New Music - Old School

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music by John Cage, James Tenney, Phil Glass, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arnold Schönberg, Luigi Nono... zeitkratzer's repertoire includes many pieces by well-known new music composers performed in a variety of contexts. Those reach out from an eleven-hour program dedicated to John Cage (see below) over 'normal' concerts (playing Stockhausen, Nono etc.) to 'cheap imitations' (e.g. of Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire). Some program samples are shown below.

EXAMPLES:

John Cage
sound pieces (Hymnkus, Five, Four6...)
media pieces (telephones & birds, imaginary landscapes...)

former performances:
John Cage 90 - a birthday party (Podewil, Berlin), 5.9.2002
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (GB), 24.11.2006

James Tenney (harmonium 2...)
former performance:
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (GB), 24.11.2006

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie 2
former performance:
MontagsMusik Podewil (Berlin), 19.3.2001

Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire: cheap imitation (by Reinhold Friedl)

former performance:
Wiener Festwochen 2005 (Vienna/Austria), 9.6.2005

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Cage at Podewil Mikrophonie at Podewil

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