Thanks so much to everybody who made klub katarakt 33 happen !
We will present two 3-hour-radio features on february 4 and april 7 as part of the Redaktion für bürgerliche Kunstmusik in FSK (UKW 93,0)
with lots of music and background.

Watch the new video by Heiner Metzger of the panel discussion with Eliane Radigue, Carol Robinson and Charles Curtis on January 20 @ klub katarakt 33:
http://vimeo.com/36743600








klub katarakt Festival
18 - 21 January 2012
Kampnagel Hamburg


step out of time

Can one tell – that is to say, narrate – time, time itself, as such, for its own sake? Certainly not,
it would be a foolish venture. A story telling: “Time goes by, it passes, time flows” and so on –is,
in no healthy sense, a narration. It would be like someone holding the same tone or chord insanely
for one hour and calling this music.
(Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain)


Consciousness of time as well as our personal musical time-perception has drastically changed since the beginning of the
20th century, taking into account the extreme lengths in works of Morton Feldmann, Steve Reich or La Monte Young.

klub katarakt presents in 2012 compositions that lead in different manners away from time and open the question of the
beginning and the ending of a musical experience – leading the audience thus towards limits in which an intuitive approach
should be dared rather than a logical one, the experience rather than the understanding.




Festival Overview

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MUSICIRCUS 100
Wed, 18.1.2012
19:30 Conzert installation with various works by John Cage - Nelly Boyd & guests
21:30 Pop abstraction - Halma (HH), Tellavision (HH)
15 Euro (red. 8,- Euro)

The opening of the festival is dedicated to John Cage, who this year would have celebrated his 100th birthday.
The Hamburg-based ensemble Nelly Boyd and various guest stars (including Frauke Aulbert and Matthias Kaul from the
Ensemble l'art pour l'art) present MUSICIRCUS, in which several compositions of Cage will be performed, distributed in
three halls - overlapping or simultaneously.

The late concert puts the festival's theme into a pop-music context: Tellavision, the one-woman project between loops and
lo-fi shows us in its atmospheric vividness the "sub-surface to surface" while the band Halma markes out milestones in wide
open spaces with their music: travelling as a state of being.


TRIP WITHOUT QUESTIONS
Thu, 19.1.2012
19:00 Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (1984) - Trio Nexus (Berlin)
15 Euro (red. 8,- Euro)

The second day of the festival day features in contrast to the opening only one single work on the program. klub katarakt
presents the Hamburg premiere of one of Morton Feldman’s most impressive compositions: For Philip Guston takes the
audience through it’s 4,5 hours length to a new dimension of time and space perception, or –as Feldmann described it before
a performance in Middelburg, “on this trip, during which I’ll ask no questions”. At the same time the piece is a reminiscence
to Feldman’s friend and companion John Cage with it’s starting motive: C – G – A(b) – E(b).


SUSPENSION DU TEMPS
Fri, 20.1.2012
18:00 Panel discussion with Eliane Radigue (Paris)
19:30 Eliane Radigue: Naldjorlak I–III (2005–08) - Charles Curtis (cello), Carol Robinson, Bruno Martinez (basset horn)
15 Euro (red. 8,- Euro)

Eliane Radigue is the focus of the festival’s third day.
Radigue studied with the founders of Musique Concrète Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry and was held as a pioneer in
electronic music for decades. For some years now, she has focused exclusively on purely acoustic music. At the center of
this output is Naldjorlak, a three-part work composed for and performed by Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson, and Bruno Martinez
and having now its Hamburg premiere. Naldjorlak explores a subtle sound world fashioned from breath, pulsation, beating,
murmurs and radiant harmonics. The suspension of time, the dialog with eternity, the proximity to silence, an appeal to
contemplation, and exceptional concentration... with Naldjorlak Radigue is coming ever closer to the “impalpable chimerical”
music of her dreams.

Eliane Radigue, who celebrates her 80th birthday a week after the festival, and the musicians will be speaking about her work
in a panel discussion before the concert.


klub katarakt: LONG NIGHT
Sat, 21.1.2012
20:00 New compositions of the katarakt-network
00:00 Party with incite/
15 Euro (red. 8,- Euro)

Secret highlight and grand finale of klub katarakt is the LANGE NACHT with the latest works of composers residing in Hamburg
and international guests. The program is replenished with experimental short films in collaboration with Giuseppe Gagliano from the
ShortFilmAgency Hamburg.
incite/ at last cross the gap separating art and club and lead us with their vibrant staging of rough pulsing synchronized videos and sounds
“out into the night”.

composed & performed by:
Frauke Aulbert, Katrin Bethge, Josephin Böttger, Sebastian Borsch, Sascha Demand, Erik Drescher, Duo Birgit Ulher/Gregory Büttner, Duo Luxa,
Jan Dvorak, John Eckhardt, Moritz Eggert, Robert Engelbrecht, Jan Feddersen, Ignacio Fernández Bollo, Oli Gutzeit, Konstantin Hempel, Peter Imig,
Daria Iossifova, Matthias Kaul, Andrej Koroliov, Thomas Leboeg, Daniel Moreira, Donghee Nam, Johann Nissen, NYX, Yannaël Quenel, Jakub Sarwas,
Carola Schaal, Alexander Schubert, Manfred Stahnke, Swantje Tessmann, Ly Tran, trigger trio, Sergio Vasquez, Volumina Consort, Jueer Wang

Party with
incite/ (Kera Nagel und André Aspelmeier)
selecta john eckhardt


klub katarakt Festival
18.–21.1. 2012
Kampnagel, KMH, Jarrestrasse 20, 22303 Hamburg
Tickets per day: 15,- Euro (red. 8,- Euro), Festivalpass 30,- Euro (red. 15,- Euro)
www.kampnagel.de

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