In the organizer's words:

06.12.
Advent Star 2025 + Anonymous Interactions
concert
Henny Brenner Hall
8 p.m.
The archives of the Saxon State Library contain numerous compositions by unknown authors.
are unknown. For the most part, it is left to our imagination to picture the people
people here - whether voluntarily or involuntarily - who have stepped back as artists behind their works. Chamber
choir and youth chamber choir of the Singakademie Dresden as well as students of the FU Berlin present
present Christmas motets by these anonymous composers.
Anonymous in another sense is the interactive performance by the Brazilian composer and
José Henrique Padovani, a Brazilian composer and visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU).
students. The audience helps decide the course of the performance and thus becomes part of the composition.
part of the composition. On the other hand, machines become "listeners" within the performance
and react to what happens in the space in terms of sound. In all of this, the "I" of the classical
composer becomes the "we" of a collaborative work - anonymous, but inspired by the
animated by the idea of interacting and communicating together.
Directed by Michael Käppler. A cooperation event with Prof. Miriam Akkermann (FU Berlin)