Martin Kohlstedt
Martin Kohlstedt & GewandhausChor
Konzerthaus Berlin
Gendarmenmarkt
Dec 18, 2019
7:00 PM GMT+1
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Martin Kohlstedt ist keiner, der sich der großen Inszenierung wegen ein maßgeschneidertes Image übergeworfen hat, das Authentizität ausschließlich vorgaukelt. Es ist einfach eine andere Art, Musik zu denken und mit ihr zu kommunizieren, die ihn im wachsenden Segment der modernen Klassik mit elektronischer Infusion letztendlich so klar und deutlich herausstechen lässt. Kompositorischen Versatzstücken haucht er eine so enorme Lebenskraft ein, die den Zuhörer immer wieder mitreißt, provoziert, elektrisiert.
Kollaborationen sind schon immer ein zentraler Bestandteil seines Schaffens. Um seine künstlerische Sicht einer starken Reibung auszusetzen, arbeitete er auf zwei Rework-EPs genreübergreifend mit Künstlern wie Hundreds, Christian Löffler, Douglas Dare, FM Belfast und Dwig zusammen. Mit „Ströme“ verfolgt er weiter konsequent seine Auffassung musikalischer Kreation fernab opportunistischer Trends.
Sowohl für Martin Kohlstedt, als auch für den GewandhausChor und seinen Leiter Gregor Meyer stellen Album und Tournee eine Herausforderung experimentellen Charakters dar. So agiert der Chor zum Beispiel ohne klassische Notation, aber mit Raum für individuelles Ausgestalten. Das Ergebnis ist pure Dynamik voller monumentaler Verwerfungen und zarter Annäherungen, aber befreit von jeder Angst, was Klassik sein darf.
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Martin Kohlstedt Biography
Martin Kohlstedt is among the outstanding composers, pianists and producers for instrumental music and electronica. His past albums and their respective reworks were rewarded with international recognition and concert tours throughout the whole world.
With his live performances as well as his studio recordings Martin Kohlstedt sets standards on how cutting edge electronica production can intermingle with analogue and acoustic approaches ranging from classical piano and ambient to field recordings and score design in an effortless way. Kohlstedt intuitively combines inspirations and influences from fundamentally different worlds and soundscapes into a unique musical amalgam and forms it into something that feels more like a living body than a list of pieces – be it in form of a spectacular festival show, an introspective piano concert, a multidimensional movie score or an immersive album experience.
He describes his style of work as modular composition; his pieces are always in movement and never resort to a definitive form – even during concerts. Improvisation is an important part of his creative process, and so are the interaction with his audience on equal footing, the courage and sometimes audacity to fail and the interaction with people, space and context.
For this Martin Kohlstedt collaborated with renowned partners such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus choir and artists like Douglas Dare, Sudan Archives, Henrik Schwarz, among others as well as labels like Warner Classics. Apart from his own compositions Kohlstedt writes music and scores for movies, plays, podcasts and audiobooks. Under the name of «Edition Kohlstedt» he runs his own label and tries to do justice to his responsibilities as an international artist with a reforestation project close to his birthplace.
Read MoreWith his live performances as well as his studio recordings Martin Kohlstedt sets standards on how cutting edge electronica production can intermingle with analogue and acoustic approaches ranging from classical piano and ambient to field recordings and score design in an effortless way. Kohlstedt intuitively combines inspirations and influences from fundamentally different worlds and soundscapes into a unique musical amalgam and forms it into something that feels more like a living body than a list of pieces – be it in form of a spectacular festival show, an introspective piano concert, a multidimensional movie score or an immersive album experience.
He describes his style of work as modular composition; his pieces are always in movement and never resort to a definitive form – even during concerts. Improvisation is an important part of his creative process, and so are the interaction with his audience on equal footing, the courage and sometimes audacity to fail and the interaction with people, space and context.
For this Martin Kohlstedt collaborated with renowned partners such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus choir and artists like Douglas Dare, Sudan Archives, Henrik Schwarz, among others as well as labels like Warner Classics. Apart from his own compositions Kohlstedt writes music and scores for movies, plays, podcasts and audiobooks. Under the name of «Edition Kohlstedt» he runs his own label and tries to do justice to his responsibilities as an international artist with a reforestation project close to his birthplace.
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