UMS'nJIP - Neophytes
PROGRAM
neophytes, 2023/25
Song cycle by UMS'nJIP based on the poem cycle of the same name by Rolf Hermann from the poetry collection "In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir" (2021), world premiere of the version for voice, recorders and electronics
neophytes
armenian blackberry - rubus armeniacus
asian knotweed - reynoutria japonica
bluebell tree - paulownia tomentosa
brazilian milfoil - myriophyllum aquaticum
glandular balsam - impatiens glandulifera
annual orchid - erigeron annuus
vinegar tree - rhus typhina
false acacia - robinia pseudoacacia
common maidenhair vine - parthenocissus inserta
goddess tree - ailanthus altissima
large-flowered heusenkraut - ludwigia grandiflora
henry's honeysuckle - lonicera henryi
autumn black cherry - prunus serotina
himalaja knotweed - polygonum polystachyum
Jacob's cross - senecio jacobaea
canadian waterweed - elodea canadensis
cherry laurel - prunus laurocerasus
giant hogweed - heracleum mantegazzianum
narrow-leaved ragwort - senecio inaequidens
butterfly bush - buddleja davidii
late-flowering goldenrod - solidago gigantea
syrian milkweed - asclepias syriaca
ragweed - ambrosia artemisiifolia
mugwort - artemisia verlotiorum
Contributors:
UMS'nJIP
Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, recorders/electronics
Javier Hagen, voice/electronics
"In the end, what remains is nature and what we can perhaps call the ecstasy of words - poetry." (Rolf Hermann)
Rolf Hermann's neophytes is a 24-part cycle of poems from the poetry collection "In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir" (2021). For Hermann, neophytes are "a phenomenon of the globalized world and climate change in one. Plants are transported - intentionally or accidentally - on tankers or trucks from one continent to another, from one country to another. And because the climate is warming, they often migrate further, from the south to the north, thus changing the vegetation. In a way, I see neophytes as symbols of the Anthropocene, a biological phenomenon caused by humans that has largely taken on a life of its own." Rolf Hermann's cycle neophytes jumps out at us in a wildly rampant, almost vegetatively intoxicating way. On the one hand, the textual material from which Hermann takes his starting point - Rilke's roses - has been condensed by disturbingly unlyrical procedures and bound by strict formal rules; at the same time, the language of the poems entwines itself undisturbed around these grids, overgrows them and spreads almost unchecked into strange metaphorical realms. We respond to this with archaic instruments: voice and recorder, furthermore - as a deliberate antithesis - with electronics, and last but not least with a process located between composition and improvisation: The poems are analyzed - for their sound and rhythm, for intertextual references, for their hubris between biological description and poetic transformation. The result is a large-scale dramaturgical form with a binding temporal structure, in which spoken language emerges sensually, situationally and in a decidedly sensitive/fragile manner from instrumental sound fields, from a primordial soup, so to speak, layer by layer, in order to enter a virtual - sonically speaking: a pre-recorded space - like a printed page. Just like Rolf Hermann's desire "to make the sensuality and vulnerability of the world tangible in words", he is joined by our own desire to make the same sensuality and vulnerability tangible in sound.
UMS'nJIP (Ulrike Mayer-Spohn and Javier Hagen) are one of the most distinguished ensembles for contemporary new music and are at home in the world's most important concert venues for new music (Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Liceu Barcelona, Steghi Athens, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Biennale Musica Venezia). Over 1500 concerts, 300 world premieres in 40 countries and more than 35 international prizes line their musical path. In 2022, they will settle in Münster/Goms and set up the MEbU, Münster Earport, an art space for contemporary music at the foot of the Rhone Glacier.
UMS'nJIP
https://umsnjip.ch/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMS'nJIP
Social Media
https://youtube.com/@umsnjip/playlists
https://facebook.com/umsnjip
https://instagram.com/umsnjip
https://soundcloud.com/umsnjip
Admission free (collection)
Reservations recommended: mebu@umsnjip.ch
http://mebu.umsnjip.ch
PROGRAM
neophytes, 2023/25
Song cycle by UMS'nJIP based on the poem cycle of the same name by Rolf Hermann from the poetry collection "In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir" (2021), world premiere of the version for voice, recorders and electronics
neophytes
armenian blackberry - rubus armeniacus
asian knotweed - reynoutria japonica
bluebell tree - paulownia tomentosa
brazilian milfoil - myriophyllum aquaticum
glandular balsam - impatiens glandulifera
annual orchid - erigeron annuus
vinegar tree - rhus typhina
false acacia - robinia pseudoacacia
common maidenhair vine - parthenocissus inserta
goddess tree - ailanthus altissima
large-flowered heusenkraut - ludwigia grandiflora
henry's honeysuckle - lonicera henryi
autumn black cherry - prunus serotina
himalaja knotweed - polygonum polystachyum
Jacob's cross - senecio jacobaea
canadian waterweed - elodea canadensis
cherry laurel - prunus laurocerasus
giant hogweed - heracleum mantegazzianum
narrow-leaved ragwort - senecio inaequidens
butterfly bush - buddleja davidii
late-flowering goldenrod - solidago gigantea
syrian milkweed - asclepias syriaca
ragweed - ambrosia artemisiifolia
mugwort - artemisia verlotiorum
Contributors:
UMS'nJIP
Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, recorders/electronics
Javier Hagen, voice/electronics
"In the end, what remains is nature and what we can perhaps call the ecstasy of words - poetry." (Rolf Hermann)
Rolf Hermann's neophytes is a 24-part cycle of poems from the poetry collection "In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir" (2021). For Hermann, neophytes are "a phenomenon of the globalized world and climate change in one. Plants are transported - intentionally or accidentally - on tankers or trucks from one continent to another, from one country to another. And because the climate is warming, they often migrate further, from the south to the north, thus changing the vegetation. In a way, I see neophytes as symbols of the Anthropocene, a biological phenomenon caused by humans that has largely taken on a life of its own." Rolf Hermann's cycle neophytes jumps out at us in a wildly rampant, almost vegetatively intoxicating way. On the one hand, the textual material from which Hermann takes his starting point - Rilke's roses - has been condensed by disturbingly unlyrical procedures and bound by strict formal rules; at the same time, the language of the poems entwines itself undisturbed around these grids, overgrows them and spreads almost unchecked into strange metaphorical realms. We respond to this with archaic instruments: voice and recorder, furthermore - as a deliberate antithesis - with electronics, and last but not least with a process located between composition and improvisation: The poems are analyzed - for their sound and rhythm, for intertextual references, for their hubris between biological description and poetic transformation. The result is a large-scale dramaturgical form with a binding temporal structure, in which spoken language emerges sensually, situationally and in a decidedly sensitive/fragile manner from instrumental sound fields, from a primordial soup, so to speak, layer by layer, in order to enter a virtual - sonically speaking: a pre-recorded space - like a printed page. Just like Rolf Hermann's desire "to make the sensuality and vulnerability of the world tangible in words", he is joined by our own desire to make the same sensuality and vulnerability tangible in sound.
UMS'nJIP (Ulrike Mayer-Spohn and Javier Hagen) are one of the most distinguished ensembles for contemporary new music and are at home in the world's most important concert venues for new music (Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Liceu Barcelona, Steghi Athens, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Biennale Musica Venezia). Over 1500 concerts, 300 world premieres in 40 countries and more than 35 international prizes line their musical path. In 2022, they will settle in Münster/Goms and set up the MEbU, Münster Earport, an art space for contemporary music at the foot of the Rhone Glacier.
UMS'nJIP
https://umsnjip.ch/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMS'nJIP
Social Media
https://youtube.com/@umsnjip/playlists
https://facebook.com/umsnjip
https://instagram.com/umsnjip
https://soundcloud.com/umsnjip
Admission free (collection)
Reservations recommended: mebu@umsnjip.ch
http://mebu.umsnjip.ch
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