Ensemble Adapter & Celeste Oram
Ultraschall Berlin
Concert Festival
© Zak Argabite
Ticket Prices
18 Euro, discount 12 Euro
The 2G+masks-regulation applies. Only vaccinated individuals and convalescents may participate in events. In addition, wearing a medical mask is compulsory throughout the visit. Detailed information on our hygiene concept can be found here: www.radialsystem.de/hygieneconcept
Ticket Prices
15 Euro, discount 10 Euro
The 2G+masks-regulation applies. Only vaccinated individuals and convalescents may participate in events. In addition, wearing a medical mask is compulsory throughout the visit. Detailed information on our hygiene concept can be found here: www.radialsystem.de/hygieneconcept
The cultural sector has rarely struggled more than it has during these months of uncertainty in planning. This makes all the more remarkable the vitality of contemporary music, which is in defiance of these ongoing issues with undiminished creativity and diversity of musical ideas and sounds, as well as positions beyond music, and even more: through an undiminished enthusiasm for invention and discovery along with novel flexible concepts, performance and broadcasting possibilities inspire and surprise.
The cornucopia of the new and latest remains undiminished and is reflected in the Ultraschall (Ultrasound) Berlin Festival, which takes place 19-23 January 2022. The festival stays true to its aspiration of presenting salient trends in contemporary music as modern art and culture – examining them and positioning them in new contexts. These world premieres and debuts are connected to more recent music and art history, whose works are newly illuminated in a present-day context.
From time immemorial, numerous protagonists of new music have grappled with current affairs, addressed problems and injustices in their works, and adopted a political stance through their artistic medium. And especially so now, as oppression and persecution of the arts by populist, authoritarian or dictatorial regimes have been intensifying. Ultraschall Berlin takes up such issues.
At radialsystem, Sergei Nevsky documents queer subculture in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, and George Lewis pens an hommage to the marginalised and persecuted, presented by Neue Vocalsolisten & Ilya Shagalov. The LUX:NM contemporary music ensemble berlin is one of the most successful contemporary music ensembles in recent history and puts on a series of world premieres. Ensemble Recherche presents the composer Yiran Zhao in a portrait concert at Ultraschall Berlin; Ensemble Adapter & Celeste Oram reflect on the significance of the medium of radio. In addition, radialsystem welcomes guests Rei Nakamura & Thomas Hummel and Ensemble mixtura & Damian Marhulets at Ultraschall Berlin.
The festival programme is accompanied by talks with musicians and composers as well as by the UltraschallReporter project for schoolchildren.
Cast
Ensemble Adapter
Flöte und Stimme
Kristjana Helgadóttir
Klarinette und Stimme
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Harfe und Stimme
Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir
Percussion und Stimme
Matthias Engler
Komposition und Regie
Celeste Oram
Technische Entwicklung und Design
Zak Argabite
Biographien
Das Ensemble Adapter ist ein deutsch-isländisches Ensemble für Neue Musik mit Sitz in Berlin. Den Kern der Gruppe bildet ein Quartett aus Flöte, Klarinette, Harfe und Schlagzeug. Gemeinsam mit befreundeten Instrumentalist*innen entstehen daraus gelegentlich auch etwas größere Kammermusikbesetzungen. Neben zahlreichen Uraufführungen widmet Adapter sich in Konzerten und im Studio einem individuellen und internationalen Repertoire von zeitgenössischer Musik. In eigenen Projekten und Koproduktionen erprobt das Ensemble außerdem grenzübergreifende Arbeitsweisen in verschiedenen Genres. In Workshops wird erworbenes Wissen über Komposition, Studium und Aufführung von zeitgenössischer Musik mit Komponist*innen, Instrumentalist*innen und anderen Kreativen weltweit geteilt. Mit einem progressiven und kraftvollen Stil bemüht sich das Ensemble Adapter um einen authentischen Beitrag zu aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Kulturszene.
Programme
Programme
Celeste Oram & Ensemble Adapter
Yunge Eylands Varpcast Netwerkið (2021-2022)
Experimentelle Radio-Oper
Ultraschall Berlin 2022
Festival für neue Musik von Deutschlandfunk Kultur und rbbKultur
Selten hatte es die Kultur schwerer als in diesen Monaten planerischer Ungewissheiten. Umso bemerkenswerter zeigt sich die Vitalität der zeitgenössischen Musik, die mit ungebrochener Kreativität und Vielfalt an musikalischen Ideen und Klängen wie außermusikalischen Positionen den derzeitigen Schwierigkeiten trotzt, mehr noch: durch eine ungebrochene Erfinder- und Entdeckerlust mit neuen flexiblen Konzepten, Aufführungs- und Übertragungsmöglichkeiten begeistert und überrascht.
Das komplette Programm des Ultraschall Festivals im Radialsystem finden Sie hier.
Credits
A production by Ensemble Adapter, in collaboration with Ultraschall Berlin, Radialsystem, LOUDsoft and Gare Du Nord Basel. Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, Apra Amcos and Creative New Zealand.
"Ultraschall Berlin" is an event by rbbKultur and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
The cultural sector has rarely struggled more than it has during these months of uncertainty in planning. This makes all the more remarkable the vitality of contemporary music, which is in defiance of these ongoing issues with undiminished creativity and diversity of musical ideas and sounds, as well as positions beyond music, and even more: through an undiminished enthusiasm for invention and discovery along with novel flexible concepts, performance and broadcasting possibilities inspire and surprise.
The cornucopia of the new and latest remains undiminished and is reflected in the Ultraschall (Ultrasound) Berlin Festival, which takes place 19-23 January 2022. The festival stays true to its aspiration of presenting salient trends in contemporary music as modern art and culture – examining them and positioning them in new contexts. These world premieres and debuts are connected to more recent music and art history, whose works are newly illuminated in a present-day context.
From time immemorial, numerous protagonists of new music have grappled with current affairs, addressed problems and injustices in their works, and adopted a political stance through their artistic medium. And especially so now, as oppression and persecution of the arts by populist, authoritarian or dictatorial regimes have been intensifying. Ultraschall Berlin takes up such issues.
At radialsystem, Sergei Nevsky documents queer subculture in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, and George Lewis pens an hommage to the marginalised and persecuted, presented by Neue Vocalsolisten & Ilya Shagalov. The LUX:NM contemporary music ensemble berlin is one of the most successful contemporary music ensembles in recent history and puts on a series of world premieres. Ensemble Recherche presents the composer Yiran Zhao in a portrait concert at Ultraschall Berlin; Ensemble Adapter & Celeste Oram reflect on the significance of the medium of radio. In addition, radialsystem welcomes guests Rei Nakamura & Thomas Hummel and Ensemble mixtura & Damian Marhulets at Ultraschall Berlin.
The festival programme is accompanied by talks with musicians and composers as well as by the UltraschallReporter project for schoolchildren.
Cast
Ensemble Adapter
Flöte und Stimme
Kristjana Helgadóttir
Klarinette und Stimme
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Harfe und Stimme
Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir
Percussion und Stimme
Matthias Engler
Komposition und Regie
Celeste Oram
Technische Entwicklung und Design
Zak Argabite
Biographies
Das Ensemble Adapter ist ein deutsch-isländisches Ensemble für Neue Musik mit Sitz in Berlin. Den Kern der Gruppe bildet ein Quartett aus Flöte, Klarinette, Harfe und Schlagzeug. Gemeinsam mit befreundeten Instrumentalist*innen entstehen daraus gelegentlich auch etwas größere Kammermusikbesetzungen. Neben zahlreichen Uraufführungen widmet Adapter sich in Konzerten und im Studio einem individuellen und internationalen Repertoire von zeitgenössischer Musik. In eigenen Projekten und Koproduktionen erprobt das Ensemble außerdem grenzübergreifende Arbeitsweisen in verschiedenen Genres. In Workshops wird erworbenes Wissen über Komposition, Studium und Aufführung von zeitgenössischer Musik mit Komponist*innen, Instrumentalist*innen und anderen Kreativen weltweit geteilt. Mit einem progressiven und kraftvollen Stil bemüht sich das Ensemble Adapter um einen authentischen Beitrag zu aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Kulturszene.
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