Sound in the Garden #4: Bendik Giske. EDGE

In the organizer's words:

A new concert performance by musician and composer Bendik Giske, specially conceived for the Neue Nationalgalerie, is about personal and social borderline experiences. The title "Edge" refers on the one hand to the feeling of a borderline experience in the face of political and ecological threats and on the other to the connection between musician and instrument, human and tool, which Giske's music achieves with its carpets of sound and virtuoso circular breathing.

In a new twist for Giske, the interest in boundaries and abysses is also reflected in the scenography. In a physical and mental feat of strength, Giske will repeatedly lean from the upper balustrade of the sculpture garden on safety ropes low over the several metre high edge into the sculpture garden.