This program about space, sound, and artistic attitude offers four different perspectives on contemporary composition. In “A space to exist,” a composition commissioned by the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Eleni Ralli places the accordion at the center not only musically, but also spatially. The instrument moves between three spatially distributed groups, searching for its own place. It is about hearing in space, about proximity and distance, presence and absence, and about what it takes to exist.
Younghi Pagh-Paan's work “Im Sternenlicht” (In the starlight) takes its starting point in an old Japanese poem about retreating from the world. In a poetic musical language, the composer offers an answer to the question of where one flees when the “woes of life” catch up with one even in solitude. Her music is at once delicate, determined and spiritual, manifesting itself in a sound meditation between heaven and earth.
Klaus Lang does not understand music as language or an expression of personal emotion, but rather as a free, acoustic object. His compositions reject any instrumental function. Sound is not used, but rather explored as pure, audible time. Music emerges as a radical form of presence: silent, concentrated, without message—and, precisely because of this, moving.
With his “Clarinet Quintet No. 1,” Isang Yun enters a new phase in his creative work: more lyrical, clearer, more structured. The clarinet takes on the leading role as the voice of change, inspired by the Chinese principle of Yang. Yun lets it wander through the musical space in search of an “infinite melody”—as a symbol of breath, liberation, and spiritual expansiveness.
Tickets are CHF 15-35 for adults and CHF 10 for members of Colourkey and children under age 12.

Website
ensemble-phoenix.ch/#a-6246

Where
Gare du Nord
Schwarzwaldallee 200
4058 Basel

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