tvvo:id at Klangwerkstatt Berlin
Berlin, November 2024
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On 8 November 2024, Kyiv Contemporary Music Days presented tvvo:id, a project within the Klangwerkstatt Berlin Festival for New Music. The programme introduces specially commissioned works by Ukrainian composers performed virtually from Kyiv by Nazarii Stets (double bass) and live in Berlin by Theo Nabicht (clarinet, bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet) at Kunstquartier Bethanien. 

A soloist on stage in a duet with an invisible counterpart. The musicians are separated by place, time, and war. One plays live in Berlin, the other is present as a recording made a few weeks earlier in Kyiv. With the incomplete duo, the Ukrainian concert sends a “signal” from war-ravaged Kyiv to peaceful Berlin. The Ukrainian musician does not know whether the dialogue with his counterpart in Berlin will succeed. In Berlin, it turns out to be a dialogue that the other side can't hear.

The musical experience of the evening will suggest a complex entanglement of pieces from composers Anna Arkushyna (WP), Albert Saprykin (WP), and Ihor Zavhorodnii (WP) in their attempt of the personal and collective research on the topic of fragile connections and uncertainty in dialogue during the war and beyond. 

More info: https://en.kcmd.eu/events/tvvoid-at-klangwerkstatt