Neolithic Brass

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2016

Labels: WERGO, Deutscher Musikrat, Edition Zeitgenössische Musik

Steffen Krebber's music asks about contexts - compositional, semiotic and medial. In this sense, his portrait CD incl. DVD of the series EDITION ZEITGENÖSSISCHE MUSIK even reflects itself as a carrier medium, which is far more than just one storage possibility among many.

On a musical level, references and links between materials, styles and forms of the most diverse character form a central aspect of Krebber's work. In this context, the Stuttgart-born composer speaks of a "networked mixture". In his view, nowadays "the separation of media and genres has been broken down, even if this is only gradually being realized. Everything overlaps referentially and bursts its formerly given frames." Sound materials intertwine, creating new relations without pause, for example in the series "Confusions," which is represented three times on the portrait CD. In it, influences from different spaces and times meet: Papua New Guinea and Gabon, Renaissance and the present.

The performers - among them Ensemble Garage, LUX:NM and Sonar Quartet - form diverse musical organisms from the different elements. Sometimes they seem to consist of memories, sometimes of visions of the future. And yet they are explicitly musical beings of the here and now.

Video DVD:
Sound format: Dolby
Aspect ratio: 16:9
DVD format: DVD 5
Country code: (0) PAL
Running time: 15 min.
INFO program according to § 14 JuSchG

CD: Co-production by Winfried Ritsch and Steffen Krebber (1)
Co-production by Deutschlandfunk and Deutscher Musikrat gemeinnützige Projektgesellschaft mbH (2, 3, 5, 6, 10)
Co-production by Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutscher Musikrat gemeinnützige Projektgesellschaft mbH (4, 9)
Co-production by Stichting Huygens-Fokker and Steffen Krebber (7)
Co-production by Steffen Krebber and Ensemble Praesenz (8)
DVD: Co-production of Deutschlandfunk and Deutscher Musikrat gemeinnützige Projektgesellschaft mbH (1, 2)

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