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__ Adventurous Sounds

 

 

 

 

 

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Adventurous Sounds ist ein von UMS ´n JIP initiiertes Projekt zur Vermittlung von Neuer Musik für und mit Kinder.

Das Projekt wird in Zusammenarbeit mit Partner-Festivals, -Musikschulen, -Ensembles, -MusikerInnen sowie mit -KomponistInnen realisiert. 2023 sind dies das Festival Forum Wallis, die Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich MKZ und das griechische Ensemble für Neue Musik dissonArt. 

Ziel des Projekts ist die spielerische, praxisorientierte und kindergerechte Einführung in die zeitgenössische Musik, die geführte kammermusikalische Spielpraxis in einem professionellen Umfeld, das Zusammenspiel der Kinder mit schulinternen und -externen Profis, die Zusammenarbeit mit Komponisten aus einem internationalen Umfeld sowie Aufführungen im Rahmen der Schule und im Rahmen internationaler Festivals.

Über die Dauer eines Semesters werden bestehende zeitgenössische und neu komponierte Werke sowie Improvisationskonzepte erarbeitet. Diese entwickeln Inhalte und Formate weiter, welche UMS ´n JIP seit 2010 im Wallis, der Schweiz und im Ausland in urbanen, suburbanen und ländlichen Umfeldern mit Kindern und Jugendlichen entwickelt und angewandt haben (u.a. Einer en las Villas, Musimatrix, 4 Kids, Kokoa Ny Feo, Workshops, Lectures, Clinics).

Das Projekt wird über die Schweizer ISCM-Sektion und die ISCM (Int. Society for Contemporary Music) international rezipiert.

Adventurous Sounds is a project initiated by UMS 'n JIP for the mediation of new music for and with children. The project is realized in collaboration with partner festivals, music schools, ensembles, musicians and composers. In 2023 these are the Festival Forum Wallis, the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich MKZ and the Greek ensemble for new music dissonArt. The aim of the project is the playful, practice-oriented and child-oriented introduction to contemporary music, the guided chamber music practice in a professional environment, the interaction of the children with professionals, the collaboration with composers from an international environment as well as performances within the school and in the context of international festivals. Over the course of a semester, existing contemporary and newly composed works as well as improvisational concepts are developed. These further develop both content and formats that UMS 'n JIP have developed and applied since 2010 in Valais, Switzerland and abroad in urban, suburban and rural settings with children and young people (including Einer en las Villas, Musimatrix, 4 Kids, Kokoa Ny Feo, workshops, lectures, clinics). Adventureous Sounds is internationally received through the Swiss ISCM section and the ISCM (Int. Society for Contemporary Music).

PRESS & PHOTOS





  

Adventurous Sounds in Zusammenarbeit mit dem CPMDT Genève

"The most entertaining event at Forum Wallis 2023 was ‘Adventurous Sounds’, a concert billed as being “New Music for and with children” as part of a project aimed at introducing contemporary music to young people, which also extends to in-school activities. 

One of the most hilarious compositions i’ve ever heard, Motoharu Kawashima‘s Das Lachenmann, which i’d seen Javier Hagen and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn perform at Forum Wallis back in 2019, began the concert, preceded on this occasion by an equally funny session where the audience was taught to sing several isolated bars from the score, which were projected onto the wall. It was fantastic to see an audience of predominately young people engaging with new music as both listeners and, briefly, performers, and clearly having an absolute blast. 

The majority of the concert involved students from the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich, all playing various recorders, who took part in a number of pieces alongside Hagen, Mayer-Spohn and members of the dissonArt ensemble. 

Particularly effective was Agnes Dorwarth‘s Nachtvögel; Gezwitscher; Nachtkrapp, a textural work made up of birdsong-like behaviours, concluding in a lovely chorus of modulating pitches. Dorwarth’s Kopfnuss-Trio was an even stronger, the three players using their headjoints to create something akin to a tribal chant, in a close unison peppered with rhythmic cries and glissandi. Two of the students turned Franz Müller-Busch‘s Der Streit into a brief but compelling argument, while another student, Sara Weinmann, gave a strong performance of Dorwarth’s Artikulator 1, channelling a range of emotions into sound in different ways, from disruptions and interruptions to the work’s flow to violent vocal eruptions, in a nicely-controlled melding of musical, non-musical and meta-musical ideas. 

The concert ended with an expanded version of Sancho’s Dream by UMS ‘n JIP (Hagen and Mayer-Spohn’s joint nom de guerre), the original of which was part of the duo’s opera Sancho, which i experienced in 2020. In this new form it was utterly mesmerising, living up to its title by creating a dreamy, soft texture environment developing into what seemed to be accelerating Shepard tones." 

5against4.com 3/2023

Adventurous Sounds zusammen mit dissonArt am Festival Forum Wallis











 

Konzertplakate für die Konzerte von Adventurous Sounds am Forum Wallis und in Zürich

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