NKM – Neues Kollektiv München: Das Klavier – ein durchaus interessantes Musikmöbel

One instrument stands for bourgeois European musical culture like no other: the piano. Can, should or must this piece of furniture now be cleared out of living rooms and concert stages? It is probably too interesting for that. Already Paul Hindemith speaks in his "Suite 1922" of an "interesting kind of percussion" and John Cage then immediately intervenes with screws and rivets and initiates the prepared piano.In the NKM concert, Oksana Omelchuk's "Bohemian Song" alienates the piano corpus with music boxes and pizzicati in the interior.Sergey Khismatov's "Microphone Quartet" explores the entire body of the piano with microphones .The world premieres by Caio de Azevedo and Leon Zmelty explore the piano in continuation of these approaches. Alexander Strauch's new composition then "buries" the piano: the object is often known as a kind of family altar with photos of loved ones and decorative blankets and plants that transform the piano into a kind of family tomb - here as a tribute to the piano as the faded bearer of 19th and 20th century music, now replaced by electronic keyboard instruments. So the NKM is by no means decluttering the piano.

Works by Oxana Omelchuk, Sergey Khismatov, Caio de Azevedo, Leon Zmelty, Alexander Strauch and others.

NKM - New Collective Munich & Guests: Leon Zmelty, Sachiko Hara a.o.