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KLANGSPUREN SCHWAZ, STRINGS&NOISE

The Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges once said that he didn't want to convince his readers, but to entertain and move them. Sophia Goidinger-Koch and Barbara Riccabona would immediately subscribe to this and probably add surprise as a further aim. A duo of violin and cello is quickly associated with a soft melodious sound, especially by those for whom terms such as extended playing techniques are still rather foreign. Strings & Noise also like to target this audience. They use stories, images, humor and personality as bridges. This does not detract from their experimental research into playing possibilities, sound dimensions and performance aspects of instrumental playing, on the contrary. A rule of thumb for the Austrian duo is that every piece in their repertoire should have an extra-musical element and/or a performative component. In Klangspuren, the two string players are looking for an audiovisual and performative answer to the questions of how trapped we already are in the digital machines of our time and how we can control them in a self-determined way. Four composers have written pieces for this: Anto Sophia Manhartsberger, Sonja Mutić, Jakob Böttcher and Emri Sihan Kaleli (on whose website, not entirely coincidentally, the opening quote from Borges can be found).