Das Besondere an neuer Musik ist ihre Bereitschaft, für den Inhalt die Form zu riskieren, für das Interessante das Schöne, für das Experiment die Gewohnheit – Wagnis statt Wagner.
The fascinating thing about new music is the composers’ readiness to risk form for content, to risk beauty for the thought-provoking, to risk habit for experimentation.
Music both serious and sensorial
New music is the sound of our time, made audible in works by composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Schoenberg to Boulez. The fascinating thing about new music is the composers’ readiness to risk form for content, to risk beauty for the thought-provoking, to risk habit for experimentation. Daring as opposed to Dvorak.
New music is often considered ‘difficult’ because it appears to challenge the listener only on an intellectual level. The musicians of ensemble proton Bern dissolves this misconception with wit and virtuosity, challenging their audience on a sensorial level: with playfully crystalline tones and sounds.
