KOMED 1 - Konzertmeditation

In the organizer's words:

ConcertMeditation

KOMED 1

Anne Krickeberg
Michael Gees Curation, moderation and piano

Getting to know Anne Krickeberg means always being amazed at what she can do. Since we met for the first time, every time I've heard her again has been a discovery. Most recently, at the Consol Theater in Gelsenkirchen, I had the opportunity to admire how easily and willingly she extracts a musical quality from a seemingly arbitrarily produced sound and finds a deliberate refinement. A musician who is completely interested in refinement, a fine musician in the truest sense of the word, with whom collaboration produces and means a quiet, always precious fabric of privileged partnership

KOMED is a format for the collaborative spontaneous invention of contemporary music. In the text, in the noise, in the moment, we listen to sounds, put them under the magnifying glass of attention (meditation) and form connections.

For the duration of an hour or so, we undertake to do something together, to remain in relationship and to allow ourselves to be guided by the idea we have recognized together. Every acoustic event counts and contributes to the whole. The unexpected can occur at any time and challenge us to integrate. Ideally, and not so rarely, we discover music that none of us would have thought of on our own. Those present increasingly experience themselves and each other as participants: Without them and their intentional listening, nothing would have been heard. For who would want to bear witness to the present if not those who are present?

"Meet the Artists" after each concert.