MaerzMusik 2024: Leila Bencharnia / Ensemble Adapter
Sound Installation & Performance
Concert Installation Performance
Leila Bencharnia © Piotr Niepsuj
Ticket Prices
Free admission
Day Pass Radialsystem 23.03.2024
38 Euros, reduced 30 Euros
Tickets are sold via the Berliner Festspiele ticketing platform:
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
Ticket Prices
Free admission
Day Pass Radialsystem 23.03.2024
38 Euros, reduced 30 Euros
Tickets are sold via the Berliner Festspiele ticketing platform:
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
With their collaborative programme, composer Leila Bencharnia and Ensemble Adapter translate textile patterns into sonic textures. The Milan-based Moroccan composer was invited to Berlin as part of a research project organised by MaerzMusik and the institution Mophradat in collaboration with DAAD. Since starting the open-ended residency in November, Bencharnia worked in close collaboration with the experimental music group founded by Matthias Engler and Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir and based in Berlin and Reykjavík.
As a starting point for her research and creative work, the sound artist and performer of acousmatic music turned to the weaving techniques of the Amazigh people, indigenous to Morocco. As part of her exploration of fractals and the colour coding inherent to handmade textiles, the composer and the ensemble set off into experimental worlds of sound, taking the audience with them. The focus is on attentive listening and patiently awaiting what is to come – on recognising patterns in their entanglements and being guided by them, on understanding and feeling the progression of different colours in the sound.
Further information www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
Cast
With
Leila Bencharnia
Ensemble Adapter
Biographien
Leila Bencharnia is a sound artist, acousmatic interpreter and musician based in Milan. Daughter of a traditional Moroccan musician, her passion for music begins in the western desert of Morocco where she grew up. For her sonic surroundings, she works with analogic material, such as tapes, vinyls, and synthesizers. Bencharnia uses the practice of listening as a modality of knowledge transmission. By doing so, her practice seeks to have an active role in the decolonizing of listening as a way to have a visible impact on social and political questions. Currently, Bencharnia works as a solo artist and is part of the Archive Ensemble.
Ensemble Adapter is a German-Icelandic ensemble for new music that is based in Berlin. A flute, clarinet, harp and drums quartet makes up the core of the group. Together with selected instrumentalists this core forms chamber music constellations of up to 10 players. In addition to countless premieres, Adapter performs an individual and international repertoire of contemporary music in concerts and at the studio.
MaerzMusik 2024
MaerzMusik 2024 is positioning itself as an open-ended experience centred on conscientious listening, while also highlighting the constantly evolving tapestry of musical interplay among different generations and movements. With the ensembles, artists, musicians and composers invited, the festival examines the multi-layered potential of music through a programme that dovetails with the performing arts, sound, artistic interventions and more.
Credits
The residency is organised by Mophradat in collaboration with Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik with additional support by DAAD. An event of Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik.
Media partners Radialsystem: Exberliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
With their collaborative programme, composer Leila Bencharnia and Ensemble Adapter translate textile patterns into sonic textures. The Milan-based Moroccan composer was invited to Berlin as part of a research project organised by MaerzMusik and the institution Mophradat in collaboration with DAAD. Since starting the open-ended residency in November, Bencharnia worked in close collaboration with the experimental music group founded by Matthias Engler and Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir and based in Berlin and Reykjavík.
As a starting point for her research and creative work, the sound artist and performer of acousmatic music turned to the weaving techniques of the Amazigh people, indigenous to Morocco. As part of her exploration of fractals and the colour coding inherent to handmade textiles, the composer and the ensemble set off into experimental worlds of sound, taking the audience with them. The focus is on attentive listening and patiently awaiting what is to come – on recognising patterns in their entanglements and being guided by them, on understanding and feeling the progression of different colours in the sound.
Further information www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
Cast
With
Leila Bencharnia
Ensemble Adapter
Biographies
Leila Bencharnia is a sound artist, acousmatic interpreter and musician based in Milan. Daughter of a traditional Moroccan musician, her passion for music begins in the western desert of Morocco where she grew up. For her sonic surroundings, she works with analogic material, such as tapes, vinyls, and synthesizers. Bencharnia uses the practice of listening as a modality of knowledge transmission. By doing so, her practice seeks to have an active role in the decolonizing of listening as a way to have a visible impact on social and political questions. Currently, Bencharnia works as a solo artist and is part of the Archive Ensemble.
Ensemble Adapter is a German-Icelandic ensemble for new music that is based in Berlin. A flute, clarinet, harp and drums quartet makes up the core of the group. Together with selected instrumentalists this core forms chamber music constellations of up to 10 players. In addition to countless premieres, Adapter performs an individual and international repertoire of contemporary music in concerts and at the studio.
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