Festival Forum Wallis: In the close-up we go wild - the whole book

Sunday, June 7, 2026, all day
1st part 11h30
2nd part 13h30
3rd part 17h
4th part 19.30h

Participants
UMS'nJIP/Luis Tabuenca

Duration: all day 11h30-21h30, with breaks, continuous admission

Venue
Münster, community hall

Admission free (collection)
Reservations recommended: office@forumvalais.ch,mebu@umsnjip.ch


PROGRAM

UMS'nJIP
in the close-up we run wild
2022-2026, for voice, recorders, percussion
and live electronics (audio & video), world premiere

Part 1, 11h30 - in the störgarten (70m)
Part 2, 13h30 - entwendete fenster (65m)
Part 3, 17h00 - neophytes (together with Luis Tabuenca, 80m)
part 4, 19h30 - one (126m)

integral performance of all 4 poetry cycles from the poetry collection of the same name In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir by Rolf Hermann
Time.
When UMS'nJIP took part in the book launch of Rolf Hermann's In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir at Schloss Leuk at the end of 2021, it was not yet clear what a wondrous turn it would take: the setting of an entire volume of poetry to music. Its linguistic rhythm, musicality, formal language, concept and content have electrified UMS'nJIP. Four full-length programs have emerged with dreamlike somnambulism. And this crystallizes another dream: what if the concert audience experiences, hears, reads and shares this volume of poetry integrally together over the course of an entire day? What if these four cycles were played one after the other in one day?
Reading poetry is more of an occasional affair than a long-term exercise. A poem here, a poem there: wandering, flicking back and forth - the experience usually remains in the minute range. Here we are dealing with a fundamentally different experience. Performances of musical and/or scenic works lasting several hours exert a great fascination. They are like a multi-day hike: unforgettable. You go through all moods and weather conditions, but time also works: if you give it the necessary space, it puts these moods back into a meta-level. It is not only the uniqueness and the physical and temporal dimension of the experience that resonate for a long time, it is tantamount to a spiritual experience. Sharing time together and devoting oneself to shaped language, sound and music is what this program offers.
Rolf Hermann, born in 1973 in Leuk, Canton Valais, lives as a freelance writer in Biel/Bienne. He writes prose, poetry, radio plays, spoken word and theater texts. He studied English and German in Fribourg and Iowa, USA, and earned his living as a shepherd in the Simplon region. His work has been recognized on various occasions, most recently with the Culture Prize of the City of Biel (2017) and the Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern for the short story collection Flüchtiges Zuhause (2019). Numerous appearances in Switzerland and beyond. https://rolfhermann. ch,https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Hermann

Composer and percussionist Luis Tabuenca was born in Zaragoza, Spain. His music integrates elements from other disciplines, with compositions ranging from opera, installations, sound sculptures, films, ballet, chamber music and solo works.He studied at the Conservatories of Zaragoza, Barcelona, Amsterdam and the University of California at San Diego with Steven Schick, Philippe Manoury and Mark Dresser, also attending workshops with Tristan Murail, Carola Bauckholt, Rebecca Saunders and Alexander Schubert, among others.He is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, mastery and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as with renowned artists. luistabuenca.com

UMS'nJIP are one of the most active contemporary new music ensembles, with performances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Colón Buenos Aires, Shanghai New Music Week, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Alexandrinsky St. Petersburg, CRR Istanbul and Biennale Musica Venezia. In 2022, they will settle in Goms and establish the MEbU (Münster Earport) , an art space for contemporary music not far from the Rhone Glacier.
From June 4 to 7, the Festival for New Music Forum Wallis is coming to Münster in Goms with 6 concerts. The Forum Wallis festival has been promoting contemporary music in Valais for 20 years and has given hundreds of world premieres and presented works by over 500 composers from all over the world. It is run by the Valais chapter of the International Society for New Music IGNM-VS, whose board includes Manuel Mengis and Hans-Peter Pfammatter as well as the two musicians and composers Javier Hagen (festival director) and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, who have been based in Münster since 2022.

Further information: http://forumwallis.ch
Admission free (collection)
Reservations recommended: office@forumvalais.ch / mebu@umsnjip.ch