Concert Installation
Finale MaerzMusik 2025: I AM ALL EARS
Sam Dunscombe / Corie Rose Soumah / Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh / Yiran Zhao / Pauline Oliveros / Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop / Tom Johnson / Wojtek Blecharz
Lower stage at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Camille Blake
The festival’s final programme, co-curated by Wojtek Blecharz, explores listening as a relational practice and questions traditional forms of musical performance. Following one of Éliane Radigue’s guiding principles – “you can be in the smallest corner and hear the totality of what is going on” – the finale decentralises the stages of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and invites the audience into its open spaces and, at the same time, into the microcosms of sound.
This year’s finale redefines normative ways of presenting and experiencing music – liberating the listener’s body, reversing roles and reshaping spatial relationships. “I AM ALL EARS” invites for multidirectional, deep, intimate, far, embodied or selective listening. It allows to compose your own aural experience according to your needs. Listen to what is behind the curtain and let the space guide you.
Programme
Wojtek Blecharz
Stimm[i](u)ng
for 2 reversed cellos (2019)
Sam Dunscombe
First Study in Mass Plasma Synthesis
electronic music (2025)
Corie Rose Soumah
Limpidités I
for double bass (2018)
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
3,6.
for brass ensemble (2019)
Wojtek Blecharz
Sonata for keyboard and tape (2020)
Yiran Zhao
SHH 1
solo for a head (2015)
Tom Johnson
9 bells
for 9 bells (1979)
Wojtek Blecharz
Excerpts from Symphony No. 3 for 200 wireless speakers (2019–2023)
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
Nexus. Auris Interna
for string ensemble (2025)
Wojtek Blecharz
Body-Opera
Excerpts for dancer and double bass
Pauline Oliveros
Tuning meditation
for choir (1971)
Cast
Members of Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop & Guests
Mia Bodet – violin
Malin Grass – violin
Ildiko Ludwig – viola
Grégoire Simon – viola
Kornelia Jamborowicz – cello
Sophie Notte – cello
Sam Dunscombe – electronics
Jennifer Torrence – percussion
Beltane Ruiz Molina – double bass
Karol Tymiński – dance, choreography
Mathilde Conley – trumpet
Paul Hübner – trumpet
Elena Kakaliagou – french horn
Samuel Stoll – french horn
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø – trombone
Janni Struzyk – tuba
Yiran Zhao – performance
Andrew Walsh – performance
Christopher Loy – performance
Sebastian Berweck – synthesizers
Silke Lange – synthesizers
Jacob Greenberg – synthesizers, transducers
Wojtek Blecharz, Kamila Metwaly – curation
Bastian Zimmermann – dramaturgy
Franziska Berlitz – production