Thursday, November 21st, 2013, 21.30
Gunter Schneider & Barbara Romen
IM ROHR – Sound Performance
IM ROHR
Zwei Musiker auf der Bühne erzeugen leise instrumentale Klänge. Damit werden zwei
verschieden lange Kartonrohre in Art der früher in Aufnahmestudios gebräuchlichen
Hallkammern beschallt: An einem Ende schickt ein spezieller Lautsprecher die Klänge in das
Rohr, am anderen Ende werden die modifizierten Klänge mit einem Mikrophon wieder
aufgenommen. Die derart eingefärbten instrumentalen Klänge werden verstärkt und wirken
im Sinn einer psychoakustischen Wahrnehmungsschleife auf die Entstehung der folgenden
Instrumentalklänge ein. Wo führt das hin? Hören Sie selbst!
[Gunter Schneider]
IM ROHR will also be presented as a sound sculpture from Nov. 21st - 23rd, 2013..
Barbara Romen und Gunter Schneider
started their professional collaboration in 1990, from that year on they have been married,
too. From the beginning, contemporary music has been the central aim of their work.
Excursions led to baroque sonatas for salterio (Hackbrett, beaten dulcimer) and basso
continuo. Aside of main repertoire works for guitar duo (Lachenmann, Kubo, but as well
Brouwer and Gnattali) a lot of works were specially composed for them, by composers like
Klaus Ager, Gerold Amann, Martin Daske, Fernando Grillo, Radu Malfatti, and Burkhard Stangl.
Besides, they have been developing music of their own, both for „dulcimer à due“
(performed on one traditional Tyrolean diatonic dulcimer), and for chromatic tenor-dulcimer
and various guitars. The cd „Traditional Alpine Music from the 22nd Century“ was released in
2007.
Together they worked in different projects, a.o. „here comes the sun“ with Berlin based
clarinet multiphoner Kai Fagaschinski, music for dance (e.g. with Japanese choreographer
and dancer Saburo Teshigawara), music for radio plays, various improvisation groups, among
others „harsch“ with Burkhard Stangl and Christof Kurzmann, together with Japanese
musicians Sugimoto Taku, Akiyama Tetuzi, and Unami Taku, a project with stone sculptures by
Tyrolean sculptor Kassian Erhart, named „tracking stones’ voices“ (ORF-SACD), and
„klopfzeichen/klangschnitte“ with Japanese and Austrian printmakers and musicians. They
are probably best known for their interpretation of Lachenmann’s „Salut fuer Caudwell“ (cd
durian 018-2, booklet on the internet)), which they as well have been touring in a music
theatre project conceived by coreographer Xavier Le Roy since 2005 („Mouvements for
Lachenmann“ and „More Mouvements for Lachenmann“). In 2009 the formed the
experimental house music project „quadrat:sch“ together with composer and looped-zither
virtuoso Christof Dienz and his wife, double bass player Alexandra Dienz.
[Festival shut up and listen! 2009, Austria, 2009]
verschieden lange Kartonrohre in Art der früher in Aufnahmestudios gebräuchlichen
Hallkammern beschallt: An einem Ende schickt ein spezieller Lautsprecher die Klänge in das
Rohr, am anderen Ende werden die modifizierten Klänge mit einem Mikrophon wieder
aufgenommen. Die derart eingefärbten instrumentalen Klänge werden verstärkt und wirken
im Sinn einer psychoakustischen Wahrnehmungsschleife auf die Entstehung der folgenden
Instrumentalklänge ein. Wo führt das hin? Hören Sie selbst!
[Gunter Schneider]
IM ROHR will also be presented as a sound sculpture from Nov. 21st - 23rd, 2013..
Barbara Romen und Gunter Schneider
started their professional collaboration in 1990, from that year on they have been married,
too. From the beginning, contemporary music has been the central aim of their work.
Excursions led to baroque sonatas for salterio (Hackbrett, beaten dulcimer) and basso
continuo. Aside of main repertoire works for guitar duo (Lachenmann, Kubo, but as well
Brouwer and Gnattali) a lot of works were specially composed for them, by composers like
Klaus Ager, Gerold Amann, Martin Daske, Fernando Grillo, Radu Malfatti, and Burkhard Stangl.
Besides, they have been developing music of their own, both for „dulcimer à due“
(performed on one traditional Tyrolean diatonic dulcimer), and for chromatic tenor-dulcimer
and various guitars. The cd „Traditional Alpine Music from the 22nd Century“ was released in
2007.
Together they worked in different projects, a.o. „here comes the sun“ with Berlin based
clarinet multiphoner Kai Fagaschinski, music for dance (e.g. with Japanese choreographer
and dancer Saburo Teshigawara), music for radio plays, various improvisation groups, among
others „harsch“ with Burkhard Stangl and Christof Kurzmann, together with Japanese
musicians Sugimoto Taku, Akiyama Tetuzi, and Unami Taku, a project with stone sculptures by
Tyrolean sculptor Kassian Erhart, named „tracking stones’ voices“ (ORF-SACD), and
„klopfzeichen/klangschnitte“ with Japanese and Austrian printmakers and musicians. They
are probably best known for their interpretation of Lachenmann’s „Salut fuer Caudwell“ (cd
durian 018-2, booklet on the internet)), which they as well have been touring in a music
theatre project conceived by coreographer Xavier Le Roy since 2005 („Mouvements for
Lachenmann“ and „More Mouvements for Lachenmann“). In 2009 the formed the
experimental house music project „quadrat:sch“ together with composer and looped-zither
virtuoso Christof Dienz and his wife, double bass player Alexandra Dienz.
[Festival shut up and listen! 2009, Austria, 2009]
