FWD -: Newsletter 01/25 [Ute Wassermann]

Newsletter 05/25 Liebe Freund*innen und Kolleg*innen, ich freue mich, Euch über meine Konzerte in Berlin bei MaerzMusik und Forecast Festival zu informieren. Herzliche Grüße, Ute   Dear friends and colleagues,   I am pleased to inform you about my  concerts at MaerzMusik  and Forecast Festival in Berlin. Best wishes, Ute   Forecast Festival   March 14-15 2025  Radialsystem, Berlin I am thrilled to be part of the mentor team of Forecast Platform this year. On March 15 my mentee Camil Navarro will show her durational piece: ecological assemblage. The festival will be closed later in the evening by my solo performance for voice + objects. Following a monthslong collaboration with their mentors, six creative practitioners unveil their productions at Radialsystem, Berlin. The mentors will also present their own work, offering insights into the topics that inspire and move them. Experience performances, installations, screenings, and talks by this edition's participants! With mentors Theo Eshetu, Tomer Heymann, Fiona Raby, Alice Rippol, Lieko Shiga, Ute Wassermann and mentees Mehdi Dahkan, Mei Liu, Camil Navarro, Trà Nguyễn, Johanna Seelemann, Hao Zhou. The Art of Camouflage / The Urban Tale of a Hippo  MaerzMusik March 24  2025 17:00 / 20:00  Sophiensaele Berlin Ariane Jeßulat – voice, brass megaphone, speaker Christian Kesten – voice, brass megaphone, speaker Milo Tamez – percussion, objects, planktonia Fernando Vigueras Sánchez – acoustic guitar, objects, planktonia Ute Wassermann – voice, bird whistles, objects, planktonia, field recordings Felix Blume –  field recordings I am hugely looking forward to presenting the world premiere of my concert performance The Art of Camouflage which has been commissioned by MaerzMusik Festival. In “The Art of Camouflage” all the participants are interlinked in generating a speculative habitat. Between each other they play a game of disguise, intermingling and transformation in which the performers interact with the resonances emitted by water-filled aquaria that glow a noxious green or use mini loudspeakers and brass megaphones – an object of nautical origin – to produce mutations between human and amphibian voices. Do they retain their own identity, or do they become something “other”? The boundary between self and surroundings becomes fluid, and ultimately an illusion behind which a complex and elusive reality appears. In the process binarities such as animal/human, object/person, and nature/technology are overthrown in favour of intertwined relationships based on reciprocity. This evening’s programme brings wildlife to the stage while dismantling divisions in a hybrid genre: In Ute Wassermann’s “The Art of Camouflage”, performative musical instruments create an environment that allows the different artistic practices of the performers to unfold. The concert performance is followed by “The Urban Tale of a Hippo” whose multidimensional atmosphere is soundtracked by Synaesthesis.   Querklang   MaerzMusik Festival   March 24 - 26 2025 This year I enjoyed being part of the Querklang Team. Please join us for the shows! QuerKlang creates world premieres of collective compositions by pupils at Berlin schools. For the second edition of the pilot project QuerKlang+, in addition to the artistic disciplines of music, theatre and visual arts, the field of dance will now be added to the 21 years of expertise within the programme and the UNESCO model project “QuerKlang – Experimental Composing at Schools”. Looking back: Asfourieh  performs revisitations March 2  2025  Ny Musikk, Scenehuset, Oslo Asfourieh: Mazen Kerbaj - trumpet, electronic, objects Ute Wassermann -  voice, electronics, objects Blurring composition and improvisation, and using our voices, instruments, objects and electronics, our piece revisits Halim al Dabh’s musical world as well as our own duo practice. revisitations has been commissioned by Savvy Contemporary and MaerzMusik Festival in 2021 Copyright © *|2018|* *|Ute Wassermann|*, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: ute@birdtalking.de Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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