INNEN (ABO 4) - Ensemble Recherche and Chamber Choir Helsinki

Ensemble Recherche and Chamber Choir Helsinki

"INNEN" is the first collaboration between Ensemble Recherche and the Chamber Choir Helsinki and was curated jointly by the two ensembles. The program traces a sonic development curve: it begins intimately and virtuosically at the same time with "Set Adrift" for solo clarinet by Jug Markovi'c and culminates in "INNEN" for choir and the eight instrumentalists of Ensemble Recherche, composed by Vito Zuraj in collaboration with the Austrian author Klaus Händl. Händl summarizes the dramatic framework of the piece as follows: "Does the impairment of a sensory organ central to artistic creation lead to a different language?

We find ourselves in a space that encompasses the past and the present: On the wall of the museum hangs a picture that is being looked at. In a musical painting process, we share the gaze of an old painter, which is fixed on his eternal motif, a lush patch of grass, and is becoming increasingly cloudy: the grass now appears to him in false colors: wilted, because his eyes are diseased. He consistently mixes the corresponding false colors on his palette and reproduces what he sees - as he sees it: Grass that tells of his illness - in whose 'false' green glow the outsiders who look at it lose themselves bewitched."

With works by
Vito Zuraj, Malin Bång, Jug Markovi'c, Franck Bedrossian and Zad Moultaka

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Christian Dierstein, percussion
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Chamber Choir Helsinki

Supported by the Kulturamt Freiburg.

This project is part of Ensemble Recherche's broad-based plan to initiate a discussion about artificial intelligence and its impact on art and creativity in its 2024/25 season ("What is Real/What is Not").