Leila Bencharnia / Ensemble Adapter

For their collaborative programme, composer Leila Bencharnia and Ensemble Adapter inspired by the forms and colours of the Amazigh art of weaving. The Milan-based Moroccan composer was invited to Berlin as part of a research project organised by the institution Mophradat in collaboration with DAAD – the results of the collaboration will now be presented for the first time in the form of a concert and a sound installation at MaerzMusik.

Since starting the open-ended residency in November, the sound artist and performer worked in close collaboration with the experimental music group Ensemble Adapter, founded by Matthias Engler and Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir and based in Berlin. As a starting point for their research and creative work, the artists turned to the weaving techniques of the Amazigh people, indigenous to Morocco. As part of their exploration of fractals and the colour coding inherent to handmade textiles, the composer and the ensemble set off together with their audience into experimental worlds of thoughts, sound and performance  and present two different compositions at the Radialsystem. The focus is on attentive listening and patiently awaiting what is to come – on recognising patterns in their entanglements and being guided by them.