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10/13/2021 | Campus-Meldung

First public concert at the Institute of Music 2021: Music for silent films

On Saturday, November 13, 2021, starting at 6:30 p.m., artist tandems consisting of music and art students from Kassel and Frankfurt will present their own silent films. They will combine composed and improvised music. The concert is the first in the hall of the Institute of Music after the Corona break.

Art and music in interaction.Image: HfMDK Frankfurt
Art and music in interaction.

The films originate from the four film-making universities from the network of the Hessian Film and Media Academy and are performed live with the newly composed and improvised music in several concerts. Since some of the filmmakers even participate in the live scoring themselves, both experimental-performative and partially improvised results are created that relate art and music to each other. There will also be contributions from the MfS CreativeLab, a cooperation between the Kunsthochschule Kassel and the Institute of Music at the University of Kassel. "We are very excited to be able to perform live with our projects!" says Alix Kokula from the Film and Moving Image class at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

In 2019, Roman Beilharz (University of Kassel) and Prof. Jan Peters (Kunsthochschule Kassel) launched the pilot project as part of Music for Silent Films, which focuses on creative collaboration between film and music students. This has been accompanied since 2020 by composer and synthesizer inventor Pit Przygodda, whose expertise in film, film music and audivisual art makes him an ideal bridge builder for the process. In 2020, the associated final concert unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the Corona pandemic. However, new loudspeaker systems have been installed in the 2020 concert hall and will be used for the first time at the screening of the "Music for Silent Films 2021" project. Admission is free of charge. However, due to ongoing restrictions from the Corona pandemic, admission is limited to 90 people. 30 students can register via the Hispos portal, 40 seats are available for interested audience members and 20 seats are reserved for contributors to the project. The hygiene concept with admission control is based on current regulations.

During the recording, students from the "Sound and Music Production" course at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (hDA) will make sound recordings and mixes and make them available to the respective film and music students. After the final concerts, the student project continues. Thus, this collaboration simultaneously networks budding professional artists and musicians in the fields of improvisation, arrangement, composition, as well as instrumentalists.

 

The 2021 Program

  • Without Sense by Florentina Berzel, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Jonathan Sutphen
  • Milk by Jennifer Kolbe, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Benedikt Kuhn
  • Fragment by Roya Ghanavati, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Stefanie Januschko
  • Rosa by Janina Lutter, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Elisabeth Tzschentke
  • Touch by Lara Last, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Felix Krell
  • Bloß by Maike Kroll, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Manuel Lippstein
  • Restmüll by Merlin Heidenreich, Offenbach University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Rouven Hoffmann
  • Pizza Party by Max Holicki, Kassel University of Art and Design, set to music by Charlotte Reitz
  • Bring me back by Benjamin Fiedler, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, set to music by Sebastian Rausch
  • The Boy and the Bear by Joachim Brandenberg, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, set to music by Lucas Stephan
  • Amour Fou by Florian Werzinski, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, set to music by Valentin Michel
  • Wallflower Tango by Wolfram Kampffmeyer, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, with music by David Sixt
  • Kellerkind by Julia Ocker, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, set to music by Sören Riesner

From the MFS Creativelab of the Kunsthochschule Kassel

  • deliberately damage | bewusst beschäd igen by Charlotte Bouchon, music: Helena Steiner
  • fragil by Franziska Pappert, music: Ricarda Gumprich
  • laterskater by Jan Emde, music: Anton Severin
  • only tourists by Niels Walter, music: Tamara Schnopp
  • Super8Girls by Alix Kokula, guest: Pit Przygodda
  • We don't go to the dentist by Aya Limbacher, music: Anton Severin

Further concerts of the project will already take place on 11.11. and 12.11. in the Great Hall of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.