Wie ein Naturlaut. Impressions from the premiere in Bad Re

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Premiere fom 16. July 2021 at Alte Saline Bad Reichenhall in occasion of the 25th anniversary ceremony of the Bad Reichenhall Art Academy
Total duration: 33 min.
Soloists: Svea Schildknecht (soprano), Eva Nesselrath (alto), Bernhard Münchbach (trumpet), Franz Schüssele (alphorn)

Kamera: Michael Scheuerl (Magazin 3), Miriam Seidler, Stefan Stark Photoproduction

Headphones are recommended to experience acoustically the rotation!

"Wie ein Naturlaut" is an allusion to the naming of the first movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony, parts of which are adapted for a composition created especially for the alpine town of Bad Reichenhall, combining Heaven's Carousel with instrumental sounds and song for the first time. The novelty is that four speakers are extended with electronics in such a way that the sounds of instruments and voices can be transmitted to them and thus the musician sounds can also be set in rotation.

Inspired by Gustav Mahler's orchestral treatment of the song 'Ging heut morgen übers Feld' from his cycle 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen', the first movement is given a special vocal treatment: the song passage is arranged for an interplay between the soprano Svea Schildknecht and the contralto Eva Nesselrath. The two vocal parts also take on other instrumental parts in the first movement, such as the oboe or the clarinet's cuckoo motif. Mahler's spatial choreography is broken up by the spatial positioning of selected instruments. A long-distance trumpet (Bernhard Münchbach) is brought into play, for example, and the French horn part is likewise performed at a distance by an Alpine horn (Franz Schüssele). The natural sounds are supplemented in this way by the natural tone series: the pitch of the valveless alphorn deviates significantly from modern instruments on certain notes, as it cannot be played in tempered tuning due to physics, but the intervals between notes are defined according to the harmonic tone series.

"Wie ein Naturlaut" is funded by Neustart Kultur via the Musikfonds.

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