Nicolas Collins, Alvin Lucier, Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings — MärzMusik 2014

Over het evenement

Experimental electronics, acoustic resonances, unusual instruments and extended tunes are the focus of the three‐part concert at Berghain featuring 'handmade electronics' pioneer Nicolas Collins, Reinhold Friedl, Volker Straebel, Alvin Lucier, Arnold Dreyblatt, and minimal‐meets‐krautrock ensemble The Orchestra of Excited Strings.

Nicolas Collins explores the acoustics of the concert hall of the gutted former power plant at Berghain together with pianist Reinhold Friedl. In “Roomtone”, the natural frequencies of the hall will be mapped in real time from a computer using acoustic feedback and projected as graphic notation. Together with Volker Straebel, Nicolas Collins then realizes “The Bird of Bremen Flies Through the Houses of the Burghers”, a computer‐controlled sound environment which Alvin Lucier conceived in 1972.

In the third part of the concert, the “Orchestra of Excited Strings” ensemble established by Berlin‐based American Arnold Dreyblatt is a crossover of Minimal, Krautrock and experimental electronics with its self‐made instruments and extended playing techniques. At MaerzMusik, four musicians forming the ensemble take to the stage: Dreyblatt himself plays his Excited Strings Bass, Jörg Hiller introduces his digitally controlled motor‐guitar, Joachim Schütz can be heard on the modified electric guitar and musician and composer Robin Hayward on his unique microtonal tuba. They perform new as well as early experimental solo and ensemble works.