Tulemond & Mondamin
Salome Kammer performs to the painter's brush
A co-production of ensembleKONTRASTE, Thalias Kompagnons and Tafelhalle Nuremberg
Not only did Arnold Schoenberg release sound from the dictates of classical tonality, but he also looked for challenges in other realms such as painting and Varieté. A collection of his songs for the "light muse" can now be performed in a selection of "sounding paintings". A singer and five musicians meet a small painter in front of his huge canvas: According to each scene of the different songs, the painter searches for new forms of expression on his glass painting surface, which are simultaneously projected onto the large canvas. Thus, as the singing resounds, more and more new images come into being and the performers become visual elements of the painting. The act of painting integrates both music and musicians into its play with colors and forms, lines and areas, lightness and darkness, abstract and concrete.
The singer, captured by the resonance of Otto Erich Hartleben's somnambulant lines, sinks into the morbid world of make-believe inhabited by the moon-struck Pierrot, who, torn between self-mockery and the search for a new spiritual home, stumbles through grotesque and surreal dreams. But just as the melancholic clown is on the verge of falling into deep self-pity, a rough paint brush or a delicate line saves him from falling into obscure pathos - a visual and auditory adventure.
Programme
Arnold Schoenberg: Brettl-Lieder, arranged for small ensemble by Markus Maria Reissenberger
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Suite Op. 23
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21
Singing: Salome Kammer
Painting: Joachim Torbahn
Music: ensembleKONTRASTE
A co-production of ensembleKONTRASTE, Thalias Kompagnons and Tafelhalle Nuremberg
Not only did Arnold Schoenberg release sound from the dictates of classical tonality, but he also looked for challenges in other realms such as painting and Varieté. A collection of his songs for the "light muse" can now be performed in a selection of "sounding paintings". A singer and five musicians meet a small painter in front of his huge canvas: According to each scene of the different songs, the painter searches for new forms of expression on his glass painting surface, which are simultaneously projected onto the large canvas. Thus, as the singing resounds, more and more new images come into being and the performers become visual elements of the painting. The act of painting integrates both music and musicians into its play with colors and forms, lines and areas, lightness and darkness, abstract and concrete.
The singer, captured by the resonance of Otto Erich Hartleben's somnambulant lines, sinks into the morbid world of make-believe inhabited by the moon-struck Pierrot, who, torn between self-mockery and the search for a new spiritual home, stumbles through grotesque and surreal dreams. But just as the melancholic clown is on the verge of falling into deep self-pity, a rough paint brush or a delicate line saves him from falling into obscure pathos - a visual and auditory adventure.
Programme
Arnold Schoenberg: Brettl-Lieder, arranged for small ensemble by Markus Maria Reissenberger
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Suite Op. 23
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21
Singing: Salome Kammer
Painting: Joachim Torbahn
Music: ensembleKONTRASTE
Photo: Jutta Missbach
Photo: Jutta Missbach
Photo: Jutta Missbach