The Extended Voice

maulwerker performing music

Three world premieres, composed for the individual voices of the Maulwerkers, will be created in close collaboration with the ensemble. Margarete Huber will create a cartography of the Maulwerkers' vocal potential and catalog the individual sounds. Her composition will thus become a portrait of the group. Andrea Neumann will consider the voice as a whole-body phenomenon. Composed gestures and vocal sounds encounter the electronic feed in ever new interplay. Boris Filanovsky processes the Russian attack on Ukraine; his piece has no text, only phonemes. The world premieres are flanked by two repertoire pieces: Travis Just's Quintet alternates sung notes that create beats with noisy fricative textures. Rebecca Saunders' O uses the monologue of Molly Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysses; Saunders transfers the linguistic-musical virtuosity of the text into a solo of existential power.

• Margarete Huber: »Kartographie« (2022, UA)
• Rebecca Saunders: »O« (2017)
• Travis Just: »Quintet 1: Five Voices« (2006/ Version 2022)
• Andrea Neumann: »Rencontre 5« (2022, UA)
• Boris Filanovsky: »Mariupol« (2022, UA)

Maulwerker

Ariane Jeßulat, Sängerin, Performerin
Henrik Kairies, Sänger, Performer
Christian Kesten, Sänger, Performer
Katarina Rasinski, Sängerin, Performerin
Tilmann Walzer, Sänger, Performer
Steffi Weismann, Sängerin, Performerin

Das Programm THE EXTENDED VOICE wird Vokalmusik des 21. Jahrhunderts im Spannungsfeld der Koordinaten extended vocal techniques, Sprache als musikalisches Material und Stimme als Körperlichkeit in Bewegung präsentieren.