Nadar @ Donaueschinger Musiktage

‘Our writing instruments also influence our thoughts’, Friedrich Nietzsche noted long before our media age. If we speak of new ensemble constitutions, we cannot merely address questions of instrumentation; the choice of instruments only provides the surface of a new sonic image. A far more central concern is what the carriers of action are in the artistic events taking place, as well as the forms of transport and transformation in the individual media. Who determines what happens: humans or machines? How interactive and communicative is the relationship between these two actors within the new ensemble constellations? The concert featuring the Belgian ensemble Nadar will provide an unusual perspective on the growing hybridisation of all these connections. Thus Yoav Pasovsky questions the acoustic exclusivity of the musician by using electrodynamic exciters to transmit digital signals through the bodies of the instruments, which are thus converted into interfaces; Johannes Kreidler and Stefan Prins integrate video, Internet and computer games, as well as acoustic and electronic sounds, into their multi-media setup, where technology is not necessarily intended as an antithesis to the corporeal. They integrate both self-produced material and elements taken from the YouTube archives and computer games. It is not only the medial textures of the individual works that merge, then, but also the pieces themselves: the generation ‘Kill’ on its way to desperation?