Hartmut Arweiler and Meltem Nil
In welche Elemente lässt sich die Beziehung zwischen Musiker und Performer in der Improvisation zerlegen?
Wer führt, wer folgt? Kann der Musiker die Bewegung der Performers lenken? Kann der Performer zum Musiker werden?
Wie teilen sie beide den Raum, auch den akustischen. Was trennt sie, was verbindet sie?
Stille und Minimalismus, Eintauchen und Kontrollverlust, vertraute Klänge und unvertrautes Geräusch. Und am Ende ist alles Teil einer Geschichte.
What elements define the relationship between musician and performer in an improvisation? Who is leading, who is following?
Can the musician direct the performer`s movement? Can the performer become a musician? How do they share space, also the acustic space?
What connects them, what separates them?
Silence and minimalism, letting oneself go and losing contol, familiar sounds and non-familiar noises. And in the end it is all part of a story.
In welche Elemente lässt sich die Beziehung zwischen Musiker und Performer in der Improvisation zerlegen?
Wer führt, wer folgt? Kann der Musiker die Bewegung der Performers lenken? Kann der Performer zum Musiker werden?
Wie teilen sie beide den Raum, auch den akustischen. Was trennt sie, was verbindet sie?
Stille und Minimalismus, Eintauchen und Kontrollverlust, vertraute Klänge und unvertrautes Geräusch. Und am Ende ist alles Teil einer Geschichte.
What elements define the relationship between musician and performer in an improvisation? Who is leading, who is following?
Can the musician direct the performer`s movement? Can the performer become a musician? How do they share space, also the acustic space?
What connects them, what separates them?
Silence and minimalism, letting oneself go and losing contol, familiar sounds and non-familiar noises. And in the end it is all part of a story.
Photos by Tivadar Nemesi
Efa Hoffmann and Meltem Nil
met at a workshop in November 2018. Since then they have improvised together and started to perform as a duo in January 2020.
Efa´s background is classical music, with the strong desire now to use her skills to go beyond genres and conventional concert
situations. She improvises on the piano and with her voice. Her style is a very creative mixture of melodies in the tonal and atonal system with percussive elements as well. Her voice generates a strong additional colour.
met at a workshop in November 2018. Since then they have improvised together and started to perform as a duo in January 2020.
Efa´s background is classical music, with the strong desire now to use her skills to go beyond genres and conventional concert
situations. She improvises on the piano and with her voice. Her style is a very creative mixture of melodies in the tonal and atonal system with percussive elements as well. Her voice generates a strong additional colour.
Photos: Marcel Mayr & Tivadar Nemesi
Meltem has been improvising for over ten years as a soloist, also in duo and trio formats. Since two years she has been very interested in cooperating with musicians. Her main skill is to combine dance, gesture, voice, song, words and text as equal levels of elements to create a dynamic "tableau" .
With Efa´s music she finds an additional layer to mingle with. Her approach to Efa´s music can be heard as an intervention through strong voice contrasts or as harmonic and lucid layers on the music. But also the subtle changes between harmonizing musically and slight dis-harmonic shifts in the music are a thrilling field of research for Efa and Meltem.
Through movement and gesture Meltem creates scenes and sees herself in the "film" setting of the music. For Meltem space is not only the stage location, but also the space that the music creates. This is where the imaginative energy comes from.
Efa´s music creates space in which the moving performer generates her own emotional story. The movements can be
beyond every day movements as they are "abstract", at the same time gestures are parts of the movements, too. They make
characters appear. And gestures themselves trigger emotional situations in dialogue with the music.
Their duo is also an encounter of two different worlds. So the solo elements in their duo are a reference to the parallelism in existence and the random of encounter.
The texts they both create add another layer of space , the reflection space. The improvised texts are absurd and still very true as through word play a new kind of logic connected to our everyday lives appear. Then Meltem´s movement and gesture language adds to the very true absurd: the very true, musical and emotional, exciting and existential and touching absurd.
With Efa´s music she finds an additional layer to mingle with. Her approach to Efa´s music can be heard as an intervention through strong voice contrasts or as harmonic and lucid layers on the music. But also the subtle changes between harmonizing musically and slight dis-harmonic shifts in the music are a thrilling field of research for Efa and Meltem.
Through movement and gesture Meltem creates scenes and sees herself in the "film" setting of the music. For Meltem space is not only the stage location, but also the space that the music creates. This is where the imaginative energy comes from.
Efa´s music creates space in which the moving performer generates her own emotional story. The movements can be
beyond every day movements as they are "abstract", at the same time gestures are parts of the movements, too. They make
characters appear. And gestures themselves trigger emotional situations in dialogue with the music.
Their duo is also an encounter of two different worlds. So the solo elements in their duo are a reference to the parallelism in existence and the random of encounter.
The texts they both create add another layer of space , the reflection space. The improvised texts are absurd and still very true as through word play a new kind of logic connected to our everyday lives appear. Then Meltem´s movement and gesture language adds to the very true absurd: the very true, musical and emotional, exciting and existential and touching absurd.
The Orchestra Project was one of my favourite past projects!
I was very happy about the project with Ute Kabisch and the Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg with a concert on 01 July 2017
in Reithalle at Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne Ludwigsburg. Together we worked on the presentation of this concert which was also a part of the
Jeunesses Musicales Competition. Ute Kabisch has been the director of the Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg since 2006.
All the members of the orchestra as well as the audience enjoyed a fine and thrilling concert. I was responsible for the performance parts and the choreography.
Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg
Loser oder Superstar; Einsortiert – akzeptiert – ausrangiert???
Das JSO-Orchesterbattle
Konzerttermin: 1. Juli 2017, 11 Uhr, Reithalle im Kunstzentrum, Karlskaserne
Ich habe mich sehr über die Zusammenarbeit mit Ute Kabisch und dem Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg gefreut. Das Ergebnis wurde
am 01. Juli in der Reithalle in Ludwigsburg gezeigt: ein Konzert im Rahmen des Jeunesses Musicales Wettbewerbs.
Wir haben gemeinsam die Aufführung inszeniert. Ute Kabisch ist seit 2006 die Leiterin des Jugensinfonieorchesters und ist somit für die
musikalische Darbietung zuständig. Ich habe das Projekt im Bereich des Performativen als szenische Gestalterin und Choreografin unterstützt. Uns ist eine sehr spannende und feine Inszenierung gelungen, die den Orchestermitgliedern große Freude bereitet hat und das Publikum
war überrascht, überwältigt und gerührt von der Darbietung. Ein sehr erfolgreiches und erfüllendes Projekt für mich.
Performance Teaching Project at Versfest Berlin a project of the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin on 20 and 21 March 2017
http://www.literaturfestival.com/kjl/versfestberlin
Beim Versfest Berlin treffen internationale Dichter auf Schulklassen in Berlin. Eine wunderbare Begegnung, die Fiona Kelly und ich mit einem zweitägigen Performance-Workshop unterstützt haben, unter dem Label "Literatur in Bewegung".
Wir haben mit Schüler*innen der Fichtelgebirge Grundschule in Kreuzberg zusammen Gedichte aus dem Gedichtband "Mein Hurra für dich" von Edward van den Vendel performativ umgesetzt. Der Autor war auch persönlich am Ende des Workshops anwesend.
Es war eine sehr erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit dank der engagierten Teilnahme aller Beteiligten.
At the Versfest Berlin Festival children have the opportunity to meet internationally reknown poets and to get to know their work. I had the great pleasure to support this encounter with a two-day performance workshop with children from the Fichtelgebirge Grundschule in Kreuzberg. I was happy to do this work together with Fiona Kelly. We transformed poems from the book "Mein Hurra für dich" by Edward van den Vendel into physical theater with the children. The poet himself was also present at the end of the workshop. This was a very succesful project thanks to the very dedicated work of all participants.
I was very happy about the project with Ute Kabisch and the Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg with a concert on 01 July 2017
in Reithalle at Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne Ludwigsburg. Together we worked on the presentation of this concert which was also a part of the
Jeunesses Musicales Competition. Ute Kabisch has been the director of the Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg since 2006.
All the members of the orchestra as well as the audience enjoyed a fine and thrilling concert. I was responsible for the performance parts and the choreography.
Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg
Loser oder Superstar; Einsortiert – akzeptiert – ausrangiert???
Das JSO-Orchesterbattle
Konzerttermin: 1. Juli 2017, 11 Uhr, Reithalle im Kunstzentrum, Karlskaserne
Ich habe mich sehr über die Zusammenarbeit mit Ute Kabisch und dem Jugendsinfonieorchester Ludwigsburg gefreut. Das Ergebnis wurde
am 01. Juli in der Reithalle in Ludwigsburg gezeigt: ein Konzert im Rahmen des Jeunesses Musicales Wettbewerbs.
Wir haben gemeinsam die Aufführung inszeniert. Ute Kabisch ist seit 2006 die Leiterin des Jugensinfonieorchesters und ist somit für die
musikalische Darbietung zuständig. Ich habe das Projekt im Bereich des Performativen als szenische Gestalterin und Choreografin unterstützt. Uns ist eine sehr spannende und feine Inszenierung gelungen, die den Orchestermitgliedern große Freude bereitet hat und das Publikum
war überrascht, überwältigt und gerührt von der Darbietung. Ein sehr erfolgreiches und erfüllendes Projekt für mich.
Performance Teaching Project at Versfest Berlin a project of the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin on 20 and 21 March 2017
http://www.literaturfestival.com/kjl/versfestberlin
Beim Versfest Berlin treffen internationale Dichter auf Schulklassen in Berlin. Eine wunderbare Begegnung, die Fiona Kelly und ich mit einem zweitägigen Performance-Workshop unterstützt haben, unter dem Label "Literatur in Bewegung".
Wir haben mit Schüler*innen der Fichtelgebirge Grundschule in Kreuzberg zusammen Gedichte aus dem Gedichtband "Mein Hurra für dich" von Edward van den Vendel performativ umgesetzt. Der Autor war auch persönlich am Ende des Workshops anwesend.
Es war eine sehr erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit dank der engagierten Teilnahme aller Beteiligten.
At the Versfest Berlin Festival children have the opportunity to meet internationally reknown poets and to get to know their work. I had the great pleasure to support this encounter with a two-day performance workshop with children from the Fichtelgebirge Grundschule in Kreuzberg. I was happy to do this work together with Fiona Kelly. We transformed poems from the book "Mein Hurra für dich" by Edward van den Vendel into physical theater with the children. The poet himself was also present at the end of the workshop. This was a very succesful project thanks to the very dedicated work of all participants.
