a fascination to the smallest element of notated sound, the “note”, which has different underlying concepts in different musical traditions. A three-month exploration process allowed them to explore new approaches to listening, transformations of oral and traditional notations, interpretations, and collaborative improvisation.

The European notion of the note is set into a relation with the Indian, Chinese, Arabic, Armenian, and blues, which each follow different ways of conceiving musical sound. Such a musical-practical and microscopic analysis of the concept of note in transcultural comparison has not been done before. As a result of the accumulated knowledge about the respective cultural practices, transtraditional transformations have formed a musical unity with new symbols: the NOTE as an extended dimension and as a deconstruction of habitual playing techniques towards an alternative musical reality. The musicians are thereby enabled to use self-designed novel modes within their own methods of composition and improvisation, and to invent their own categories of raga- or makam-like approaches and to transfer them to 20th and 21st century learned musical practices that shape their musical identities.

In the concert, the musicians of Ensemble Extrakte will present jointly developed “final fragments” in groups and as an ensemble. The pieces in the program are based on analyses and extended ways of playing gained from these analyses, as well as synergies from newly learned notational practices of the various traditions. The result is a musical approach rich in new dimensions.

Sponsored by Musikfonds e.V. FEB-III Stipendienartige Förderung für Ensembles und Bands

ENSEMBLE EXTRAKTE

Sören Birke – Mundharmonika, Dudek

Klaus Janek – Bass, Elektronik

Bakr Khleifi – Ud

Cathy Milliken – Oboe, English Horn

Gregor Schulenburg – Flöten, Duduk, Kyotaku

Ravi Srinivasan – Tabla, Whistling, Vocal

Wu Wei – Sheng, Erhu

Jeremy Woodruff – Baritone Saxophone 

Zhao Lucy – Pipa

Jeremy Woodruff – Musikalische Leitung

Elke Moltrecht – Leiterin Ensemble Extrakte

www.jeremywoodruff.de

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