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excerpts from [iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) collective lovemusic 25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz

16 September 2023 Festival Musica Strasbourg

[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)

Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)

based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli

for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography

idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring

audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.

collective lovemusic Strasbourg

bassflute: Emiliano Gavito

bassclarinet: Adam Starkie

violoncello: Lola Malique

e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano

commissioned by Klangwerkstatt – festival for new music Berlin and LVMSC lovemusic Strasbourg

12 October 2023 Zeitgenuss Festival Karlsruhe

CHOROS II for four guitarists + SignMimoChorepgraphy (world premiere)

Dedicated to Aleph Guitar Quartet on the occasion of their 30th birthday in 2023

Aleph Guitar Quartet

SignMimoPerformance / Video: Helmut Oehring

14 October 2023 ZeitGenuss Festival Karlsruhe

(fāld) nicht ERSTARREN for e-guitar + keyboard + e-drum set (world premiere)

Pony Says

22 October 2023 11 – 17 pm Villa Wigman Dresden

SOLO2

Ver_Wand_Lung for dancer + trumpet / audioplay (world premiere)cc

composition: Helmut Oehring

choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth

29 Oktober 2023 5 pm Alter Stadthaussaal Winterthur/Schweiz

Sounds after Klee

KLEEmusic  version for bass clarinet

Ensemble Aventure Freiburg

3 November 2023 6 pm Conservatório de Música de Coimbra, Portugal

[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)

Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)

based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli

for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography

idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring

audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.

collective lovemusic Strasbourg

bassflute: Emiliano Gavito

bassclarinet: Adam Starkie

violoncello: Lola Malique

e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano

commissioned by Klangwerkstatt – festival for new music Berlin and LVMSC lovemusic Strasbourg

9 – 12 Novembre 2023 HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Great Hall

EURYDIKE? vol. 2 

DanceMusicVideoInstallation for three female dancers + violin soloist + three accordion soloists

+ 2channel video + 10.2-channel audio

with the participation of male prisoners of the prisons of Dresden and Bautzen

and the choir of the prison of Dresden

idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography + direction + camera: Helmut Oehring

audio+video production + sound direction + film editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp

text book + dramaturgy + photography: Stefanie Wördemann

dancers / vocalists: Katja Erfurth + Mia Carla Oehring + Kassandra Wedel

violin soloist / vocalist: Florian Mayer

accordion soloists / vocalists: Felix Kroll + Silke Lange + Susanne Stock

performer / vocalist: Joscha Oehring

singer + choir: male prisoners / choir of the prison Dresden

composition commissioned by the European Center for the Arts HELLERAU,

financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation

www.hellerau.org/eurydike2

15 November 2023 Gare du Nord Basel

[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)

Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)

based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli

for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography

idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring

audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.

collective lovemusic Strasbourg

bassflute: Emiliano Gavito

bassclarinet: Adam Starkie

violoncello: Lola Malique

e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano

commissioned by Klangwerkstatt – festival for new music Berlin and LVMSC lovemusic Strasbourg

1 + 2  December 2023 Societaetstheater Dresden

Woman with no  limit

κάθαρσι / KATHARSIS I – III for violin + multichannelaudioplay + dancechoreography 

Mit: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth

15 December 2023 5 pm HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts Dresden

16 December 2023 5 pm HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts Dresden

17 December 2023 2:30 pm HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts Dresden

WANDELN For small and big people

with music by Johann Sebastian Bach + Antonio Vivaldi + Florian Meyer + Helmut Oehring a.o.

WANDELN for female dancer + violin + audioplay (world premiere)cc

composition: Helmut Oehring

choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth

violin: Florian Mayer

in cooperation with the Dresden-Frankfurt-Dance-Company

16 December 2023 Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

(fāld) nicht ERSTARREN for e-guitar + keyboard + e-drumset

Pony Says

19 January 2024 10 am Bockenheim Depot, Frankfurt a. M.

20 Januar 2024 4 pm Bockenheim Depot, Frankfurt a. M.

21 Januar 2024 4 pm Bockenheim Depot, Frankfurt a. M.

22 Januar 2024 10 am Bockenheim Depot, Frankfurt a. M.

WANDELN For small and big people

With music by Johann Sebastian Bach + Antonio Vivaldi + Florian Mayer + Helmut Oehring a.o.

WANDELN for female dancer + violin + audioplayc

composition: Helmut Oehringcc

choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth

violin: Florian Mayer

in cooperation with the Dresden-Frankfurt-Dance-Company

27 March 2024 Festival woman.makes.theatre, Societaetstheatre Dresden

Female Images - fragments

Salome – Antigone – Kassandra

Κασσάνδρα / KASSANDRA (Zunge – reißen) version for dancer + vocalist + SignMimoChoreography + audioplay (world premiere)

Αντιγόνη / ANTIGONE for dancer + voice + audioplay (world premiere)

artistic direction + dance/choreography + SignMimoPerformance: Katja Erfurth

vocalist: Julia Böhme

double bass: Tom Götze

narrator: Thomas Stecher

musical conception + artistic advice: Helmut Oehring

music / composition: Tom Götze, Helmut Oehring

7 April 2024 ThinkSpace Sophien Church Dresden

aSpects

κάθαρσι / KATHARSIS III for violin + SignMimoChoreography

dance + SignMimoPerformance: Katja Erfurth

violin: Florian Mayer

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13 April 2023 11:03 p.m. SWR 2 Without Limit

WITH DIFFERENT EYES

audio drama based on Helmut Oehring's docupoetic autobiography 

With different eyes. From child of deaf parents to composer

and excerpts from his entire compositional work

composition + direction: Helmut Oehring

text book + dramaturgy: Stefanie Wördemann

sound realization + sound direction + compositional assistance:

Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp

authors' production for the SWR

editor: Manfred Hess

with: Christina Schönfeld + Uwe Schönfeld + Hagen Klennert + Helmut Oehring

+ Jurek Ottersberg + Anton Ottersberg + Mia Oehring + Joscha Oehring and others

20 April 2024 5 + 6 pm Societaetstheater Dresden

Long Night of the Theatres

WANDELN (in aller Kürze) for dancer + violin

with music by Johann Sebastian Bach + Florian Mayer + Helmut Oehring

dance + choreography: Katja Erfurth

violin: Florian Mayer

24 April 2024 6 pm Foyer of the Saxon State Parliament, Dresden

... yesterday ... II for violin + SignMimoChoreography

violin: Charlotte Thiele

SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring

26 + 28 April 2024 Villa Wigman Dresden

as part of the Artistic Series No 3

ex for dancer + violin (world premiere)

composition + sign choreography: Helmut Oehring

dance / chroeography + SignMimoPerformance: Katja Erfurth

violin: Florian Mayer

27 April 2024 Le Lieu Unique Nantes

[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)

Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)

based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli

for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography

idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring

audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.

collective lovemusic Strasbourg

bassflute: Emiliano Gavito

bassclarinet: Adam Starkie

violoncello: Lola Malique

e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano

commissioned by Klangwerkstatt – festival for new music Berlin and LVMSC lovemusic Strasbourg

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Hagen Klennert

Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Godfather Death accompanied by two Lamettastallions

GraphicPhotoCollage 2022

12 May 2024 8:30 p.m. Constellation Chicago

Fequency Series Presents: Seth Josel

For F. (in memoriam) new version for guitar + accordion (world premiere)

Seth Josel + special guest

15 + 16 + 17 + 18 May 2024 Societaetstheater Dresden

... THERE / BEING ... CITY . HISTORY . DANCE

Bridge (from: Silence / Days) for dancer + voice + violin

composition: Helmut Oehring

artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth

voice: Julia Böhme

violin: Florian Mayer

23 May 2024 Weimar Spring Days for New Music

[iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) II

Contrapasso VI – VIII (an: Sergej Schoigu / Sergej Naryschkin)

on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli

for 3 bass clarinets + SignMimoChoreografie + audioplay

bass clarinets: Sabina Matthus-Bébié + Horia Dumitrache + Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson

SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring

5 + 6 June 2024 Baden at the Limmat / Schweiz

... THERE / BEING ... CITY . HISTORY . DANCE

Bridge (from: Silence / Days) for dancer + voice + violin

composition: Helmut Oehring

artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth

voice: Julia Böhme

violin: Florian Mayer

In cooperation with the Theater im Kornhaus

23 June 2024 John Heartfield House Waldsieversdorf

Hannah Höch visits John Heartfield in his garden

performance / music / lecture

nichtERSTARREN for SignMimoPerformance

With: AnniKa von Trier + Michael Krejsa + Helmut Oehring

An event of the Academy of Arts Berlin in cooperation with the John Heartfield Freundeskreis

26 June 2024 Pavillon de la Sirène, Paris

speak, transparence

EYE new version for bass flute (world premiere)

TONGUE new version for SignMimoChoreography (world premiere)

bass flute + SignMimoPerformance: Shao-Wei Chou

video: Mu-Xuan Lin

studio Nekton

28 June 2024 Cargo Space Gallery Basel

UmBruch IV for double bass and electronics (world premiere)

Alexander Gabrys

28 June 2024 StadtRaum Altstadt / Kulturpalast Dresden

still . schweigen composition + SignMimoChoreography

dance / choreography + SignMimoPerformance: Katja Erfurth

7 July 2024 4:30 p.m. Kaethe-Kollwitz-memorial Moritzburg

Escape lines

κάθαρσι / KATHARSIS III for violin + SignMimoChoreography

dance + SignMimoPerformance: Katja Erfurth

violin: Florian Mayer

26 + 27 + 28 July 2024 NTU University Players Theatre, Taipeh

speak, transparence

EYE new version for bass flute

TONGUE new version for SignMimoChoreography

bass flute + SignMimoPerformance: Shao-Wei Chou

video: Mu-Xuan Lin

studio Nekton

summer 2024 Novalis music + art festival Zagbreb / Croatia

UmBruch IV for double bass and electronics

Alexander Gabrys

26 + 27 + 28 + 29 September 2024 Dresden

... THERE / BEING ... CITY . HSTORY . DANCE Episode II

new work for dancer + voice + violin (world premiere)

composition: Helmut Oehring

artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth

voice: Julia Böhme

violin: Florian Mayer

19 October 2024 NTU Pavillon de la Sirène, Paris

EYE new version for bass flute

TONGUE new version for SignMimoChoreographybb

bass flute + SignMimoPerformance: Shao-Wei Chou

video: Mu-Xuan Lin

trio 20° dans le noir

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