Klaus Lang: bright darkness (2017)
Klaus Lang: bright darkness (2017) – World Premiere, excerpt July 16, 2018 (Orangerie Darmstadt) Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2018
A 60 minute piece – by Klaus Lang – performed outdoors in parallel to sunset
Listening with clogged ears and seeing with closed eyes. What we perceive is very often not what our senses are suggesting – in fact it is our notification of something, shaped by concepts. We are impeded in realising our sensory perception by a learned mechanism of our mind. It’s not uncommon that our preconceived expectations, our prejudice, are exactly the opposite of what we experience sensorially. If we obviate all, it gets louder, if we close our eyes, it gets light. We might question what we really see when we close our eyeing order to “see nothing”, and what even is our idea of “seeing nothing” and “darkness”? The same applies for movement, too. Sometimes we can’t tell whether an object is moving or not. Is it a chord we are listening to, or a line? A layer or a process? Or is it just our mind moving? Where can we find the answers to these questions? Klaus Lang (Translation from German by Friedemann Dupelius)
Commissioned by: Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik 2017
Performances
- 2018.06.11 – Darmstadt International Music Institute (Premiere of the Complete Version)
- 2018.08.31 – Jardins Musicaux Festival, Neuchatel
- 2018.11.03 – Kibbutz Remix 3, Jaffa
- 2018.11.04 – Klangwerkstatt Berlin
- 2018.12.15 – Gare du Nord, Basel
- 2019.08.10 – timeSPANS Festival, Wagner Park