program:
Helmut Oehring (*1961) [01] Intro (Insert 1: Music & Media Art) 00:48 Total playing time: 65:34
VERTIGO Ensemble Bern University of the Arts A stream of the complete performance is available on helmutoehring.de and lowmusicproduction.com Recorded live at Dampfzentrale Bern, January 24–25, 2015 |
Press:
In the category Sound carrier balance 2018 Under the heading "Anniversaries, rarities and archive treasures" Hans Dieter Grünefeld writes: Helmut Oehring staged vocal parts, chamber ensemble, rock and jazz band for the complex multimedia collage “Angelus Novus II” in memory of the escape from Nazi persecution and the suicide of the philosopher Walter Benjamin. Even without a backdrop, the music is plastic, because its design contours the existential need through memorable changes of sound / noise mixtures, groove and improvisation and above all dynamic contrasts.
09 / 2017 “Everyone who participates here should seek and try something that he or she may not have done in their lifetime. In order to step onto this slippery slope of shock, of the new, of the fragile.” In relation to Helmut Oehring's "Angelus Novus II", everyone is: students and lecturers from the Bern University of the Arts, the VERTIGO Ensemble, a jazz trio, opera singers, chamber choir, speakers (including David Moss), dancers and media artists who work in a collective process Association. The visual aspect of this collage instrumental-vocal mis-en-scène, which revolves equally around Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee, naturally falls behind in the medium of CD, but the musical intensity of the premiere from Dampfzentrale Bern (2015) inspires your own associations all the more . A haunting placelessness hovers over these sound images, which are equipped with suggestive text fragments and original sounds. Dirk Wieschollek
#5 2017 “Over long stretches, the work unfolds as a discourse comparable to radio art, which, held together by the common thread of Stefanie Wordemann’s libretto collage of texts by Walter Benjamin and by soloists such as David Moss (voice), Kai Wessel (vocals) and Matthias Bauer ( double bass) combines different instrumental, vocal and electronic elements into a mosaic-like whole of notated and permeable parts that are open to the performers , all of this entwined with delicate musical wickerwork or cut up by brute, energetic wedges of sound.” Stefan Drees |
