"realtime-festival 2025" - Eröffnungskonzerte Teil I "SO UN SOLO" Mario Cortizo (Perkussion, Elektronik, Text)und Tei II "Nothing is real?" C. Birkholz (Klavier); M.Opperman (Worte

In the organizer's words:

SÓ UN SOLO

Mario Cortizo (esp.), percussion, electronics, lyrics

What makes up modern life? How many things actually accumulate in our everyday lives? And why do we put up with the noise of the world?

Mario Cortizo provides answers in his solo performance - in a funny, unusual and musical way. Everyday objects such as hairdryers, frying pans and irons become musical instruments in his hands and communicate with marimba and percussion.

But that's not all: Cortizo philosophizes about the chaos of our world, talks directly to the objects and takes the audience on a journey full of surprising insights and sounds.

The insights he comes to on stage and together with the audience are revealed after an exciting 45 minutes, for which the musician was awarded the Galician Music Prize in 2023.

Nothing is real?

Claudia Janet Birkholz, piano

N.N., video projection

Malte Oppermann, words

Works:

Jésus Torres: Semejante a la noche (2013)

Alvin Lucier: Nothing is real (Strawberry Fields Forever) 1990

Xiaosheng Zhao: Tai-Chi (1987)

Georg Friedrich Haas: A shadow play for piano and live electronics (2004)

How does the world appear to us? In how many spaces and dimensions do we perceive it?

In this piano concerto, pianist Claudia Janet Birkholz plays with the fictional and real landscapes that surround us all. Paired with the thoughts of philosopher Malte Oppermann, who is regarded as a young and exciting contemporary discovery, this concert is an experience that takes us into three different worlds - from the interior of a grand piano to deep into the world of thought.

Oppermann poses the questions that we are all concerned with: What is real? And what if everything is just an illusion?

Price information:

Normal price 40 € Reduced price: 20 €