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 three-dimensional, because its design outlines the existential distress through memorable changes in sound/noise mixtures, grooves and improvisations and, above all, dynamic contrasts.
09 / 2017 “Everyone who takes part here should look for and try something that he or she may not have done before in their life. In order to tread on this black ice of shock, of the new, of the fragile." In relation to Helmut Oehring's "Angelus Novus II" everyone is called: 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 were connected by a collective work process. The visual aspect of this “collage instrumental-vocal mis-en-scène”, which revolves around Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee, is naturally neglected in the CD medium, but the musical intensity of the UA from the Dampfzentrale Bern (2015) inspires its own associations all the more . A haunting placelessness hovers over these sound images filled with suggestive text fragments and original tones. Dirk Wieschollek
#5 2017 “Over long stretches, the work unfolds as a discourse comparable to radio art, held together by the common thread of Stefanie Wordemann's libretto collage of texts by Walter Benjamin as well as 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 ensemble of notated and permeable parts that are open to the performers. There is a suggestive crackling sound, voices cautiously groping for words, joining together to form clouds of sound, sounding manipulated or being overgrown by instrumental layers , all of this surrounded by delicate musical weaves or cut up by brutal energetic sound wedges.” Stefan Drees |
