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12 May 2025 Köln (Cologne) (Germany)
Man with a Movie Camera
Chamber Orchestra - Stadtgarten Köln
Program Info: Kenn Hartwig Nintendo Gameboy, Circuit Bending Shannon Barnett Posaune Arbbruster carlotta Andreas Völk Barth Audios, Live-Sampling Thomas Sauerborn hanging pelvis, drums
Silent film concert with music by Thomas Sauerborn
DSUWA Wertows "Man with a Movie Camera" has not lost any meaning in the 95 years since its publication: As an experiment of a universal cinema language, the silent film, which does not require any intermediate title, has already received various musical interpretations. The film, the structure of which- as after musical parameters- finds her rhyth, is literally sucking in life in Kiev, Kharkiw and Odessa in 1929. Thomas Sauerborn's composition, inspired by the symbiosis of film and camera techniques The one side and the realism of the pictures on the other.
Sauerborn, together with two companions of the formation "The End of Love", brings two trombonists to this ensemble and thus opens the space between the breathing brass, the manipulated sounds of the Nintendo Gameboy and Live Samplings. Together they bring everyday life and rhythm from 1929 to today - contrast it to life and sounds of the 21st century.
Extreme contrasts, sharp shadows - designing with light was the visual language of the silent film. A language that had to get along without sound and colour, and which, or because of that, managed to visualise the stories and give them an emotional intensity and depth. To this day, this aesthetics shape and influence many films, in particular the German expressionist silent film of the 1920s played a central role in the dramatic use of light and shadow. By skilfully setting light and leading shadows, the reality can be distorted and the audience leads to a psychologically intensive world that make the fears or inner conflicts of the figures visible. Shadows can even take on their own narrative function and give insights into the interior of the characters and pull the audience into the plot. In the audience, shadows that grow to the oversized increases the emotional unrest. Light becomes an invisible narrator who penetrates deeper into the psyche and pulls the audience into the often dark abysses of an action.
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