Concert | String Quartet
MaerzMusik 2003 dedicates its second concert to the string quartet as a revitalised genre of innovative composition with an evening featuring the Kairos Quartet. The Berlin musicians, who premiered Georg Friedrich Haas' third string quartet ‘In iij. Noct.’ in 2001, will now communicate with each other for the first time in Germany, positioned in the four corners of the hall and in complete darkness. The extreme form of performance, which forces the listener into pure auditory concentration, serves a microtonal sound texture in which the musicians respond to each other and interact with each other within an open form.
A different kind of interaction unfolds in the world premiere of Orm Finnendahl's ‘Fälschung’ (Fake) between string quartet and live electronics (played by the composer). The piece deals with the appropriation processes of supposedly authentic folk music from Eastern Europe in the context of elaborate art music. Enno Poppe's Tier, the second world premiere of the evening, plays with historically familiar compositional and stylistic forms, but questions them with idiosyncratic harmonies and agile rhythms that, regardless of the title, assert themselves in the profession of absolute composition.
Enno Poppe
Tier (2002) WP / CW
Orm Finnendahl
Fälschung
for string quartet, laptop and live-electronics (2003) WP/CW
Georg Friedrich Haas
In iij. Noct.
3rd string quartet (2001) GP
Kairos Quartett (Berlin)
Chatschatur Kanajan – violin
Simone Heilgendorff – viola
Claudius von Wrochem – violoncello
Orm Finnendahl – laptop
Daniel Teige – sound direction