Opening

Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 8:00 pm

The festival will open with a walkable concert in all three halls, where the audience can freely roam through a constantly changing sound and light installation. In addition to Quatuor Bozzini, which will perform works by James Tenney and Christian Wolff, many local musicians and video artists will be involved, among others Marcia Lemke-Kern, Gregory Büttner, the Nelly Boyd Ensemble as well as Matthias Meyer and Christina Engelbrecht.

Quatuor Bozzini
Ensemble in Residence 2023

Clemens Merkel violin
Alissa Cheung violin
Stéphanie Bozzini viola
Isabelle Bozzini violoncello

Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 8:00 pm

Ensemble in Residence of this year’s festival is Quatuor Bozzini from Montréal/Canada. Founded in 1999, the string quartet is characterized by a radically contemporary spirit and a great willingness to take risks. With more than 400 commissioned works and 500 world premieres, it has built an extremely diverse and extensive repertoire. It also regularly organizes workshops for young composers and performs the resulting new works.
Quatuor Bozzini will play three concerts in addition to the opening. In a workshop before the beginning of the festival with musicians from Hamburg, the quartet will study a piece by Christian Wolff which will be presented at the opening.

Nelly Boyd

Moxi Beidenegl voice, electronics, objects
Robert Engelbrecht electric guitar, objects, cello
Jan Feddersen piano, electronics
Johann Popp electronics, percussion

Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 8:00 pm

The composers collective Nelly Boyd emerged 2004 from the need to break up formal academic structures, to explore different influences from classical composition, electro-acoustic music, rock, improvisation etc. and to search for its own sound – all of this in a non-hierarchical framework. On this base Nelly Boyd organizes concerts, performances and installations in clubs, galleries and other places of sub and high culture. Guest musicians are often invited, with an emphasis on collective working modes and integration of professional and non-professional performers.

Matthias Meyer: Ohne Titel (1999/2007)

2-channel-video-projection

Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 8:00 pm

Matthias Meyer sets up his artworks upon existing materials, often taken from fiction films. His artistic approach can be characterized as an intellectual play with our cultural knowledge. In this context he works with gaps as well as with additions. In a serial of works for example he erases the main figures of well-known films: the Empire State Building in Andy Warhol’s „Empire“ or the main protagonist in Michelangelo Antonioni’s „Blow Up“.

Felix Mayer: Capri Code (2021 – ongoing)

8-channel-sound installation

Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 8:00 pm

Based on Fieldrecordings of wintry Black Forest and recordings of
clocks and running noises of historical music playback devices from the
German Phonomuseum in St. Georgen Capri Code reflects the specific
soundscape of the installation site and the immediate surroundings and
relates them to the places where the installation has already been done.

Quatuor Bozzini
Ensemble in Residence 2023

Clemens Merkel violin
Alissa Cheung violin
Stéphanie Bozzini viola
Isabelle Bozzini violoncello

Thursday, 19 January 2023, 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm

In the first concert, in addition to the premiere of a work for string quartet with harmonicas by Danish composer Niels Lyhne Løkkegard (*1979), there will be first performances by three female composers from Canada: Tanya Tagaq (*1975) transposes Inuit throat singing to string instruments; Nicole Lizée (*1973) processes glitches made by outmoded and well-worn technology; the music of Chiyoko Szlavnics (*1967) is often based on graphic specifications and explores psychoacoustic phenomena.
In the night concert, the quartet will perform the Hamburg premiere of Occam Delta XV (2018), a work created especially for them by French composer Éliane Radigue (*1932).

Chiyoko Szlavnics

Thursday, 19 January 2023, 7:30 pm

Among others Quatuor Bozzini will present the string quartet gradients of detail by Canadian composer Chiyoko Szlavnics (*1967) who works in both music and visual art. Her music is often based on graphic specifications and explores psychoacoustic phenomena. Since Szlavnics is based in Berlin she will visit the concert and – we hope – give a short introduction to her work.

Böseblick

Alessandra Eramo voice, tapes, electronics
Korhan Erel synthesizer, samples
Ariel Orah electronics, tape recorder
Kirsten Reese software, objects, microphones

Thursday, 19 January 2023, 9:00 pm

Böseblick is a formation of four Berlin musicians founded in 2021 with very different backgrounds in terms of origin, musical imprints and the electronic instruments they play.

Rituals, (super)faith, good and evil spirits, visions and apparitions – how do these express themselves in electronic sound?

The music of the Böseblick Ensemble blurs the line between composed and improvised playing, combining elements of melody and noise. With ease and grace, their music articulates a reflection on contemporary issues such as cultural appropriation, home, and belonging, creating soundscapes beyond established traditions.

Réplica

Felipe Araya peruvian cajón, extended acoustic percussion, objects
Birgit Ulher trumpet, radio, speaker, objects

Saturday, 21 January 2023

The duo Réplica exists since 2012, concerts in Santiago de Chile and at the Tsonami Festival in Valparaíso, Chile. Also collaboration in the film project “People on Sunday”, realized at the Universidad de las Americas in Santiago.
Concerts at the blurred edges Festival in Hamburg, Umbral Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, among others.

Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance (2002) for electric guitar

Gisbert Watty electric guitar

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Gisbert Watty plays guitar: classical and electric. He is especially engaged in chamber music and contemporary music. Concert tours have taken him all over Europe and Australia with his permanent ensembles. Collaborations with and premieres of composers from all over the world.
The project “Fausto Romitelli – Trash TV Trance” was supported by the “Zukunftsstipendium Musik” of the Landesmusikrat Hamburg.

The Paranormal Clarinet Society

Laurent Bruttin clarinets
Lucio Capece bass clarinet
Sam Dunscombe clarinets
Kai Fagaschinski clarinet
Christopher Heenan double-bass clarinet
Theo Nabicht clarinets
Michiko Ogawa clarinets
Michael Thieke clarinet

Friday, 20 January 2023, 7:30 and 10:15 pm

The Paranormal Clarinet Society from Berlin is a newly formed composer/performer clarinet octet that brings together musicians from a wide variety of musical backgrounds (from academic to self-taught), production methods (composed, improvised and conceptual music) and origins (Argentina, Australia, Israel, Germany, Japan and the USA); it is performing in Hamburg for the first time. Each concert will feature a work composed especially for the ensemble by Sam Dunscombe and Kai Fagaschinski

Quatuor Bozzini
Ensemble in Residence 2023

Clemens Merkel violin
Alissa Cheung violin
Stéphanie Bozzini viola
Isabelle Bozzini cello

Friday, 20 January 2023, 8:30 pm

In its last concert, the Quatuor Bozzini presents three works by Canadian composers. Emilie LeBel (*1983) is mainly concerned with resonances and color variations. James O’Callaghan (*1988), on the other hand, works not only with string instruments but also with objects such as buckets of earth and trowels, pencil and paper, tape and a lamp, which are also played by the musicians. Sarah Davachi (*1987) deals with just intonation and long sustained sounds.

Hye-Eun Kim

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Hye-Eun Kim combines her classical music training with free improvisation and repetitive loops to create a spiritual synthesis in which harsh sounds collide with melodic motifs to explore the space between past, present and a possible future.

Michelle Lou: Bloom (2019-2022)
for solo electric guitar, Gizmotron and FX pedals

Seth Josel electric guitar

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Bloom explores a signal processing system created out of variously routed FX pedals which treats the instrument as more of a sound synthesizer than a guitar. This piece features the Gizmotron, which is a sustaining device for the electric guitar invented in the 1970s and fell into obscurity until it was resurrected by another party about 50 years later.
The form of the piece can be interpreted as a sort of funnel shape or bloom as more and more diverse material enters the system and creates a larger opening.

Micro Oper München: Music for Nervous Systems
John Cage’s Song Books

Cornelia Melián voice, objects
Masako Ohta prepared piano, objects
Ernst Bechert electronics, voice
Anton Kaun noise, electronics, video

Saturday, 21 January 2023

The Micro Oper München follows its own path through John Cage’s collection of experimental concept pieces between music and theater. What rules apply? What role does chance play? Surprises are guaranteed.

In friendly cooperation with the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and scope – Spielraum für aktuelle Musik.
Supported by MUSIKFONDS. The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

DOG TRIO

Saturday, 21 January 2023

DOG TRIO is an ensemble for soprano, electronics and piano from Hamburg consisting of Pia Davila (soprano), Hanne Franzen (piano) and Dong Zhou (multimedia composition). The three musicians perform contemporary musical works for soprano and/or piano and electronics and find visualizations and multimedia realizations for them or proceed the other way around, i.e. start from a film to which music is played/composed. At klubkatarakt 2022 Dog Trio plays in the instrumentation piano, electronics, visuals.

Nika Son & Helena Wittmann: Cae la Noche (2021)

A performative video-sound installation

Saturday, 21 January 2023

In our joint work, we constantly question the relationship between image and sound. Ultimately, this challenge begins with the questions: What is it that we make visible? What is it that we make audible? Starting from the concrete, we are interested in how the hidden, silence or absence open up spaces to experiment with certain conditions, atmospheres or ruptures in these spaces. Open narratives emerge from this.

Michelle Lou: Bloom (2019-2022)
for Solo electric guitar, Gizmotron & FX pedals

Seth Josel electric guitar

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Bloom explores a signal processing system created out of variously routed FX pedals which treats the instrument as more of a sound synthesizer than a guitar. This piece features the Gizmotron, which is a sustaining device for the electric guitar invented in the 1970s and fell into obscurity until it was resurrected by another party about 50 years later. While the motorized wheels bow the strings, the motor itself is amplified to bring attention to the piece’s overall mechanistic behavior. The form of the piece can be interpreted as a sort of funnel shape or bloom as more and more diverse material enters the system and creates a larger opening.

Boyds Elektro Gitarren Orchester: For Christian Smukal

Robert Engelbrecht: Rote Flora (2009) / Flora Swing (2010) / Luchs (2018)

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Boyds Electric Guitar Orchestra (BEGO) is a side project of the Nelly Boyd Ensemble and was founded in 2009. The orchestra is composed of musicians from various musical backgrounds. To close the Long Night 2023, BEGO will perform three pieces by Robert Engelbrecht for twelve electric guitars, electric bass and drums – in memory of the Hamburg musician and instrument lender Christian Smukal, who passed away in the summer of 2022.

Gurss von Dred

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 1:00pm

Gurss von Dred (THCB) is the more electronic and avantgarde DJ project by The Hairy Cowboy. For klubkatarakt he connects his style of storytelling with music and his unusual consideration of this weird world in different musically ways.