LIVE FROM THE LISTENING LOUNGE / THOMAS PETER

Suitable for all who like to chill, listen, and want to learn more about electroacoustic music.

Thomas Peter: «spikes and dissolving thoughts #1»(2022)
2-channel electroacoustic composition
World premiere

Thomas Peter: «spikes and dissolving thoughts #2»(2022)
2-channel electroacoustic composition
World premiere

«Live From the Listening Lounge» introduces live moments into the listening lounge WEICHEKISSENHEISSEOHREN. Caroline Ann Baur, Noémi Büchi, Vanessà Heer, and Thomas Peter conduct short interventions in which they present insights into their work and invite audiences to a collective listening to their compositions.

Concert ticket also available as a combined ticket with the event «Beton & Gedächtsnis» (2 PM) or as part of the day pass.

Thomas Peter: «spikes and dissolving thoughts» (2022) two electro-acoustic compositions
World premiere

«spikes and dissolving thoughts #1»
2 channel
8’39’’

«spikes and dissolving thoughts #2»
2 channel
6’57’’

Stone, wood, and metal. Different materials and objects physically meet. They rub, collide, interlock. Tension is built up, forces unfold or dissolve eruptively and explosively. The acoustic results of these encounters form the framework of these two electro-acoustic compositions. The focus is on various force relationships and reactions that arise when objects of the most diverse sizes collide.

In «spikes and dissolving thoughts #1» mainly concrete sounds are used. Stones rubbing against each other, splintering wood and metal resonances combine to create various musical textures and loosely joined sound patterns.
The resulting fields of tension are juxtaposed. They block each other, fit together seamlessly, trigger surprising changes or establish common patterns of movement.

«spikes and dissolving thoughts #2» is a free translation of «spikes and dissolving thoughts #1». It was created with electronic sounds. The tensions and forces of the former materials and objects are abstracted in digital space. Electronic noise and static sounds dissolve into pulsating sound patterns, abstract spaces open up and new perspectives emerge.