Thursday, 12/5/2024
at 8:00 PM


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Music from the Corners of the Cloud

The transition to the digital age is a double-edged sword for artists from communities that have been subjected to colonization: On one hand, social media and its algorithms have the potential to bring together people who share language, experiences, or history. But at the same time, this sense of community is undermined by mechanisms that – whether intentionally or due to a lack of foresight – reproduce the cultural and economic norms of the Western European world, as if these were or should be globally applicable. Cultural and creative diversity thus risks being flattened worldwide. The internet serves as a new colonial border along which the struggle for cultural and creative independence is fought.

The project "digital/colonial" aims to create a framework for composers from the so-called Global South in which they can creatively respond to their own experiences with new forms of cultural colonization and marginalization – arising from the omnipresence of digital technology.

With works by
Ashkan Behzadi (premiere), Huihui Cheng (premiere), Feliz Macahis, and Chong Kee Yong

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Christian Dierstein, percussion
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, cello
Lukas Nowok, sound direction

Supported by the Koussevitzky Foundation.

This project is part of an extensive initiative by Ensemble Recherche to initiate a discussion about artificial intelligence and its impacts on art and creativity in its 2024/25 season ("What is Real/What is Not").

Doors open at 7:30 PM

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