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2022 Ausgerenkte Kräfte / Forces Disloquées

GingerEnsemble feat. Peter Streiff

Tour Autumn 2022

With their programme “Ausgerenkte Krafte – Forces disloquées” (Dislocated Forces), the GingerEnsemble and composer Peter Streiff create a balancing act between subtle environmental sounds, physical presence and quirky electronics. 
With this undertaking, the ensemble expands the boundaries of conventional performance formats with a mixture of concert, performance and installation. 
The title “Dislocated Forces” is taken from Kurt Schwitters’ 1920 painting “Ausgerenkte Kräfte (Merz-Bild)”, an assemblage of wood, metal pen, fabric, paper and oil on cardboard, held together by a frame of roof battens, which represents the beginning of an epoch that also marks the emergence of performance art and experimental music.
For the 2022 autumn tour, the GingerEnsemble is going on a release tour, of Peter Streiff^s book publication “Musical Concepts, 1968 – 2019”
The GingerEnsemble has commissioned a composition from their guest composer. In addition, five new compositions are created by the ensemble members themselves.
An essential feature of the productions is the juxtaposition of works from different generations, as they are already represented in the GingerEnsemble.

Tour

27 October 2022 7 pm La Voirie Brunngasse 1 2502 Biel / Bienne

29 October 2022 7 pm Prozess Bahnstrasse 44 3008 Bern

30 October 2022 7 pm Kunstraum Walcheturm Kanonengasse 20 8004 Zurich
6.30 pm Introduction : Valerian Maly

04 November 2022 8 pm Museum Tinguely Paul Sacher – Anlage 2 4002 Basel
7.30 pm Introduction : Valerian Maly

06 November 2022 6 pm Centre de Culture ABC Rue du Coq 11 2300 La Chaux – de -Fonds

07 February 2023 7 pm Theater Pavillon Spelteriniweg 6 6005 Lucerne
Double concert with the trio SÆITENWIND

 

 

Photos © Markus Goessi

2021 Quinte - Les Toux Virtuelles

The GingerEnsemble performs at the HASARD3

Live-Stream Festival in Fribourg (CH):

In countless meetings in virtual space, in “streamed” culture and disembodied society, we suddenly become aware of the limits of digital tools. Personal, social discourse cannot simply be digitally replicated without transformation.
In search of the unmediated aesthetics of digital tools, the GingerEnsemble is developing a series of short performative pieces that playfully engage with the use of contemporary digital communication media such as smartphones, computers, laptops and related software.
These “virtual coughs” are created in the interplay between physical presence and digital gathering, between artificial intelligence and natural stupidity, and between planned acumen and unasked-for network interference.

Video and Stills © GingerEnsemble

2020 SteinKlangOrt

Thursday 3.9.2020, 4 p.m., Nydeggkirche
Saturday 5.9.2020, 10.30 a.m., Stadttheater, Foyer
Vast quantities of stones have been built in Bern – but where do they come from? From which regions, which geological layers? Musicians will go on an expedition to the Bernese Alps, collect rocks in the landscape and – back in Bern – transform them into sound instruments. They will play the text composition “Stones” by the American Christian Wolff, a pioneering piece of conceptual music – in the places where the collected stones were built.

Programme
ChristianWolff (*1934):
“Stones” (1968)
“Play” (1968)

Cast
PeterStreiff, Idea / Organisation
Jürg Meyer, geology / mediation / advice

GingerEnsemble: Valerian Maly, Klara Schilliger, LaraStanic, as guests Ludwig Berger and Peter Streiff

Photos © Alberto Napoli

Audio © Musikfestival Bern

2017 Irrton - Irrtonale Musik

Irrton – Irrtonale MusikGingerEnsemble Bern & guest-composers David Behrman & Peter Färber
At the Grossmünster Zurich and at the church St. Peter and Paul Bern

Performances:
6.9.2017 Sha’a Smanit, ringing according to halachic time.
8.9.2017 Church of St. Peter and Paul Bern, 5.30 p.m.
11.9. 2017 Grossmünster Zurich, 5.00 p.m.

An event of the GingerEnsemble and Musikfestival Bern in cooperation with the parish of St. Peter and Paul.

Supported by the UBS Cultural Foundation and the Foundation Pro Scientia et Art

Foto: © Philipp Zinniker

2022 © GingerEnsemble

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2014 Dampfzentrale Bern

13 March 2014
Concert at the Dampfzentrale in Bern with guests Hans Koch and Hans W. Koch.

Their new programme, which will be performed for the first time at the Dampfzentrale on 13 March, features experimental music in “historical performance practice” as well as new creations.

The second part is taken up by two gentlemen with quite ordinary names, but who always move along unusual paths: Hans W. Koch from Cologne and Hans Koch from Biel meet for the first time on the stage of the Dampfzentrale for a “tryst”, a “rendezvous” or even a “date” with unpredictable data streams.

The IGNM evening will be rounded off in the third part with a commissioned composition by Hans W. Koch for the GingerEnsemble and the woodwind player Hans Koch from Biel.

http://www.ignm-bern.ch
http://www.dampfzentrale.ch

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2013 Culturescapes Balkan

13 November 2013

Concert at Gare du Nord Basel with guest Miroslav Miša Savic

2013 Zwei Tage Strom

Festival for electronic music

Frickling, thundering, groaning and roaring music from the electronic universe between academically influenced electronic music and a post-techno terrain that is differentiated to the point of unmanageability is presented by the festival 2 Tage Strom at the Kunsthalle Zürich and EXIL.

Fotos & Video ©  Sanja Latinović

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2013 Spring Tour

For its spring 2013 tour, the GingerEnsemble invites the Serbian composer/performer Miroslav Miša Savić as artist-in-residence. Born in Belgrade in 1954, Mirsolav Misa Savić belongs to the generation of artists who were born in the former Yugoslavia, especially in the legendary SKC (StudenskiKulturni Centar) gallery.

Fotos & Video ©  GingerEnsemble

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2013 SLUŠAJ SAVAMALA!

is a sound art project that incubates the Belgrade district of Savamala with sounds from Savamala: The GingerEnsemble – in cooperation with Miroslav Savić and guests – embarks on a kind of journey of discovery “with pricked ears”. The Savamala district will be subjected to a forensic sound-tracing. Specific sounds will be collected, transformed, released again in Savamala in several interlocking composition processes in the incubator created on site – a media lab set up for a limited period of time – to form a simultaneously proliferating sound event lasting several months.

The radio format lends itself to the sound art project SLUŠAJ SAVAMALA!
With participants of the workshop “Radimo Radio” (We make radio), the art radio “Radio Savamala” is founded, in which transmitters and antennas are built, receivers are soldered with hot fingers and a lot is learned about recording/editing and content/editorial work. Thanks to special permission from the state agency for frequency allocation RRA, the neighbourhood will be completely covered. “Radio Savamala” will be established in the course of the project by means of public interventions, such as “public listenings”. This will not be a conventional format radio or a continuous broadcasting time, but the station will broadcast in an actionistic, stage-like manner with pre-announced events.

“Radio Savamala” is operated both on an analogue basis and as an internet radio station. The editorial and technical responsibility lies with the GingerEnsemble (CH), which works together with regional artists. The main editor and mascot will be “Mačka Savamala” – a harbour cat equipped with a microphone transmitter.

More information: www.savamala.rs


Videos: Nebojsa Vasic © Goethe-Institut
Photos: Nebojsa Vasic © Goethe-Institut & GingerEnsemble & Martin Bezzola
“Slušaj Savamala” is part of URBAN INCUBATOR: BELGRADE – a project of the Goethe-Institutand is supported by the Swiss Embassy in Serbia.

Fotos & Video ©  Ginger Ensemble

2012 Martinsberg II For Ann

For Ann – Promenade Architecturale is a four-part event for electronically generated sounds, choir, amplified plant sounds, dance and performance. Ascending and descending sounds and bodies walk across spatially and musically staged staircases.
The ‘nuclei’ of the 70-minute promenade are the pieces For Ann by James Tenney and 4’33” by John Cage. For Ann from 1969 is based on the Shepard scale, the musical illusion of an infinitely rising or falling scale.
or descending scale – here in an adaptation by the Ginger Ensemble for choir. 4’33” is a musical tacet, the silence piece from 1952, the year the Martinsberg house was built.

In collaboration with Dorothea Rust and Ivan Wolfe (dance), Birgit Kempker (libretto) and the vocal ensemble Vocalino Wettingen conducted by Daniel Pérez.

Fotos © Christian Glaus

Audio recording Roman Lerch

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2012 ĐUMBIR Monument GingerSociety Beograd

The next monumental sculpture planned by Valerian Maly and Klara Schilliger is being created in Belgrade.
In cooperation with the artists’ cooperative “Treci Beograd”, the GingerEnsemble and volunteers from the population, an oversized ginger is being built in public space.
Treci Beograd: Monument GingerSociety

To mark the occasion, the GingerEnsemble will be giving a workshop followed by a concert from 16 to 20 April 2012
 at the REX Cultural Center in Belgrade.

Fotos ©  Sanja Latinović und Ranko Đanković

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2011 RäumesindTräume

A concert in the framework of
RäumesindTräume
Interspace for SoundImageWord
a utopian moment between arts, generations and regions

RäumesindTräume is curated by Roland Dahinden and Hildegard Kleeb

Fotos/Videostills & Video © Raphael Zürcher

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2010 Kunstmuseum Thun

The GingerEnsemble will perform non-hierarchical compositions for the first time in Thun in 2010, founded on the occasion of the installAction “Monument GingerSociety Thun”, in front of which the concert will also take place. The monument – a giant ginger made of papier-mâché that stands as a metaphor for rhizomatic knowledge models – forms the spatial and thematic template for the programme of “non-hierarchical compositions”. In this way, the GingerEnsemble enters the field of tension of contradictions with an alert mind and great joy. A programme of non-hierarchical compositions is a lofty claim for what is actually a utopian undertaking. As a rule, clear hierarchies apply in music, although the hierarchical sequence of composer – performer – listener can also mutate quite dazzlingly.Since the collapse of aesthetic conventions at the beginning of the twentieth century and as a result of the art movements that emerged from it, such as Futurism, Dadaism and experimental music, in the early 1960s artists came together in an action art that saw itself as a processual, “flowing” sound event: Fluxus! In the interplay of music, theatre and visual art, the boundaries between the arts were to be dissolved. Authorship continued to play a role, but the artists resisted any appropriation; even copyrights were declared unsuitable and inadequate. One trait that unites the works of the Fluxus artists is anarchistic humour: “Anyone who thinks Fluxus is something serious is mistaken. But anyone who claims that Fluxus is something unserious is equally mistaken. The unique thing about Fluxus is that it’s not in-between either…. Fluxus is everywhere at once. Its secret is: it doesn’t exist at all, but it exists.” (Al Hansen)

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