We have awarded this year's commission to an artist who always inscribes a transcultural social component into his music. In close connection with the respective space and interlocked with other art forms, Emmanuel Witzthum creates a space that can be entered at any time in his latest work, which lasts from sunset to sunrise.
In the middle of the pandemic, on April 19, 2020, a young man sits down in a New York studio in front of a drum set consisting of various drums, traditional percussion instruments and a handpan. The British channel Boiler Room, which is actually known for rave videos with an exalted audience, broadcasts the drum solo live ...
The anarchistic potential of improvisation can be studied in no one as wonderfully as in Helge Schneider: whether as a comedian, author, actor, director, composer or multi-instrumentalist - he always remains unpredictable. He plays with communication in order to document its failure. He exaggerates meaning until higher nonsense emerges. ...