TRIO ABSTRAKT IS SUPPORTED BY
Manfred und Ursula Müller-Stiftung
Trio Abstrakt: spotlight is a concert series for full-length compositions of contemporary music. In close collaboration with a composer, an approximately one-hour work is created in the form of an immersive chamber music experience – works that oscillate between chamber music, electronics and music theater are premiered here.
What happens to a chamber music work after a successful premiere? How often and when can a contemporary composition be performed again – and can compositions continue to develop (many years) after their creation?
With chambers, Trio Abstrakt presents a new series for complex, sound-based chamber music. chambers is both a concert and an exchange format – the composers invited to the concert evening will be introduced with their works in concert and, together with a moderator and the musicians of the trio, will give a thematically focussed concert introduction in the form of a panel discussion.
Trio Abstrakt: Confluences is an immersive chamber music experience. Three world premieres by three composers/sound artists with diverse musical backgrounds are connected by collaboratively composed interludes, creating a cohesive work.
The program features new works by composers Rachel C. Walker (USA), Kristofer Svensson (SWE), and sound artist Johanna Sulalampi (FIN), who explore the possibilities of collective composition during the creative process. They work to blur the boundaries between the individual pieces, and consequently investigate how this also blurs the lines between the individual and the collective—both in the working process and in the reception of the overall work.
Confluences premiered on September 27th 2024 at Kunststation St. Peter Köln and was subsequently presented at festival Klangzeit Münster
Due to pandemic-related concert cancellations, Trio Abstrakt has developed a desire to present contemporary music in a format that is not, like online streaming, merely a substitute for a ‘real’ concert. Instead, it should be fully complete when viewed and listened to on one’s own computer. Building implicitly on MTV music videos of the 1990s, we seek to launch a project in which contemporary music and short films interact: the New Music Video.