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Irtijal Festival
Sun 03.04.22, 17:30CET
Beirut/Harley Davidson building–The Ballroom Blitz
VOICE AFFAIRS
Cynthia Zaven: Madrigal d’Essilio
for six voices
Raed Yassin: A Short Biography of a Snake
for six voices and electronics
Aya Metwalli: cabaret macabre
for four female voices and electronics
Samir Odeh-Tamimi: VROS
for four voices and electronics
Youmna Saba: I covered the planet with a dried leaf
for six voices, oud and electronics
Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Vargas, soprano
Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano
Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano
Martin Nagy, tenor
Guillermo Anzorena, baritone
Andreas Fischer, bass
A project of the Neue Vocalsolisten, produced by Musik der Jahrhunderte.
The project was developed and co-produced by (in alphabetical order) Akademie der Künste Berlin, Irtijal Festival Beirut, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Onassis Cultural Center/Stegi Athens, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.
The Goethe-Institut Lebanon is pleased to invite the Neue Vocalsolisten from Stuttgart to present the project »VOICE AFFAIRS« during the Irtijal’22 Festival.
VOICE AFFAIRS initiates artistic border crossings in which European art music is infected by the diversity of Lebanon’s experimental music scenes. It connects the New Vocal Soloists with musicians* from Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine who are located in these scenes. From the perspective of contemporary composition, electronic music, sound art, improvisation and avant-pop, they all deal in different ways with the voice, which plays a special role in the music of the Mediterranean region. Panos Aprahamian connects these works through video sequences that oscillate between documentary and science fiction, in which he explores the phenomenon of the voice.
Between immediate expression and instrumental artistry, it stands paradigmatically for our relationship with our natural and technologically shaped environment. In a combination of concert performance and video installation, the result is a grand narrative about the diversity, contradictions, explosiveness and poetry of the Lebanese cultural space.
Supported by »Klangwert« Aventis Foundation Ensemble-Förderung, Innovationsfonds Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Goethe-Institut Lebanon, Part of the Sounds Now Project Co-funded by Creative Europe.