Anda Kryeziu: TILDE [~]
Ensemble Modern
What remains of a moment when it has passed? Anda Kryeziu explores this question in her concert installation ‘TILDE [~]’ and uses the Ensemble Modern archive as the starting point for a sonic search for traces. The performance combines ensemble, light, video and objects to interweave memories and sounds. The composer, who was born in Kosovo in 1993, was particularly interested in documents from the years of political upheaval, including Ensemble Modern’s travel reports from the 1980s to the GDR and the Soviet Union.
‘Through my story, I look at the past through a certain lens,’ says the composer, who was born in Kosovo in 1993 and experienced war, flight and migration. She is particularly interested in documents from years of political upheaval – including travelogues by Ensemble Modern from the late 1980s, when it gave guest performances in the GDR and the Soviet Union. But Kryeziu’s work is more than a historical reflection. It deals with the question of what archiving means in the digital age – a time in which an incessant stream of data flows past us ever faster and wider.
With ‘TILDE [~]’, Ensemble Modern opens the 32nd edition of DTZM and invites the audience to experience the archive as a living sound space – a construction of memories, an echo of the past in the present.
Program:
Anda Kryeziu: ‘TILDE [~]’ for ensemble, electronics, light, video and objects (2023)
Ensemble Modern
Anda Kryeziu Live-Elektronic music
Lukas Nowok Sound direction
Duration: ca. 1 h
Little use of language
19:00 there will be an introduction to the work
Anda Kryeziu was born in Kosovo in 1993. She initially studied piano and then composition with Dieter Amann, Caspar Johannes Walter and Daniel Ott between Basel and Berlin. She later studied electro-acoustic composition at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in the class of Wolfgang Heiniger. She won 1st prize at the Balkan Composers Competition 2019 and is a scholarship holder of the Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin and the Akademie Musiktheater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation. Her music has been performed by various ensembles, including Ensemble Adapter, KNM Berlin, Asamisimasa (Oslo), Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Oerknal (Holland) and has been represented at festivals such as Munich Biennale, Neue Musik Rümlingen, Mostra Sonora Sueca (Spain), Impuls (Graz), Aufwind (Vienna) and Zeiträume Basel. Her music is currently being released as a CD portrait by Edition Zeitgenössische Musik Katalog. Her artistic interests range between instrumental music and electroacoustics, especially in interdisciplinary and music theatre projects.
Ensemble Modern is one of the world’s best-known ensembles for contemporary music. Founded in 1980 and based in Frankfurt am Main, 18 soloists from eight countries currently shape the activities of the democratically organized ensemble. Ensemble Modern’s aesthetic spectrum encompasses music and dance-theatrical genres, multimedia formats as well as chamber music, ensemble and orchestral concerts. Since the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music began in 1987, Udo Zimmermann has often invited the ensemble to Dresden. The concerts often took place at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, then from 2004 at HELLERAU. Since 2018, the ensemble has once again been regularly represented in the HELLERAU program with various projects, most recently with commissioned works and co-productions by Carsten Nicolai and Ryōji Ikeda, among others.
