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Berliner Festspiele
20 March 2017

MaerzMusik
Memory Space


CLAUDE VIVIER Learning
for four violins, percussion and tape (1976)
ALVIN LUCIER Love Song
Acoustic duo for two violins, joined at their bridges by a long length of music wire (2016) GP

ALVIN LUCIER (Berlin-Chennai) Memory Space
interpreted with flutes bass clarinet, tabla, percussion, violin and viola (1970) GP

GIACINTO SCELSI Manto
for a singing viola player (1957)

ANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ Chennai Scenes 
for bamboo flute, bass clarinet / double bass clarinet, mridangam and city sounds (2016) GP

Discussion with Ramesh Vinayakam and musicians of the Ensemble KNM Berlin, moderated by LYDIA RILLING

JEREMY WOODRUFF Construction with Boismortier & Sankarabharanam
for bass clarinet, violin, viola, mridangam/tabla and tanpura (2016) GP

RAMESH VINAYAKAM Svara Varam-Boon of Notes
Composition for voice, bamboo flutes, mridangam, bass clarinet violin, viola and tanpura (2017) WP

Carnatic Music for bamboo flute and mridangam

ENSEMBLE KNM BERLIN
Theo Nabicht bass clarinet / double bass clarinet, Theodor Flindell violin, Lisa Werhahn violin, Grégoire Simon violin, Susanne Zapf violin, Kirstin Maria Pientka viola, Alexandre Babel percussion

RAMESH VINAYAKAM voice
SHANTALA SUBRAMANYAM bamboo flute
ANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ keyboard & live electronics
JEREMY WOODRUFF tanpura
ANANTHA KRISHNAN mridangam/tabla

This evening, featuring musicians from Berlin and the South Indian metropolis of Chennai, explores cultures of musical memory and their creative and political implications. With his “Gamaka Box”, composer and singer Ramesh Vinayakam developed the first comprehensive notation system for classical South Indian music. This is both an innovation and a break with tradition, confronting a century-old auditory-oral musical culture with far reaching questions and causing controversial debates in India.
In the face of changing global power relations, “Memory Space” enters a space of encounter which must be newly negotiated: between oral and written cultures, different forms of learning, cultural expansionism and isolationism, tradition and modernity.

 

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