Intersecting Encounters

For the concert project Intersecting Encounters, Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard (DLW) are developing new works with the singer and vocal artist Sofia Jernberg, the Sonar Quartet and the pianist Tamara Stefanovich, which will be premiered at a concert in the Kühlhaus Berlin. All participants will also play their own programmes, exploring the boundaries between new music and avant-garde jazz, between open and closed forms and between instrumental and vocal music. Two moderated discussion rounds with the participants round off the concert and invite the audience to interact with the artists.

Encounters: With Intersecting Encounters, Christopher Dell (vibraphone), Christian Lillinger (drums) and Jonas Westergaard (double bass) want to build on previous encounters and collaborations with the participating artists with more time for joint co-compositions and intensive joint rehearsals, and finally the joint festival.

Intersecting: This project involves an exploration of various border areas. Superficially, you could say that it is about interfaces between new music and jazz. On closer inspection, the Afrological and Eurological dichotomy introduced by George Lewis is at the centre of the joint musical research work. For Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard, the Afrological perspective on beats is of particular interest in this multiple exchange. Sofia Jernberg herself has worked a lot with traditional Ethiopian songs, analysing and reworking them and placing them in contemporary musical contexts. In her collaboration with Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard, sound research between instrumental and vocal music also plays an important role for her, as it does for DLW. Due to its background, the Sonar Quartet has a lot of experience with the Eurological perspective, but in recent years it has also increasingly turned to the open form. Sound research in the border area between string and percussion instruments plays an important role in the co-operation between the two ensembles. Using each other’s own compositions, they will not only examine rhythmic time structures with regard to microtime and irrational time, but also the possibilities of their precise notation, taking into account the Eurological perspective. With Tamara Stefanovich, who has come a long way from the field of fully composed contemporary music through her many years of collaboration with DLW, a common musical language has already emerged in the joint quartet (SDLW).

The Intersecting Encounters concert is supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Further information:
dell-lillinger-westergaard.de

Dates

August 31, 2024
Kühlhaus, Berlin