Transmit me concert installation for trumpet, trombone, two double basses and 19 tin can telephones · 40 min · 2022

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The audience moves between the Kesselhalle of Kraftwerk Bille, where the musicians play, and a soundproofed listening room. Its walls hold nineteen tin can telephones built from different combinations of materials. Following a structured improvisation, the musicians use the cans as mutes, as extensions of their instruments and as independent sound sources.

They cannot hear how their sounds arrive in the listening room, nor can they hear each other’s transformed sounds. Each musician must rely on what they learned during the preparatory phase. The result is shaped by the uncertainty of loss, transfer, and distortion.​

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Birgit Ulher — trumpet · Kris Kuldkepp — double bass · John Hughes — double bass · Felix Mayer — trombone, composition

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Funded by Musikfonds e.V., Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg, Landesmusikrat Hamburg

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Shown blurred edges festival, Kesselhalle Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg, 16.–17.06.2022

Video documentation, Resonance — Sound Art and New Music Film Festival, Grosso Modo Gallery, Tel Aviv, 26.–28.09.2024

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Photos Gunnar Lettow

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