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A conductor becoming blurry, an actor removing make-up, passages from James Joyce's Ulysses, or lay musicians in YouTube videos: in Brigitta Muntendorf's compositions, material is by no means limited to the purely musical. In each of her works she poses the question anew: what is the aesthetic foundation of a sonic artwork, and what can it achieve?
She thereby doesn't rely on conventions and accustomed rituals; from her perspective, the demands of an artistic engagement with the present cannot be met within the limitations of familiar systems and models.
Therefore she seeks to revise the supposedly pre-defined metier. The central question is always as follows: under what circumstances and by what means can music be presented as a valid contemporary art form?
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Sweetheart, Goodbye (2012)
for Voice, Mono-Loudspeaker and 8 Instruments
Nicola Gründel (Voice), Ensemble Modern, conducted by Mariano Chiacchiarini
shivers on speed (2013)
for Bass flute, Bass clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano
Ensemble Musikfabrik, conducted by Manuel Nawri
reinhören (2010)
for Chamber Ensemble
Ensemble Garage, conducted by Mariano Chiacchiarini
durchhören (2011)
for Reed Quintet
Calefax Reed Quintet
Missing T (2013)
for Ensemble
IEMA-Ensemble, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni |
1CD | Instrumental | Contemporary | Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung |
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In the echo chambers of tradition. Ernst von Siemens composer’s award winner David Pilip Hefti.  |
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| “…as if the music had shed each of its shells and skins one after the other, to finally stand revealed in all its naked essence.” |
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| Beating Bounds, the Limits of Failure: the Music of Mark Barden. |
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