Match Cut Festival June 25, 2022 with the Academy for Early Music Berlin, Brandt Brauer Frick and the Zafraan Ensemble A production by the Zafraan Ensemble

Contributors: Academy for Early Music Berlin

Violin: Bernhard Forck, Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir, Thomas Graewe, Gudrun Engelhardt, Erika Takano-Forck, Dörte Wetzel, Edburg Forck, viola: Monika Grimm, Annette Geiger, cello: Luise Buchberger, Andreas Voss, double bass: Matthias Beltinger, traverso: Gergely Bodoky, oboe: Elisabeth Beckert, lute/theorbo: Andreas Arend, harpsichord/organ: Raphael Alpermann

Brandt Brauer Frick

Daniel Brandt: drums, electronics, Jan Brauer: synthesizers, electronics, Paul Frick: piano, electronics

Artistic direction: Emmanuelle Bernard, Daniel Eichholz, Josa Gerhard

Conductor: Miguel Perez Inesta

Match Cut Map: Josa Gerhard, Sebastian Quack

Programming: Holger Heissmeyer, Sebastian Quack

Scenography, graphics: Julia Rommel

Sound: Balthasar Effmert

Light: Jörg Bittner Camera & editing: Philipp Meise, Johannes Praus

Production: Sophie Beck, Sofia Surgutschova

Management and public relations: Sofia Surguchova

The recording is being used for promotional purposes only. Supported by Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Music Fund

Performed and recorded on 16.12.2023 at silent green – Betonhalle in Berlin.

For Binary Soundscapes, three new works were created and premiered by the Zafraan Ensemble in digital and analog space. They are conceived as spatial compositions both for a virtual 3D environment in a special app as well as for a live concert in the concrete hall of silent green. Visitors are free to move around the sound spaces and are invited to explore the works themselves and experience them from two very different perspectives.

Yoav Pasovsky (*1980): In praise of shadows (WP)

Davor Vincze (*1983): acousti©remations (WP)

Elsa Biston (*1978): Löchermusik – musique de trous (WP)

Programming: Yoav Pasovsky

Sound recordings: Justus Beyer, Laura Picerno

3D model: Giuseppe Previtera, Anna Hentschel

Scenography: Anna Hentschel

Camera: Phillip Meise

The recording is being used for promotional purposes only.

Supported by Musikfonds e.V.

As part of Zafraan Ensemble’s project „Vistaar“ on the 3rd of May 2023 at Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie Berlin

Aneesh Pradhan: Tabla

Sudhir Nayak: Harmonium

Stefan Keller: Composition + Tabla

Victor Aviat: Conductor

Sound: Martin Offik

Video: Uli Aumüller/Sebastian Rausch – inpetto Filmproduktion

Supported by Musikfonds Germany

Sarah Nemtsov (*1980)
Seven Colours (2018)
Performed by Zafraan Ensemble:
Martin Smith (Cello)
Clemens Hund-Göschel (Piano)
Daniel Eichholz (Drum Set)
Kalle Kalima (guest; Electric bass)
Performed and recorded on 28.08.2020 at the Musikbrauerei Berlin

This recording is being used for promotional purposes only.
Supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

The project is a musical-choreographic examination of the work of the African-American composer Julius Eastman, who died in 1990, with particular attention to the history of minimal music and contemporary dance. It expands the spectrum of the well-known canon of musically inspired dance works of Minimal Art and adds a voice that has rarely been heard until now. To make this possible, it brings together more than 20 artists from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. J. Eastman, born in Ithaca New York in 1940, was one of the rare multiple talents in music history. He was a musician, composer, singer and dancer. He received piano lessons as a child and began dance training shortly afterwards. He had an exceptionally deep singing voice. His talent quickly attracted a lot of attention. Accordingly, he worked with artists as diverse as Morton Feldman, Pierre Boulez, Meredith Monk and Arthur Russel. His compositions have been successfully performed in America and Europe. However, as an openly gay African American in an art form dominated by whites, he didn’t really manage to become part of the scene. He died alone and homeless after a long period of drug abuse. A large part of his compositions were also lost with him. Thanks to numerous reconstructions, his work has been rediscovered and celebrated internationally in recent years. With this project we are now trying to find a choreographic translation for three pieces of Eastman’s “Gay Guerrilla”, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc” and “Femenine” that focuses more on the rhythmic aspects and programmatics of his music. We start from the hypothetical question: What would have happened if Eastman had become part of the musical canon? What inspiration could the dance have drawn from his version?

Künstlerische Leitung: Christoph Winkler | Von und mit: Aloaii Tapu, Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala, Karima Amrani, Lois Alexander, Lisa Rykena, Zen Jefferson, Christofer Medina | Co-Choreographie für Feminine: Zen Jefferson | Musik: Zafraan Ensemble & Guests | Arrangement: Clemens Hund-Göschel | Produktionsleitung: Laura Biagioni | Lichtdesign, Technische Leitung: Claes Schwennen | Bühnenbild: Valentina Primavera | Kostümbild: Raki Fernandez
A production by Company Christoph Winkler. Funded by the Capital Culture Fund, the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Augstein Foundation. Media partner: taz. the daily newspaper

Music by Johannes Boris Borowski, Eres Holz and Stefan Keller
Titus Engel (conductor)
Zafraan Ensemble: Liam Mallett (flutes), Miguel Pérez Iñesta (clarinets), Martin Posegga (saxophones), Anna Viechtl (harp), Daniel Eichholz (percussion), Clemens Hund-Göschel (piano), Emmanuelle Bernard (violin/viola), Josa Gerhard (viola/violin), Martin Smith (cello) and Beltane Ruiz Molina (double bass)

A musical theater with works by Franck Bedrossian, Christophe Bertrand, Raphaël Cendo, Martin Grütter, Johannes Kreidler, Sarah Nemtsov and Alexander Schubert.

The world is too small. She’s too big.
Démesure explores the young generation’s desire to do justice to a present saturated with information. The world constantly seems to be getting closer and this is precisely how it reveals its immensity: its complexity is infinite, its interconnectedness is unpredictable. The options that open up are unmanageable; power and powerlessness are close together.
Démesure responds to this in the form of a “mise en corps” to current music by French and German composers, who contrast the beauty of abundance with the depressing idea of ​​simultaneous expansion and condensation. Musically and scenically, the audience is invited to explore this ambivalence together with the performers.

Concept, direction: Aliénor Dauchez
Choreography: Sergiu Matis
Musical direction: Clemens Hund-Göschel, Miguel Pérez Iñesta
Equipment: Michael Kleine
Assistant: Lisa Fütterer
Stage construction: Lichtblick stage technology
Lighting design: Susana Alonso
Dramaturgy: Janis El-Bira
Production: Sebastian Solte
Zafraan Ensemble: Liam Mallet (flute), Miguel Pérez Iñesta (clarinet), Martin Posegga (saxophone), Anna Viechtl (harp), Daniel Eichholz (percussion), Clemens Hund-Göschel (piano), Wojciech Garbowski (violin), Ildiko Ludwig (viola), Martin Smith (cello), Antoine Daurat (electronics)

A production by the Zafraan Ensemble in collaboration with La Cage and Per Aspera. Supported by: Cofinancing Fund Berlin, Impuls Neue Musik, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, Initiative Neue Musik Berlin, concert by the German Music Council. With the kind support of: Former Silent Film Cinema Delphi, Lichtblick Stage Technology.