UpToThree – augmented
Up to three performers* are on stage at "UpToThree - augmented", the fourth festival of ensemble mosaik at Acker Stadt Palast. Together with composers and artists, the musicians will present current developments in collaborative works and offer the audience a forum for exchanging views on what they have seen and heard. The guide "augmented" can signal the expansion of instruments and settings as well as the expansion of artistic ideas and spaces.
Since its foundation in 1997, ensemble mosaik has developed into a renowned ensemble for contemporary music as a particularly versatile and experimental formation. Its members are distinguished not only by their instrumental abilities but also by their creative individuality. In many years of collaboration they have created a distinguished ensemble which demonstrates openness to the most diverse concepts of contemporary music at the highest artistic level.
The ensemble's activities are characterised by close cooperation with young composers and the integration of digital media in the areas of composition, interpretation and presentation. Preference is given to an egalitarian working method in the exchange with all participants in a concert project. By opening up working processes, creativity is bundled and intensified. ensemble mosaik has been working together with many composers for many years and thus makes it possible to develop music over long periods of time in a collaborative process.
A particular focus of the artistic work lies in the examination of new approaches to performance practice, for example through the integration of scenic and visual elements, and the testing of new formats that reflect individual works in the context of an overall context, focus current trends and open up new perspectives. In cooperation with artists from other fields or musical genres, the performances themselves become experimental arrangements.
Composers and artists
Annesley Black, Wojtek Blecharz, Clemens Gadenstätter, Malte Giesen, Laure M. Hiendl, Stefan Prins, Katharina Rosenberger / Betina Kuntzsch (video), Laurie Schwartz and Anton Wassiljew
programme overview:
16:30 Clemens Gadenstätter (WP), Malte Giesen (WP), Katharina Rosenberger / Betina Kuntzsch (WP)
18:00 Laurie Schwartz (UA), Trio Kanajan / Lorenz / Seidl, Anton Wassiljew (UA)
19:30 Annesley Black (UA), Stefan Prins (UA), Duo Junge / Surberg
21:00 Laure M. Hiendl (UA), Wojtek Blecharz (UA)
