vvvvwwvvwvvwwvvvwwvwwvvvvvv (2022)

Concert-Installation
for 9 Instrumentalists and elektronics as well as an exhibition

Duration: 71'

Premiere: 16.12.2022 Essen-Werden / E-Mex Ensemble

Corona has directed our perception to wave progressions like never before. The title vvvvwwvvwvvwwvvvwwvwwvvvvvv represents a sound wave oscillation with letters; we have become aware of the reading and understanding of wave representations, biological developments, dramaturgy, data visualization. This piece is a concertante-installative sound essay on waves.

In a "Werden-Walk", in which the Haus Fuhr, the Bürgermeisterhaus, and the Ev. Kirche Essen-Werden are stages, the audience is invited for about 75 minutes to walk from venue to venue, where the musicians of the E-Mex-Ensemble are distributed. There, musical wave fields are created, they show and reflect the essence of acoustic wave formations, and pictures on the walls show the visual richness of sound in the form of its wave representation.

In Haus Fuhr, 4 musicians each play solo together with synthesizer sounds; the violin records its own sound waves as a graphic and then plays them back in turn. In the Bürgermeisterhaus, a duo of clarinet and glissando flute deals with the phenomenon of acoustic beating. In the Protestant Church, it is (organ) pipes and other wind instruments that produce beatings and thus make the wave character of sound in space particularly tangible. Here, the audience can also blow into 3D-printed pipes themselves!

The audience can move independently between the stations.

Commissioned by E-Mex Ensemble

Evelin Degen, Flute
Kyusang Jeong, Clarinet
Andreas Roth, Trombone
Anna Neubert, Violin
Burkart Zeller, Cello
Petteri Waris, Accordion
Rie Watanabe, Percussion
Martin von der Heydt, Piano
Matthias Geuting, Organ
Jörn Nettingsmeier, Sound

Photos 1-11 by E-Emex Ensemble.