extended spaces – resonant bodies: alvin lucier – program Exhibitions, Concerts, Conference
11.9. – 22.9.2024
(please note: the program might still be subject to change)

Openings

Wednesday, 11.9.24, 18:00, Exhibition opening: CLB Berlin
Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz, Prinzenstraße 84.2 (Entrance Oranienstraße), 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Exhibition: 12. – 22.9.24, daily 14:00 – 20:00, free admission


Alvin Lucier + John David Fullemann »Solar Sounder I« – sound installation (European premiere)
Yutaka Makino »Confabulation« – sound installation (Premiere)
Hugo Esquinca »CONDICIÓN_0924« – sound installation / intervention (Premiere), daily 20:00-22:00
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Thursday, 12.9.24, 20:00, Opening concert: Parochialkirche
Klosterstraße 67, 10179 Berlin-Mitte, Tickets: 15 Euro, red. 10 Euro

Alvin Lucier »Music for Solo Performer« (Performer: David Behrman, Sound direction: Hauke Harder)
Alvin Lucier »Slices« – for cello and pre-recorded orchestra (Violoncello: Charles Curtis)
Robyn Schulkowsky »Dear Alvin« – for percussion and electronics with Robyn Schulkowsky & Joey Baron (Premiere)
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Exhibitions

Friday, 13.9.24, 18:00, Exhibition opening: Parochialkirche
Klosterstraße 67, 10179 Berlin-Mitte
Exhibition: 14. – 22.9.24, daily 14:00 – 20:00, free admission

Alvin Lucier »TWINS / Music on a Long Thin Wire« (Re-Installation from 1999, Realisation: Hauke Harder)
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Saturday, 14.9.2024, 17:00, Exhibition opening: Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Exhibition: 15. – 22.9.24, daily 14:00 – 20:00, free admission

Alvin Lucier »Sound on Paper« – sound installation
Alvin Lucier »Empty Vessels« – sound installation
Hauke Harder »Half 'n Half« – sound installation (Premiere)
Alvin Lucier »Directions of Sounds from the Bridge« – sound installation
Viola Rusche & Hauke Harder »NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS – The composer Alvin Lucier« (Film)
(Realisation sound installations Alvin Lucier: Hauke Harder)
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Concerts

Saturday, 14.9.24, Double concert: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1
Tickets: Concert 10 Euro, Double concert 18 Euro, red. 15 Euro
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Ever Present Orchestra & Guests:
19:30
Tashi Wada »Landslide« (Violoncello: Charles Curtis)
Alvin Lucier »Double Helix« – for four electric guitars with e-bows
21:00
Alvin Lucier »Ricochet Lady« – for solo glockenspiel (Glockenspiel: Trevor Saint)
Alvin Lucier »Arrigoni Bridge« – for violin, alto saxophone, cello and three electric guitars
Alvin Lucier »Semicircle« – adapted instrumentation for the Ever Present Orchestra
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Sunday, 15.9.24, Double concert: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1
Tickets: Concert 10 Euro, Double concert 18 Euro, red. 15 Euro
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Ever Present Orchestra & Guests:
19:30
Alberto de Campo + Hannes Hoelzl +Jiawen Wang + Anne Wellmer »Six Strange String Theories« (Premiere)
Alvin Lucier »Vespers« – for any number of players
21:00
Alvin Lucier »Two Circles« – adapted instrumentation for the Ever Present Orchestra
Alvin Lucier »Three Cardboard Boxes« – for violin, bowed glockenspiel, alto saxophone, double bass and two electric lap steel guitars
Alvin Lucier »Tilted Arc« – for four violins, four electric guitars, piano, three alto saxophones and solo bowed glockenspiel
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Friday, 20.9.24 Double concert: Emmauskirche Kreuzberg
Tickets: Concert 10 Euro, Double concert 18 Euro, red. 15 Euro
Lausitzer Platz 8a, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

19:30
»Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever)« – for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system (Performance: Ron Kuivila)
Hanna Hartman »wild carrot« – (Performance: Hanna Hartman, Premiere)
Nicolas Collins »Long Fetch« (Performers: Nina Guo, Voice; Birgit Ulher, Trumpet)
21:00
Alvin Lucier »Opera with Objects« – for performer with resonating objects (Performance: Robyn Schulkowsky)
Michael Moser »surface radical« – for violoncello, transducers and drums (Violoncello: Michael Moser, Premiere)
Alvin Lucier »Bird and Person Dyning« (Realisation: Hauke Harder)
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Saturday, 21.9.24, Double concert: Radialsystem
Tickets: Concert 10 Euro, Double concert 18 Euro, red. 15 Euro
Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin

Ensemble KNM Berlin + Soloists:
19:30
David Behrman »Open Space with Strings« – for string quartett and live electronics (Premiere, KNM Quartett)
Alvin Lucier »Navigations for Strings« (KNM Quartett)
21:00
Alvin Lucier »North American Time Capsule« (Tape)
Juliana Hodkinson »On the line« – for ensemble (Premiere)
Mary Lucier Polaroid Image Series »ROOM« with tape version of Alvin Lucier »I am sitting in a room«
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Sunday, 22.9.24 Double concert: Radialsystem
Tickets: Concert 10 Euro, Double concert 18 Euro, red. 15 Euro
Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin

Ensemble KNM Berlin + Soloists:
19:30
Alvin Lucier »In Memoriam John Higgins« – for clarinet and slow sweep pure wave oscillator (Clarinet: Winfried Rager)
Ana Maria Rodriguez »Nomenclature of Colours« – for string trio and electronics (Premiere, KNM)
Alvin Lucier »The Queen of the South« (Realisation: Ron Kuivila)
21:00
Alvin Lucier »On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon« – for solo cello and pure wave oscillator (Violoncello: Michael Moser)
Ron Kuivila »Pitches and Neighbors« – for viola, violoncello, alto flute, bass clarinet and electronics (Premiere)
Alvin Lucier »Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra« – for solo triangle (Soloist: Robyn Schulkowsky)
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Conference

21.+22.9.24, daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161 (1. Floor), 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Saturday 21.9.24, 14:00 – 18:00, free admission
with Helga de la Motte-Haber, Matthieu Saladin, Ron Kuivila, Charles Curtis (online), Moderation: Matthieu Saladin, Jan Thoben
Sunday, 22.9.24, 11:00 – 14:00, free admission
with Nicolas Collins, Zeynep Bulut, Moderation: Matthieu Saladin, Jan Thoben
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