Music for Strings • Ryoji Ikeda / Ensemble Modern

In the organizer's words:

Music for Strings
Ryoji Ikeda / Ensemble Modern
concert

Wed 04.06. / 19:30

Herrenhausen Gallery, Herrenhäuser Straße 3a, 30419 Hanover

"Ryoji Ikeda unplugged" could be the title of this extraordinary concert, which will enchant you with its radical simplicity and aesthetic beauty. The Japanese musician and visual artist, who is considered an exceptional phenomenon in the international art world, has become a world star with his kaleidoscopic sound sculptures, in which electronics and new technologies play leading roles.

With mathematical precision, he artfully orchestrated sound, images, materials and physical phenomena into mostly gigantic performances and installations. Now he is venturing into radically new territory: a composition for nine purely acoustically played string instruments. He simply calls it Music for Strings.

Ryoji Ikeda, who has never trained as a composer, says that he had to get artistically naked in order to take on this enormous challenge. The result is works of minimalist elegance and sophistication that resonate long after they have passed.

They are like a sonic cleansing process for our senses and, in the baroque gallery with its unique acoustics, become a rarely experienced artistic pleasure. Ikeda creates a ritual experience in which sound, space and stage events merge. The works will be performed by Ensemble Modern, for whom Ryoji Ikeda wrote the works in 2023.

Program

Ryoji Ikeda
MIRROR one for two (2020-23)
I for 2 Violins
II for 2 Violins
III for 2 Violas

PRISM for string nonet (2023)

REFLECTION for string nonet (2022/23)

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More info: https://kunstfestspiele.de/strings

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Access to the gallery is barrier-free. Tickets for wheelchair-accessible seating and accompaniment are available at HAZ & NP advance booking offices.

Price information:

21 / 33 / 44 euros, concessions from 10.50 euros (plus fees)