Wie man sich mit Geistern anfreundet – eine Séance mit Klanggespenstern

"How to make friends with spirits" is a séance in which sound spirits are conjured up and made to vibrate. Cosima Gerhardt leads the evening with her cello to establish contact with the musical afterlife, supported by a score in the form of cards simulating a tarot deck. A modular synthesizer accompanies the performance as an animated object. Its pre-programmed electronic algorithms are executed automatically, even if they are lightly controlled by Joaquin Macedo. Cosima Gerhardt's performance with the cello is recorded, processed and played back in real time.

This is followed by a short presentation by Joaquin Macedo. He will talk about the production process and some of the artistic and technical aspects of the piece, addressing both a specialist audience and anyone else who is interested.

Cello, voice, performance: Cosima Gerhardt

Electronics and composition: Joaquin Macedo

Videos: Maren Henke and Joaquin Macedo

Cosima Ger hardt studied cello in Prague, Bremen and Berlin with Alexander Baillie and Stanislav Apolin. Her main focus is on contemporary music. As a cellist in the Sonar Quartet and the duo tocar, she has a busy concert schedule and plays regularly with Ensemble Resonanz and the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin. Cosima Gerhardt is a teacher of Alexander Technique and mother of two children.

Joaquin Macedo is an Argentinian composer who has lived in Berlin since 2015. He studied electroacoustic composition at the National University of the Arts (UNA - Argentina) with Guillermo Pozzati and Pablo Freiberg and experimental music theater at the UdK Berlin with Daniel Ott. In addition to his artistic activities, he is also active as a lecturer. He is currently completing his doctorate at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gordon Kampe and Prof. Dr. Nina Noeske. His field of research is the relationship between music and space. Together with Mathias Hinke, he founded the duo Cementerio de Piñatas for experimental music theater.

"Wie man sich mit Geistern anfreundet" is supported by the Dr. sc. mus. project funding of the ArtisticResearchLab at ligeti zentrum and is part of Joaquin Macedo's doctoral project "Experimental Music as Intermediate Space".

Free admission.
No late admission.