Event

Guillaume de Machaut's mystical motets from the 14th century, the world premiere of a new vocal sextet by Anna Korsun, and an experimental composition for solo piano by Sebastian Claren are on the program, which examines the dynamic concepts of gender and desire through the lens of Michel Foucault's philosophy and deals with how music has always been connected with physicality and desire. Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun already composed a piece of body sounds in 2012 with Vocerumori: six-part smacking, kissing, and other sounds of intimacy that are difficult to define are amplified in multiple channels around the audience. In her new commissioned composition for KlangForum Heidelberg, she expands on this approach of conceptless communication and thus finds a musical body language. In Sebastian Clarens' Sex for solo piano, the instrument is used as a metaphor. Piano playing is staged as an extremely differentiated technique of touch, ironically with an instrument that owes its creation to industrialization like no other. John Eckhardt and Katrin Bethge place Machaut's motets in a decidedly contemporary context in an electroacoustic performance with light projection, using the interpretations of SCHOLA HEIDELBERG as their source material.