\nBased on the concept of German master K. Stockhausen's Music for a House, Studio Acht and KNM Berlin invited six composers from Taiwan, Germany, Argentina, and Mexico in 2019 to create Music for an Opera House, a work tailor-made for the spaces in Weiwuying Opera House. Music for an Opera House is completed after a year of discussion, research, and creative brainstorming. Due to the pandemic, this piece is unable to perform live; however, the challenge of the reality, in fact, spurred the team to go deeper into Stockhausen's groundbreaking concept of musical composition. They thus filmed the experimental results into Reading Music III-VIII in Berlin. It serves not only as a record of the creating process of Music for an Opera House but a way for composers and performers to profoundly present the thinking of musical performing styles put forward by Stockhausen in the last century through unconventional space and the sense of space.
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Program
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KAO Kai-yi, Counterpoint
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Carlos LTURRALDE, Elastic Semantic Transfer
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Ana Maria RODRIGUEZ, Gold and Silver
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LIU Wei-chih, Burst Forth
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LIN Fang-yi, Let's Read Some Poems
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Laure M. HIENDL, Practice
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Creative and Production Team
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\n\nFlute|Rebecca LENTON
\n\nContrabass Clarinet|Theo NABICHT
\n\nTrumpet|Matthew CONLEY
\n\nViolin|Theodor FLINDELL
\n\nViola|Kirstin Maria PIENTKA
\n\nVioloncello|Cosima GERHARDT
\n\nDouble Bass|Jonathan HEILBRON
\n\nWeiwuying Academy Ensemble Musicians
\n\nBassoon|WANG Peng-Hui
\n\nPiano| HUANG Yu-Ting
\n\nSound design and video|Andre BARTETZKI, Thomas Bruns
\n\nDirector|Thomas BRUNS
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*Tunings of the World 2.0 is a project by the Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Taipei, the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai, Studio Acht Taiwan, Jinju Music Festival (JMF) and Berghain Ostgut GmbH. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan).
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