Eli Keszler solo

In the organizer's words:

Eli Keszler is a Grammy-nominated artist, composer and drummer based in New York. He has garnered critical acclaim with his solo albums released on labels such as LuckyMe, Shelter Press, Empty Editions, ESP-DISK', PAN and REL Records. In the realm of film, Keszler has composed over ten original soundtracks. Notable examples include Olmo Schnabel's "Pet Shop Days" starring Willem Dafoe and Emmanuel Seigner, which premiered at the Biennale Di Venezia (2023). He also composed for Lofty Nathan's "Harka" (2022), which won the Best Actor Award at Cannes, and Dasha Nekrasova's "The Scary of Sixty First" (2021), which won the GWFF Best First Feature Award at the Berlinale. In addition, Keszler contributed to the soundtrack of Daniel Lopatin's "Uncut Gems" (2019).

As a composer, Keszler has been commissioned by renowned institutions and ensembles, including the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, ICE Ensemble, Brooklyn String Orchestra and So Percussion. He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Oneohtrix Point Never, Skrillex, Laurel Halo, Jordan Wolfson, Kevin Beasley, Rashad Becker, Laure Prouvost and David Grubbs.

Keszler's artistic reach extends internationally, with his music, installations and visual works presented at institutions such as the Whitney Museum, Cologne Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, MIT List Center, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, Hessel Museum, Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Barbican-St. Luke's, Walker Art Center, LAX Art and MoMA PS1.

Eli Keszler (SOLO)

The audience enters an aural and visual field of empty cities, visual debris and a kind of urban calm created by Leia Jope's edgy, comedic and impressionistic videos on large-scale LED screens or projections surrounding the performance. The solo performance consists of an instrumental staging in a triangular formation (Δ) filled with melodic percussion, drums and electro-acoustic instrumentation. As an ongoing performance, the music traverses soundscapes and natural repetitive percussive patterns. The instrumental textures create a haunting enveloping work that constantly moves and never stops, conveying a glorious and dystopian western world. The music combines crystalline melodic patterns with Keszler on drums and percussion, framed by panoramic documentary footage of silent Manhattan, Odyssey Cave and other global recordings that define an expansive music that is at once palpable, ancient and future-oriented.

Price information:

Box Office: 19 €