29 January – 6 February 2011
EXTENDED ATMOSPHÈRES: a sonic discours / a deep listening space
by György Ligeti (hu), Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (de), Edwin van der Heide (nl)
Vernissage: 29 January, 17:00 - 24:00
Performances: 30 January - 6 February, 17:00 – 21:00

Edwin van der Heide and Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag ‘re-stage’ / open up the compositional and spacious ATMOSPHÈRES. György Ligeti wrote the piece in 1961 and in the same year it was premiered by the SWF Orchestra in Donaueschingen. ATMOSPHÈRES is a radical response to serialism. In 1968, Stanley Kubrik used a recording of the piece as a sample ‘atmosphere’ in shooting his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, commissioned it for the score, and over night ATMOSPHÈRES became famous as film music. In 2011, ten years after the virtual odyssey and fifty years after the film’s premiere, van der Heide and Sonntag enter into a sonic discourse with Ligeti’s futuristic audio icon.

Each performance (30min) will begin on the half hour and entry is only permitted at the end of each loop. Please note maximum 18 person capacity for each performance and entry will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

.CHB, Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin
Opening times during tm.11: 17:00 – 21:00
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