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BIRD or FEATHER

an audiovisual concert with piano, drawing, and projection

One should be light like a bird and not like a feather. (Paul Valéry) 

Lightness is not a deficiency but a virtue that goes hand in hand with precision, determination, and an attentive perception of reality - according to the writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985).

 

Following this idea, this concert programme combines live piano music with drawing, video projection, and improvisation.

Visual art and music are equally involved here:

Time flows between the various audio-visual impressions that merge into one another, creating a unique, open-ended experience that invites the audience to make free associations. 

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The artists Katharina Huber and Anna Lytton, during the audiovisual concerrt at Lehmbruck Museum, 11.10.2022. ©Michael Zerban

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The artists Katharina Huber and Anna Lytton, during the audiovisual concerrt at Lehmbruck Museum, 11.10.2022. ©Michael Zerban

Around the great figure of Claude Debussy, this music programme offers a possible connection between the composers of the 20th/21st centuries and the present.

 

"Music," said Debussy, “is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. It lives in the movement of water, in the wavy play of changing winds; There is nothing more musical than a sunset". 

In order to comprehend the complexity of the world, the mind must be able to free itself from constraints. 

And fly on lightly. 

 

Anna Lytton, Katharina Huber, Viktoriia Sviatiuk - drawing and projection 

Vittoria Quartararo - direction, concept and piano 

Carmen Lucía Rivadeneira - photo/video documentation 

Benjamin Marschner - audio recording 

Camilo Sandoval - light and technical assistance 

Supported by Kunststiftung NRW, GVL Neustart Kultur, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 

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