With virtual reality and immersive sound technology, the media artist Alexander Stublić has created interactive, explorable surreal worlds in which notes emerge synesthetically, forests of beams pass by, and concert stages complete with a deconstructed orchestra are reassembled to form new perspectives before the viewer’s eyes. The concert recording at its core is Viktor Ullmann’s piano concerto Opus 25. Because of his Jewish ancestry, the composer was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942, where he created many of his works. He was murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944.
A project team from the Siemens Arts Program has set out to raise awareness of this composer, who was ostracized by the Nazis and whose music is not well known today. To this end, they explored new audiovisual possibilities for the concert recording. The result of the Viktor Ullmann Project is an artistically and technically sophisticated new 3D recording of the piano concerto Opus 25, which Alexander Stublić will personally introduce.
Past event
Where
Old Building, ground level, Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
