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Ausgerenkte Kräfte / Forces Disloquées (2022/2023)

GingerEnsemble feat. Peter Streiff: «Ausgerenkte Kräfte – Forces disloquées»

GingerEnsemble: Cyrill Lim, Valerian Maly, Klara Schilliger, Lara Stanic
Guest: Peter Streiff

Engineering: Lisa Mark

Concerts
October 27th 2022, 19h, La Voirie, Biel
October 29th 2022, 19h, Prozess, Bern
October 30th 2022, 19h, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
                              18.30h Introduction: Valerian Maly
November 4th 2022, 20h, Museum Tinguely, Basel
                              19.30h Introduction: Valerian Maly
November 6th 2022, 18h, Centre de Culture ABC, La Chaux-de-Fonds
February 7th 2023, 19h, Theater Pavillon, Luzern
                              Double concert with Trio Saeitenwind

«Ausgerenkte Kräfte – Forces disloquées»
With their programme entitled "Ausgerenkte Kräfte - Forces disloquée" (Dislocated Forces), the GingerEnsemble, together with the composer Peter Streiff, creates a balancing act between subtle environmental noises, physical presence and lively electronics.

Dislocations are entirely desirable in this undertaking, which attempts to expand the boundaries of conventional performance formats with a mixture of concert, performance and installation.
The title is based on Kurt Schwitters' 1920 painting "Ausgerenkte Kräfte (Merz-Bild)" ("Dislocated Forces (Merz Picture)"), an assemblage of wood, metal pen, fabric, paper and oil on cardboard, held together by a frame of roof battens, which represents the beginning of an epoch that also marks the emergence of performance art and experimental music.

For the autumn tour of 2022, the GingerEnsemble, together with guest composer Peter Streiff, is now to going on a release tour of his recently published, finely edited publication "Musical Concepts, 1968 - 2019", a book containing over 90 compositional works.
This publication by the Bernese composer, born in 1944, whose compositional focus is on chamber music works and musical concepts, forms a cornerstone of the programme "Ausgerenkte Kräfte - Forces disloquée". In keeping with the spirit of the GingerEnsemble, five new compositions will be created around this cornerstone and will be premiered in autumn 22.

GingerEnsemble
The GingerEnsemble dedicates itself to experimental music with a kind of “historical performance practice” and places itself in the tradition of the “composer/performer” as exemplified by the legendary “Sonic Arts Union” with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma – a collective of experimental musicians that was active between 1966 - 1976. The repertory of the GingerEnsemble includes pieces by David Behrman, John Cage, Tom Johnson, Takehisa Kosugi, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich and Robert Watts. So as not to lean too heavily on the “historical”, however, exciting original compositions and performances by the members of the ensemble will also be presented. By means of algorithmic composition, electro-acoustic music, and the experimental use of new media, aspects of perception will be investigated. Non-hierarchical composition may also refer to the radical paradigmatic shift that occurs in experimental, process-oriented music between an audience and author, but also between the recipient and participant.

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Program

Peter Streiff (*1944)
Bruchstücke – vom Rande her
Bruchstücke werden Rohstoff werden Form, 2021-2022

für fünf Ausführende an Klanggeräten und Instrumenten

Klara Schilliger (*1953)

R i n n e n (2022)
für 5 Musiker:Innen

Valerian Maly (*1959)
K U N S T, 2022

für die «Dilettanteninstrumente» Crotales, wassergestimmtes Glasspiel und Viola d’Amore

Lara Stanic (*1973)
Mirror Pieces, 2022

für mehrere Performer mit Handspiegeln, Kamera und mehreren Lautsprecher

Cyrill Lim (*1984)
Listening for Nellie, 2022

für 4-6 Performer mit tragbaren analogen Radios

Peter Streiff (*1944):
Profil

ein ritueller Verlauf, Sommer 1968 / rev 1975
für 5 Spielende an 5 Gongs und 15 Becken

Alvin Lucier (1931 - 2021)
Words on Windy Corners, 1980

for voices, tape delay system and moving loudspeakers

Downloads (Flyer, concepts etc... download with right click and "Save as"):

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Pictures:

quinte - les toux virtuelles (2021)

For Hasard Live Stream Festival Fribourg, with the GingerEnsemble

In countless meetings in virtuality, through live streamings of cultural life and in disembodied company, we become aware of the limitations of digital tools. A one-to-one digital replication of a social, face-to-face dialogue is not possible without losing something in the process.
In search of the unmediated aesthetics of digital tools, the GingerEnsemble is developing a series of short performative pieces that playfully deal with the use of current digital communication media such as smartphones, computers, laptops and related software.
These "virtual coughs" are formed in the interplay between physical presence and digital gathering, between artificial intelligence and natural stupidity as well as between scheduled acumen and unsolicited connection loss.

Performance:
March 6th 2021



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Irrton - Irrtonale Musik (2017)

GingerEnsemble Bern & guest composers David Behrman & Peter Färber
In the Grossmünster Zurich & the Church of St. Peter and Paul Bern

With “Irrtonale Musik” the GingerEnsemble deliberately sets off on a slippery slope of mistakes and perceptual irritations, in search of phantom sounds and acoustic illusions, of virtual irritations, of deliberately controlled and misdirected resonances and sound phenomena to explore the reflections of the Bern Cathedral.

Together with David Behrman, we will probe the acoustic and architectonic conditions of the locations. This can lead to compositional structures which follow the layout of the churches, the different incoming light can lead to changing soundscapes – David Behrman was one the first composer/performer to control electronically produced sounds with photocells – and the three "ugly" bells (as the verger calls them) can serve as a base for "Irrtonale Musik".

A partly simultaneous round of compositions and performances by Lara Stanic, Klara Schilliger, Cyrill
Lim and Valerian Maly in ensemble with David Behrman: recent contemporary music and performance
investigates the sonic and perceptual space of the Grossmunster and the church St. Peter and Paul with cutting-edge and historical technologies.

Concerts:
6.9.2017 Scha'a Smanit, ringing of bells in halakhic time (info and dates)
8.9.2017 Church St. Peter and Paul Bern, 17.30h
11.9. 2017 Grossmunster Zurich, 17h

Supported by UBS Kulturstiftung and Foundation Pro Scientia et Arte



Das Tanzfest - Zug (2014)

An urban interaction on occasion of the Tanzfest Zug.

Four stelae mark three passages like a turn style. On each stela is a music box which is triggered by a sensor, as soon as somebody crosses the passage.
This simple intervention makes the common saturday afternoon choreography of the passersby audible who, in return, through their performative intervention, change that common choreography.

Pictures:

waves, sound and space (2013)

by and with Katarina Antanasković, Cyrill Lim, Ana Avramov, Miljana Kostić, Milica Peloza-Mojsilović, Matija Ilić, Miroslav Savić, Nikola Marković, Ivana Vraneš, Toni Kovac & the choir Svetonazori

As a part of the project "Slušaj Savamala" (www.savamala.rs) by the GingerEnsemble Cyrill Lim & Katarina Antanasković gave the workshop waves, sound and space from 2. July to 6. July 2013.

How do sound and space interact? What sound is being made by the building architecture and how can we make it audible?

In the workshop waves, sound and space basics of room acoustics and voice training were imparted on a musical and compositional level. We explored sound as a medium and sharpened our senses with experiments of electronic and vocal sound production within space. The result: On the late evening of July 6th the Belgrade district of Savamala has been transformed into one large performative sound installation by means of choral singing and radio.

Blogentry by Miljana Kostić



Video: Nebojsa Vasic © Goethe-Institut
Photos © Goethe Institut

Pictures:

Lost in Tugium (2012)

by Cyrill Lim for a resonating Container, activated by six sine wave oscillators

A concept made for the BASE Container, an art project by Sladjan Nedeljkovic on occasion of the art trail "Lost in Tugium" in Zug.
Six transducers which transfer the amplified energy of the oscillators to the ceiling of the container to let it vibrate, are installed inside the container. Thus the container functions as a resonating body and becomes the instrument.
Within about 20' the performer sweeps through the frequencies of the oscillators, starting at pitches around 200 - 300 Hz and lowering them constantly until they're inaudible by the audience. In this process the performer is looking for resonances, modulations and rhythms.



Video © Jacqueline Falk

Pictures:

shift (2012)

by Cyrill Lim for about three to five performer

shift is a constantly changing performative sound installation. Objects which contain an as objective as possible association to music are carried through the location and deliberately placed without generating any sound.
In this process new constellations between the objects and between the objects and space are constantly formed.

Photos © by Sanja Latinović und Ranko Đanković

Pictures:

flatuare (2011 / 2012)

by Lilian Beidler and Cyrill Lim

In the year of the dragon performance artists Lilian Beidler and Cyrill Lim not only want to fly onwards, but also try to gain minimal sounds from huge choirs of flutes, fire and flames, recorders and bones, ice, water and air.

To accomplish this, they deal with rituals, traditions, chronicles and PU-tubes, practice whistling and playing the musical saw, they blow against the edges of tubes and organ pipes fathoming fluid dynamics.

Is this maximal effort with minimal sounds doomed to failure or is there more to these delicate topics than meets the eye?

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Oreade (2011)

by Cyrill Lim for trombone, space and performer with OKM ("earplug-microphones") and speaker

Performance on ocassion of the Niemandsland Festival Baden.

Our memories are bound to places or create a virtual space. Consequently places call up memories. In a dialogue the undergoing spaces became the narrators. Impressions remain as lingering sounds, as resonances of the memories.

Video © Raphael Zürcher

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I skype you skype me (2008)

by Lilian Beidler and Cyrill lim for two Skype-performer

as performers we are at the disposal of the media which is communicating with itself not alone by the intangible internet connection via Skype but also with the physical attributes of the speaker resp. microphone of our laptops.



Radio broadcast by Michael Iber for SWR2 (performance "next_generation 3.0" ZKM Karlsruhe)

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Dungchen (2008)

by Cyrill Lim for trombone and electronics

Interferences, overtone structures, difference tones, natural phenomenas are being paid attention to. The trombone is the ideal instrument for the required microtonal way of playing through a journey in the search of consonancy within the dissonance.

Part of the Radio podcast by Janine Claßen for Outnow (performance "Outnow" Bremen)
Review for Dungchen by Honne Dohrmann (performance "Outnow" Bremen)

Downloads (Flyer, concepts etc... download with right click and "Save as"):

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Musikalisch-Literarische Interventionen (2010)

by David Schwery and Cyrill Lim

the concept of this installation performance has been made specifically for this exhibition of the artist Ruth Schwery-Steiner at the kunstreich Bern. Texts by David Schwery were recorded and transformed, accompanied and played back into the room.

Downloads (Flyer, concepts etc... download with right click and "Save as"):

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"48 23 133 27 9 ..." (2010)

by Cyrill Lim - Version for PROGR

About 343 m/s speed of sound, multiple cubic meters of space, objects, people, λ, cycle duration and a huge jumble of cable. The PROGR: plugged and amplified...

Downloads (Flyer, concepts etc... download with right click and "Save as"):

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Coincidence (2010)

InstallAction by Cyrill Lim, Klara Schilliger and Valerian Maly

With the ambitious attempt to rebuild the gottonic giant aeolsharp in a kind of historic reconstruction at the old wooden bridge in Baden Cyrill Lim, Valerian Maly and Klara Schilliger failed miserably already in the preliminary stages. Several tons of pressure - produced by the tension of the strings - would most certainly  have made the wooden bridge collapse.
Now Lim / Maly / Schilliger are returning to the origins of the cultural history and the engineering of musical instruments. During their performance "Coincidence" the bridge becomes a bow, resonance rooms are being explored and instead of the wind the water of the Limmat will get the bridge to oscillate. It's an archaic music machine, with maybe even reaching a higher plane of instrument engineering, that will be build here: The pylons become frets, the bridge's gate becomes the saddle. To go back to the origins of cultural history means to experience the meaning of collective work, of invention and of creation. But how to harness this collected pile of historical, phsyical and musical sciolism?

Thanks goes to Musik Buchser AG, Eliane Berger-Gfeller and Olivier Berger, Klavierbau Daniel Schoepke, Brugg Drahtseil AG

Photos © by Christian Glaus

Downloads (Flyer, concepts etc... download with right click and "Save as"):

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Pictures:

Knack (2008)

by David Muther & Cyrill Lim

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