Musical Belongings
Starting from Summer 2023
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| No language skills required |
| Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
Since 2023, the Humboldt Forum has become a venue for musical encounters: early music from Europe meets traditional music from around the world: India, Latin America, China, the Caribbean, Nigeria, Tanzania, Cameroon, Mongolia.
With its project MUSICAL BELONGINGS, die lautten compagney Berlin, one of the most renowned ensembles for historical performance practice, explores the possibilities of music beyond the colonial canon.
Trailer Musical Belongings I
Together with musicians and composers from the invited cultures, the orchestra is searching for a transcultural practice: How can new sounds and hybrid forms be found that elude the label of ‘world music’? What similarities exist between playing and composing techniques? With their project, the musicians respond to the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, which house many instruments and the Berlin Phonogram Archive. In the accompanying discourse, the artists and the audience take a postcolonial look at the musical practice of the European classical music industry.
With this project, die lautten compagney aims to contribute to the formation of a global society in the 21st century, to question its own practice and, in exchange with the invited musicians, to contribute to a postcolonial musical practice.
MUSICAL BELONGINGS I – June 16-17, 2023
lautten compagney BERLIN meets Indian Raga Music
Raga and Passacaglia
With Kala Ramnath (Violin) and Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena), India
MUSICAL BELONGINGS II – November 10-11, 2023
lautten compagney BERLIN meets Indigenous Music from Latin America
Huaciascaita – Holy Experiments
With Renata Flores, Germán Anthony Córdova Onofre, Pedro Enrique Alca Tomairo (Peru) and Ana María Romano G. (Colombia)
MUSICAL BELONGINGS III – April 12-14, 2024
lautten compagney BERLIN meets Chinese Classical Music:
Guzheng and Viola da Gamba
MUSICAL BELONGINGS IV – September 13-15, 2024
lautten compagney BERLIN meets Caribbean Punta Music:
Punta against Polly
How to decolonize the Beggar’s Opera?
The MUSICAL BELONGINGS project is funded by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) as part of the “Excellent Orchestral Landscape Germany” program.
