Sternbild: Mensch VI

KlangForum Heidelberg continues its interdisciplinary series »Sternbild: Mensch«. Works by Elina Lukijanova and Stefan Wirth will be premiered.

The stars have always been a source of inspiration for the human imagination, for spiritual experience, for the idea of the infinite and unreachable and thus images of a superhuman or divine. Through Arnold Schönberg's feeling of the »luft von anderen planeten« (Stefan George) with his ears (!), the 20^th century began in music as a synaesthetic evocation and poetic–imaginative foreboding of new worlds and a new cosmos, but soon relativity theory, quantum mechanics, wave theory, statistics and Big Data were to have a decisive influence on artistic conceptions and speculations.

»Sternbild: Mensch« VI is the continuation of a six–part series of events on the subject of musical cosmology, which would be incompletely described as a »concert«. Under the direction of Walter Nußbaum, the two ensembles of KlangForum Heidelberg, the SCHOLA HEIDELBERG and the ensemble aisthesis, will demonstrate the close connection between vocal and instrumental sound production, as well as the integration of spatial sound and visual representation. A connection of ungraspable, poetically spoken: »supernatural« connections – this is what the project »Sternbild: Mensch« stands for.

For the continuation of the concert series »Sternbild: Mensch«, KlangForum Heidelberg has commissioned compositions from renowned composers of international renown; only the special framework of this series allows them to artistically translate astronomical-cosmic questions and phenomena beyond the limitations of traditional concert podiums. For the sixth part of the concert series »Sternbild: Mensch«, the Karlsruhe graduate Elina Lukijanova (composition class Hechtle & Rihm of the Karlsruhe Music Academy) and the Swiss composer Stefan Wirth have composed works specially commissioned for the concert series, all of which are related to the cosmos. 

In relation to these three premieres, works of early music have been deliberately chosen, which will draw a bow over several centuries in this concert.