The Office for Culture and Sport is once again organizing the “out of the box” series from January 19th to 21st. The program ranges from performance to sound installation.
New music plays a special role in Leonberg. That’s one reason why the city is dedicating its own series to her called “out of the box”. On the weekend from January 19th to 21st, the Office for Culture and Sport is inviting people to the foyer of the New Town Hall for the fifth time.
“The Lachenmann concerts in the Spitalhof in recent years have already put a lot of effort into him and the new music and have also ensured growing interest from the audience,” says Katja Rohloff, who runs the “out often “he box” organized. In addition to the world-famous composer, who comes from Leonberg and is still connected to his city today, the former Leonberger Nikola Lutz, for example, also enjoys international recognition, including in the field of new music. “Another ‘Leonberger’ is Christof Löser, lecturer at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts (HMDK) in the conducting/new music department. He is the founder of the Suono Mobile Stuttgart association,” says Rohloff. Suono Mobile is an initiative for new music.
This time the program for the “out of the box” series includes different styles – ranging from performance to sound installation. Guests include musicians from home and abroad. Annette Krebs, who lives in Berlin, is coming to Leonberg on Friday evening, January 19th, with an entire installation, “Construction #4”. Pieces of metal, wood, strings, objects, paper, foils, sensors, microphones, tablets and computers form a whole here. Softly played sounds and noises are amplified and digitally transformed using various types of microphones. Sound and noise particles, together with vocal noises and recorded external recordings, transform into musical organisms. The concert begins with a short introduction.
Growing interest among the audience
Softly played sounds are amplified and transformed
On Saturday, January 20th, the Lehmann-Fujito duo will present their musical theater “Chatroom”. The soprano Karera Fujita, a graduate of the HMDK, and Lorenz Lehmann – who studies composition at the HMDK – create an artistic perspective on our lives and our everyday life with social media. With music scenes that use the human voice, video projection and electronic sound processing, the ambivalence between one’s own existence and its staging on social media is intended to be reflected.
The third concert evening, Sunday, January 21st, will be organized by the international duo Åkerberg-Oka. The Swedish cellist Åsa Åkerberg, a companion of Helmut Lachenmann, is no stranger to Leonberg. Last July she was a soloist at the Leonberg Symphony Orchestra’s summer concert and appeared in Lachenmann’s “Notturno”. Now she is coming to the Leonberg town hall with her Japanese duo partner Shizuyo Oka. With cello and clarinet they play music by Tomoko Fukui, Séverine Ballon and Johannes Schöllhorn. A mix of new works on the one hand and arrangements of “old music” on the other awaits visitors. The concert evening ends with your own view of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
A mix of new works and adaptations of “old music”
“Out often he box” originally consisted of individual concerts spread over three to four months in the winter. “Due to the pandemic and lockdown, we combined several concerts in 2022 that had to be postponed. The format has proven itself, so we want to stick with it for now,” emphasizes Katja Rohloff. In addition, the foyer is not a fully furnished venue. “So the effort is correspondingly high, just in terms of technology. “This is made a little easier by a compressed concert weekend,” says Rohloff.
The foyer cannot be darkened, and daylight tends to be a nuisance during concerts, says Katja Rohloff. “So we only have winter time left. But the improvised character is also intentional. Current/new music is a large field of experimentation. The laboratory character is part of the concept, which means it cannot simply be transferred to another location,” she adds.
Tickets are available at the Leonberg town hall, Römerstraße 110, telephone 0 71 52 / 97 55 10 and at Reservix. They cost twelve euros in advance and 14 euros at the box office. Reduced tickets cost seven euros. The concerts on Friday and Saturday start at 7:30 p.m., the concert on Sunday at 6 p.m. A discussion afterwards is welcome on all three evenings.
2024-01-16 14:56:44
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