TISCHMUSIK UND KÖRPERKLANG (TABLE MUSIC AND BODILY SOUND)

Everyday gestures, everyday sounds – condensed into a composition! Six hands create music on an unexpected instrument – a table. This is the essence of Thierry De Mey’s “Musique de Table”. A bottle and a glass become instruments on the table as harpist Veronica Klavžar, known for her vocal and theatrical flair, joins percussionist Hannes Schöggl in performing Georges Aperghis’ “Retrouvailles”. “Intersections”, a work by Hannes Schöggl and Veronika Klavžar, fuses contemporary music with movement in an interdisciplinary concert performance featuring three performers. Here, it’s not just the instrument that resonates – the body itself becomes a sounding presence. This experimental composition blurs the boundaries between music and dance, challenging conventional ideas of harp performance and opening new perspectives on where music ends and movement begins – and how much do they have in common? Everyday human emotions such as tenderness, loneliness, dependency, fascination, enthusiasm, jealousy, envy, community, unity and equality come to the fore in the individual scenes. Hannes Schöggl has set Christian Morgenstern’s “Fisches Nachtgesang” to music for three mouths: a delicate piece of mouth percussion presented as an interactive animation. The audience is invited to join in – clicking, smacking, kissing and performing tongue acrobatics.

Our programme brings everything around us to life through sound – everything becomes a percussion instrument. What was once dismissed as unruly children’s play is now reimagined: we ourselves, along with our environment, become a sound performance.

Providing a lyrical counterpoint is the harp – an instrument long associated with femininity and embraced by many female composers. A movement from Germaine Tailleferre’s Sonata serves as a point of departure, reinterpreted on the electric harp. In this transformation, the essence and atmosphere of the original shine through in new ways, revealing unexpected layers.