A photo from a concert: A musician sits centrally on stage at a keyboard and is illuminated by three coloured light spots. The audience sits with their backs to the camera.
© Jann Wilken
A photo from a concert: A musician sits centrally on stage at a keyboard and is illuminated by three coloured light spots. The audience sits with their backs to the camera.
© Jann Wilken

Festival Day 4 + Long Night

New compositions of the katarakt network and short film program (KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg)

Tickets:

Day pass: 18 Euro (conc. 9 Euro) / Tickets for individual concerts every evening directly at the hall door: 8 Euro (conc. 5 Euro)

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Saturday

1/21/23

8:00 PM

During the Long Night, the festival primarily presents first and world premieres from the local scene as well as international guests, alternating with experimental short films.

Taking part this time Berlin guitarist Seth Josel performing the world premiere of a new work by US composer Michelle Lou; the ensemble Micro Oper München with a version of John Cage's Song Books; the Hamburg Dog Trio; the Duo Réplica (Hamburg/Chile) and others. To close the evening, Boyd's Elektro Gitarren Orchester will perform two pieces for twelve electric guitars, electric bass and drums - in memory of the Hamburg musician and instrument lender Christian Smukal, who died in the summer of 2022. In cooperation with the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg, experimental films will be shown as part of the programme.


20:00: Set 1

Réplica: Improvisation UA

Alexandre Larose: Brouillard – Passage #14 (2013) / Kurzfilm

Michelle Lou: Bloom (2019-2022) UA for Solo electric guitar, Gizmotron, FX pedals

Seth Josel E-Gitarre

21:30: Set 2

Nika Son & Helena Wittmann: Cae la Noche (2021) DEA / performative Video-Sound Installation

Nika Son 6-channel-sound

Helena Wittmann 2-channel-video

22:30: Set 3

Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance (2002) per chitarra elettrica

Gisbert Watty: Music for Nervous Systems / John Cage Song Books (1970)

Micro Oper München

23:30: Set 4

Dong Zhou & Dror Elimelech: Cosmic Blue (2022) UA / for piano and electronics

Helga Arias Parra: Astraglossa (2016)

Matt Schumaker: Temporary Structures (2022)

DOG TRIO

Hye-Eun Kim: Improvisation / Komposition UA

00:30: Set 5

Für Christian Smukal

Robert Engelbrecht: Rote Flora (2009) / Flora Swing (2010)

Boyds Elektro Gitarren Orchester

01:00

Gurss von Dred

The Hairy Cowboy