Concert by Ensemble Meitar

Ensemble Meitar is one of the most renowned Israeli contemporary music formations. At the Heroines of Sound Festival, the musicians will perform works by Israeli, German and Iranian composers that were specially written for the ensemble’s 20th anniversary and will be presented for the first time in Europe.

The music reflects the horrors of current warfare and presents different perspectives and sound languages. The music explores the relationship between the present and the buried through the overlapping and interweaving of its elements. The force and confusion of the everyday becomes a mirror of existence. Sarah Nemtsov explores our ‘blind spots’ – in a musical-artistic sense and also as a metaphor for our social and political conditions. Anahita Abbasi takes an even more radical approach, with pulsating textures and multi-channel throat clearing, a dark hissing soundscape can be experienced. In her music, the German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf has internalised referentiality as a compositional principle, creating a multi-layered mesh of analogue-digital forms of expression. The composition is fragmented again and again by cutting and shifting parts of the process. Sigalit Landau’s enigmatic video performance with a barbed wire tire on the beach is a personal and at the same time political act, the wire symbolises borders, demarcation and pain. ‘Danger comes from history into life and into the body.’ (Sigalit Landau)

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is supporting the concert by Ensemble Meitar at the Heroines of Sound Festival.

Further information:
heroines-of-sound.com

Date

July 10, 2025
Radialsystem, Berlin