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Mountain & Maiden
Patrick Stadler (saxophone) and Małgorzata Walentynowicz (piano/keyboard/synthesizer) create an evening with solo pieces, electronics and video
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Mon 28 July 2025, 19.30
Lichtenbergschule (Turnhalle)
Steven Daverson: Simulacrum (2025)
Uraufführung / World Premiere
Huihui Cheng: Disrupted Reflection (2025)
Uraufführung / World Premiere
Elena Rykova: Amber Blackcurrant Time (2024)
Patrick Stadler (Saxofon / Saxophone)
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Georgia Koumará: Wolpertinger für Solo Synthesizer (2020)
Mountain & Maiden (DEU / USA / IND, 2019)
Ein Film von Shmuel Hoffman & Anton von Heiseler mit einer Komposition von Sarah Nemtsov für Keyboard solo (mit verstärktem Klavier und Stimme)
A film by Shmuel Hoffman & Anton von Heiseler
with a composition by Sarah Nemtsov for keyboard solo (with amplified piano and voice)
Małgorzata Walentynowicz (Klavier / Piano, Keyboard & Synthesizer)
How the sound of an instrument can be expanded through and with other media is not a banal question – but rather the result of constant research and openness to new and unknown solutions. Pianist Małgorzata Walentynowicz and saxophonist Patrick Stadler – both tutors at this year’s Darmstadt Summer Course – are absolute experts in this search for expansion.
Patrick Stadler regularly works with electronics, as in the three works in this concert: while Steven Daverson refers to current paintings by Johannes Tassilo Walter in Simulacrum and creates an equivalent methodical approach through the use of electronic resources, the electronics in Huihui Cheng’s Disrupted Reflection analyze, reflect and transform the saxophone sounds. Elena Rykova’s Amber Blackcurrant Time is a study in temporal suspension and sensory evocation, where layered textures evoke the emotional and perceptual ambiguities of recollection. With her two presented pieces, Małgorzata Walentynowicz literally uses a variety of different keyboards: In Mountain & Maiden by Sarah Nemtsov – a composition for the film by Shmuel Hoffman and Anton von Heiseler about the arduous life of a ten-year-old girl in New Delhi – it is the keyboard and amplified piano. For Georgia Koumará’s Wolpertinger, she resorts to a virtual Minimoog synthesizer, which crosses analog functions of the original instrument (oscillators, filters) with digital sound enhancements in the spirit of the eponymous enigmatic Bavarian mythical and hybrid creature.