tickets:
regular: 14,- โฌuro
students, disabled persons: 7,- โฌuro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
tickets:
regular: 14,- โฌuro
students, disabled persons: 7,- โฌuro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
On June 25 and 26, 2025, the composer, musician and theorist Christopher Dell will perform the revisions XI & XII of his work complex Das Arbeitende Konzert / The Working Concert (AK) together with an exclusively assembled ensemble at LOFT.
The AK defines a modular setting that emphasizes the mediation of the working method of collaborative music making. Within this, the AK localizes and reflects the continuous production and exploration of the development and role of musical practice, its media and its presentation as a concert. What is presented as a concert therefore does not appear for its own sake, but also demonstrates the concrete turnover of heterogeneous energy states and processes in the interplay and makes visible the production conditions under which the musical actions arise and with which they are connected....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- โฌuro
students, disabled persons: 7,- โฌuro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
tickets:
regular: 14,- โฌuro
students, disabled persons: 7,- โฌuro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
On June 25 and 26, 2025, the composer, musician and theorist Christopher Dell will perform the revisions XI & XII of his work complex Das Arbeitende Konzert / The Working Concert (AK) together with an exclusively assembled ensemble at LOFT.
The AK defines a modular setting that emphasizes the mediation of the working method of collaborative music making. Within this, the AK localizes and reflects the continuous production and exploration of the development and role of musical practice, its media and its presentation as a concert. What is presented as a concert therefore does not appear for its own sake, but also demonstrates the concrete turnover of heterogeneous energy states and processes in the interplay and makes visible the production conditions under which the musical actions arise and with which they are connected.
With the AK, Dell has designed an experimental format that makes it possible to explain, differentiate, relate, compare, contrast and test different forms of musical notation and modes of action. As a conceptual format, the AK provides the framing of a series of events โ called revisions โ and their spatialization. As a performative installation, the AK removes the boundaries between rehearsal and performance and offers the audience the opportunity to experience the process of creating the music.
Since 2014, Dell has been working on the format of the AK, which focuses on the growing international interest in the expansion of the concept of composition in recent years. In the course of its continuous development, ten significant revisions of the AK have been performed and exhibited, discussed by researchers, journalists, curators and many other qualified discussants from all over the world. In 2020, the book โDas Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concertโ was published by the renowned art book publisher spector books, Leipzig. With this publication, which presents, contextualizes and gives perspective to the conceptual execution and genesis of the format, the AK also received increased national and international attention in terms of discourse. In this sense, the American composer and theorist George Lewis described the AK as โsensual theorizingโ.
For Revision XI & XII, Dell will compose new, previously unperformed and unpublished works. To this end, Dell will increasingly create compositions with both representational and non-representational notation in order to contrast them, make them comparable and derive conjectures on innovative forms of notation for experimental music. The elements of the experimental set-up are outlined with the in-depth basic research, the implementation of these findings in the form of public rehearsals and finally the communication and presentation in the context of the concert evening and documentation of the overall material. Dell and his fellow musicians enter into a dialog with the audience during the development of the work. This makes it possible to bring not only a concert audience generally interested in this musical experience, but also a broad and culturally interested public into contact with the processes of collaborative music-making. This research and performance program also creates new methods of public presentation and discussion that advance the development of music. The AK format is an educational amplifier, a unique educational experience for emancipated listeners and those who want to become one.
The AK is a performative installation that focuses on concerts and their presentation as media. Concerts are understood as a form of artistic expression and as critical dispositives. The series of scores and concerts as exhibitions under the title AK Revision (x) functions as a retroactive manifesto of generative structures that offer future works a reservoir of virtual possibilities. To the extent that AK deconstructs musical practices, the mediality of the series of works itself is revealed and thematized as a display, be it as an installation, concert or exhibition.
Supported by:
Musikfonds - Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung fรผr Kultur und Medien
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