August 2024
Redepausen in Haus der Geschichte Bonn
18. September 2024 – 26. Januar 2026
In der Ausstellung „Nach Hitler. Die deutsche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus“ beleuchtet die Ausstellung im Haus der Geschichte Bonn die unterschiedlichen Blicke der Generationen auf die nationalsozialistische Herrschaft.
Teil der Ausstellung ist die Installation „Redepausen„
news August – November 2024
Aufführungen von HIERGEWESEN im Mausoleum Dessau am 24. und 30., 31.8., sowie 1.9.24
Dozent und Tonmeister beim John-Cage-Award Halberstadt 16. bis 25.8.24
Bauhaus Music: Musikfestival zum Thema Freiheit Samstag, 19. Oktober 2024
15–17 Uhr: Moderiertes Konzert „Stefan Wolpe im Porträt“ – Kostenfrei, mit Anmeldung
18:30–20 Uhr: Konzert mit Stücken von Kurt Schwitters, Arnold Schönberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger
April 2023
Des goûts et des couleurs Brussels
La Tricoterie‘ built a new, very nice and intimate concert hall for chamber music , ‚le boudoir‘.
They asked for a new program for their first season.
So we continued dangerously mixing old and new music,
‚using the unknown to make the known unknown‘ John Cage
We also asked the designer of ‚le boudoir‘ – architect, engineer, composer, violinist – Jeannot Gilis to play with us in a few pieces.
The program encompasses a wide range of musical styles, from songs to classical lieder to contemporary music. The spotlight will shift between the voice and the piano throughout the performance. What makes this concert special is that the pieces will transition seamlessly into each other, creating an unusual musical flow:
Des goûts et des couleurs
We cordially invite you to join us for a wonderful evening.
Date: Friday, April 21st, 2023
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Tricoterie Brussels, Belgium
Admission: 19,- / 12,-
https://www.tricoterie.be/fr/agenda/l-agenda-culturel/concerts/des-gouts-et-des-couleurs?id_evenement=5026&lang=fr
Dezember 2021
Frankfurt and Nazism -exhibition 2021-2023
The video-installation „Redepausen“ is currenty presented in the context of a long-term exhibition in Frankfurt Museum.
75 years after the liberation of the city by US troops, National Socialism and its aftermath are more topical than ever. This is shown by radical right-wing attacks, parties and propaganda. For the first time, the HMF is presenting an overall view of this eventful and momen- tous period, including its pre- and post-history, in the form of three exhibitions and a richly illustrated accompanying book. It is of interest to all who are concerned with memory culture. (Text copied from Museum´s flyer)
https://historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/frankfurt-und-der-ns
Morton-Feldman-Projekt Hamburg
Live dance performance and concert
Sabine Glenz & Ensemble Resonanz in cooperation with the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg: Morton Feldman Projekt
Idea, concept, artistic direction: Sabine Glenz
Dramaturg: Matthias Quabbe
Music: String Quartet No. 2 by Morton Feldman, 1983 (Duration: 5 h)
Live interpretation: String Quartet of Ensemble Resonanz
Dance: Viktor Braun, Jonathan Bringert, Marcelo Doño, Sara Ezzell, Clàudia Ferrando, Angela Kecinski, Fernanda Ortiz, Larissa Protapov
360° Camera: Franz Kastner
Film „Color Fields“ (5 h): Franz Kastner, Alejandro Valbuena
Production management: Levin Handschuh
Voice training and group work in the development process: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
November 2021
Interview Theaterfreunde
Theaterbegegnungen
Jutta Moster-Hoos in conversation with Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson about the making of the recordings for the ballet „Die Kunst der Fuge“.
Exerzierhalle 29.11.2021 19h
Mai 2021
Sound and Silence Art Museum Bonn
Sound and Silence
The Sound of Silence in Contemporary Art May 27 – Sept. 5, 2021.
The exhibition Sound and Silence is dedicated to the theme of silence and stillness in the field of contemporary visual art. The presentation is realized in view of the anniversary of the 250th birthday of Ludwig von Beethoven and takes the progressive process of his deafness as a starting point for the fundamental question of the relationship between sound and silence, the productive and at the same time destructive power of silence and the impossibility of complete silence.
Concept Sigrid Sigurdsson; artistic design: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson: Redepausen.
Juni 2019
The art of fugue
Choreography by Antoine Jully – world premiere
Musical arrangement and voice: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
In his dance performance, Antoine Jully explores the entire field of geometric-architectural possibilities inherent in the composition with his language of movement. In doing so, he wants to transfer the ideas and approaches of Johann Sebastian Bach – with the greatest respect for his composition – into his own version, which will be especially dedicated to the rhythms laid out in the fugues. His musical partner will be the Oldenburg singer and vocal artist Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson, who plays with the tonal spectrum of Bach’s composition and has also made recordings with the Ventapane Quartet of the Oldenburg State Theater, as well as the Oldenburg cantor and organist of St. Lamberti Church, Tobias Götting.
cast
Choreography and costumes: Antoine Jully
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, ‚The Art of Fugue‘ BWV 1080
Musical arrangement and voice: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
Stage: Georgios Kolios, Antoine Jully
Lighting: Sofie Thyssen, Phillip Sonnhoff, Antoine Jully
Video: Georgios Kolios
Dramaturgy: Telse Hahmann
With: Laura Cristea/ Adi Hanan/ Maelenn Le Dorze/ Nicol Omezzolli/ Caetana Silva Dias/ Teele Ude/ Francesco Fasano/ Lester René González Álvarez/ Oliver Jones/ Herick Moreira/ Gianluca Sermattei
Musical partners:
Tobias Götting, organ
Ventapane Quartet: Lev Gelbard, Birgit Rabbels, Christoph Rabbels, André Saad
Christoph Ogiermann, piano improvisation
Photo: © Stephan Walzl
Date: June 15, 2019
Composition: Johann Sebastian Bach
Production: Oldenburg State Theater, Ballet
Location: Oldenburg State Theater, Oldenburg
November 2016
Recording Workshop Sylvia Massy
Sylvia Massy has recently published her book „Recording Unhinged„. In it she describes her unusual recording methods and her interesting encounters with various stars of the music world.
In November, I had the opportunity with a small group to observe Sylvia at work and ask her all sorts of questions along the way.
Article about the recording workshop.
The workshop took place at Röhrsdorf Castle near Dresden in the Castle Studios.
Cover image: (c)Illustration by Sylvia Massy
Mai 2016
Redepausen in Hamburg
The work Redepausen (speech breaks) by Sigrid Sigurdsson and Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson is currently part of the exhibition “ …und eine welt noch“ at the Kunsthaus Hamburg. This takes the work of the artist Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009) as a starting point to consider the topicality and relevance of her work from the perspective of a younger international generation of artists from today’s perspective.
The work speech breaks in detail.
See Kunsthaus Hamburg and article taz.