One of the central questions of current and future music culture is how traditional forms – e.g. the classical chamber concert – relate to the actual consumer behavior of a group of listeners who are shaped or increasingly shaped by media such as television or the Internet, who are primarily at home in everyday life.
New music can be oriented towards tradition, which here means that musicians trained on classical instruments want to transcend the boundaries of the stiff concert experience with these instruments and make experience-oriented music for people who are perhaps distanced from the world of art, and must be oriented towards the challenges of a media world, which above all means opening up small or large stumbling blocks for a new way of listening and experiencing in the general “sprinkling culture”.
Experienced musicians are needed for such an experimental set-up, such as the proven oh ton-ensemble and a composer who has proven in her previous works that she can take “basics” from everyday life and turn them into art: Kirsten Reese.
Kirsten Reese
Born in 1968, she is a composer and sound artist and lives in Berlin.
She studied flute at the Hochschule für Künste in Berlin and during a study visit to New York in 1992/93, where she also took courses in electronic music. She performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, mainly with contemporary and improvised music. Participation in film and CD recordings and radio recordings (DeutschlandRadio, arte/ZDF, SFB, etc).
Concert tours to Minsk, Seoul, Hong Kong, New York, Istanbul and EXPO 2000.
Member of the wind trio “e-vent” (flute, oboe, clarinet). Concert moderations, radio broadcasts and articles in specialist publications.
From 1994 she took part in composition projects at the electronic studio of the TU Berlin.
Since 1996 she has been producing her own electro-acoustic compositions and sound installations, including “Der tönende See” (2000), for floating sound bowls, “Contained” (2001), interactive sound installation, “Symose” for four instruments and four loudspeakers (2002, Schlosshof, Rheinsberg), “inyib” for nine instruments, live electronics, 15 loudspeakers (for the ensemble Zeitkratzer 2002), “dulationen”, for flute and laptop (2002/03).
She has received numerous grants for her work, including from the Kulturfonds Foundation and the Höge International Artists’ Foundation.
Since 2002 she has been researching and teaching at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama on the subjects of contemporary music, gender and the internet/new media.
Basics program:
Kirsten Reese: anregen/transfer (2002/2003)
Concert installation / interactive installation
Bass clarinet and violoncello, loudspeakers and objects stimulated to clink / buzz
Seven sleeps (2000)
Tenor saxophone and 4-track tape
Basics (1997)
Bass flute and 4-track tape
New work (2004), world premiere
for saxophone, clarinet, violoncello and percussion
The musicians of the oh ton-ensembles:
Anne Horstmann
Studied at the Detmold University of Music. Passed her artistic final examination with distinction. Since then freelance flautist, specializing in new music. Soloist, chamber musician and member of the oh ton-ensemble. Radio recordings, concert recordings and productions for RB, NDR, WDR and DLF. Guest performance contracts, lectureships and seminars. Co-founder of “Literamusico” (association of musicians, actors, writers and visual artists in the Ruhr area who combine music and literature in an interdisciplinary way).
In 1996 she founded the independent duo “Neue Flötentöne” with Dörte Nienstedt, recorder player of the oh
studied in Hamburg and teaches as an assistant to Prof. Wolfgang Mehlhorn. She performs regularly as a soloist with orchestras in Germany and abroad. Much in demand as a musician in improvised music, jazz and pop music (e.g. with the “Sternen”) and Arabic fusion music. Guest appearances with the Neues Ensemble Hannover, Ensemble l’art pour l’art, Ensemble Resonanz.
Own productions for radio plays and theater for the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Kampnagel. Intensive cooperation with composers. She has been a member of the oh ton-ensemble since 2001.
Christoph Hansen
Born in 1965, he first studied music education in Bremen before continuing his saxophone studies as a DAAD scholarship holder with J.- M. Londeix in Bordeaux. Londeix in Bordeaux, where he won first prizes for saxophone and chamber music. He completed his studies in Hanover with the artistic maturity examination and the soloist examination.
He has been a professor of saxophone at the Hamburg University of Music since 1993. He has been a member of the national jury for “Jugend musiziert” several times. His interpretative interest as a soloist, chamber musician and founding member of the “oh ton-ensemble” is in contemporary music, especially the premiere and dissemination of new works for and with saxophones, some of which he is also the dedicatee of. He has also participated in numerous other CD and radio productions with his saxophone quartet “four & more”, various orchestras and as a soloist.
Bernhard Kösling
born 1965 in Neuss, studied at the Hanover University of Music and Drama with Prof. H. Deinzer. During this time he was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and a guest of the Ensemble Modern.
1990 First prize in the German University Competition. Bernhard Kösling is a clarinettist with Ensemble Köln, Gruppe M, oh
graduated from the solo class for percussion with Prof. Martin Schulz at the Folkwangschule in Essen and studied chamber music with Prof. Peter Eötvös at the Cologne University of Music.
The focus of his work is the interpretation of contemporary music. He covers all fields from orchestral to chamber music and a rich solo repertoire; theater and music for modern dance and film, improvisation and electronic music.
As a member and guest of various ensembles, he has performed in numerous European countries and produced recordings and recordings for renowned radio and television stations. He has been a member of the oh ton-ensemble since 1997 and a board member of the oh ton association since 2002.
He currently teaches at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen, has been an annual lecturer at the Stockhausentage in Kürten since 2001 and works as a percussionist for K. Stockhausen.