Mi, 05.11.2025, 20:00 Uhr

Hörbar: Helge Kaul / Yuri Akbalkan

Helge Kaul Being an artist on the experimental Swiss label EndTitles, Helge Kaul (aka Oblique Noir)is exploring musical crosstalks – between digital rigour and analogue aesthetics, between live performance and reproductive synthesis. Having a classical music background and a long-time experience with modular synthesizers and music electronics, he is strongly interested in the convergence of the groundbreaking and the well-tried. Yuri Akbalkan. 5.1.1:40 for five analogue monophonic tone generators, a stereo digital tone generator, and video This is a new 40-minute version of a composition originally created by Yuri Akbalkan (yuriakbalkan) to be performed on the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg a decade ago. Additional versions lasting 23 and 70 minutes, with and without video, also exist. 5.1.1 represents a signal-type structure comprising five analogue signals and a stereo pair of digital signals. In addition to the sound score, there is also a separate score for the visual component and its implementation. The visual component is reduced to a homogeneous texture-frame interspersed with brief video episodes lasting 3 to 8 seconds. Otherwise, a black screen with a running timer is displayed. This deliberate visual restraint—an intentional deprivation of visual stimuli—is designed to encourage a more nuanced and complex auditory perception. In the Hörbar, a version with the visual component will be performed. Original visual realisation by Elena Khurgina (elena_khurgina). [acoustic realisation] Alexander Iliashenko: tone generator 1 (mono) Hermann Pugin (_hermann_pugin_): tone generator 2 (mono) tba: tone generator 3 (mono) Yuri Akbalkan (yuriakbalkan): tone generator 4 (mono) tba: tone generator 5 (mono) Elena Khurgina (elena_khurgina): digital tone generator (stereo)