Concert

ensemble mosaik

Sara Glojnarić / Sergej Newski / Laura Bowler

ensemble mosaik

ensemble mosaik © Anja Weber

The ensemble mosaik seeks out the wild, the untamed, painful memories and the defects of the present. A concert where sweating is permitted.

Recording of the concert on DeutschlandfunkKultur in the broadcast on 6.4.2023, 00:05

Please note: Stroboscopic light effects are used in the event "FFF".
Trigger warning: The production "FFF" contains images of forced silencing and images of violence within the context of protest and war which could have a debilitating and re-traumatising effect.

Programme booklet 21.03.2023

The composer Sergej Newski and the video artist Oleg Mikhailov take us back to the Berlin of the 1990s in their project “Memory”. Footage from amateur videos including the Love Parade and private parties is used to create a shimmering and unsettling image of that hedonistic time.

In her “sugarcoating” cycle, Sara Glojnarić works with the sound fetishes of pop music. Music is generated from a data bank containing over one million pop songs whose density and aggressive precision makes it unique. Direct and breathtakingly fast.

Laura Bowler is a composer, performer and provocateur. She can be experienced in Berlin for the first time. The work “FFF” is one she wrote for herself and it demonstrates all her abilities: an intense virtuosic score, a vocal performance in between singing and screaming – and garish videos. Come and be provoked!

Programme

Sara Glojnarić (*1991)
sugarcoating #1 (2017)
sugarcoating #3 (2022)

Sergej Newski (*1972)
Ensembletrilogie I Space (2021, completely revised 2022/23)
Ensembletrilogie III Memory (2023)
Commissioned by Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik
World premiere

Laura Bowler (*1986)
FFF
for vocalist and 8-piece ensemble with live and fixed electronics and video (2017)
German premiere

Cast

ensemble mosaik
Kristjana Helgadottirflute
Simon Strasseroboe
Christian Vogelclarinet
Matti Conleytrumpet
Flavio Virziguitar
Roland Neffepercussion
Ernst Surberg piano, keyboard
Chatschatur Kanajanviolin
Karen Lorenzviola
Niklas Seidlcello
Matthias Bauercontrabass
Martin Losertsaxophone
Ruth Veltensaxophone
Arne Viercksound director
Eckehard Güthervideo

Aaron Cassidyconductor
Laura Bowlervoice