Mi, 09.07.2025, 20:00 Uhr
Cinéma Sonore @ Hörbar
The concert series Cinéma sonore brings to life acclaimed works of the silent film era together with live experimental scores, not as a nostalgic retrospective but rather as a contemporary audiovisual experience. This time: Dementia (1955, dir. John Parker), an expressionist horror noir following the surreal cityscape fever-dream of a young woman wandering through foggy alleys, jazz clubs, and shadowy hotel rooms while haunted by fragments of twisted memories and madness. A nightmarish trip eerily ahead of its time. Naama Freedman Naama Freedman is a Hamburg based artist, musician, and performer whose work spans sound, video, and installation. In her performances, she interweaves music and text to create thought provoking experiences. Her art seeks to explore the darker sides of human nature while providing a space for deep reflection. Naama has collaborated and released music with various projects and is an established DJ. She is the founder and curator of Cinéma sonore. Our Past Microtonal Love (O.P.M.L.) Opml is an electroacoustic duo based in Cologne, Germany. This project is composed of Maria Isolina Cozzani on violin and Matteo Traverso on modular synthesizer. Together, their work spans a wide range of artistic expressions, such as site-based and site-specific installations, audiovisual performances, and free or guided improvisation. Their artistic proposition has led them to perform in numerous European contexts, to name a few: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa; Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan; MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival, Matera; de Thomas, Amsterdam; the Grey Space, The Hague; The recurring musical elements are microtonality, also understood as simple combinations of frequencies that go beyond the tonal and tempered experience, and memory as a continuous overlay and re-proposal of elements and gestures that shun a logical and linear consequence to embrace a more fragmented and reassembled in scattered order, a typical form of the time that inhabits memory. The experience Opml aims to induce is that of immersing themselves, and with them the audience, in an exploratory experience of sound journey through unknown sonic territories. Improvisation for them is a vehicle for the unknown, the possibility of continuously challenging language to reach new dimensions and understandings of sound perception. Jan Wegmann Jan Wegmann (*1992 in Stuttgart) is a multimedia artist, composer and performer from Hamburg. Their work focuses on small details, giving them space to unfold and showing overlaps and tensions between different materials. They create drifting structures of layers, sometimes abstract, sometimes ironic, but always combined with the goal of a holistic and concentrated result. Jan’s compositions often have a performative component, exploring the expressive power and presence of a person on a stage or in a performance context. To realize their work Jan combines various influences and skills and uses a multitude of resources, self-programmed software tools, hardware synthesizers, controllers or sensors. They use found material, sounds, videos, texts, or 3D/VR visuals and work together with other artists to create immersive atmospheres that fill the space and challenge the perception of the audience. https://wegmann.digital/
