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Tintinabula

Tintinabula [6/2023]

(lat. bells, ringing, chiming).

A sound and movement study for the digitised sounds of 5 unexploded bombs used as bells.

Bells – melted down for cannons. And guns that became bells. As early as the Middle Ages, bells were melted down in times of war to make guns from the metal. It is also reported that in times of peace, bells were cast from the melted down metal of the guns.

The unexploded ordnance from World War II, which is heard here as bells, was defused by the explosive ordnance disposal service and sawn up for emptying. What remained were rusty steel shells that sound like pure as well as dissonant bells and were digitised in studio recordings. The steel shells have a wall thickness of about 1 cm. The size of the duds ranges from approx. 80 cm in length and 40 cm in diameter to the smallest variant of approx. 40 cm in length. The empty weight of the largest variant is over 170 kg. It is unimaginable that such things “fell from the sky” in times that should never be repeated.

The bell sounds of the duds and their electronic adaptations meet sonically and spatially in a sound space sounded by four loudspeakers. Their vibrations and proportions meet, interweave and move with each other and fill the space.

Composition commissioned by the Archdiocese of Paderborn for the festival “blau – experimentelle musik im kirchenraum”.

Performances:

  • 12. November 2023 Troisdorf (D): Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow
  • 2. September 2023 Paderborn (D): blue – experimental music in the church space
  • Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow

    Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow [6/2021]

    for Organ / with obligatory alto recorder

    Composition commission German Music Council

    Organist: Carlo Maria Barile, recording from February 27, 2022.

    University for Catholic Church Music & Music Education Regensburg

    Published by Carus-Verlag: Sammlung Carus 18.220/00, ISBN 978-3-89948-424-3, ISMN M-007-29444-1 160 pages, DIN A4 landscape, paperback and as Ebook

    “Born in the Rhineland, Dorothée Hahne is musically extremely multilingual. Her extensive oeuvre ranges from jazz to electronic music to works for recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger, for example. Only for the organ has she not yet written – although she was already addicted to its sound as a child, at the side of her father Rudolf Hahne, who plays the organ masterfully. His wish that she compose something for organ was not fulfilled during his lifetime. Thanks to the organ project of the Music Council, however, Hahne was now able to dedicate her piece “Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow” to her father posthumously.

    Her work revolves entirely around the repetitive rituals and ordinances used to respond to the pandemic situation. Every day, one deals with the incidence figures. Every day one hopes that everyday life will finally become more relaxed again. And “the next day, everything starts all over again”, says Dorothée Hahne, who herself had to suffer through a post-Long Covid phase. This eternal everyday cycle is now also reflected in the character of “Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow”, which is based on minimal music. At the same time, Hahne wants to achieve a mood with the gentle flow, coloured with so many influences from jazz and tango, which gives one “courage, strength and hope” in these times dominated by Corona. And Hahne’s lines, which she has placed alongside “Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow” , also fit in with this:”(Guido Fischer)

    “Turning in circles
    And still
    Steps on the spot
    In small steps
    Focus in detail
    Emotional broadside
    Between hope and despair
    Only love can hold you
    Da Capo!”

    Project “Organ Music in Times of Corona

    The German Music Council, together with the German Bishops’ Conference and the Evangelical Church in Germany, is carrying out the project “Organ Music in Times of Corona.” The project forms a contribution to the “Year of the Organ,” which the state music councils have proclaimed for 2021. As part of the project, 17 compositions for organ were created that artistically reflect the Corona era.

    In the fall of 2021, these organ works will be heard in numerous concerts and church services. In this way, musical life will be actively promoted and listeners will be encouraged to engage with the pandemic experience. The project will conclude with a finissage concert on November 21, 2021, at which all 17 compositions will be performed together. The project is funded by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

    The German Music Council is publishing the 17 compositions in an anthology with Carus-Verlag. Co-editors are Prof. Richard Mailänder and LKMD Kord Michaelis. Organists working in Germany can obtain an online or print edition of the Organ Book free of charge from the German Music Council if they perform pieces from the Organ Book in a concert or service within the project “Organ Music in Times of Corona” in the fall of 2021. Here is more information!

    Performances:

  • 31. December 2023 Waren (D): New Year’s Eve concert music & reading
  • 12. November 2023 Troisdorf (D): Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow
  • 22. June 2023 Tübingen (D): SUMMER NIGHT MUSIC
  • 18. September 2022 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (D): Orgelkonzert
  • 18. September 2022 Augsburg (D): Gala Concert – Organ music in times of Corona
  • 16. August 2022 Schönberg (D): Bach und Freundeskreis
  • 20. March 2022 Gießen: Orgelkonzert zur Passion
  • 31. December 2021 Borna (D): Musik und Texte zum Jahresausklang
  • 27. November 2021 Kaiserslautern (D): Autumn music
  • 21. November 2021 Duesseldorf: Messe und ‘orgelbespeling'
  • 19. November 2021 Cologne (D): Orgelkonzert zum Fest der Hl. Elisabeth
  • 19. November 2021 Böblingen (D): Orgelvesper
  • 17. November 2021 Kirchberg (D): Buß – und Bettag
  • 17. November 2021 Simmern: Gottesdienst zum Buß- und Bettag
  • 17. November 2021 Hamburg (D): Friedensandacht zum Buß- und Bettag
  • 14. November 2021 Rehden (D): Sonntagsgottesdienst
  • 5. November 2021 Regensburg (D): Stunde der Kirchenmusik
  • 5. November 2021 Schönberg (D): 35. Schönberger Musiksommer
  • 1. November 2021 Oppenweiler (D): Andacht zu Allerseelen
  • 1. November 2021 Bad Kreuznach (D): Orgelmusik zu Allerheiligen
  • 24. October 2021 Cologne (D): Organ concert
  • 24. October 2021 Haden (D): new spirit. new music
  • 10. October 2021 Weinstadt (D): Vorspiel
  • 6. October 2021 Nordstrand (D): Orgelwerke
  • 3. October 2021 Kandern (D): Gottesdienst
  • 25. September 2021 Eging am See: 26. Sonntag i. Jk.
  • 12. September 2021 Neuss (D): Opening concert “Days of Church Music” Neuss
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    Commission from the Archbishopric of Cologne for the Cathedral Pilgrimage 2016

    Images from Hubble Deep Field Teleskop © ESA/Nasa

    First release: 23.09.2016 Cologne Cathedral Dom, on the occasion of the Cologne Cathedral Pilgrimage 2016

    Leonids Song

    Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

    „Leonidsong“ [9/2016]
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    Kompositionsauftrag für das Erzbistum Köln zur Domwallfahrt 2016

    Bilder des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops © ESA

    UA 23.09.2016 Kölner Dom, anläßlich der Kölner Domwallfahrt 2016

     

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  • 8. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
  • 14. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
  • 15. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
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  • 8. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
  • 14. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
  • 15. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
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    Dance theatre “Hexen GmbH” by tanzbar_bremen /  Choreography: Günther Grollitsch

    Performances:

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  • 8. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
  • 14. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
  • 15. February 2014 »HEXEN GMBH« TANZBAR_BREMEN
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    19:00

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    The blue marble seen from Apollo 17 ©NASA

    The blue marble seen from Apollo 17 ©NASA

    Premiere:

    17th of October, 2013, 7 p.m.

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    Frank De Winne  ISS020 & ISS021
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