Tilman Kanitz

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  • Holistic notation study

    Holistic notation study

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2022″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The interdisciplinary score N. 34 Holistic notation study II {Mechanical spectra} fuses contemporary dance with video and experimental sound art. It is based on the two treatises Extended Notation and Holistic Notation, in which methods of notation for electroacoustic music, new media art and all types of human movement are developed.

    At the same time, the work takes a look into a future where humanoid robots populate the world and have become artistically active. The aim of the work is to encourage them to perform dance movements on stage. The piece is divided into two parts – a video work and a stage piece. The video work is recorded by six cameras, while the dancer performs in front of a green-screen. For the stage piece, the green-screen is replaced by a massive LED screen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

  • bbrrmm.

    bbrrmm.

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    Land-Schaf(f)t-Gras
    “bbrrmm. A Sound Utopia in the Countryside for Two Cellos and Three Nature-Controlling Instruments”

    In his composition, Alex Nowitz stages the art of listening and responding—to the sounds of nature and fellow performers. The sound of the cello merges with the surrounding soundscape, while a tractor, a lawn mower, a chainsaw and a scythe become sensitive musical instruments. Following the instructions of a text-based score, the cellists compose in real time, creating a complex, noisy sonic texture that interacts with the sounds of the environment.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2022″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

  • unter dem eis

    unter dem eis

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    An Installative Concert by Tilman Kanitz and Sebastian Blasius

    Concentric circles of chairs, a cellist, voices and cryptic sounds from loudspeakers evoking at times dissonant, absurd, and enigmatic images. In recent years, we have increasingly been shaped by the experience of how our Western self-understanding is crumbling—many had not anticipated the scale of the pandemic or the war in Ukraine. Perhaps we must learn a new form of perception in order to anticipate the unknown?

    The installative concert under the ice, created by the artist and curator Tilman Kanitz and the director Sebastian Blasius, explores the relationship between what exists and its erosion. The foundation of the work includes an electronically slowed-down Sarabande for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as poetry by early Expressionist Georg Heym. The piece invites the audience to reflect on our present—and beyond—through processes of imagination and association.

    Directed by: Tilman Kanitz, Sebastian Blasius

    Music and sound design by: Tilman Kanitz

    Voices by: Mélanie Fouché, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Sigal Zouk

    Press quote by Rheinische Post: “These are confusing, icily cold, and often painful worlds of imagery that Blasius and Kanitz pick up on and literally bring to sound, (…) until only a single word remains—until even that word loses its meaning through constant repetition and dissolves into pure sound. In this way, the audience becomes witness to erosion; they experience disintegration, decay, and loss in their own listening experience. (…) Toward the end, as the words forget and skin have taken root, (…) cello sounds overpower the noise from the speakers, (…) bringing everything heard and experienced together into a fascinating whole.”

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  • Eden I

    Eden I

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    Something is lost here. There are many things that are obviously lost. Having a nice and affordable place to live in, for example, or strong unions. But it’s not that, it’s something else. It has left us in such a determined way, that it is impossible to say what that thing was, that got lost. It can’t have happened long ago. Maybe just five years, or twenty.
    Something is lost here, and we don’t know what it is. What was the thing that is now lacking? Was it subtle and fragile? We don’t know. We circle around that lack, follow its traces, trying to find out, how it came into being. Why did we start lacking it, and how? Through studying the story of this loss, we hope to get a feeling of what that thing could have been.

    Tilman Kanitz and Niklas Draeger teamed up with stage and costume designer Anna Philippa Müller and co-choreographers Frank Willens, Ixchel Mendoza and Shade Théret, to explore this loss in a spatial experiment: How to relate to the space we are in? How do environments support human relations, or evaporate them? How can we embody space? How do environments disperse or swallow sound? How can we listen to the surrounding sounds, what can we add, and how does this addition support or transform what is already there? How can we be together?

    CREDITS

    Concept, Direction & Choreography: Tilman Kanitz & Niklas Draeger
    Costume & Stage: Anna Philippa Müller
    Co-Choregraphy: Frank Willens, Ixchel Mendoza and Shade Théret
    Music: John Dowlan (Fantasia for Lute solo, Flow my tears for Lute and Voice), Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (Dd for Cello solo, Im Takt for Bongos), Tilman Kanitz (lines 1, vers. 1+2 for Cello solo), Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (organ flute), Alexander Iezzi (Bongos), Pedro Alcacer Doria (Lute), Tilman Kanitz (Cello)
    Dramaturgy: Niklas Draeger
    Dramaturgical consultancy: Chloe Firouzian

    With: Pedro Alcacer Doria, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Alexander Iezzi, Tilman Kanitz, Ixchel Mendoza, Shade Théret, Frank Willens, Elijas Willens, Niklas Draeger

    Artistic realisation Costume: Anna Philippa Müller & Ines Dautel
    Artistic realisation stage design bus: Leander Kreissl
    Stage & costume design apprentice: Sophia Mitterhofer
    Production-Assistant: Max von Mechow

    Documentation: Amelie Kahn-Ackermann (Foto), Chloe Firouzian (Foto & Video), Arnold Trautwein (Video)

    Supported by: The NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ – STEPPING OUT NPN, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Dance Aid Programme.

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