Commencing on February 04, ECLAT Festival für Neue Musik Stuttgart presents five days full of contemporary music and first performances, including world premieres by Arnulf Herrmann and Bernhard Gander.
Commissioned for SWR Symphony Orchestra, high and low and fast and slow is Arnulf Herrmann’s contribution to this year’s festival and will receive its world premiere on February 06 by its commissioner and conductor Pablo Rus-Broseta. Herrmann uses the whole range that the symphony orchestra has to offer and explores how texture and rhythm can bring about differing expressions of the same musical material.
The next day, February 07, Ensemble Ascolta and Friederike Scheunchen premiere Bernhard Gander’s Sludgelines in which he refers to pipes and systems that transport sludge, a semi-solid residue from wastewater treatment. ‘Sludgelines’ have been transformed into sound, sluggish, muddy, slushy and mostly deep-sounding lines that slowly and muddily meander through the sonic underground, eventually becoming purified and clarified melodies.
For more information and the complete program see ECLAT.
