Elbtonal Percussion
Tag 2: Tempus Ex Machina
Tag 2: Tempus Ex Machina
Past dates
11/2/17
6:30 PM
Elbtonal Percussion
Gérard Grisey: Tempus ex machina Jan-Frederick Behrend: Afrock Casey Cangelosi: Bad touch (Sönke Schreiber) J.S. Bach: Allemande aus der Suite Nr. 5 c-moll BWV 1011 für Cello, Marimba solo (Jan-Frederick Behrend) J.S. Bach / Elbtonal: Präludium c-Moll, BWV 999 Thierry De Mey: Musiques de Tables Radiohead / Jan-Frederick Behrend: Daydreaming
The percussionists of the Hamburg-based formation Elbtonal Percussion provide a fascinating listening experience on the second day of »Greatest Hits«, the festival for contemporary music at Kampnagel and the Elbphilharmonie. »Tempus ex machina« is a study of the construction and disintegration of rhythm. In this work, French composer Gérard Grisey superimposes the rhythms upon one another in varying tempi, as if they came out of nowhere, combining them into patterns and compressing them into trills until the listener only hears them as an expanse of sound.
